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Wow...finally a place for my ideas. I am a professional creative thinker, so this contact form for me to submit my ideas is just what I have been looking for. I generally think these ideas right of the top of my head and rarely write them down...so with that said, sometimes what I "see" does not translate into words to well. But I will give it a go.

SITUATION: In the past month I have literally rewritten all my css changes for all my modules and template pages due to third party file updates. Of 15 different Modules and one template. I had a total of 15 module new updates, 1 template new update and 3 additional template -reupdates with 7 modules having additional re-updates as well.

TITLE: Overrides Plugin

DESCRIPTION: This plugin will load up a single css file to override all other css within a template or module. This will benefit ALL joomla users that need to alter their CSS throughout their website.

FUNCTION: In Admin/Plugins you will assign the file for the plugin to load. You can name this plugin anything you like and locate it anywhere you need. This allows better chances that this file will NEVER be overwritten.

SOLUTION: If I had a single source for template overrides, I can easily maintain my changes and never fear of losing them due to updates. With that said, I will never have to worry or track which modules I edited.

I hope this explained enough, if you need more details, feel free to email me at voice4visionhotmail.com

I have been trying to come to terms with joomla for about a month (off and on). As a new user the most frustrating part about joomla is not joomla itself. It is the search engine on the joomla forum.

I have found it really difficult to find previous posts in the forum by searching.

Yet when I go to google I can quickly find articles and discussions even posts inside joomla forum.

It is not very helpfull to "hit" every instance of the word "save" when I am looking for "save joomla" or "back-up".

So top of my wish list is a google style search engine for the forum. Either that or some instructions that are easy to find. Not sure if such a request fits inside "extensions" developer capabilities.

I have a request for a simple plugin/feature for Joomla. It might have been part of the system back at the beginning.

On a category blog, you can set up a number of leading articles and a number of intro articles. I would like the leading articles to show the full text (without the readmore if it exists). Then the Intro articles would show whatever is before the readmore.

Such a simple idea, yet I can't find anything that does that.

A lot of people would use this, I think. I know I would love to have that feature. I hope you can write something to do that.

Thanks for giving me the opportunity to ask for it!

Hi Barnaby,

there is yet no 'infinite scroll' plugin for joomla...wordpress has

u know...as facebook or twitter when u scrolling down :):)

There is a joomla component called "Versioning". But it has not been upgraded to Joomla 3.x. It is really an essential extension, and hopefully you can create a 3.x version. http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/authoring-a-content/content-versioning/6260

Thanks

Rowby

Looking at that link, it was not correct. I think the version extension has been taken down from the JED. I know the author stated he could no longer support the extension. Basically it kept older versions of each article and you could roll back to the earlier version. Very essential in case you make a horrible mistake in an article.

Rowby

an extention that can turn word docs to joomla article

i mean i upload 5 words docs and the extention convert it to 5 joomla article

and it must look good :)

Kazaam! - fabulous extension - exactly what I need but ...

I need to be able to generate two sets of submenus for all the articles in the same category - One linked to Top and One Linked to Main Menu. I repeated the menu#x entry in the plugin and amended them acccordingly, but it seems to only create the submenus in the last of the entries as it reads down them, so menu#1 did not have the submenus created but menu#2 did. I assume its because they both relate to the same input category.

Is there a way to get around this, or could this be added to a future release?

Thanks

Rob

There are quite a few different menu systems for Joomla at this point but what would be incredibly useful is to add geo-location functionality into the menu system. Many components for Joomla support having their content geomapped such as K2, Mosets Tree, Jomsocial, Community Builder and Sobipro and even Joomla Articles via tags. Those are the ones just off the top of my head but none will actually filter the results from your menu entry into those components based off of the users location. Why not give a menu type that would allow you to select which tables actually store the latitude and longitude for the entries in two dropdowns. With everything becoming location aware this is a feature that very few are able to provide so there is no standardized way to provide this currently. Hope my explanation makes sense, I wouldn't think this would be that hard to do but to date I have yet to find a good way of doing this.

I would guess the reason it dont exist it might not possible but seems a shame, we can import tweets and facebook comments why not google reviews (the kind that show up in search results "13 Google Reviews", these are more valuable to most of my small business clients, many sites post customer reviews on their site but it would look more credible if coming straight from Google places reviews. Also if can get the "Write a Review" that would have great SEO help to clients as this is a major SEO ranking factor so getting more reviews is a good thing more important than G+ or Likes or Twitter followers. I am not talking about G+ or liking a page im talking about customer reviews.

Dear Barnaby

I am a visual artist (67 yrs old) so i started late with computers, joomla etc. I discovered to my dismay that a digital photgrapher has no way to write information about the digital photo he just made to that digital photo so that the info stays with the photo wherever the photo goes. In contrast to printed photos, where you very simply just write your stuff on the back of the photo.

My project is making photos of my local plants and animals( multiple photos in detail for each species) and identifying them by scientific name and organizing the photos into a key system.

The key system is text (meta) information that is intimately related to the photos but has to be stored seperately from the photos in tables on a database!!!! Move any photo even a little and the info is lost.!!!

Yes i do know about Exiftool, IPTC,Darwin etc, but they are all hard to handle and time consuming which no doubt accounts for the popularity of Photo Gallery systems.

I been creating a movie listing site for long time, and due to the lack of joomla extensions for movies, I am stuck on this project. I use sobipro as cck, but also it lack of some addons for movie, so a good Idea will be to develop a "entry chooser" with a fancy name like "entry anywhere" or "entry selector" just to select in my case movies, other will use it as products chooser, notice it's different to related product, with the entries selector you have the power to select specific product (customer's product which pay more). If you need more details drop me a mail.

Regards

Manuel

First off let me say this tool is freaking amazing in a way that is hard to describe it does what it says it does… and does it very well….

The only thing holding this back from being beyond amazing would be the addition of the following feature I don’t know how difficult it would be but I think the number of fans you would get would sky rocket..

Because the upgrade path to a lot of addon’s is to update the in the live site then push then migrate to the new joomla if we could do the following

Clone the original site with the original site so that now you have 2 live copies of original un upgraded site…

Then from the “cloned site” run the upgrade scripts and then and the upgraded version of joomla so that you can remove and upgrade live stuff to see if it works etc etc and then once that was good to go push it from that to upgrade the live site… that would put me over the freaking moon !!!! just a thought..

if there is a way to do that please let me and again thanks for making such an amazing migration tool

Hi Barnaby

I am looking for a Joomla (3.x) Kudos addon (plugin/module) such as the one on http://coinsult.svbtle.com/new-yorks-bitlicense-regulations-catch-bitcoin-businesses-everywhere This gives a simple but clean look. I know there is one for wordpress but unfortunately not one for Joomla.

Thanks

Ann

J'étais perplexe à l'idée de passer de Joomla 1.5.26 à Joomla 3.3.4. J'appréhendais cette mise à jour, même avec Migrate-Me.

Je suis Français et je ne pratique pas l'Anglais.

J'ai eu quelques surprises lors de l'installation, mais le service après-vente exercé par Barnaby Dixon m'a permis de régler chacun des problèùmes qui se sont présentés.

Bien qu'il avoue ne pas savoir parler correctement le Français, Barnaby possède une maîtrise de la langue de Molière dont on aimerait bien disposer à propos de l'Anglais.

Ses descriptions sont claires et sans ambigüité. Il a par ailleurs un sens pédagogique aigu pour guider nos interventions.

Enfin, ce qui est très appréciable, monsieur Barnaby est d'une très grande amabilité dans ses propos et d'une grande disponibilité.

Un grand bravo et Merci.

Barnaby,

Have you ever considered a version of MigrateMe Plus that would just duplicate the Joomla site, allow a developer to modify and test, then push the site back to production without changing versions? I have a request to set up a duplicate Joomla site for testing. A version of MigrateMe Plus could do this so easily. You could name it DuplicateMe Plus.

Thank you,

Frank Ventura

How about a reverse-engineered form application. Here's what I mean in more detail.

Typically, a customer from the front end, like this submission here, will fill out a form and submit it. You, as the employee/owner/etc, can view it in the database or have a submission sent to your email, right?

What I would like to do is reverse that. The administrator fills out the form in the back-end, and it's searchable & viewable from the front end.

It seems pretty straight-forward, but I have no experience in this field, so I really don't know.

Barnaby,

Consider an extension or add-in for Netsukii that allows grabbing of product pages from Amazon and the many Chinese ecommerce sites like banggood.com.

This would capture the content including images and allow mapping to templated formats that can be imported/used in a module position within Joomla.

The product's ID, title, description should be parsed for import into the site and database tables.

The purpose is to allow for sale of products or services from the many ecommerce sites offer associate sales programs. The import template, therefore, should also include input of the associate ID.. although that can probably be done without special provision in the extension.

I want to give you an idea about the payment method. I really want to say that there should be another method of acceptance of payments for Extensions and components. Because bitcoin and paypal especially in Asia are not famous. So there should be another method for accepting credit cards. As i am facing lot of problems in buying migrate me plus component.

You must thinks about it as early as possible. Hope you will must do some thing for it..

Thanks

Regards

Faisal Khan

I know you create great extensions, I love your MigrateMe extensions, I have, love and use them both. Anyways, I think a great plugin would be something to unfeature a Joomla article at a certain date. We have clients that use the feature button but want to make something unfeature at a certain time. I don't see this anywhere and would be very useful.

RECURRING ARTICLES AND MODULES:

I would like a component. extension, plugin or whatever that I think really should be in the Joomla Core.

A way to set publishing of content - modules and articles to recur on yearly basis. It would be good to be able to do this for any time period on days week, Day of month and day of year year. And include Holidays that are not always on the same day such as Armed Forces Day.

I would be satisfied if this would be done so I could just have content get re-published for a particular date each year. Such as July 4 every year and such like.

Thank you!

Hi,

Is it possible for you to create an extensions for Single Sign On (SSO)?

Multiple Joomla installation with this extensions will have an SSO by just by entering a list of site URL of each other. Joomla User database will automatically be the same for all listed sites.

Thanks :)

Is there a plan for HTML2Articles for Joomla 4?