We are happy to announce the release of our new image slideshow module for Joomla 1.6/1.7/2.5, Mod Panelsider. This module displays your images in an attractive and unusual scrolling javascript slideshow. The display consists of a main image with previews of the previous and next images in two semi-opaque side panels.

This is our first extension release designed specifically for Joomla 2.5: we wanted to take advantage of some of the advanced features only possible with Joomla 2.5.

The module comes in 3 versions: the basic version which requires no external extensions, a version for Ignite Gallery, and a version for FW Gallery.

Self-Replicating Form Field for Joomla

There are times as a Joomla extension developer when it would be very useful to have a form field in Joomla that is capable of self-replication. For example, you want your user to be able to input some links, but you don't know in advance how many there will be, you want your user to be able to choose to add as many as they want without imposing any arbitrary limit. What you want is a self-replication form field that can return its values as an array.

Well now you can have one. We have designed a system of self-replicating form fields for Joomla extensions. The variable field form field can be used to generate self-replicating fields of most of the Joomla standard field types, including text, textarea, list and other list based types, such as category or usergroup. The user will see the standard input field, plus buttons which allow the user to add or delete input fields, also to re-order them, also to re-order them up and down.

You can see a couple of simple examples, for the text and list fields, here.

Best of all, you can download it for free here.

We have a new release of our Imgen component, our image generator for Joomla. The latest release is version 1.1.1.

This component for Joomla 1.5, 1.6 and 1.7 allows you to dynamically resize and compress your site images. It includes a plugin framework, and is available with plugins to add a watermark, and to apply dynamic resizing to all your article images, and to restrict image viewing to particular user groups. The component can cache the resized images, and also allows you to encode the image path, which is useful if you want to hide the location of your original image files.

Version 1.1.1

The new release improves the handling of transparent PNG images. There are new versions of both the main component and the watermark plugin. If you update to these you should find that PNG images are now handled correctly. There are also some small improvements to the image resizer plugin - it should now correctly pick up image style and alignment information.

We have a new release of our Imgen component, our image generator for Joomla. The latest release is version 1.1.0.

This component for Joomla 1.5, 1.6 and 1.7 allows you to dynamically resize and compress your site images. It includes a plugin framework, and is available with plugins to add a watermark, and to apply dynamic resizing to all your article images, and to restrict image viewing to particular user groups. The component can cache the resized images, and also allows you to encode the image path, which is useful if you want to hide the location of your original image files.

Version 1.1.0

The new release includes features to improve usability. It deals with a problem with displaying images with spaces in the file name, and can avoid problems with caching caused by image name duplication which affected the previous version.

There are also new releases of the watermark plugin (version 1.1.0), and the image resizer (1.0.3). The new release of the watermark plugin includes more options for positioning the watermark, while the new image resizer allows resizing to be turned off for particular Joomla layouts. For example you can now have blog article images resized, but have the original article image left untouched.

There is also a new plugin, ImageRestrict, which allows you to restrict the view of images on your site to your chosen user groups.

Amazon WS, our popular Joomla extension for Amazon Associates, is now also available for Wordpress.

The plugin for the popular Wordpress blogging system allows you to easily embed Amazon product information in your blog. Once you have installed the plugin you will be able to add products simply by setting tags for your article. The plugin will use these to run a keyword search of the Amazon database and automatically output the results, making it very simple to use.

You can find out more and buy the plugin here.

The good news is that the latest release of K2, the popular content extension for Joomla!, is now compatible with Joomla 1.7.

Our Featured Items range of modules have now been adapted to work with K2 running on Joomla 1.7.

These modules allow you to display selected Joomla and K2 articles in a variety of formats, including tab panes, accordions, carousels and slideshows. The modules are designed to allow you the greatest possible flexibility in the way you select your Joomla articles, either selecting from one or more categories or sections, or displaying your chosen list of articles. These articles can be displayed in a variety of orderings, and you can choose the exact amount of text to display, ranging from a short extract to the entire article text. You also control whether or not to display a thumbnail, and the thumbnail size.

Version 2 of Com GooglebaseXML, our component for Joomla 1.5 and Virtuemart 1.1x is now released.

This component allows you to create an XML product feed for your Virtuemart store for upload to Google Merchant Centre. The latest release includes several new features designed to give you a more accurate and informative product feed. These include:-

• Product variant display
• Support for additional product attributes such as size, color etc
• Support for the Google Category attribute
• Additional countries, those supported are now: United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, China, Australia, Brazil and Switzerland
• Support for sale_price, and sale price effective date attributes
• Additional product images
• Feed can use Virtuemart product type data fields

Version 2 is designed to be much more flexible about the product information that can be displayed. An entirely new feature is the use of Virtuemart product type information, which can be incorporated into the data feed to allow you to customize the data sent to Google for each product.

Version 1 of Com GooglebaseXML was one of our most popular products, we hope this new version will be even more popular with customers, as our aim is to make it a highly effective tool for submitting your products to Google product data search.

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The long awaited new release of Com Jigsaw, our Flash puzzle game for Joomla, is now available. This component allows you to turn your site images into a jigsaw puzzle, and is great fun for adults and children. It will load images from any site folder you specify, and automatically turn them into a puzzle.

Version 3 includes some great new features:-

• The layout is completely flexible, it can be resized to any dimensions required, to fit into any site;
• unlimited images can be displayed;
• the puzzle now includes a timer, user time scores are now uploaded to a database table and displayed;
• social sharing buttons encourage users to advertise your site by posting the puzzle to their Twitter and Facebook accounts

You can buy the game here.

The  latest release of our Amazon Web Services content plugin for Joomla 1.5, 1.6 and 1.7, and for Mighty Extensions Resources, is version 2.4.2. This content plugin allows you to embed product information and reviews and links from Amazon Web Services into your Joomla articles. 

This release includes several improvements:-

• It adds support for Joomla 1.7
• It adds support for the latest version of the Amazon product advertising API (2011-08-01)
• It adds support for the new Italian and Chinese Amazon product advertising APIs (see https://forums.aws.amazon.com/ann.jspa?annID=1115)

We are pleased to announce updated release of our Flash extensions for Joomla 1.5,  1.6 and 1.7, modules Featured Items Flash, and Featured Items Flash 3D. These modules display images from your Joomla articles as Flash slideshows, with clickable links to the articles - a great way to enliven your Joomla site.

Unlike many Flash extensions, these are fully integrated into the Joomla content management system, so there is no messing about with XML data files, you just choose the articles to display in the module administration. The modules will automatically detect the article images and display them in the slideshow gallery. As well as being compatible with the Joomla core content component, these modules support Mighty Extensions Resources, and the K2 content component. They can integrate with social components such as Community Builder, Mighty Touch and JomSocial, to show images from articles by the currently profiled user.

The latest release of the modules adds support for displaying multiple images per article and improves the quality of the image display.