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I installed this for my bilingual site after failing with Joomfish. This is much simpler and the installation instructions are provided with a step by step image slideshow with very few words - a bonus in my opinion, as often instructions are too wordy and complicated. However, I didn't realize that I should also click on the images for more info, which led to me missing out a step.
The mod didn't work for me on installation, so I sought help in the forum and received a very quick response. The dev team logged into my site and fixed the problem very quickly and effectively, and now I have a great translation system. Works on all aspects of the site - articles, menus, SEO, and so on. Fantastic mod, thanks guys.

I used Joomfish on a 1.5 website ages ago and loved it, so I was keen to install it on a new 2.5 website. However, it has been very difficult to achieve anything and I have ended up uninstalling it - but even that didn't work properly.

First problem I had was that I was unable to actually find where to translate articles. I spent 10 minutes watching a useless configuration video which told me nothing I hadn't found out already. Eventually I found an external site with some instructions.

Next problem was that the language selector module would not work properly. Always displayed in the same position no matter where I tried to move it, and always showing the title even though I had selected hide. Haven't bothered to get support after reading comments on here and certainly won't pay for a ticket.

Tried to uninstall and was greeted with a success message, but it's still showing in my components menu. Went into MYSQL and tried to delete from there but found loads of JF remnants of tables and data and eventually, after 3 hours of getting nowhere, deleted my website and started again. (Luckily nothing in it as yet, so no big deal, but what a waste of time!)

Just what I needed - simple, fast to install, free. OK there is no support, but you don't need any to get this up and running. Very pleased, with it - thanks.

This extension works fine for me, but it is a little frustrating as a few things really slow me down when adding books.

On the whole I like the ext. Although there was no manual to be found, it was intuitive and I could begin adding books in a matter of minutes. The library is formatted ok and the front-end functionality works fine too.

My only quibbles are at the backend, trying to input books. I'm fetching data from amazon.co.uk, and it's not displayed correctly, e.g. sometimes the publisher is wrong, or date of publishing is wrong, or price is wrong. I gather though that these mistakes come from Amazon's end so no fault of the extension, but something to bear in mind when you have to manually alter every book you enter.

Secondly, when the price is fetched, I seem to sometimes get a marketplace price. Often this is a just a few pence, and the price is displayed front end as .15 GBP (for example) - which looks like 15 pounds, not 15p. I have to change all these manually too. It would be better if the extension formatted prices as prices not numbers, i.e with leading zero and two decimal places. A price of 20p is displayed as .2 GBP.

Another annoying point is that books are automatically unpublished when saved - you can't select "publish" when entering the book info. Just another step but when you've got a lot of books it's time consuming.

My work flow is going like this: Add new book- copy/paste ISBN and give my own ID (should be auto if not filled in, imo), select category (should be auto-selected if previously filtered imo), select fetch from amazon.co.uk - SAVE (closes form- need an APPLY button). Re-open form to view fetched data, change to "on my own" for fetching data, correct mistakes (see above), SAVE (again), Click on publish. As far as I can see it would save a lot of time if I could hit APPLY to fetch the data without closing the form, and if I could also select "publish" from the form, or even better configure the ext so that it defaults to "publish".

Having said all that, it is free after all and just what I'm after in terms of frontend.

This was a waste of time. For what should be a simple extension, it just doesn't perform. As someone previously wrote, the contents spills out of the containing div and into whatever is next on the page - in my case resulting in two superimposed layers of text - completely unreadable.

I needed an editor that could let me browse to internal links (Tinyeditor doesn't) and would highlight html tags in different colours, while also being a wysiwig editor. JCE works great. I nearly got rid of it though, because it was stripping out my in-page google adsense ads and amazon ads and I found it difficult to ascertain why. The forum support brought up no answers, except perhaps some posts that I would have to pay as a subscriber in order to read. Luckily in the end on this joomla forum I discovered how to allow javascript - JCE is now working perfectly for my needs.

Very simple and efficient. I wanted a simple countdown to to certain date - easily customisable without too much faff and this does the job a treat. Thanks.

Great little plugin. Simple to configure - choose position, choose to include front page or whatever. Works a treat. Thanks very much.