Category Archives: Joomla Extensions

Best Joomla Extensions

With the widespread availability of extensions for Joomla, one can get confused on which ones are the best. From components, modules, plugins and templates, extensions for anything and everything that you want or need have been developed. This makes the capabilities of the initial Joomla core software program absolutely endless.

Which extensions are the best? Well, with so many available, it is hard to try each and every one; however, here is a list of the most popular based upon the number of downloads and their abilities.

Free Joomla Contact Form: FlexiContact (1.5 & 1.6 Native)

FlexiContact is a simple but flexible contact form. It is very quick and easy to setup, but has lots of options.

* Configurable page header, page text, and page image.
* Configurable field names. Five one-line fields, one list box, and one re-sizeable text area.
* All fields can be optional, mandatory, or not shown.
* Optional simple captcha system. We don’t want to discourage potential customers, so we use a simple picture based system, “Please click on the cat/dog/etc”. You can easily add your own pictures to the image library.
* Optional “magic word” system. The user must find and enter the correct magic word to send a message. You can make the magic word easy to find, or difficult.
* Optional auto-fill of email address and name or username for logged in users.
* Optionally logs all contacts. The log is searchable and viewable in the back end and includes the IP address of the sender.
* Multi-language with many languages. The user guide explains how to add your own language.

Version 5 adds most of the features you have been asking for – but is still just as easy to setup:

* Configurable email templates giving complete control over email content and format.
* Built-in editor to easily edit the FlexiContact CSS styles.
* Option to not show “Email a copy of this message to your own address”
* Option to require agreement of a statement and/or linked article before the send button is enabled.
* Option to send emails as HTML or plain text.
* Option to redirect to a link after sending a message.

In case you need help there is also a full pdf user guide.

Free Joomla Contact Form: FlexiContact (1.5 & 1.6 Native)

FlexiContact is a simple but flexible contact form. It is very quick and easy to setup, but has lots of options.

* Configurable page header, page text, and page image.
* Configurable field names. Five one-line fields, one list box, and one re-sizeable text area.
* All fields can be optional, mandatory, or not shown.
* Optional simple captcha system. We don’t want to discourage potential customers, so we use a simple picture based system, “Please click on the cat/dog/etc”. You can easily add your own pictures to the image library.
* Optional “magic word” system. The user must find and enter the correct magic word to send a message. You can make the magic word easy to find, or difficult.
* Optional auto-fill of email address and name or username for logged in users.
* Optionally logs all contacts. The log is searchable and viewable in the back end and includes the IP address of the sender.
* Multi-language with many languages. The user guide explains how to add your own language.

Version 5 adds most of the features you have been asking for – but is still just as easy to setup:

* Configurable email templates giving complete control over email content and format.
* Built-in editor to easily edit the FlexiContact CSS styles.
* Option to not show “Email a copy of this message to your own address”
* Option to require agreement of a statement and/or linked article before the send button is enabled.
* Option to send emails as HTML or plain text.
* Option to redirect to a link after sending a message.

In case you need help there is also a full pdf user guide.

Free Slideshow Module for Joomla 1.6

Showplus is powered by a slideshow script built entirely with the MooTools JavaScript framework that ships with Joomla and uses no Flash technology. It is easy to get started with but offers a number of customization options for more advanced users. Showplus Slidershow Module has the three styles: with the default fade transition effect and horizontally oriented thumbnails for fast navigation; with the push transition effect and a linear easing function; with a zoom factor of 0 and a pan factor of 100.

Joomla SWF Video Tutorials English

A rapid and easy-to-follow introductory tutorial to help you to create your first Joomla! extensions: modules, components, and plugins.

Inside the tutorial files, will have:
- admin tutorials
such as like email users, change access level, global config, backup phpmyadmin, trash manager, and more.

- beginner tutorials
such as like add category, add section, approve submitted, install language, install module, install template, and more.

- community tutorials
such as like config, fields, lists, plugins and tabs.

- developer tutorials
such as like add contact, change frontpage layout, change homepage, create module, edit template, and more.

- ecommerce tutorials
such as like add coupon, add manufacturer, add shipper, add shipping rate, edit store, and more.

You are expected to be familiar with the general operation of Joomla!

Free Joomla 1.6 Contact Form Extensions

Fox Contact is a free contact form extension easy to setup designed for Joomla 1.6, inspired by FlexiContact, It’ s designed Tableless and css styled output simplify integration in your website. One click updates with Joomla 1.6 auto updater. with several improvements, such as a module, more fields, an antispam system, code without tables, and much more.

Features:
# Component and Module versions available
# Custom fields (Text fields, Check boxes, Dropdown lists and Text areas)
# Can send email to many recipients at the same time
# Antispam
# Multilanguage
# Track user IP and browser
# Logs all activities in a text file

Free Joomla 1.6 Flash Gallery Extension

1 Flash Gallery is a free photo gallery Joomla extension for Joomla 1.6 that provides a comprehensive interface for managing photos and images through a set of admin pages, 1 Flash Gallery with 4 free image gallery skins to help You display galleries with a beautiful image gallery.

Photo Gallery features:
* Image gallery full screen viewing
* Slideshow function
* Multiple albums/categories per post
* Configurable photo gallery background, logo and highlight color
* Sort images feature
* Cool flash skin

Canonical URLs for Joomla Plugin

The OZTechnonical Plugin normalizes the Joomla URL, preventing Google and other search engines to find duplicate pages on your site. OZTechnonical Canonical URLs Plugin can Disable inserting ‘www’ in domain if its not in URL and Disable normalize canonical url extracting /index.php.

Features:

1.) Disable plugin on frontpage?
If you dont want canonical link on your frontpage

2.) Disable normalize canonical url extracting /index.php?
To Joomla thats the same: http://www.yoursite.com/index.php/blog and http://www.yoursite.com/blog
To leave index.php intact, choose ‘Yes’; to remove, choose ‘No’

3.) Disable inserting ‘www’ in domain if its not in URL?
To avoid search engines linking http://oztechnology.com.br and http://www.oztechnology.com.br, leave it ‘No’. The plugin will insert ‘www’ on canonical if it do not exist in URL typed.

Latest Tweets module for Joomla

Continuing our venture into small yet useful extensions for Joomla! (after the “enormous” K2!), today we’re presenting “Latest Tweets”, a sleek module to fetch your Twitter statuses on your Joomla! website, the easy way.

Just set your parameters and publish the module. You can even copy the module to multiple instances and fetch the latest tweets from different users on your website (e.g. in a multi-author environment).

Joomla FREE plugin for Bad Word Filter

Bad Word Filter (BWF) is a FREE! plugin for Joomla 1.5

It’s functionality is pretty simple: Find a word from a user-defined list and replace it with some user-defined HTML.

Especially useful for sites who allow front-end article editing to users. Can be used in a variety of other ways…

For example, if you are an article editor and you have some logo, or slogan that you usually write, you can save your time with this plugin.

Just use some keyword like: logo or slogan and replace it with your defined HTML.

Possibly some designers include some styles and scripts in articles. If so, this plugin can help you, too.

Just use some word like my_stylesheet and replace it with your HTML.

Of course, it’s original use is the main functionality:

Get a list of bad words and replace each one found with the BAD WORD html output.