Kristoffer Sandven
Kristoffer Sandven is a photographer, filmmaker and web consultant living in Oslo, Norway. He's the founder and author of JoomlaBlogger.
FLEXIContent 1.5.3 announced, includes front-end editing
As you might have read in my post about FLEXIcontent earlier today, I was hoping for front-end editing capabilities in the next version of the extension.
Now, I'm happy to announce that FLEXIcontent 1.5.3 will have front-end capabilities. The final version will be released later this week (Tuesday og Wednesday).
But, if you want to download it now, you can get the SVN release today.
20% off JoomlaPraise products (weekend sale)
Kyle over at JoomlaPraise has gone above beyond when it comes to releasing Joomla! templates lately. The speed with which JoomlaPraise releases new templates is just stunning. And the quality just keeps increasing.
This weekend JoomlaPraise has a sale - get 20% off of all their Joomla!, Admin and Projectfork products that are optimized for the iPhone!
Only this weekend!
Video: K2 version 2.3 released
JoomlaWorks just released version 2.3 of their free CCK component for Joomla: K2.
The new version has a large number of new features. K2 extends the functions of the Joomla! core and makes it easier to submit and manage large content driven sites. Additionally, it makes it easy to manage users and give access to certain content items. You can also create custom content templates for the purpose of blogs, catalogs, news sites and much more.
Another great feature of this release is the improved SEO functions: K2 will now auto-append the first 150 characters of the item's text onto the "description" meta tag, if none is specified. It will also use any tags added for the "keyword" meta tag.
In this post, Fotis Evangelou and Lefteris Kavadas speak about the new version of K2.
Read on to see the video interview
Joomanuals now available in Dutch
Joomanuals is an online service which generates custom user manuals to help you save time and impress your clients.
I have written about Joomanuals before. Now this excellent service is also available in Dutch.
Joomanuals is thus available in English, German and Dutch. More languages are in the pipeline, so keep reading this blog to be on top of the development.
Read on for a special offer for JoomlaBlogger readers!
15% off TechJoomla social extensions for Joomla in April
As you might have seen, I try to find a monthly, discounted Joomla product for you. Normally, this is through a coupon offered by a template or extensions developer. April is no exception.
This month I am able to present a 15% discount on all products from the Indian developer TechJoomla.
Techjoomla offers a wide array of commercial as well as free, open source Joomla extensions covering a wide array of requirements. Examples are extensions that improve the capabilities of JomSocial and Community Builder.
Use the code JBTECHJOOM to get your 15% discount when shopping at TechJoomla.com.
JomSocial and Kunena support for sh404SEF
A new sh404SEF release, version 1.5.8.432, was published yesterday that natively supports the popular social networking extension JomSocial as well as the forum application Kunena.
‘Native support’ means that, in addition to getting human-readable URLs, you can now configure how the URLs are created with simple options right in the sh404SEF configuration screens.
Easy Joomla documentation with Joomanuals
If you are a Joomla website developer or consultant like me, you often need to create documentation for the websites you create. This can be a tedious task, and sometimes a repetitive one.
The fact is that many (most?) web development companies don't bother to give their clients any documentation at all. By providing well thought-out documentation to your clients you will cement the relationship and attract new clients. The only thing is... It takes a lot of time to do documentation for each site.
Now there's a service available which makes the documentation process much easier. It's actually quite fun!
Joomanuals is an online service which generates custom user manuals to help you save time and impress your clients.
Read on for a special offer for JoomlaBlogger readers!
JomSocial 1.6 released
Azrul has worked long and hard on this release--adding new features and refining the product to make a faster, streamlined and better JomSocial. And just like it's name suggests, Brillo is clean, powerful..and just plain rocks. We think you will agree.
So what's new about JomSocial 1.6, erm, Brillo? Well, for starters, we have resolved over 170 minor issues that were logged in our internal issue tracking system. You can view the complete change log here, but let me briefly highlight some of JomSocial Brillo's exciting new features.
New version of sh404SEF (1.5.5)
Anything Digital has released a new version of the SEF URL component sh404SEF.
Today's release of sh404SEF (V 1.5.5) has a full set of settings to customize the layout of your page title (at least for Joomla regular content). The default values are the same as the those for urls, but now you can change it to your liking.
The new version also includes a new layout and most importantly the new "similar urls" suggestions section.
K2 version 2.2 released
Yesterday, Joomla extensions developer JoomlaWorks released version 2.2 of their immensely popular and useful content component - K2.
K2 is the popular powerful content component for Joomla! with CCK-like features.