Posts Tagged ‘joomla extension’

Joomla extensions worth checking out

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

Here we are again, talking about new extensions. Well, a lot of these extensions are very useful although some might be a notch too costly for some people. However, Joomla has its fair share of commercial and free extensions and all of them are worth to look at.

A simple hotel reviewing extension for Joomla websites would be HotelGuide. It is simple yet affordable (free in fact!). It is quite powerful and can go to great length. The reviews for HotelGuide have been great so far with a perfect 5 stars rating.

Annonces is a great extension for those wanting to have a bigger control over the advertisements on their website. However, this isn’t for those wanting to use Google Adsense or something like that but for those wanting to have their own advertising management for their websites.

Security is important for a high profile website and this is the same with Joomla as well. If the administrator wishes to allow a certain type of people to go to only certain places in the website, then FLEXIaccess might be a great extension to start with.

The plugins mentioned above are mostly new and all of these are powerful in their own ways as well.

Social Media Extensions for Joomla based websites

Saturday, March 20th, 2010

Social media is an important factor to a successful website today. It allows news to be broadcast at the speed of light and information can be given out to people all around the world as well. Therefore, getting a good social media extension for Joomla based websites is highly recommended so that the website will be able to get the attention of a lot of people.

JSP AddThis – This extension allows the user to submit the page or the website to various social networking websites such as Digg, MySpace amongst many others. It is a highly recommended extension to have especially when it comes to social media.

YOOTweet – Need a great Twitter extension for a website? Then consider getting YOOTweet as it is one of the most extensive Twitter Extension for a Joomla based website. However, users will have to be a member of YOOTheme before they will be able to get this extension.

Joomla Facebook – Integrating both Joomla and Facebook is now possible with the help of this extension. It is a free extension that is very powerful and highly recommended for any webmaster wanting to integrate their website with Facebook.

Recently Updated Joomla Extensions

Friday, March 19th, 2010

Some Joomla extension has been here for quite some time and it is not because they are made as a one-time thing by their developers but instead because they are updated frequently. This makes them a lot secure as compared with the new extensions. Here are some Joomla extensions that have experienced some updates.

OSE Google Checkout for Virtuemart – Google Checkout is the next best payment processor after Google. The update is made so that the product is more robust and a few tweaking has also been made to ensure that the plugin is more secure than before.

Joomdle: Joomla – Moodle Integration – Combining both Joomla and Moodle would equate to a very powerful website. Some new changes include an English documentation that was updated recently.

Jms Multisite – Creating multiple Joomla site is possible through this plugin. The new update is on version 1.2 which allows duplicate websites to be created into another database.