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We are proud to announce the release of EasySocial 1.2! This is not some normal, minor upgrades but rather a major breakthrough in the development of EasySocial. We took our users' opinion and feedback very seriously; went through few process of filtering in order to sort out the functions that is needed to be in our gem. All of our developers burned the midnight oil just to deliver the best, most valuable social networking component to Joomla! users out there.
Here are few of the key features that will be greeting you :
The sharebox's design had gone through some changes and has been made simplified yet trendy. Nearly all of the functions that the users need will be available in the sharebox -- sharing pictures are as easy as drag it and drop it onto the box. Feeling happy? Users can now share their moods! The status will no longer be a boring, one-liner-turned-long-paragraph text. The mood's text can also be modified to suits the user's needs. Who likes boring designs, anyway? :)
Have you ever come across a situation where you want to view a photo shared by your friends, but clicking on it suddenly sends you to a new page, showing you it's full album? I've been there and trust me, it gets annoying as time goes by. EasySocial 1.2 provides an awesome solution to that. Instead of viewing it on a new page, why not just open up a photo viewer on the page itself? Hence, photo popups. Clicking on a photo shared on your stream will open up a photo popup where you can view the full photo without leaving your stream.
The most anticipated feature, EasySocial 1.2 now comes with groups (finally!). Users can now create and invite others to join their groups. Aside from discussing, users can also share files and pictures. To those who create groups for events, you can create milestones and assign it to members. Though the milestone itself can be a task, you can create tasks within the milestones to help you manage a project, thus making EasySocial 1.2's group a perfect function for all levels, from professional CEOs to music fans to sport enthusiasts alike.
We have received some request from our users that they wished to migrate all of their social networking datas from JomSocial to EasySocial. Previously this was quite an issue as we haven't developed Groups yet and thus the data from their JomSocial's group will be sent to limbo. With EasySocial 1.2, we've built both the group functions AND the migrator to migrate all of their user and group's data from JomSocial to EasySocial. :)
Our previous EasySocial's search function only allows the search to crawl anything within EasySocial only. This can be quite frustrating to those who uses multiple Joomla! components (like EasyBlog and/or EasyDiscuss). We acknowledged this issue and have now developed an enhanced 'Search' function. Using Joomla!'s smart search, the enhanced 'Search' can now search for items/data that are outside of EasySocial, as long as it is indexed in Joomla!'s Smart Search.
With the previous Enhanced Search, we've anticipated an issue -- what if users only want to search for something within EasySocial? With our Advanced' Search', users can customize their search and use filters and custom fields created within EasySocial itself. This will make it easier for users to search for something, for example, a group within EasySocial (only) that shares the same interest.
Our designers joined in the fun and have created a new theme named Frosty. To be honest, Frosty was inspired by the current hot weather in Malaysia. The weather here is so hot that the designers have decided to create something soothing to our eyes and souls. Hence, Frosty was born. Frosty was so cool that the team now doesn't mind the hot weather anymore...
....or perhaps it's our full-blast air condition.
We're using Twitter Bootstrap 3 on EasySocial 1.2 as we believe that we should always, always, stay up to date with the current design framework. This will help and motivate template developers to build more beautiful and awesome templates for EasySocial.
Users from Community Builder can join in the fun and migrate all of their data into EasySocial. The best part is that the process is as simple as a click of a button. Everything was made simple, even for the administrators and community managers.
Socializing online is not complete if you cannot use a common identity (avatar). In EasySocial 1.2, avatars from EasySocial can be viewed in K2. Besides avatar, badges and points are easily pushed to K2 to better complete your profile there. All these and more can be achieved with the K2 Article app that is free to download.
In this new age, we want everything to be fast. Though registration fields are mostly required, there are times where we just want to hop in the wagon without the hassle of filling up forms with information and clicking next over and over again. Our Quick Register now works like a charm; simply key in your username, password, email, full name and you're good to go.
The StackIdeas team would like to thank all of those who helped to contribute towards this build, especially our beloved users and beta testers. Without your help, ideas and insight, EasySocial won't be as awesome as it is. No words is enough to express our gratitude and we will improve EasySocial more as time goes by. Who knows, we might even put the unicorn that you guys have been asking for. :)
As soon as we're done grabbing 5 minutes of fresh air, we will continue to camp in our secret lab and concoct the next release; EasySocial 1.3. You can check out what we have in-stored for the next release by checking our EasySocial 1.3 roadmap.
We view our work as our pride and joy, with the outcome being not a 'product' but rather a solution to help our fellow Joomla! users to build a better, stronger, and awesome social networking site. We admit that developing such component is very gruesome, but it's not without reward. What's the reward, you might ask?
The smile on each and every satisfied users. :)
We're now offering a 20% discount to anyone who wishes to upgrade or purchase the latest EasySocial. The coupon code is EASYSOCIAL121. However, this offer is valid within 24 hours from this blog's post; and will end approximately on Friday, March 21st, 0200 hrs (UTC+8). Time is running so I'd highly suggest for you all to make haste and use this coupon code while it's still active! ...
Read more https://stackideas.com/blog/easysocial-1-2-1-is-here
Community engagement is really important for any website, not just for those that run on WordPress. We need to increase the number of people that comment and keep them interested in the content that we offer.
The good news is that WordPress has many different plugins that can be used for this very purpose. The bad news is that people do not pay close attention to this factor. It is important to think about improving a website so that visitors can be more engaged and that will eventually make them comment more, even share your content more. Let’s take a look at some plugins that can help your entire community.
Not all WordPress themes include sliders or easy ways in which you can integrate featured content galleries. The adequately entitled plugin can help those that do not have suitable design or programming knowledge to add featured posts anywhere on the website. Highlighted content is easily integrated.
There is a constant increase in the number of people that use mobile devices to browse the internet. This is a trend that will not change but most websites do not actually have a mobile version. This plugin helps out by basically creating that website mobile version that you need to make people stay when they use their smartphones or tablets. Various customization options are included.
The Disqus Comment System is something that helps you get more comments on your website. One thing that visitors do not like is that they are sometimes asked for passwords and IDs in order to leave a simple blog comment. We could let the regular comment system open, the one that comes with WordPress, but this opens the door for SPAM. Disqus helps by letting the visitor use Twitter, Facebook, Disqus or OpenID in order to leave a comment.
A community of people that comment is not the only one that you may want to establish. If you want to have more people post guest posts on your site, you want to help them make everything as easy as possible. One way to do that is to use this plugin. The interested guest poster will be offered the possibility to view a preview of the post before sending it in for consideration. It eases your work and entices others to offer better content.
Facebook is definitely huge at the moment and we cannot dismiss it as a source of engagement. This plugin is preferred by many as a really fast way to avoid the regular password security for visitors. The reader will be able to login to the website with the use of BuddyPress, local WordPress or Facebook.
This is a really popular plugin that helps the webmaster include posts that are related at every article’s bottom. What is special is the fact that relevancy is quite high and there are many different customization options that are available at the moment. You need to have some sort of related posts plugin installed to increase the time that visitors spend on your website and this is definitely one that you have to consider.
This interesting plugin helps out a lot in creating a Wiki site through your WordPress installation, thus making it incredibly easy for people to contribute in building content. There are comprehensive notification systems included together with perfect upload capabilities. You even get a WYSIWYG editor. The webmaster basically gets a WordPress site based on the Wiki system or can add many Wiki sites with WordPress MultiSite installations.
This small plugin offers you the possibility of gaining fast feedback when referring to the number of people that visit, together with various other features that aid you in figuring out exactly what you are faced with. You can integrate Analytics and basically monitor online user activities. We need to know how our visitors react in order to increase community engagement and Clicky makes it easier to do just that.
Don’t Be Afraid To Experiment
New plugins are released every week and you never know when a really good one appears. It is really important that you take the necessary time to see what your visitors do when on your site and you need to give them a reason to comment. With this in mind, make sure that you also learn all that you can about writing the posts so that you can increase interaction.
Do you have a WordPress for Joomla website and you managed to get your community more involved? What plugins did you use? Let us know in the comment section so that we can share our experiences and learn together. We are sure that you would be able to help other webmasters and even make new friends.
By Boris Dzhingarov[9] who is founder of Blog For Web[10].
Testing software can be an arduous task. Every web environment comes with it’s own PHP version, server configuration and quirks. For a project as big as Joomla, this can quickly become a problem.
Each new Joomla release is deployed on thousands of different environments around the world in a matter of hours. Some bugs might go unnoticed until end-users install on PHP versions that haven’t been tested. This can lead to a frustrating time for everyone involved.
Beginning of the year the Joomla project adopted a crowd sourced pre-release testing workflow[1], after problems with releases end of 2013.
“When a new version of Joomla is released, we sometimes run into a problem where not enough people test the release on real servers. Recently, this has led to some chaotic, back-to-back releases which causes stress everyone: end users, developers, and Joomla contributors.”
The adoption of a crowd-sourced testing flow is a great idea. However, the workflow is only as good as the tools used. At Joomlatools, the idea stuck and our team was keen to see if we could help out to make things easier for testers.
We already have a virtual site playground thanks to our Joomla in a box[2] project. We just had to figure out a way to make it possible to install different versions of Joomla and PHP. Any good developer likes a challenge and so do we!
Installing Joomla versions was not that hard a nut to crack. To solve this we build a Joomla command line interface[3] for our Joomla box that allows fetching any Joomla CMS branch or tag directly from Github[4].
Finding a way to easily and quickly install different PHP versions on the box posed to be a little bit harder. The solution : ‘phpmanager’, a custom script that can build different PHP versions and setup all the required modules.
With a little bit of help from awesome open source tools like Virtualbox[5], Vagrant[6] and a copy of our Joomlatools Vagrant box[7] anyone can now help test Joomla release before they go out, in true ‘Jumla’ style!
All these goodies are part of the 1.2 release of our Joomla Vagrant box[8], which has been released today. Just in time for the Joomladagen[9] in the Netherlands next weekend. Johan will present[10] the 1.2 version on Sunday and show yo how to use it. Robin, Tom and Johan will also be participating in the Joomla Pizza Bugs and Fun event on Saturday! Need help setting up your own box, go and find them!
We love our little toolbox and we’re already using it extensively for our own extension development. We hope the Joomla community and testers find it useful as well. Ideas, suggestions, comments, patches are very welcome!
Give it a try right away by cloning our GitHub repository[11] and … happy Joomla testing!
Read more https://blog.joomlatools.com/2014/03/with-a-little-help-from-your-friends.html
We currently have several students who are participating in the GSoC Mailing List discussions and deciding on which project they want to tackle this year from the Joomla 2014 GSoC Project Ideas list. But we would really like to see as many students as possible take advantage of this great opportunity.
A few short weeks ago, Joomla was accepted into the 2014 Google Summer of Code! That makes 8 years that the Joomla project has participated as a Mentor Organization and we’re excited to take part again this year.
https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/generic?p0=1440&iso=20140321T19&msg=GSoC%20Student%20Application%20Deadline
Google Summer of Code is a program designed to encourage university student participation in open source software development.
Some quick facts about the Google Summer of Code program.
We have set up a Google Mailing List that is open to the public, as well as a new section outlining this year’s Joomla GSoC and a Project Ideas List on the Joomla Documentation website. Here’s some links for you to find out more.
Joomla GSoC 2014 Student Signup Information
https://docs.joomla.org/GSOC_2014
Joomla GSoC 2014 Project Ideas List
https://docs.joomla.org/GSOC_2014_Project_Ideas
Joomla GSoC 2014 Mailing List
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/joomla-gsoc-2014
You can find out all the information you need and more on those pages. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to ask a question on the Mailing List and someone will be happy to help.
Thanks to all the great mentors for participating in this year’s Joomla GSoC project. We’re already seeing a lot of support from this group of great volunteers and looking forward to see the progress they make with their students through the summer!
Thanks to Chad Windnagle for putting this year’s project together. The man is a machine when it comes to project management and organization. I’m happy to be under his tutelage as a co-admin for this year’s project.
- Robert Vining and the Joomla GSoC Team!
We are pleased to announce the availability to JTicketing Alpha 1 for testing. This is another step towards a awesome new stable release for JTicketing. This release has 80% of the planned features of JTicketing 1.5.
So your input now is critical. Please help us test this release & file your bugs ! Thank you all who have contributed in testing so far ! Please read on for the full change log & testing instructions..
You can download the release from the My Subscriptions area. To report bugs, head for the forum[1] & post your comments.
* Testing & reporting Instructions *
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JTicketing 1.5 alpha 1
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- Works on Joomla 2.5.x & Joomla 3.2.x
- This alpha release may differ from the upcoming stable product.
- This is an early alpha with some known issues
- Please do not install it on your live site.
- You are advised to use & test this on development sites.
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Installation and setup
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- We recommend you use a fresh joomla 3.2.x site, where jticketing is being installed for first time.
1. Download and Unzip the file you downloaded for 'Jticketing 1.5 alpha 1' from 'My Subscriptions' area.
2. First install com_tjfields_1.0_rev13.zip using joomla installer
3. Then install JTicketing_v1.5_Alpha1_r7ece96f.zip using joomla installer
4. Goto Jticketing backend -> component options, and configure component options for jticketing.
- In Integration Settings tab-
- Select Integration as Native
- Select and configure payment gateways
Jticketing comes up with following Plugins
Payment Plugins-You must enable any one of following payment plugins
(type is payment)
- Guest Settings tab
Allow guests to Buy ticket=>Yes
Allow Guest to quickly register when buying tickets without entering extra details(name,username,and email details required only).=>Yes
- Company Details Tab
Fill up All details in company details tab this is required for invoice
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So, what does this alpha has for you to test -
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1. Field Manager for native events
a. Go to Jticketing backend
b. Create field groups using links for -
- Event fields groups &
- Ticket fields groups
c. Create fields using links for -
- Event fields [create new fields to extend native create event form]
- Ticket fields [create new fields to extend attendee form]
2. Native Event Manager
a. Using menu manager, Create Menus for -
- Create Event,
- All Events &
- My Events
b. Goto frontend and try click on 'Create Event' menu and create new events .
3. Event Specific Attendee Fields
a. Goto frontend and try click on Create Event menu. You can define event specific attendee fields while creating event.
This feature lets event owners define attendee fields on a per event basis.
4. Awesome New Checkout Process
5. Basic Tax Support & Invoicing
Known issues - [we are working on all known issues]
1. Jomsocial integration broken
2. JEvents integration broken
3. Only Native events will work
What this alpha does not have -
Installment Payments (Alpha) - We might push this to the next Release since this is impacting many areas..
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How to report the bugs :
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- You can report bugs / submit feedback in this thread itself.
- Make sure you write the Subject like with " JTicketing 1.5 alpha 1 -- Issue title here"
- Try & see if someone has posted a similar issue & post follow ups to it before you post a new issue
Read more https://techjoomla.com/jticketing/jticketing-15-alpha-1-released.html
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