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Social Bookmarking
★★★★
It's a 4.5
byk9education, November 18, 2009
Social Bookmarking
I wish I could give this a 4.5 as it deserves it.

This plugin performs as expected and is nicely laid out as well. I went to the AddThis site, hand-picked my sites from their complete list and added them to the custom AddThis list field that this plugin provides.

I have 1 minor issue with this plugin. The button is placed so unobtrusively that I worry that my users won't see it. I wouldn't mind some more placement options in the backend.

On a side note, there is an error in the documentation. The afterTitle display requires that "Show Intro" is set to Hide, not Show as stated in the documentation.

Overall, the best social bookmarking plugin for Joomla that I have tried and I tried every single one with a 3.5 or better rating. Thanks!
The Ultimate Social Bookmarking Plugin
★★
Needs work
byk9education, November 18, 2009
The Ultimate Social Bookmarking Plugin
This plugin looks promising but it doesn't work as expected out of the box. The Digg icon was up at the top left of my main content and completely screwed up the alignment of everything on my site. The demo shows everything in a nice popup but in actuality the icons are simply placed on the page like many of the other bookmark plugins.

On the plus side, the icons are well done and when clicked they do as expected.

While being able to customize the design is great, I hope future versions will display properly out of the box while still giving users the option to customize things.
Owner's reply

Hi k9education. The plugin layout is properly configured through CSS, but there's nothing I can do to account for any specific layout issues related to your template. There's an included CSS file to let you make any layout changes you need to.

Phoca Guestbook
★★★★
Good but not perfect
byk9education, November 16, 2009
Phoca Guestbook
As usual, this is another quality Phoca component. It's easy to setup, easy to use and it looks good also. My minor suggestions for future versions are:

(1) If Captcha is going to be case-sensitive as it is now, there should be a message regarding that somewhere as it is not the expected Captcha behavior.

(2) The grammar needs some serious work. There are commas all over where there shouldn't be and the English is mediocre at best. Perhaps someone could help translate it a bit better.

(3) The math Captcha is a bit odd and could use some instructions for users. In my test pool, some people were trying to enter the equation itself. lol I know, I know. Typically math is displayed in plain text though so the novice internet users might need a little assistance.

I have already rectified these issues on my site as they are easily sorted but I just thought I would mention them. Again, they are minor issues and this extension is very good.

Thank you for another nice component.
Owner's reply

Hi, thank you for your review:

1) 3) You can write it into description field, so this depends on administrator which instructions will be displayed

2) "Perhaps someone could help translate it a bit better" this is the problem because there is nobody to do, so if you want to help, just fix all the English issues and let me know. Will be great and I will appreciate such help a lot.

Thank you, Jan

YJ Pop Login
★
Moo Tools problem
byk9education, November 13, 2009
YJ Pop Login
My 1st review was rejected as apparently stating that it doesn't work is considered a "support request." I will state quite clearly again though that it does not work. If you have another script of any kind that utilizes Moo Tools (and many do) the javascript in this plug-in will fail. The entire purpose of this plug-in is javascript so without it, the plug-in doesn't work. This sint' a support request - it's a fact.
Owner's reply

extension is based on Joomla default Mooyools, it does not even contain a copy of Moo but using default Joomla functions to call it , if you have issues or need support visit our support forum

Security Images
★
Another one good in theory only
byk9education, November 12, 2009
Security Images
I installed this one and reinstalled and reinstalled ..

I kept getting the "500 - View not found" error when trying to save the settings. This error is mentioned in the documentation but it simply says the component was not correctly installed. However, I get no errors when installing and reinstalling does nothing. All directory perms are set properly etc.

Support is non-existent. There's a guy on the forums who posted in August and the solution is simple - he needs to upload the patched files. No one could even take the time to reply to him in 3 months however.

Move along and find another com. This one is dead.
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