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Modularity

Modularity is the degree to which a system's components may be separated and recombined. The meaning of the word, however, can vary somewhat by context: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modularity]

cedThumbnails 2.6.0 for J2.5 Released

CedThumbnails has been updated to version 2.6.0 and contains 4 new features and correct 1 bug for Joomla 2.5. For existing users the update will display in the Extensions Manager under Updates. If you do not have this currently installed, you can click the link below and install like you are use to via the Extensions Manager.

Read more: cedThumbnails 2.6.0 for J2.5 Released

Related Thumb Article plugin 3.1.1 For Joomla 1.7

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This extension plugin displays other Articles that are related to the one currently being viewed. These relations are established by the Meta Keywords. 
All the keywords of the current Article are searched against all the keywords of all other published Articles. For example, you may have an Article on "Breeding Parrots" and another on "Hand Raising Black Cockatoos". If you include the keyword "parrot" in both Articles, then the Related Items Module will list the "Breeding Parrots" Article when viewing "Hand Raising Black Cockatoos" and vice-versa.

What’s new?

  • Tested against Joomla 1.7.0, 1.7.1 and Joomla 1.7.2
  • It use latest TimThumb library for more performances and better resizing options,
  • Joomla! Update manager let you update from 3.0.0 to 3.1.1 in one click
  • Refactoring 25% less code, more functionalities!

and best of all new plugin outputs are available!

Matrix

Allow you to display a matrix of N thumbnails per lines. Post title is visible only when user hover on each pictures.  Use it for blog having great pictures, when you want to maximize the visual impact and if you are ready to use thumbnails at least of 140 x 140 pixels.

Related Posts Slide Out Boxes

Related Posts Sliding Boxes with Shuffle Function using jQuery 1.5 and CSS3.

All credits goes to the author at http://tympanus.net/codrops/2010/07/21/related-posts-slide-out-boxes/

New existing plugins are also soon coming!

You can see the latest version 3.1.1 live running at demo-joomla-1.7.waltercedric.com in demo mode and download it here.

Currently only for Joomla! 1.7, a back port of the functionality for Joomla! 1.5 is underway

Related articles with Thumbnails for Joomla! 1.7

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This is a drop in replacement for the Joomla! core module "Related Articles", it offer the same level of features but also add thumbnails.

This Module displays other Articles that are related to the one currently being viewed. These relations are established by the Meta Keywords. 
All the keywords of the current Article are searched against all the keywords of all other published Articles. For example, you may have an Article on "Breeding Parrots" and another on "Hand Raising Black Cockatoos". If you include the keyword "parrot" in both Articles, then the Related Items Module will list the "Breeding Parrots" Article when viewing "Hand Raising Black Cockatoos" and vice-versa.

You can see this module live running here (module in top right corner)

Attention, it is required to install the library "TimThumb for Joomla! 1.6 / 1.7" for proper operations.

Features

  • For Joomla! 1.5/1.6/1.7
  • CSS driven output (file located at media/mod_articles_popular_thumb/css.css), feel free to submit changes, alternate CSS layout.
  • Use Joomla caching for best performances,
  • Thumbnails width and height can be specified,
  • Thumbnails are automatically extracted from the text introduction. If no image is found, a default picture can be defined
  • You can switch off separately the title, text teaser and thumbnails,
  • The length of the text teaser and ending (»/…/ read more) can be modified in the administrator panel,
  • It is based on the code of the internal Joomla! core module mod_related_items.

Notes

This module use TimThumb 2.8.0 that must be installed as a Joomla! library

TimThumb is a simple, flexible, PHP script that resizes images. You give it a bunch of parameters, and it spits out a thumbnail image that you can display on your site.

Visit the download section

cedTag 2.6.2 for J2.5 released for Joomla 2.5

cedTag provide a useful way to group related posts together and to quickly tell readers what a post is about. Tags also make it easier for people to find your content. Tags are similar to, but more specific than, Joomla categories.

Read more: cedTag 2.6.2 for J2.5 released for Joomla 2.5

Popular Articles with Thumbnails for Joomla!

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This is a drop in replacement for the Joomla! core module "Popular Articles", it offer the same level of features but also add thumbnails.

  • Joomla! 1.5 use mod_articles_popular_thumb_j15.zip
  • Joomla! 1.6 and above use mod_articles_popular_thumb_j15_j16.zip

Visit the download section

Features

New features are in yellow

PopularArticleswithThumbnailsforJoomla_03

  • For Joomla! 1.5/1.6/1.7
  • CSS driven output (file located at media/mod_articles_popular_thumb/css.css), feel free to submit changes, alternate CSS layout.
  • Use Joomla caching for best performances,
  • Thumbnails width and height can be specified,
  • Thumbnails are automatically extracted from the text introduction. If no image is found, a default picture can be defined
  • You can switch off separately the title, text teaser and thumbnails,
  • The length of the text teaser and ending (»/…/ read more) can be modified in the administrator panel,
  • It is based on the code of the internal Joomla! core module mod_mostread.

Notes

This module use TimThumb 2.8.0 that must be installed as a Joomla! library

TimThumb is a simple, flexible, PHP script that resizes images. You give it a bunch of parameters, and it spits out a thumbnail image that you can display on your site.

Example of output

With title, text teaser or only with thumbnails. Any combinations is possible.

PopularArticleswithThumbnailsforJoomla_01 PopularArticleswithThumbnailsforJoomla_00 PopularArticleswithThumbnailsforJoomla_02

Module Nimbus for Joomla! 1.6 & Joomla-Tags

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I came across Joomulus module a while ago (Joomulus at Joomla Extensions JED), it goes through your Joomla! articles content and create a tag cloud.

A tag cloud or word cloud (or weighted list in visual design) is a visual depiction of user-generated tags, or simply the word content of a site, used typically to describe the content of web sites. Tags are usually single words and are typically listed alphabetically, and the importance of a tag is shown with font size or color.

This is the solution you are looking for, and you should not need to read any further if you DO NOT USE Joomla! Tags from Phil Taylor.

But I am using a proprietary tagging solutions: Joomla Tags from Phil Taylor (http://www.joomla-tags.com)

Joomla Tags is a Joomla Extension for adding tags to Joomla Content. Use Joomla Tags to allow content classification by keywords (Tags), can also be used to create virtual categories to add content into, over coming Joomla! single section/category structure

That’s why I decide to dump Joomulus, and mix both solutions (Joomulus, Joomla tags) to create a new module: Nimbus (Free GPl v3)

So for resuming

What’s new

NEW: version 1.6.0 is only for Joomla! 1.6
NEW: This version use the Joomla! build in update manager, just browse to the page Extension Manager: Update (at yoursite/administrator/index.php?option=com_installer&view=update) to fetch and update this extension with one click
NEW: Use Joomla! templating best practices
NEW: Now use the /media directory
NEW: Embeded documentation windows to live wiki page for always up to date documentation

Features

  • Native Joomla! 1.5/1.6 module,
  • Code produced is XHTML 1.0 Strict,
  • Tested in the following browser Firefox, Opera, Chrome, IE 8
  • Approved at Joomla Extension JED,
  • GPL v3.0,
  • Non commercial.

The wiki page is here http://wiki.waltercedric.com/index.php?title=NimbusForJoomlaTags

Demo site

 DOWNLOAD HERE AND KEEP UP TO DATE WITH THE DOWNLOAD RSS Feed Icon

Module RSS friends for Joomla! 1.6

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The module RSS friends (mod_rssfriends) give the opportunity to Your visitors to add your RSS to the most popular RSS socialnet.....¨

 

NEW: version 1.6.0 is only for Joomla! 1.6
NEW: This version use the Joomla! build in update manager, just browse to the page Extension Manager: Update (at yoursite/administrator/index.php?option=com_installer&view=update) to fetch and update this extension with one click
NEW: templating in mod_rssfriends\tmpl\default.php
NEW:
Embeded documentation windows to live wiki page for always up to date documentation

 

Module RSS friends

Manual in my WIKI

cedTag 2.6.1 for J2.5 released for Joomla 2.5

 

cedTag provide a useful way to group related posts together and to quickly tell readers what a post is about. Tags also make it easier for people to find your content. Tags are similar to, but more specific than, Joomla categories.

Warning

IT IS MANDATORAY TO COMPLETELY REMOVE ALL VERSION < 2.6.0 BEFORE INSTALLING THIS NEW ONE!
Go to the Extension Manager under the tab Manage, enter in filter "tag", select all and click Actions – Uninstall
Reason: I did change a lot of folder name and file casing casing to be more Joomla compliant
Don’t be scared you will not loose any Tags or data from your database! uninstalling do not remove currently any tables!

Read more: cedTag 2.6.1 for J2.5 released for Joomla 2.5

cedTag 2.6.0 for J2.5 released for Joomla 2.5

Warning

IT IS MANDATORAY TO COMPLETELY REMOVE ALL VERSION < 2.6.0 BEFORE INSTALLING THIS NEW ONE!
Go to the Extension Manager under the tab Manage, enter in filter "tag", select all and click Actions – Uninstall
Reason: I did change a lot of folder name and file casing casing to be more Joomla compliant
Don’t be scared you will not loose any Tags or data from your database! uninstalling do not remove currently any tables!

 

Your ideas are important, feel free to contact me and ask for new features!

New & Noteworthy

Read more: cedTag 2.6.0 for J2.5 released for Joomla 2.5

cedTag 2.6.0 for Joomla 2.5 warning

Attention

IT IS MANDATORAY TO COMPLETELY REMOVE ALL VERSION of cedTag older than 2.6.0 BEFORE INSTALLING cedTag 2.6.0

Go to the Extension Manager under the tab Manage, enter in filter "tags", select all and click Actions - Uninstall

This step is mandatory as I did change folder name and file casing to be more Joomla compliant!

Don’t be scared you will not loose any Tags or data from your database! uninstalling do not remove currently any tables!

cedTag 2.6.0 is due to be released in 1-2 days!

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