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Are you organizing events? Then you need to make sure that you're updated with all the news of one of the most sought after event ticketing system for Joomla. Yes, we're talking about JTicketing! As promised we are getting you a new release and introducing some new features like automated reminders and more, to help you manage your events more effi...

Canva plugin for Joomla gets a new update. This new version introduces two new cool things - support for new design types from canva.com and Joomla Update Notification support. It also includes fixes for some bugs we found. Let’s see which Canva designs this update has got! Social Media Posts Twitter Post, Social Media Graphic, Instagram Post, Tumb...

Here is our first Interview in the The Joomla Speak series with Joe Sonne. Let’s get to know him a bit before we start. Joe had a successful career in the graphic arts and multimedia industry before moving into management with a national charitable organization. He got involved with Joomla! in 2005, and in 2009 started his own marketing company. Th...

We’re pleased to announce the much awaited Bootstrap 3 support for Quick2Cart with v2.4. This is how some of the views look with Bootstrap 3.     Previous Next   Backwards compatibility for Bootstrap 2.x Quick2Cart will be set to Bootstrap 3 by default after the installation. If you want to use it with conventional Bootstrap 2.x...

On popular demand, we have decided to make JMailAlerts plugins available for individual purchase. Why the Split? For instance if someone is using JomSocial/ EasySocial/ CB he had to purchase all the unnecessary plugins since they were all in the same subscription package. Again same thing while downloading. It was bit harder to find the particular ...

We all are aware that Joomla has turned 10 this year. It has been a long journey full of innovation, rough patches, excitement and progress. Over the years,  Joomla has grown bolder, prettier and smarter; winning hearts and awards. To celebrate this year and make it more exciting we are conducting a series of interviews and will publish them o...

Like all communities #joomla has its favourite hashtags that you around the twitterverse (Yes thats an actual word !). There are many that keep coming and going but there are some that have become part of the cultural fabric of the community. #joomla I obviously have to start with this hashtag that's used to tweet anything and everything ...

JTicketing! An event booking system for Joomla is getting a new major release with some exciting features. We are getting a early Alpha out to you guys so that you can provide us a fresh perspective and report bugs if any.  What do we have in here? Email Reminders and SMS reminders to Attendees Email Reminder Also now you have different t...

Talking more about Email Beautifier,  If you are looking for something fresh and new for your Joomla Emails which makes your emails alive! The search ends here, Email Beautifier makes sure that all emails going from your Joomla site are wrapped in an awesome template! Email Beautifier also ensures all emails going out of your Joomla site have an uniform and consistent look and feel. You can read more about it here.

We all know how to get those nice colored buttons for Radio form field type, its by adding class="btn-group” in the xml argument for that field. There can be an exception to this, if you are not able to have a form field in your view? And you still crave for those nice colored buttons? Here is how you can have those buttons with some plain HTML, CS...

In the process of making Shika's user dashboard more user friendly we have made some major changes by adding new widgets to the dashboard. With this you can now build your own widgets and give your users the freedom to choose which widgets he/ she wants to be shown on the dashboard. We have created a new table #__tjlms_dashboard which contains...

Hey all, A lot of JBolo users asked for a Skype like one page view form where users can access all chat conversations. So here we are with an update regarding JBolo development. Here is a snapshot of how one page chat-conversations view will look like in JBolo v3.3.   With this view users will be able to access all their chats, group chat...

We have already seen how you can introduce filters to list views in the Joomla admin & collate them under the Search tools menu previously in our Blog  last year.  The Search tools filters are extremely useful to admins especially if your extension manages a lot of data. As a usability feature, Joomla retains the s...

JGive a premium crowdfunding extension for Joomla! is getting into a new era starting this release. As promised we are delivering all the features, in fact we’ve managed to add an extra one ;) As we all know that crowdfunding has always been a favourite topic of discussion at the dinner table. The discussions mainly revolve around issues like trust...

Solr is a open source standalone enterprise search server. It comes with great features like full-text search, auto suggest, faceted search, database integration and many more. To know more you can visit http://lucene.apache.org/solr/.

Solr extension is a light-weight, very fast and feature-rich library which allows to communicate with the Apache Solr Server in PHP. To know more solr-php methods visit http://php.net/manual/en/book.solr.php

We have been using Apache Solr in one of our service project. The project is a website which is basically collection of artefacts, posters and other memorabilia from across the globe, importantly India. It currently has about 75,000 objects in our database. In addition, there are roughly 100,000 items in ‘masterlists’. Within the masterlists we have the list of people, films etc, which are the related data for the objects.