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Flexicontent just completed Joomla 1.5!

While Joomla's one of the greatest CMS, there was a problem in presenting content in the first end unless you were a techie with great php or cms skills.

Flexicontent changes all that and allows you to create multiple templates and fields for presenting content for the front end. This is the biggest advantage and you can present the content differently for different categories.

Templates - The creation and modification of templates is a breeze. Each template for a category/type is in a separate folder and you can change that without messing up the css of other templates. The creation of templates is intuitive and you can place different fields in different placeholders.

The other advantage of Flexicontent is that you can enable various plugins within any of the fields.

Creating content also became much easier with customizable fields.

As I said earlier, Flexicontent just completed Joomla by adding a nice content presentation layer. The possibilities of applications for Flexicontent is limitless and is a must for any large dynamic websites. You could actually use Flexicontent instead of Moset Tree (yes, I am using it instead of Moset Tree as I have far better control for content presentation and content creation).

Flexicontent is young but really mature. Some additions would be nice. An extension to SH404 SEF would go a long way for other webmasters to migrate to Flexicontent. ACE SEF is supported by Flexicontent but is not very stable and a lot of bad URLs are generated and you don't get any help from ACE SEF forums.

Creation of different Tags fields should also be added.

Advance search and search modules for Flexicontent are desperately needed. More plugins and modules like Google Maps will be welcome too. Front End content creation and edition is awaited as promised in Flexicontent 1.6 stable.

Flexicontent is probably the most significant and important development for Joomla 1.5.

This extension rock!

Alphacontent is incredibly easy to set up and looks awesome! For ages I have been looking for something which is easy to set up, gives a summary with a thumbnail and Alpha Content fits the bills perfectly. By the first look, it is awesome and I am using it on http://kolkata.feastguru.com.

There are some niggling problems, however, which if fixed will make this a component amongst the best.

a) Thumbnail image size - The thumbnail images weigh as much as the original uploaded. The thumbnails should be much lower than the original size.

b) Sitemap - Xmap component just shows the section and category and not each of the content. This is a major SEO issue.

c) Tag generation - The tags are generated automatically and randomly and seem to be without any specific purpose which makes using this impossible. Perhaps, user generated tags mechanism could be introduced

d) Tag URLs - The tags generate URLs from Joomla's com_component and, therefore, your site would land up with two sets of URL and get penalized by search engines.

e) Display of Tag Search results are from Joomla's core search and therefore the display from this and the search results from Alphacontent's search are very different.

f) Search Module - Aplhacontent should have its own search module and preferably with a Ajax drop down.

g) Automatic Google Map Plugin - A mechanism could be introduced in which geographic coordinates could be entered to generate a Google Map position.

Hope these suggestions will go into making this the coolest product in this category!

The good parts first.
1. Really easy to install
2. Feature rich - user defined tags, built in commenting system, built in avatars, intuitive user interface.
3. Classy layout and fun - I love the Avatars

I really loved this component. The next part of my review will sound harsh but it is only because this component comes the closest to bridge Joomla's lack of a blog and falls just short!

Where Idoblog fails:
1. There is no Idoblog search. Serious handicap as the default Joomla search has a different URL and these are rendered without the avatars and tags.
2. Multiple sections are not possible. This is a huge drawback as there can be only one section and the categories are the user ids.
3) There is no analytics at the backend. So you have no idea how many comments or hits a particular blog has received
4) Very few plugins and modules - plugins like ratings (no joomla default and votitaly don't work in the blog mode), most commented or most viewed modules would have been really useful.
5) Documentation - the documentation is not very well laid out. There's not much info in the forums/communities

This is an awesome plugin and I would love to use it. Unfortunately, it creates a major issue if you are using this with the JA Purity template.

Instead of showing the meta data description it shows time, date, author and other irrelevant information.

This problem is ONLY with JA purity template

This is a great microblog. Easy to install, easy to manage.

Simple plugin which works. You set up an account with Google friend connector, generate code and paste it in the parameters in the plugin. Works well.

Wish though we could remove the attribute to vivocity

Easy to install and easy to understand. Lot of value in terms of projecting a lot of news. However, space utilisation is not very good

The feature mentioned for this extension "front-end Article Submission forms" is misleading. I thought I could create forms with which content could be uploaded by site visitors without too much hassle.

This extension merely fixes the category/section which anyway the user can change.

Its pretty much what I am looking for. Easy to use and deploy. The flexibility in the functionality can also be used for different applications.

This is such a simple plugin that it is too good to be true. Works beautifully and is so easy.

I encourage the developers to add the following:
- Rounded boxes with space for headings (in a different color) and a list where the box will have a separate color.

- Modules so that separate types of css of the same style can be added

This rocks

Hi this is very simple to use. However, I noticed that if I were to use this with "module in content", then there is a problem. It works fine with one "module in content" in a page but if there is more than one then it doesnt work for the second one. Otherwise this is a fantastic tool

For simple redirect of URLs this plugin is as simple as it is amazing! The support too is prompt.

Just love it