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bylinux4me, September 13, 2010
I manage a number of non-profit Joomla sites and all were getting spam registrations on a daily basis. It was driving my clients crazy. The busier sites were getting dozens per day. Some of the sites use Virtuemart, some run Kunena, and some are pretty basic sites without many extensions.
Registration Validator is the answer I was looking for. It installed cleanly and easily on every site.
The documentation on the site is clear and configuration was quick and easy. The support forum looks like it's not that busy, but that's because the extension works so well, I think.
I had a couple of questions about configuring logging, but they were answered in the forum.
I've been running the extension for several days now, and it has been catching 99.9% of the spam registrations. Those it hasn't caught have been because the cloud spam registries were unreachable when the particular user tried to register, and were no fault of the extension. Using the logs, I was able to add the problem domains to the local blocklist and will catch them next time around without the need of the external spammer lists.
One of the most entertaining aspects of Registration Validator is the ability to redirect the blocked registrations to anywhere you want. That offers some interesting possibilities.
Thanks for a great extension!
Registration Validator is the answer I was looking for. It installed cleanly and easily on every site.
The documentation on the site is clear and configuration was quick and easy. The support forum looks like it's not that busy, but that's because the extension works so well, I think.
I had a couple of questions about configuring logging, but they were answered in the forum.
I've been running the extension for several days now, and it has been catching 99.9% of the spam registrations. Those it hasn't caught have been because the cloud spam registries were unreachable when the particular user tried to register, and were no fault of the extension. Using the logs, I was able to add the problem domains to the local blocklist and will catch them next time around without the need of the external spammer lists.
One of the most entertaining aspects of Registration Validator is the ability to redirect the blocked registrations to anywhere you want. That offers some interesting possibilities.
Thanks for a great extension!
bylinux4me, March 8, 2010
You can pay $10 for a Silver subscription on the Ninja web site and then are allowed to download their Ninja RSS Strip Plugin Tags Plugin, which also installs easily without errors and does just what it says; however, I think this functionality should be included in the component itself. It seems like a Micro$oft-like gotcha that I don't appreciate.
Other than that, I'm very happy with the component, and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it to anyone whose content items are simple and without any plugin tags. If you're like most users, and your content has at least a couple different types of plugin tags, count on spending that $10 or taking the time to build the tag-stripping plugin yourself.
Owner's reply
Thanks for the kind words.
We originally had the functionality built into the component, but we had a mix of people who wanted:
- no plugins run (strip all out)
- all plugins run (strip none out)
- some plug ins run (strip some out)
So I had to split it out into a plugin. At which point we made it a paid extra.
It may seem like a Micro$oft gotcha, but it is just us wanting to feed our families. That $10 gets you access to all of the extended functionality plugins and all of our silver level extensions (40+).
There is several thousands of hours of work in those extensions combined, so we feel it is more than a fair deal for just $10.
Besides which, the vast bulk of the functionality of Ninja RSS is still 100% free of charge. It is just the optional extras that we ask for some money for.
bylinux4me, March 8, 2010
I haven't found a better extension for handling multimedia files. Rokbox is easy to add to content items, handles links to video hosted at YouTube and Hulu, and works marvelously for images--the automatic thumbnail creation is great--with a couple of tweaks.
For some reason, out-of-the-box Rokbox is hard-coded to crop images when it creates thumbnails. I routinely change the line of code to scale rather than crop images when it creates thumbnails. It also doesn't add height and width attributes to the image tags it creates, which would be a small modification for the developers to make.
I have never gotten the local or remote FLV display to work. Apparently, this happens with some servers running mod_security that won't allow JWPlayer to access and play the videos, though other plugins, like Mgmediabot2, are able to do so. It will play other video file formats, so I usually convert FLV to MPEG if I need to run a local file.
The forum for Rokbox is pretty helpful if have issues, though it seems some posts go without response from the developers there are quite a few other users who respond. There are a Tips and Tricks and Solved Issues topics that are a must read if you have issues.
Rokbox, based on Mootools, doesn't play well with JQuery, though it is much better about this in Joomla 1.5.x than it was in Joomla 1.0.x. Think twice before you spend a lot of time on it if you're using a JQuery-dependent extension you can't live without.
bylinux4me, March 5, 2010
I had to migrate a large gallery (~6,000) images, and was able to do so without a hiccup.