This is a good extension.

No more hassling around and asking, no begging your authors to please please add read more links themselves after a short intro text. I'm fed up with those religious wars on how long an intro text should be, and how strict that rule must be applied. Finally a frontpage that displays more than one artcile prominently, since all the articles have roughly the same size.

But it is not mature. E.g. it also cuts off the event descriptions in the eventlist comonent. So I changed line 14 to global $option; if ( $option == 'com_content' ) { $mainframe->registerEvent( 'onPrepareContent', 'cutoff' ); } No biggie, but not all people will be able to do this. And preferably this should become some parameter. I want to post this somewhere, but where? This is the only possible spot, and it is not the correct spot.

It looks like the author misjudged the possible popularity of this extension. ;-)

So please, continue development! And add a forum, thanks.

This plugin only changes the display of the date, and I like the end result a lot. When I disable the plugin, my site looks plain and a lot less easy to read.
I can only hope someone will pick up this project and fix the xhtml compliance issues.

Besides that, there is a small error in the code, which will only occur when "date of last update" is used for the option "What to show". Since the Modified date is by default set to "0000-00-00 00:00:00", you need to pick up the creation date in case an article was never modified.

For this, change the lines on 215 through 219 in calendar_icon.php to:

/* var that gets calendar code and establish its position */ $data_artykulu = $row->created; if ( ( $this->_params->get('showing', '0') == '1' ) and ( $row->modified > $row->created ) ) { $data_artykulu = $row->modified; }

I liked this extension a lot. The bats and the snow were both simple and pleasing enough. Configuration is also a major plus: simple with - to my feeling - exactly the needed options.

But the fireworks... It makes sound (yikes!), and it causes an 'operation aborted' in IE7. If this gets fixed, I'll use it again.

I'm using Attachments for - I think - about a year now. It was from the beginning a very important extension to get my site up & running.

This latest version (1.3.4) has been around for quite some time now, and it is stable and feature rich. There always remain features left to be implemented, but this version is more than sufficient for me.
No user, author nor editor on my site has had any problem using it; and even though usage is simple and intuitive enough, there is also an extended help file and a good forum to get you going.

I can recommend this extension to everyone, and I'm very happy to use it. Thanks a lot!