 Construction is underway on our newest JoomlaPraise member extension: PraiseMenu! As you can guess, this will be a menu system either to be used in a JoomlaPraise template or standalone in any Joomla! template.
Currently the planned features are for the ability to easily change between the following menu styles:
- Mootools Dropdown Menu
- Suckerfish Dropdown Menu
- Dropline Menu
- Joomla! Split Menu
As with the default Joomla! menu module, you'll also be able to select from any existing menu to display in PraiseMenu.
Got any features you'd like us to include in PraiseMenu? Please comment on this entry and let us know! We're building this for you! |
Ok, it may seem like we're asking you to vote a lot. Vote for which template you'd like us to make next, vote for which extension you'd like us to make next (coming soon), etc. Now we're asking you to get out there and vote for JoomlaPraise on some other great Joomla! community sites: Vote for the JoomlaPraise.com site on Joomlr.com: 
Vote for our templates over at BestofJoomla.com (registration required): and while you're at it, if you don't mind, vote for our article at Joomocracy.com:
http://joomocracy.com/story.php?title=Join_Joomlas_hottest_new_template_club_for_40 all these votes will help your new favorite Joomla Template and Extension Club! |
 We're just uploaded the latest updates for both the 1.0.x and 1.5.x versions of PraiseSlides! This module is already well-received, though the beta had a few bugs and some features weren't enabled. This release includes the following features (new are bolded):
- Dropdown selection of Section
- Dropdown selection of Category
- Article Count
- Content Order (Order, Title, Date, Hits) - (Ascending or Descending)
- Content Width (pixels or percentage)
- Content Height (pixels or percentage)
- Linked Titles (yes or no)
- Include JavaScript (ability to turn off if you already have Mootools installed)
These features should be plenty to make this a truly valuable module!
If you're a member, head on over and download the update.
If not, what are you waiting for? Save yourself $35 and subscribe today! |
 After giving away 50 Free memberships, we considered our current portfolio of templates and extensions and decided to reduce our unlimited 1 year membership from $75 to $40 for 3 months, while we build our stock of templates! If you've previewed the current templates and next month's templates, which are up for vote on the homepage, you've seen the caliber of our work and understand the HUGE deal we're giving folks. We're going to work overtime and increase our rate of production on templates to 2 templates per month during this term, so if you aren't a member, you'd be wise to head on over to subscription and take advantage of this deal!
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 As we close in on the last of the 1st 50 Free Memberships, we're working on the last major area of the site: Documentation. You'll be seeing a new "Tutorials" link in the top blue bar. There you'll find helpful articles containing tips, tutorials, documentation, and videos training you on all the site templates and extensions, along with some Joomla! best practices.
I'd like to take the opportunity to give thanks to all the members that have helped us fast track the release of this site to the public. You guys (and gals) are the reason we're doing this.
Update 3/3/08: we've got some helpful tutorials up now. Videos coming this week! |
 I'm pleased to announce our 1st Free Joomla! Extension! SubmitMailer is a simple plugin/mambot that will send either the Administrator or defined email address a notification when an article is submitted through the Joomla! Frontend. SubmitMailer works in Joomla! 1.0.x and 1.5.x. View more and download here. |
 After years of dreaming and months of work I am proud to announce: JoomlaPraise Professional Joomla Templates is LIVE! Thank you to our "Soft Launchers" for helping us get ready for our worldwide debut. We hope that our blood, sweat and tears will result in a better Joomla! experience for all!
For the new users who don't know, Joomla! website design and template creation has been our passion, inspiration, and source of income for the pass few years. We've built professional Joomla! templates for many high profile corporate websites and want to bring that level of detail and professionalism to the Joomla! community. To thank the Joomla! community, we're giving away 50 Free JoomlaPraise Club Subscriptions to the 1st 50 that sign up and subscribe. |
We just couldn't bring ourselves to add a cliche' BETA to our site logo, so we're calling this early release of JoomlaPraise a "soft launch". We've invited 50 lucky folks to have their $75 subscription fee waived and begin downloading our first templates and module. The main goal of this is to reward those who supported us in the infamous Joomla! 1.5 Template Contest, and secondly to get the site ready for its prime-time debut. On March 29th, correction: Feb 29th we'll be opening the doors up to the public, so that means the next 4 days will be rather interested to say the least. Thanks so much to the 1st 50, you're helping see our dreams come to fruition. |
 My main concern with choosing to go with Joomla 1.5 for JoomlaPraise.com was the lack of stable extensions for 1.5. Consider those concerns quelled, and allow me to announce my new favorite extensions:
RSform! - Thank goodness for this extension. I recently wrote about my frustrations with Fabrik. RSform is by far my new favorite form component for Joomla!
JomComment & MyBlog - The guys over at Azrul do a darn good job. I'm writing the article using MyBlog and I absolutely love it. MyBlog if effortless and works fantastic in 1.5. On top of that, the developers are very responsive on their forum and very nice guys.
phpBB3 & RocketWerx's phpBB3-J1.5 Bridge - I was a big fan of phpBB2 and missed it when I strive to stay 100% Joomla and refused to use bridges. I do think that FireBoard is a million times better then SimpleBoard/JoomlaBoard, but it just can't compare to phpBB3. Andy and the guys at Rockettheme did a great job with the bridge, it works perfectly.This leads to my theory: Jumping on development of extensions for Joomla 1.5 has made way for new extensions as older extensions lag behind in converting to 1.5. |
The remote file inclusion vulnerability that was the reason for 1.0.14 stemmed the need for another security update. Apparently the upgrade patch from versions before 1.0.13 to 1.0.14 left a vulnerability in the configuration.php. You can insert the line manually:
if(!defined('RG_EMULATION')) { define( 'RG_EMULATION', 0 ); } I'm glad to see the Joomla! team is getting back to quick fixes for the 1.0.x series. I'm all about 1.5.x, but ALL of our clients are running 1.0.x. Helpful Links:
Full article
1.0.15 Files |
 It's official, the first security release for Joomla 1.5 is out. The main issue was a high priorty security vulnerability in one of the new features which is an XML-RPC Blogger API plugin. We're very greatful to the Joomla! Bug Squad and the Joomla Development Team for identifying the risk and quickly releasing the update. The only thing that stinks is now everyone has to break off and update all their 1.5 sites, sounds like a fun weekend! Helpful links: Full or Patch files for 1.5.1
1.5.1 Release Article |
 As we near the launch of the PraiseSlides JavaScript article sliding module, we've developed a logo to give our first Joomla Extension an identity!
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 We'll be launching in 1 week, or 7 days, or 168 hours, or 10,080 minutes, or 604,800 seconds! A whole lot of work has gone into this site. We're launching with 2 Free Joomla Templates, 2 Club Joomla Templates, and at least on Club Joomla Extension. 2 more Club Joomla Extensions are in the works and will be released very soon. Without giving away any details, we also have 1 major Joomla Component in its infancy and let's just say it will revolutionize your workflow.
Update 2/17/08:
So obviously we've pushed back our launch date of Feb. 14th, but with good reason. We decided to totally rebuild the site from the ground, up in Joomla 1.5. We reviewed all the necessary extensions and all were available in 1.5 (surprisingly)! So rather than risking any inconvenience to our customers at a later date, we decided to use all our personal lives to make this happen as quickly as possible. The site will be ready to go live on February 29th, just 15 short days after the original launch on a day that only comes around once every 4 years (Leap Year). |
 For those unaquainted, SEF stands for "Search Engine Friendly". In Joomla, the default URLs are NOT Search Engine or Human Friendly. Virtually every client we've ever built a site for requests SEF. We use to only use Open SEF though is was always buggy so we were anxious to jump ship when Artio JoomSEF came out. Later we found their sneaky link in the meta information and were very disapointed as this is one of the sneakiest advertisement tricks in the Joomla community. Now they offer a commercial version without the ad so that solves that issue...I guess (though the guys at Kanga Internet released a free ad-free versions here ). Now that we've been building bigger sites with more pages, we're having problems with the way JoomSEF creates alternate URLs if there are multiple links to one article, which is by creating another version with -2.html, -3.html, etc. This is bad news for a company that spends lots of money and time optimizing certain URLs. Supposedly the well reviewed 404 Auto-Redirect Handler for JoomSEF can solve this issue, so we're trying this next. If that doesn't work, we're looking at: |
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