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This module provides a calendar based index to your joomla articles. Articles indexed on the calendar may come from a single section or from all sections. Module options allow the user to control calendar appearance which by default takes on settings from the site template. Other options are abbreviations for the month and year and background colors for days that link to content and the current day. Brought to you by Drew and Julianna Willis who use it for blogging. A demo is available at JuliannaLand (http://www.julianna.homelinux.org/)

Editor's Note

This extension by default includes hidden links/advertising. Hidden links/advertising can affect the Search Engine ranking.

Reviews (6)

Invalidate Code XHTML

byJLMS on May 28, 2009

Tried your module, but it invalidated the XHTML's homepage. It is an excellent work, well developed and functional, but suffers in this important question!

Good as event calender

byXeonz on January 19, 2009

I have set up this module to be a "event of day calendar". Every day is a article in joomla. Like "This happens the 30 January in the City" ...

But I have some bugs that need to be seen over.

1. If I use time-inactivation of an article it doesn't work. = The module-day is linked and leads to joomla 404 error page.

2. If I publish a article at 1 day of month it doesn't work. The calendar thought that 1 February is 1 January (1 Mars = 1 Februari). All other days in the month works great.

Problem with IE8

bytfmy2k on January 7, 2009

Works ok: lacks the ability to show multiple articles at one time: also the display goes crazy in IE8 and expands and spreads.

need some improvments

byngrs on November 26, 2008

Very nice module, really, but missing one feature - this module cann't show more than one article created on one day, it only shows the first one.

Thanks for your job :)

Owner's reply

I realize this occurs. It's unfortunate, but it turns out a whole new component is required to show more than a single article. The native joomla component for showing articles, com_content, only allows for viewing whole sections or single articles (IMHO this is insufficient). I haven't the time to develop the component at the moment so this bug (more accurately a shortcoming) will persist until I develop a component capable of doing this or joomla devs pull up their bootstraps and make the com_content component more friendly to 3rd party extensions such as mine. Other joomla devs have this need and its being discussed by the joomla devs. It could possibly be in J1.5.8 but I haven't checked yet.

Happy thanksgiving,
--drew

Handy calendar...

byBlue Ninja on October 29, 2008

This is a good little module for showing articles by date. The only problem I notice is that the previous/next month links have an incorrect URL. Hopefully that gets implemented in some type of AJAX-style manner that doesn't need to reload the page, or at least includes the rel="nofollow" tag, as I had a similar problem with another calendar and ended up with thousands of Google results for each unique combination of page and calendar month.

I'm eager to see future versions!

Owner's reply

Thanks for your comments, they're very insightful. Not sure what you mean by incorrect URLs in the next/previous month links, please elaborate on the support forums if you could. I've added rel="nofollow" tags to the previous/next month links and links within the calendar days. I haven't had the problem you mention but could see it happening ---> thanks for the suggestion. --drew

Excellent module

byibrythill on October 29, 2008

Finally someone wrote a blog calendar for 1.5. I've been waiting for something like that since Joomla 1.5 came out.
Support is also great! Andrew helped me with my problems in no time.
Great module i recommend it!
Ibrythill

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