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Hi,

I have just been testing your new plugin on a site that's under development. The client is making changes and adding new content, which often needs some tweaks to the css and html to maintain a uniform appearance.

This plugin has been a great time saver with the email notifications, which include a back and frontend link to the changed/new content.

Easy install, multiple email addresses can be assigned for content administrators. It has functioned with out any issues over the past couple of days. I shall be rolling this out on other sites which require monitoring of content.

It's comes into its own for content which has been updated.

Thanks for sharing your work with the community.

What a great extension!

It puts pay to the annoying missing META tags in section and category blog views. This is something I keep trying to improve on. I have tried virtually all the tools available, to beat this problem while sticking with the core sef. Even numerous combinations of tool at times and all had a weak point.

What I have been trying to achieve is a low/no maintenance automated solution to this poor SEO behaviour.

This extension doesn't fully automate the process but it dramatically reduces the time required maintaining it. Unless you are regularly creating new section and category blogs, in which case you will need to put in some effort.

The new Pro version released today, extends the options available in the community version.

For many users the community version maybe enough as it is an extremely powerful meta tool with it's feature set. However the cost of the Pro version, comes to little more than buying the developer a couple of beers, upgrading to pro is a no brainer!

The power of this tool is in the application of regular expression to control the actions of the plugin.

The developer has applied sound logic to this problem. Less is more with this extension! The developer has designed this tool to work in harmony with the core SEF/SEO. What this means is, content rendered in article view needs no extra intervention from this meta tool, Joomlas core manages it just fine.

At the most basic level you just need to apply this extension to menu items for section and category blogs.

The beauty of this product is that you can get more involved when and where you chose.

The developer also offers a url redirect tool called ReDj, available as a community or Pro version with the same pricing policy. The tool uses the same regular expression and macro techniques to redirect incoming urls.

The combination of these two extensions provides amazing control of meta data and urls.

Now here is the deal closer, you can use it to apply meta data to components, which don't allow for inclusion of meta data and with ReDj you can control the url, the pro version allows this to be done using server side redirection (nice).

All for the price of a few beers!

Other commercial solutions have a hefty annual fee, require a reasonable amount of maintenance and in some cases additional plug-in support, for other joomla extensions and they still have their own little quirks.

I hope I have done justice to the genius behind this solution.

If you are worried about the thought of regular expression rules don't panic! The documentation explains in more than enough detail, how to manage your urls for everyday use.

I would like to make one suggestion to the developer. I think it would be nice to have an input field with a radio on/off, which allows for a pre-append to the end of the site url. This would allow for site development on sites in subdirectories.
i.e http://domain.not/dev {siteroot} (as far as I can work out) doesn't allow a rule to be applied like so ^/section/blog.html$ the rule required would be ^/dev/section/blog.html$ in which case, moving to a live server in public root or a subdirectory of a different name, would require a change to /dev or its removal. I hope that makes sense.

Sorry for such a protracted review. With so many extensions available on here gems like this are easily overlooked by old and new hands at joomla. IMHO the combination of these two products, will give many old faithful SEO/SEF extensions a run for their money.

Great work, and thank you for making the price point of the pro versions accessible to all.

Hi,

It's 4:30am here and I should be in bed...but before I head off, I wanted to thank you for sharing your great plugin.

It worked like a charm and if I hadn't found it, I may not have been heading for bed right now.

Great job!

This is an excellent way to add dynamic css changes targeted at specific page loads.

Love in it already!

Great job thanks for the share.

This incarnation of the piecemaker seems to be the best of the bunch. It may not have quite as many options as the others on offer. But it functions well and gets the job done with no hassle.

With V3 there is now the option to show or hide the drop shadow effect. The lack of shadow is probably what put some users off the earlier version.

Support from Neerav was swift when a bug was reported, an update was released to solve the issue.

Hopefully Neerav will get enough time too add to the effects available. Horizontal slicing and maybe even different transitions between images, would really nice to have. Fingers crossed.

If you try this module you wont be disappointed.

I was going to give it 4 stars because the effects are a little limited. But it is extremely usable and does what it says on the tin, which makes it deserving of a top rating. IMHO

Thanks for sharing your work with the community.

I have added a review to your Unit Converter module. I think some of my comments there also apply to your calculator. A few styling options would be very useful for many users.

With the calculator, it might also be nice if the output display could have an option, to set the colours for background and digits. Maybe an option to set the size of the display, would be good as it looks a little out of proportion by default.

Over all this calculator is a really nice solution and brings some much needed functionality to site visitors.

Thank you for sharing.

For users that would like to add styling just add this code to the mod_*.xml file...

[code]

...
/* insert after this line */




[/code]

Go to module settings and you will see the new class option.

This is a nice little tool that brings some valuable user functionality to a site. It would suit a number of different sites such as building material suppliers to technical or scientific ones.

I would have given it 5 stars if there were more options available for styling height, width etc. An option to set the default conversion would be a nice touch.

It would be nice if you could add this code to your mod_*.xml file, I think it would make it easier for novice or non-coders like me, too add some styling.


Thanks for sharing your work with the community. :)

I would just like to doff my cap to the team who forked off and brought this great security measure back to the community! I wanted to use another word that rhymes with forked when said with an Irish accent. But I think the JED team would have pulled this review, had I used such an expletive.

Unfortunately, I spotted your release a little to late...I had already changed a number of .htaccess files to bolster up the security - as I uninstalled the old incarnation.

This is a much more convenient method of raising basic site security!

I was a little vocal on the JED entries for the Now Pro version, I had lost some faith in humanity. Fortunately that was quickly restored by the efforts of the team behind ksecure.

Thanks for stepping up and delivering something of value to the Joomla community.

P.S. I hope to be in a position to show my appreciation, more directly in the near future if things go to plan.

Thank you for providing your work to the community. You have done a great job enhancing a dormant project.

I think you could improve the effect of your plugin by adding an append to end option. It would be nice if there was "..." added to the end of the output text. It would also be nice if it was a user defined field in the parameters so that a user could link to a custom graphic or just add ">>>" "..." for example.

The only other thing that is a pain with this method of formating is the image handling. It would be great if there were some method of cropping images in order to create a uniform blog intro image. This is probably not in the scope of your project but it would be the icing on the cake to find a solution.

I use a combination of two plugins to do what your plugin is doing, I will be using yours as part of my standard deployment build from now on.

Thank you

In response to the previous review...

I personally haven't experienced any issues with my installations that once used the V1 Jsecure plugin.

Maybe I had removed it before there was an issue I won't be testing to find out.

For anyone else who may experience an issue with site access since Jsecure went Pro, Try this fix before you do anything else.

Go to your plugins directory and rename the Jsecure directory. Then try and login hopefully that should allow you access to your admin panel.

You should also be aware of a fork project of Jsecure available here on the JED http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/access-a-security/site-security/12271

Hope that helps.

P.S. I sincerely hope the Jsecure dev team didn't cause login issues for users of the old plugin!

Oh and my star rating has nothing to do with what I think of the plugin. As I have no intention of evaluating it! The one star indicates a no comment from me.

Great first module thanks for sharing!

An input field for a link would be nice.

Maybe a couple of extra theme options like tilt left and tilt right. This way the note would look more casual on the page. The way you have illustrated it with the icon for your jed entry, is what I'm getting at.

The option to display for registered, public etc. would be handy...although AdvancedModuleManager overcomes that if you have it installed.

Great job even without any of my suggestions.

Thank you

Hi,

Thanks for sharing your work. This is a nice easy way to present a no script notice.

I think it would be better to have a user definable URL within the module parameters for the information link. IMHO this would be an improvident over the simple yes, no or file editing choices. If this was included it would be 5 stars from me.

Other than that it's a nice little addition.

Thanks again

This is a nice easy way to display banners. It's just a shame that the author has not developed it further. If wipes and fades were implemented in this module it would really be a super banner solution.

The lack of fade effects is the only reason I dropped a star. Even though it is an extremely useful inclusion, in its current form.

This is yet another great tool from N0#.

If you haven't installed 'advanced module manager', you're missing out on a beautiful thing!

Thanks for all the great work you produce.

This another great solution from Phoca.

The issue of not being able to move categories is an issue, but overall this exceeds my expectations.

It has a nice easy UI that has a nice logical work flow for the most part.There are plenty of helpful tips provided for the options available.

Out of the box styling is acceptable but will need some work from the developer if they want styling to match their site. I would rather make a few style changes, than write a component of this quality and complexity!

The main reason I have reviewed this component is in response to people complaining about the overlib issue in this product. Some of these people solved the issue and never bothered to share the fix! Not very community minded folk obviously.

If you have trouble with the overlib in this extensions try adding this to your main template .css file.

/* overlib */

.ol-foreground {
background-color: #454545;
}
.ol-background {
background-color: #ffcc2f;
}
.ol-textfont {}
.ol-captionfont {
color: #b47512;
font-weight: bold;
}
.ol-captionfont a {}

.ol-closefont {}

/* end overlib */

Obviously change the colours to suit your requirements.

Hope that helps. :o)

I dropped one star for the category issue, because that will cause problems for people.

In the last month or so the JED has seen some really nice additions. Like the joomla praise adminlite template, Lyften Bloggie, alpharegistration to name a few - while others old favorites have become much more slick as they mature.

Jcomments is a worthy member of my standard stuff directory. Once you have checked it out I'm sure you will feel the same.

The install was smooth and the configuration extremely well set out and commented. You will have comments running on your site within 5 minutes.

Theres no need to type in a list of category, section or article numbers. Just select from the list. To remove commenting from an article just add the {jcomments off} tag in the article.

When posting a comment you can enter text that will only be visible to registered/logged in members.

There are lots of nice touches and supporting modules. A comprehensive list of comment systems can be imported, as well as external avatar sources.

All in all this is a killer comment system looks and feels modern in both the back and front end.

All we need now is Joomla 1.6

Thanks for bringing this great component to the community under the GNU/GPL.

I don't have the words to do this admin template justice. You just have to see it and use it, to grasp the difference it makes to the admin area.

Once you have used AdminPraise Lite you will never want to go back to the old way of administering joomla, in fact you will wonder how you ever managed to get by using the default template.

Be warned, once you have had a taste of the light version, you will want the pro one real soon.

Thanks for making this template available to the community.

There is really nothing I could add to the comments that have been added here. The stats for the Jfusion project speak for themselves! In excess of 200 comments most of which rate the project 5 out of 5.

If you need to sync multiple software solutions, there is nothing that even comes close, to such a complete and progressive solution as Jfusion.

Top team and a top project in a class of their own.

Nice little module very quick and easy to implement. The CSS demo cut and paste into your own template CSS gives a nice example style.

It maybe worth mentioning you can also use a in the day field to add a comment which places the comment in the same block as the time. Ideal for adding 'Open Late' etc.

It would be nice if the module could be installed more than once for companies with multiple branches or maybe for advanced warning of public holidays.

Nice job thanks for sharing it!

I finally registered with Joomla.org

I want to say what a great job you have done with this project. It has been a real pleasure to watch it develop at break neck speed. Some times updated more than once a day. The author has a great sense of humour and reacts to feed back almost instantly including their wish list requests.

This is a must have for any site the uses are endless. Creating new or editing new pop ups is fast and very intuitive. The new component idea is gust a master stroke the module features are vast!

You have just got to try this out if you don't find it one of the most useful com/mod on your system I will sell my sole on Ebay!

Now as for the wish list could you include some timed message and media function so that you could for example have a cock crow in the AM and an Owl hoot in the evening or good morning and good afternoon messages etc. Maybe with a server time off set so you can get the timing right for your home market. Geographic location would be asking too much!

One minor gripe with the upgrade when you uninstall the module you lose your custom sounds etc.
Not a big deal when you know.

Can't wait to see where this one ends up we need more stars for projects as good as this one!

Thank you for all your great work.