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I tried this extension in Joomla 1.5.23 with my modified JoomlaShack "Cloud 9" template. It is just what I wanted: to display linked titles to all the articles in a category, and do this in a sidebar.

I did try core Joomla's Category List Layout, and that did display my list of article titles, but on a full page, not quite what I wanted. I thought core Joomla would have a way to display the article titles in a sidebar, but I could find no such thing.

I would like to see an option to order the articles by date of publication, so newest can be placed at the top. Instead, I set the module parameters -> Article ordering to "By order as set in administration" and then in Article Manager ordered the articles by publication date. That gave the effect I wanted, but when I add new articles I'll need to check the article ordering in article manager.

It installed easily and was easy to configure, worked like other modules.

It was a little difficult for me to style the module to get the look I wanted (CSS changes). It might be helpful to specify a unique class in the unordered list, so I can more easily specify CSS selectors to style this module. In the template I was using, I changed items in the syle sheet whose selectors began with "#sidebar2" to change the styles of the unordered list in the module (thanks to firebug!). My website has few other modules, so I don't know what other modules these style changes would affect.

Thank you to Jan Zikmund for writing this extension, and for writing it to work with Joomla 1.6 too.

I installed JComments at a Joomla 1.5.21 website.

I was pleased that the configuration page showed up right after install.

I like having each configuration option briefly explained right on the form.

This is the first commenting tool I've installed. At my client's website, there is a page for each of four books, and we want visitors to be able to comment on each book. JComments seems to have everything I need. The main feature I wanted was for the website owner to be able to moderate the comments, and that seems to be really easy, especially with the moderation links right in the notification emails.

I also like the ability to set permissions by user role.

I'm an intermediate Joomla web developer.

We decided to let unregistered users comment. If we had wanted to restrict comments to only registered users, JComments would have let me set up that too.

I've installed Bigshot Google Analytics at a few Joomla websites now and it has worked well every time: easy to install and then configure in the plugins manager. Just fill in the account ID found in the tracking code snippet Google provides you from your Google Analytics account.

It would be interesting to know why Bigshot Google Analytics still properly sends tracking information to your GA account even though the code snippet in GA is different than the code inserted by Bigshot.

A couple of years ago I needed an editor that website owners could use that wouldn't unformat the hand-coded HTML in my articles. I tried another Joomla editor but that turned out to insert extra characters in my links. Finally I tried out the JCE editor because it was popular at extensions.joomla.org and it was just right.

I actually need to learn to use JCE myself, because other Joomla developers tell me JCE is their favorite Joomla editor and it saves them time compared to hand-coding HTML.

Thanks to the JCE developers for providing this editor and keeping it up to date with Joomla.

Installed without a hitch on my Joomla 1.5.14 site. I chose to link to the HTML format of the site map from a link in my website's footer. I chose to turn off the menu names in the site map display, excluded one page from the site map, and turned off developer credit link, thanks for those options.

Thanks to the other reviewers for explaining how to find the options/preferences menu that contains links to the site map URL's. I was pretty lost until I read those notes.

I find the JoomlaFCK editor to be as good as the capable TinyMCE default editor that comes with Joomla 1.5 AND it reformats the HTML source after some other editor has "munged" the source by taking out all the white space. That reformatting is the main reason I really like the JoomlaFCK editor, but I also like its image upload feature.

I installed JoomlaFCK 2.5.1.2 on a Joomla 1.5.0 installation, and JoomlaFCK 2.5.15 on a Joomla 1.0.13 installation. It seems to work fine in both cases, though I tried out just a few features, mainly editing HTML source and images.