xbMaps

Introduction

Street Maps, Regional Maps, Maps & Weather, Maps & Locations, Geotagging

Display Maps with Tracks and Markers using OpenStreetMap tile sets on your site.

xbMaps is a Joomla3 component to display maps and GPX tracks. A map can have many (or no) tracks and markers, and tracks and markers can appear on many maps. Maps are rendered using leaflet-js and its plugins for controls etc. Tracks are uploaded in GPX format. Markers can use either default pins, images or fontawesome5 icons.

There are many configuration options for the display of items. Full use is made of the Joomla built in tagging system so tags can be shared with articles and other components.

A companion Content Plugin plg_content_xbmaps is also now available which allows a map to be embedded in an standard Joomla article by means of a shortcode. See the xbmaps homepage for more details and to download.

Roadmap
- an editor button plugin is in development to make entering shortcodes for embedding maps easier to create whilst editing an article.
- there are no current plans for a Joomla4 version as I have no plans to migrate any of my sites to Joomla4 before the internet runs out of power.

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xbArticleMan

By Roger Creagh-Osborne

Authoring & Content

Joomla 5 version of xbArticle Manager is now available. The Joomla 3 component remains in place for those, like me, with J3 sites continuing for the foreseeable future. xbArticleMan aims to provide some useful additional tools for backend administration of Joomla content. It provides views for finding Images, Links, Shortcodes and Tags in, or associated with, com_content articles and checking th...

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xbRefMan

By Roger Creagh-Osborne

Authoring & Content

xbRefMan component provides admin management and site views for references in articles. It uses the xbRefs Plugins which are included in the pacage xbRefMan is packaged together with the xbRefs Plugins - an editor button plugin and a content plugin for inserting reference and footnote information as shortcodes in articles. The reference information - title and description/citation can be embedde...

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xbRefs

By Roger Creagh-Osborne

Authoring & Content

xbRefs contains two plugin extensions to help you create and display references and footnotes in articles on your site. The xbRefs-Content plugin converts shortcodes of the form {xbref...} to popovers or footnotes as specified in the shortcode. The optional xbRefs-Button plugin is an editor extension which works with both TinyMCE and JCE to easily add {xbref...} shortcodes without having to know t...

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xbFilms

By Roger Creagh-Osborne

Education & Culture

xbFilms is a component for cataloguing films with details including synopsis, director, cast, and crew together with reviews of the films. The primary intended user is someone wanting to keep a record of films they have seen with a reminder of the plot and what their reaction was. A film can have multiple reviews by the same or different users, allowing family and friends or a reading group to s...

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xbBooks

By Roger Creagh-Osborne

Education & Culture

xbBooks is a component for cataloguing books with details including author and synopsis together with reviews of them. The primary intended user is someone wanting to keep a record of books they have read with a reminder of the plot and what their reaction was. A book can have multiple reviews by the same or different users, allowing family and friends or a reading group to share their comments....

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xbTipPop

By Roger Creagh-Osborne

Editor Buttons

Do you use Tooltips or Popovers? Would you like to make it easy to insert them when editing an article - even after you've got the text all done? Is it a hassle remembering the syntax? Do you want complete control over the style and placement of your tips and pops? Then Tip-Pop button is here to help you. An editor extension button that works with both TinyMCE and JCE and allows you to simply hig...

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xbAutosave

By Roger Creagh-Osborne

Editing

v3.0.0 compatible with Joomla 3.10 Joomla 4 & 5 version also available - see the homepage link the download link here is just for the J3 version. JED can't handle two versions of the same listing. Have you ever lost your finely crafted words by being called away and having the session timeout? Do you switch between Wordpress and Joomla and miss the automatic saving of edits in progress in the ot...

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SunClock

By Roger Creagh-Osborne

Time

SunClock is a novel clock that displays the time since sunrise for a given location. Some people believe this is a far more natural way of measuring time - each day starts at 00:00:00 at sunrise and time is counted from that point until the following sunrise. During spring days are slightly less that 24 hrs long as the sun rises "earlier" each day, and during autumn each day will last longer than...

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SunUpDown

By Roger Creagh-Osborne

Weather

Simple module to display the local time of sunrise and sunset for a location. Parameters to set the latitude and longitude (search google to find the coordinates for a given location), text to appear before and after the times, and the timezone to use for times. You can also display the current date and time at the location (the time does not update, this is not a clock!) Stylesheet is installed i...