Social Media platforms (Twitter, Linkedin, Facebook, Google+) are a growing driver for traffic to your blog and integrated responsive Social Media sharing buttons are facilitating community engagement and promotion. But often integrating Social Sharing buttons on your website can break your website's performance (because they load a remotely hosted script) and look-and-feel. Often you are limited as to where these Social sharing buttons are placed on your blog or website. And what are those cookies for that they place? Who asked them to track your visitors? What are they doing with that data? ochJSsocials LIGHT version has support for the following most used buttons: Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn and Email. Looking for Whatsapp, Mix, LINE, Telegram, Viber, Pocket, Facebook Messenger, vKontakte, SMS, Reddit buttons? Please checkout ochJSsocials (FULL)! Time to take control again over your website and protect your visitors! This Joomla! content plugin integrates the open source js-Socials script seamlessly into your web pages. The script itself is only 10K big and because it is installed locally it can be cached and thus is lightning fast! You get full control on where you want to place the responsive Social sharing buttons: simply by entering the tag {jssocials} anywhere in your blog / article or on any page via a custom module. Languages: de-DE (partial) en-GB es-ES (partial) it-IT (partial) nl-NL pt-BR sr-RS sr-YU tr-TR (partial) Don't like the labels on the buttons? Change them via Joomla language file.... It's your site, you decide what to do with it :) Or you can place them automagically in the top / bottom / read more (or any combination of) positions on your Joomla! articles (configurable per category). And that's not all! you can even choose to have the buttons automagically appear on your featured or category (blog) view: this makes sharing articles from those pages very easy for your visitors. With one click of the mouse you can change the look-and-feel of all the responsive Social sharing buttons all over your website: all from the plugin's back-end. You want the look and feel to perfectly match your website? No problem: with the custom CSS option you can make them look (and feel) exactly the way you want them to! And that is not all... it's free for you to use on your website!

New: Switch to Joomla's 3.8 new router and remove your Article IDs from the URL WITHOUT loosing your #SEO ranking and breaking links to your website! Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Social Media Optimization (SMO) is an important factor in increasing the popularity of your website. There are many manual ways to tweak and tune your site's SEO and SMO parameters. This package consists of the ochSEO | SMO Toolbox component and the Basictools plugin. New in version 0.2.1: Router Tools These new Router Tools help you RETAIN AND GAIN your Search Engine ranking and availability of your web sites pages from back-links en Social Media platforms! Switching to the new (Experimental) router with (or without) Remove IDs will for sure break your web site's Search Engine ranking when no precautionairy measures are taken. Also switching will result in broken links when trying to access your pages from back-links on other websites and Social Media (like Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Google+, etc.). The component functions as a 'single home' for the configuration of all och plugins (ochJssocials, ochFitvids, ochCall2Action, ...) The Basictools (system) plugin helps you (semi) automate the tweaking and tuning of the most important SEO parameters! With 'one click of the button' you can test and implement new values / settings throughout your websites pages. After you analyze what the impact is on your website's Search Engines ranking, you can keep the values or change them to your new insights... Or you can just 'Set and Forget' it :) Current functionality: Mass change all of your images 'Alt text' to reflect filename / page title / keywords Auto add Meta Description on article pages where there is no Meta Description set Automatically fill missing Article Meta Descriptions with article text Mass add / remove meta Keywords from global / menu / article keywords Change the Page title as seen by visitors of Google: add a suffix before or after, automatically limit the length, set a front page specific page title Replace the default Joomla! generator text with your own Inject Script Code (for example you Google AdSense verification code) on every page Insert Google Meta Tags > Google Site Verification Code (For Google Search Console / Webmaster tools) Separate plugins can be downloaded as part of the subscription: ochOpenGraph > Time to take control again over how your content looks on Social Media Platforms! ochFitvids > Responsive videos ochCall2Action > Call2action text in your articles ochJSsocials > the fastest and most configurable Social Media sharing tool for Joomla! ochCronJobs > Automate KunenaDiscuss synchronization New in version 0.2.4 - [plugin] New: Implement Google Meta Tag > Google Site Verification Code - [plugin] New: Joomla! 4.0 (alpha) compatible - Improved: namespacing improvements - Improved: added new ochhelper class - Improved: plugin configuration via Joomla! build in modals New in version 0.2.3 - New: added [apply] button on plugin modal (for Joomla 3.8.3+) in Control Panel - [plugin] Improved: Rename insert Script code > add to - [plugin] Improved: Code improvement of install / update script New in version 0.2.2 - Improvement: Code improvement of install / update scripts for plugin(s) - Improvement: Plugin configuration in CPanel via modal (on Joomla 3.8+) - Improvement: Changed CPanel css: hover effect on images (clear (back-end) cache to enable) New in version 0.2.1 - New: New: added Router Tools (for Joomla! 3.8 and higher) - Report Orphaned Articles: Articles without a SEF url that will result in 404 error after switching to new Experimental router - Report Export Redirects: create a Bulk Import file for the Redirect component to redirect all old URLs to new URLs after switching to the new Experimental router (with Remove IDs) - New: Added Script Code injector > Inject for example your Google AdSense code on all your web pages New in version 0.2.0 - New: add forced Article Meta Description generation when empty - Improved: Better on page image detection - Improved: Better image alt text adding / replacing when using data images New in version 0.1.2 - Improved: plugin dashboard and configuration of plugins New in version 0.1.1 - New: implemented functionality for new type of och plugins > CronJobs New in version 0.1.0 - Hello World!

Social Media platforms (Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Facebook, Google+, Whatsapp, Mix, LINE, Telegram, Viber, Pocket, Facebook Messenger, vKontakte, SMS, Reddit) are a growing driver for traffic to your blog and integrated responsive Social Media sharing buttons are facilitating community engagement and promotion. But often integrating Social Sharing buttons on your website can break your website's performance (because they load a remotely hosted script) and look-and-feel. Often you are limited as to where these Social sharing buttons are placed on your blog or website. And what are those cookies for that they place? Who asked them to track your visitors? What are they doing with that data? Time to take control again over your website and protect your visitors! This Joomla! content plugin integrates the open source js-Socials script seamlessly into your web pages. The script itself is only 10K big and because it is installed locally it can be cached and thus is lightning fast! You get full control on where you want to place the responsive Social sharing buttons: simply by entering the tag {jssocials} anywhere in your blog / article. Facebook Like integration New: integrate a Facebook Like share box any where in your content by placing the tag {jssocials fblike}. You can even point the like box to another URL... imagine what that will do for growing your Facebook followers! New functionality: you can add parameters to the tag like: {jssocials url="https://the url to be shared" title="a different title to be share" buttonorder="L,F,T} This enables to you set eg the social sharing buttons on a 'thank you for buying' page where the share url is not the thank you page (default behavior), but e.g. the products page! Languages: de-DE (partial) en-GB es-ES (partial) it-IT (partial) nl-NL pt-BR sr-RS sr-YU tr-TR (partial) Don't like the labels on the buttons? Change them via Joomla language file.... It's your site, you decide what to do with it :) Don't want certain buttons to be shown on tables or phones? No worries, you can configure which buttons(s) should display on what device! Or you can place them automagically in the top / bottom / read more (or any combination of) positions on your Joomla! articles (configurable per category). And that's not all! you can even choose to have the buttons automagically appear on your featured or category (blog) view: this makes sharing articles from those pages very easy for your visitors. With one click of the mouse you can change the look-and-feel of all the responsive Social sharing buttons all over your website: all from the plugin's back-end. You want the look and feel to perfectly match your website? No problem: with the custom css option you can make them look (and feel) exactly the way you want them to! For the marketeers among us: it is even possible to measure (via e.g. Google Analytics) the effectiveness of your buttons / Social platform via built in UTM support! And that is not all... it's free for you to use on your website! Additional functionality compared to free ochJSsocials LIGHT version: - Additional buttons: Pinterest, WhatsApp, Mix (StumbleUpon successor), Line, Telegram, Viber, Pocket, VKontakte, Facebook Messenger, SMS and Reddit - Show / Hide buttons on device type: desktop, Mobile, Tablet (or combination) - Change buttons order - Facebook LIke button / share box anywhere you like pointing to any URL you like - Automatically trim length of tweet title to always fit configured (e.g. 140) characters - Advanced tag: When adding the tag you can specify a custom title, custom url to share and even a different button set / button order to show! - Custom campaigns support: set extra sharing parameters so you can track who clicked what and where in e.g. Google Analytics - FontAwesone 4 and 5 support for icons on the buttons - Advanced replace: replace any text / tag with the ochJSsocials buttons - Integration support for Affiliate Tracker component: automatically add a user's Affiliate Tracking ID to the URL when sharing! - Shared By functionality (in combination with ochBlog component): give credits to the sharer when displaying article / blog to visitor! - Seamless integration in ochSEO | SMO toolbox component New in version 1.0.1 (requires Joomla! 3.8+) - Improvement: Fix check if (name spaced) class Mobile_Detect is already loaded - Improvement: Fix stdClass not found error due to name spacing - Improvement: Fix Google+ sharing when not logged in on Google platform - Improvement: Updated languages sr-SR, sr-YU (Thnx Nidzo!) New in version 1.0.0 - New: Reddit share button - New: Mix collect button (substitutes StumbleUpon) - New: Added Facebook Quote functionality - New: Added 'Force Page Title' setting for Joomla articles to force page title instead of article title - New: enable Pinterest button on Custom module displaying on page with Joomla article - Improvement: update Mobile_Detect library to version 2.8.32 - Improvement: fixed VKontakte share counter - Improvement: add buttons javascript code to head instead of in body of page - Improvement: Added Name Spacing to facilitate LIGHT version coexistence - Improvement: Added EasyBlog class check to avoid notice when EasyBlog installed, but class not set New in version 0.7.1 - New: Joomla! 4.0 (alpha) compatible - New: Added Font Awesome 5 icon support - Improvement: update Mobile_Detect library to version 2.8.31 - Improvement: changed Telegram sharing URL New in version 0.7.0 - New: use new och-icons icon set instead of font-awesome for button icons New in version 0.6.6 - Fixed: Facebook Like box not using custom URL when specified - Fixed: Facebook Like box throwing PHP notice in logs - Improvement: maximum configurable tweet length is now 512 characters New in version 0.6.5 - New: Integration with Affiliate Tracker component > add user's Affiliate Tracker ID to shared URL - Improvement: URL constructor Code improvements New in version 0.6.4 - Improvement: Shared by functionality in combination with ochBlog component - Improvement: Code improvement of install / update script New in version 0.6.3 - New: Shared by functionality in combination with ochBlog component - Improvement: Code improvement of install / update script New in version 0.6.2 - New: Added Facebook Like button / share box (see documentation for instructions) - New: Added languages SR-RS and sr-YU (Thnx Nidzo) - Improvement: code improvements preparing for Joomla! 4 New in version 0.6.1 - New: Added SMS sharing button - New: Added Facebook Messenger desktop integration - New: Added language pt-BR - Improvement: Updated Mobile_Detect to version 2.8.26 - Improvement: Changed K2 handling of autobuttons - Improvement: Loading scripts and stylesheets with versioning New in version 0.6.0 - New: trim length of tweet title to always fit configured (e.g. 140) characters - New: exclude Joomla articles, K2 items, EasyBlog posts based on ID - New: Share call2action (invite to share) text for autobuttons - Fix: Custom html module on K2 and EasyBlog pages used wrong page url - Improvement: text disappearing when multiple tags used on some sites (using specific php versions) - Improvement: fixed notices when categories not configured in include / exclude for autobuttons New in version 0.5.7 - Improvement: moved mobile_detect to own namepace (avoid conflicts with other components utilizing same library without check) - Improved: Updated to jssocials.js version 1.5.0 (code cleanup and fix for StumbleUpon share count) - Improved: back-end configuration (button styles and button show on setting) New in version 0.5.6 - New: Set custom via, call2action, hashtags per (manually) inserted jssocials tag (for customizing twitter button) - Improvement: Introduced conditional fields (show / hide on value) in back-end configuration - Improvement: updated Mobile Detect library to version 2.8.24 New in version 0.5.5 - New: Set custom url, title or button(order) per (manually) inserted jssocials tag - Improvements: Code improvements New in version 0.5.4 - Updated: Fontawesome version 4.7.0 - Updated: Telegram pictogram changed to fa-telegram - New: nl-NL Language support - New: Seamless integration in ochSEO | SMO Toolbox component New in version 0.5.3 - Updated: jsSocials script version 1.4.0 - Improved: K2 fixes media / video / gallery on page (requires K2 fix) New in version 0.5.2 - New: vKontakte Social sharing added - New: Facebook Messenger Social sharing added - Improvement: Count setting (yes / no) decoupled from responsive setting - Temp Fix: Share count for Google+ disabled (not working anymore) - Improvement: Don't run plugin when the content is being indexed - Improvement: Improved installer update routine - Changed: Language files moved to plugins language folder New in version 0.5.1 - Fix: Pocket button not always showing on mobile (thnx Moos) - Fix: Autobuttons showing on modules that execute content plugins and are displayed on page that is configured to receive autobuttons (thnx Luc) New in version 0.5.0 - New: Added Viber Social sharing button (thx Nidzo) - New: Added Pocket read it later button (tnx Nidzo) - New: all buttons now configurable per device (show on desktop / tablet / mobile) - New: show debug information (see advanced tab for more information, default = off) - New: Pinterest button now also visible on featured, category views (when image in article) - Improvement: improved context (component) detection for autobuttons - Stops buttons from showing up on components that *mimic* com_content.article - Better K2 item, itemlist, latest detection for autobuttons - Improvement: updated Mobile Detect library to version 2.8.22 - Improvement: Mobile Detection improvement (less overhead = more speed) - Improvement: Several code improvements / changes New in version 0.4.2 - New: Added Telegram Social sharing button - Changed: upgraded jssocials.js script to version 1.3.1 - Styles: Fix share count text vertical alignment - Shares: Fix facebook sharing count url - Shares: Simplify googleplus count url - Improvement: minor css changes > Fix share count text vertical alignment New in version 0.4.1 - New: Added ReadMore position as autobutton position - Fixed: Pinterest not working on K2 - Changed: Facebook Like renamed to Facebook Share - Changed: Google +1 renamed to Google Share - Improvement: Better Pinterest image handling for K2 and Easyblog - Improvement: several code improvements / changes New in version 0.4.0 - Easyblog auto buttons now configurable per category (include / exclude) - Autobuttons for K2 articles (K2 version 2.6.8 +) - Improvement: updated jssocials script to version 1.2.1 - Improvement: updated Font Awesome to version 4.6.1 - Improvement: updated Mobile_Detect script to version 2.8.21 - Fix: Auto buttons Easyblog entry page were dependent on Joomla article setting - Misc. Code clean up and improvements New in version 0.3.2 - LINE added as Social sharing site - Fix: page / article titles with " in it would stop buttons from showing - Improvement: updated jssocials script to version 1.2 New in version 0.3.1 - New Feature: Social share dialog in popup window (new default) or in browser tab - Fix: WhatsApp not started on some (exotic) mobile browsers - New feature: Call-2-action text before tweet text - Improvement: All button labels are now Joomla text strings > they can now be translated / changed via Joomla functionality New in version 0.3.0 - add Autobuttons to EasyBlog (entry, categories, tags, latest, bloggers pages) - Improved detection component / view to prevent autobuttons to show up on e.g. modules that process content plugins - Advanced (Regex) replacement: replace anything in your text with the responsive Social sharing buttons - Code clean up and improvement: Code is now 100% compliant to Joomla! Code style New in version 0.2.2 - Improvement: implemented MobileDetect library for better mobile detection (for whatsapp button) New in version 0.2.1 - A bug is fixed in which some non-https urls where not constructed correct + some minor code improvements New in version 0.2.0 - Added option to also *automagically* add buttons to the introtext of your articles when showcased on the Featured or Category (blog) view New in version 0.1.5 - Code improvement to avoid buttons not showing on special pages (e.g. featured articles view) where multiple articles (with buttons) are displayed. - Improvement to force the loading of the dependent jquery script before the jssocials script (buttons not displaying on some templates / pages) New in version 0.1.4 - A special treat for the Internet Marketeers (and other people who like analytics :)): now you can append a UTM parameter to the URL that is shared via the jsSocials buttons. This enables you to e.g. track the effectiveness of the jsSocials buttons in Google Analytics. Additionally you can automatically (optional) specify in the UTM code the button (platform) that was used to share the url (via utm_content), that way you can even see which Social Media platform is working best for you and which platform needs some love and care to get up to par with the others. New in version 0.1.3 - order the buttons and *automagically* place the buttons on selected article categories in top, botton or both positions!

Your online channels are important for you and your business. You spent a lot of time and effort to write high quality blogs for your visitors. You spent a lot of time on social media to draw attention to these blogs. You polish your content and website to be SEO optimized. But what is it you want these visitors to do on your website other then read your blog and leave? What is your call to action and how do you show that to your visitor in a non-intrusive way? Time to convert your visitors into customers! This Joomla! content plugin enables you to create Call2Actions and show them anywhere in your blog / article. You get full control on where you want to place the Call2Action content: simply by entering the tag {call2action} anywhere in your blog / article or automatic on the top, bottom, readmore positions (or a combination of) of the selected articles (Joomla!, Easyblog, K2). "This is Joomla's most advanced content, module and Google ad auto (or manual) inserter, replacer, and modifier! Display any content, article, module, plugin or Google Ads anywhere on your Joomla site. Works in conjunction with most Joomla modules or plugins." - Daclina Difficult to create Call2Action content? No, Call2Action content are regular Joomla articles. Start and End Publishing dates are respected so you can even use it to run timed campaigns! You are not limited to simple content, but it has also been tested and it is working with Google Adsense Ads and Google Doubleclick For Publishers Ads (modules loaded via the Joomla article). > Advertising on steroids :) New in version 0.6.0 > re-factored Advanced Replace function With the re-factored Advanced Replace function it is possible to add a call2action / ad / 'what-ever you want' on your articles on (almost) any position you seem fit. You want to add an ad after every 3rd paragraph? After the 2nd H2 header? After every image? You name it: it is possible!!! No more limits as to where you want your call2actions or your ads to appear! "The sky is the limit" New in version 0.6.2 - New: Joomla! 4.0 (alpha) compatible New in version 0.6.1 - Improved: Fixed notices - Improved: Code improvement of install / update script New in version 0.6.0 - New: Re-factored advanced replace function to make it serve more use cases New in version 0.5.3 - New: added position [After first image] (Joomla article only) - New: added position [After first paragraph] (Joomla article only) New in version 0.5.2 - Improved: back-end configuration (button styles and button show on setting) New in version 0.5.1 - New: Advanced category mapping (create 'complex' category mappings for maximum flexibility and use!) - New: Don't run plugin when the content is being indexed - New: Hit counter on call2action articles (+1 for every display) - Improvement: K2 fixes media / video / gallery on page (requires K2 fix) - New: Seamless integration in ochSEO | SMO Toolbox component New in version 0.5.0 - New: show debug information (see advanced tab for more information, default = off) - Improvement: improved context (component) detection for autoCall2Action - Stops auto Call2Action from showing up on components that mimic com_content.article - Better K2 item, itemlist, latest detection for auto Call2Action - Improvement: Several code improvements / changes

Marketers in a content-driven landscape are responsible for producing huge amounts of content, day in and day out. But most of us don’t have the time, staff, or budget to publish enough great (or even good) content. We do the best we can, but it’s often impossible to stay ahead of the demand. Time to enable your community to easily generate curated content for your website! Content curation is when an individual (or team) consistently finds, organizes, annotates, and shares relevant and high quality digital content on a specific topic for their target market. Adding content curation to your content marketing mix delivers the following benefits: Improves Search Engine Optimization: Curated content becomes additional indexable pages that provide more doorways into your site via search engines. Establishes Credibility as a Thought Leader: Curated content from high quality third party sources helps you develop go-to web resources that improve your credibility and trustworthiness as an impartial authority on your topic. Supports Lead Generation: Curated content drives incremental site visits that increases the potential for landing quality leads. Streamlines Lead Nurturing: Curated content is easily repurposed via newsletters, emails, and other channels to make lead nurturing simple and consistent. Complements Social Media & Blogging: Curated content supplements your social media publishing schedule and helps facilitate social media conversations—not only with prospects and customers, but also with peers. Current functionality: - component with full back-end management - front-end management of News items for your editors / publishers - highly configurable News module (featured, latest, most read, random, etc.) - Acymailing ochGotNews plugin to enrich your newsletter with community curated content (separate download) New in version 0.2.1 - Component: - New: Added option to allow / disallow sharing of non-HTML pages (e.g. downloadlink to .PDF file) - Improved: refactored reading tags / information from shared URLs New in version 0.2.0 - Component: - Improved: refactored mail function New in version 0.1.9 - Component: - Improvement: improved content plugin triggering - Improvement: improved (meta) description handling for (opengraph) plugins New in version 0.1.8 - Component: - New: Added sortable CTR (Click Through Rate) column in news items list (back-end) New in version 0.1.7 - Component: - New: Added Clicks counter for clicks on [Visit source] button New in version 0.1.6 - Component: - New: Component settings for Newsoverview is now set as Global settings and can be overwritten in view's menu entries - Improvement: Fix backend ordering when entering News Items view New in version 0.1.5 - Component: - New: Syndication (RSS / Atom) Feed on newsoverview page - New: Pagination type selection for newsoverview - Improvement: Full stack implementation of content plugin support on newsitem and newsoverview pages - Improvement: Replaced deprecated Joomla methods (preparing for Joomla 4.0) - Improvement:Improved data fetcher to better handle non-compliant meta tags - Improvement: Improved data fetcher to handle title with (single) quote - Improvement: Data fetcher script now checks for Joomla Session ID to prevent direct access - Module: - Improvement: Code style New in version 0.1.4 - Component: - New: whitelist domains that block fetching information (like linkedin sometimes does) - Improvement: disguise as Facebook bot on [validate source url and fetch information] to improve on fetch rate (some sites block fetch requests) - Improvement: back-end Newsitems list inline with Joomla 3.7 layout (icons, search bar) New in version 0.1.3 - Component: - New: enabled caching - Improvement: date format conform Joomla! coding guidelines - Improvement: new no-image.jpg image - Module: - Improvement: date format conform Joomla! coding guidelines New in version 0.1.2 - Component: - Improvement: Add css fix for full-width textarea and input boxes - Improvement: Changed default height of share and description input fields to 5 rows - Improvement: Add top and bottom tag positions on News item view - Improvement: Overview / view: toggle display insecure images > show / replace image / no show to avoid breaking SSL padlock on site - Improvement: Reading information from websites (non-compliant opengraph tags) - Improvement: Add rel="noopener noreferrer" to links to Source website. - Module: - Improvement: Toggle display insecure images > show / replace image / no show to avoid breaking SSL padlock on site - New: Exclude current News item setting New in version 0.1.1 - Fixed Joomla! 3.7 (beta3) compatibility issue - Automatically set publish_up date with creation date when not specified (for sorting on publish date in module) - Small css / styling improvements - Made IcoMoon optional via config setting - Loosened client-side JavaScript url check as it failed on some characters in (correct) url - Configure which icons to use for hits and edit (default is IcoMoon, but now eg Font-Awesome is also possible) New in version 0.1.0 - Hello World!

Adding video's (youtube, vimeo, tedx, kickstarter, prezi) to your website and blog is an excellent way to attract visitors to your website, share your message AND extent your visitors 'on page duration'. One of the important criteria of search engines in determining if your content is as good as you think it is, is the time visitors stay on your page. With an ever increasing number of mobile visitors it is important to also catch and hold their attention. Not only your content but also your embedded video's must be responsive! This Joomla! content plugin integrates the open source FitVids.js script seamlessly into your web pages. The script will 'read' in real-time your visitors screen size and adjust the embedded video's embedded player size dynamically! You can embed video's anywhere in your content. Copy and paste the embedded (iframe) code (not the URL!) into your article / blog text. That's it! Currently supports: - Youtube - Vimeo - Tedx - Kickstarter - Prezi New in version 0.2.5 - New: Joomla! 4.0 (alpha) compatible New in version 0.2.4 - Improved: code improvement of install / update script - Improved: Fixed warning when in context without text variable New in version 0.2.3 - Improved: back-end configuration (button styles and button show on setting) New in version 0.2.2 - New: Seamless integration in ochSEO | SMO Toolbox component New in version 0.2.1 - Improvement: Switched from Akeeba Release System to RD-Media RD-Subscriptions New in version 0.2.0 - Improvement: Simplified adding embedded video: just add the embedded code (iframe) to your content - New: Added support for Ted.com - New: Added support for Prezi.com New in version 0.1.0 - Hello world! - Initial version

Joomla! has a long history of being the perfect CMS (Content Management System). in previous versions (1.x / 2.5), although maturing, the Content (articles) generation and displaying lacked Blog functionality. There are different requirements in having a Blog then in having an article. Time to leverage your Joomla! CMS into a fully fledged Blog platform! ochBlog comes with a brand new ochImage fields plugin. This builds upon the new Joomla 3.7 fields component. It enables to upload and crop images. Usage of this plugin is not limited to ochBlog (avatar) but because it is build on standard Joomla functionality can also be used in other components / articles! Adding ochBlog functionality to your Joomla! CMS gives you (and your bloggers) the following benefits: seamlessly 'convert' Articles into Blogs: configure which Joomla! categories (include / exclude) hold your Blog articles. Full Front-end Blogmanagement: Give your bloggers a searchable overview of all the blogs (they have access-rights to) including a create new button! Everything they need in one overview! Differentiate between regular bloggers and pro-bloggers: Configure which bloggers (via Joomla! user group membership) should have 'pro-blogger' functionality: their avatar and name are linked to a professional Authorprofile page showcasing all their expertise. This gives you the possibility to e.g. differentiate between normal and paying bloggers. Integrated Avatar support: currently supports avatars from ochBlog (via Joomla! custom user field > upload and crop images), Kunena, Easy-Profile, Gravatar, CJblog (1.x and 2.x) Integrated About text support: currently supports author about text from ochBlog (via Joomla! custom user field), Kunena (about / signature), Easy-Profile (any field), Gravatar, CJblog (1.x and 2.x) Integrated Follow Me support: via a new Custom User Field plugin your author can add hte following Follow Me links: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin, Google+, Youtube, Pinterest, Tumbl, Snapchat, Reddit, Flickr, Medium, SoundCloud, Skype, Vimeo, Github, SlideShare, Blogger, StumbleUpon, About.me, VK Integrated Authorprofile page support: Use the ochBlog build in Authorprofile page or use the Kunena, Easy-Profile, Gravatar, CJblog (1.x and 2.x) profile pages Dynamic Article info: Add your bloggers avatar, Social Sharing buttons, Article info (dates, category, reading time, etc), badges for the article based on article hits, article hits, etc. to your article. Fully configurable! Credits information: Give proper credits to coauthors, photographer, etc. above or below the article text, customizable via Joomla! Custom Article Fields! Dynamic Article Author info: Add your bloggers avatar, Social Sharing buttons, Author badges (based on number of articles written, unlimited number of badges can be configured), Author about text is displayed for 'pro-bloggers' with a dynamic [read full profile] button when length of the text is above configured parameter Dynamic Author badges: Automatically add Author badges based on number of blogs (quantitative) or on influence score (qualitative): unlimited number of badges can be configured and assigned Content Construction: use values from Kunena user profile, Joomla! User profile, Easy-Profile and Joomla! 3.7.x custom User fields to dynamically replace variables with their values. Build-in Authors overview page: giving you an overview of all authors based on their group membership and sortable (name, id, number of blogs, random). Build-in Authorprofile page: giving you the basic functionality: background image, avatar, bio (fully configurable with Content Construction), about text and Social Sharing functionality. It also holds two module positions so you can extend the Authorprofile page with (any number) of Joomla! modules! RSS feed on Authorprofile page: give your Authors the possibility to integrate their blogs easily on their own platform via a RSS feed of all their articles. Or let visitors subcribe to that feed creating even more engaged visitors. Increase Blogger commitment with Notification system: Automatically notify the Blog author when the blog reaches a configured number of hits. Unlimited hit limits can be configured and the email message works with Content Construction so the message can be customized to suit your bloggers need. Article list module: Sharing the code base of Joomla's own 'Articles - Category' module this module adds avatar, author and Authorprofile page functionality to the already fully packed functionality! Articles list view: The 'swiss-army-knive' when it comes to displaying your authors articles in a list! Canonical URL: Set on a per article base the canonical URL via Joomla! Custom Article (URL) field. No more SEO penalties for duplicate content on your articles! and more to come.... "Thanks for the recent updates and additions to what's easily making ochBlog (in my opinion) the best, the most feature rich and certainly my favourite Joomla Content Construction Kit (CCK)." - Daclina Separate plugins can be downloaded as part of the subscription: ochOpenGraph > Time to take control again over how your content looks on Social Media Platforms! ochFitvids > Responsive videos ochJSsocials > the fastest and most configurable Social Media sharing tool for Joomla! Coming soon (under development): Integration EasySocial, Community Builder (for Avatar, About text and Content Construction) New in version 0.4.2 - Component + plugin: New: added [apply] button on plugin modal (for Joomla 3.8.3+) in Control Panel ochFollowMe: refactor och-icon pack implementation ochFollowMe: added mailto:, tel: and independent.academia.edu icons Improved: show default avatar when avatar for user is deleted Improved: force loading required jQuery framework before readmore and sharedby script New in version 0.4.1 - Component + plugin: New: option to hide the leading image / article images in the articlelist view (available via float setting: hide) New: Blogmanagement view now has icon next to title to show article New: Configured categories can now be set to be included or excluded New: Include / exclude tags on articleslist view Improvement: Articlelist view different handling of image sizing and cropping Improvement: also replace user fields in article context (with article author values) New in version 0.4.0 - Component + plugin: New: Articleslist overview > display your articles in an overview the way you like! Improvement: Article Reading time not always calculated correct - Module: New: you can now display the article image in the module (Intro image, Fulltext image, First Text image, Custom Article image field) New: you can set the position of the article image: none (=above), left, right New: you can now configure the category to be linked or not New: you can now configure to show the parent category New: you can now configure the parent category to be linked or not New: you can select whether to link the avatar to the authorprofile or not New: you can select whether to link the authorname to the authorprofile or not New in version 0.3.1 - Component + plugin: Improvement: Shared By not always working when displaying cached blog Improvement: Shared By userid obfuscation code refactured New in version 0.3.0 - Component + plugin: New: Component settings for views: Authorprofile, Authorsoverview and Blogmanagement are now set as Global settings and can be overwritten in view's menu entries New: Add background image to Author profile New: Added alert to Cpanel when required plugins are not enabled New: Implement Shared By functionality in combination with ochJSsocials New: Added credit box (top and bottom article) New: Added {if}...{endif} logic to Content Construction Improvement: Plugin configuration in CPanel via modal (on Joomla 3.8+) Improvement: Removed ochBlog content and system plugin from CPanel as they had no configuration options Improvement: Code improvement of install / update scripts for plugin(s) Improvement: Changed CPanel css: hover effect on images (clear (back-end) cache to enable Improvement: Fixed wrong parameter parsing in triggering content plugins for authorprofile view New in version 0.2.2 - Component + plugin: New: add follow me functionality via new Joomla Custom field > ochFollowMe Improvement: Full stack implementation of content plugin support on authorprofile and authoroverview pages Improvement: Replaced deprecated Joomla methods (preparing for Joomla 4.0) Improvement: css improvements for authorinfo (below blog) and authorprofile page on mobile devices - Plugin fields ochImage: Improvement: Updated slim script and css in ochImage to version v4.14.3 Improvement: Fixed custom image location in plg_fields_ochimage not correctly used Improvement: Fixed image could be edited when access to field was revoked - NEW: Plugin fields ochFollowMe New in version 0.2.1 - Component: New: Syndication (RSS / Atom) feed of all Author articles on Author profile view Improvement: Meta description tag for Author Profile page is now set to About text for that author Improvement: changed ochBlog router to force lowercase in Author profile url New in version 0.2.0 - Component + plugin: New: Authors overview view: a highly customizable overview of all your (active) bloggers New: new author badge > based on influencer score. New: select pagination format for list views (blogmanagement, authors overview) New: Enable toggle for showing / hiding author avatar in article info New: implement thumbnail avatar (component / module / plugin) for optimizing small avatars Improvement: fixed [Add new article] button in Blogmanagement view not working in some templates - Plugin fields ochImage: Improvement: fixed php notification (on php 7.0.22) when creating thumbnail in ochImage field plugin - Module: New: implement new thumbnail feature for author images New in version 0.1.2 - Component + plugin: Improvement: (legacy) browser support for readmore gradient (article and author profile view) Improvement: improved code for reading custom field values New: ochblog system plugin: handles notifications even on websites with caching tuned on - Plugin fields ochImage: - - Module: - New in version 0.1.1 - Component + plugin: Improvement: fixed config error when EasyProfile not installed New: Added option reading time to article info New: Added Blogmanagement (front-end) view New: Added Canonical functionality (via Custom (URL) Article field) - Plugin fields ochImage: Improvement: improved remove image function - Module: Improvement: small code improvements New in version 0.1.0 - Hello World!