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JGive 1.0.3 released with support for old 'jomGive-like-PayPal-donations'

We have released another update to JGive - version 1.0.3 today. We have added more configuration options for order id and payment related settings. The old jomGive like donation support is back again :). This means now all fund money raised can directly go to campaign creator's account [of course if admin wants!! ;) ]  But note that, this will only...

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Sawai Gandharva Bhimsen Mahotsav Goes Mobile !

The Sawai Gandharva Music Festival of Pune, which is celebrating its golden jubilee in December 2012, is without doubt one of the most important events held in Pune. Since last year, we had felt the need for a Phone application to make it easy to get information about the event. As soon as we got the blessings of the organisers, the Mobile developm...

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Joomla Common Payments API Released at Joomla World Conference, 2012

We are proud to announce that Techjoomla "Common Payments API for Joomla" was released as free GPL code at the Joomla World conference 2012 held at San Jose this month.  This release is focussed towards all our developer friends in the community & will benefit end users as well making payment plugins available more easily & for many ex...

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JMailAlerts - DOCman - Latest Documents - Plugin Version 2.4.5 Released

Hola, We have released a new version 2.4.5 for the JMailAlerts Plugin "DOCman - Latest Document plugin (jma_latest_docs_docman)"  today. This release includes new features & bugfixes listed below. It's time to upgrade this plugin on your site. :) Change log for 'jma_latest_docs_docman' plugin version 2.4.5 Tested on Joomla 1.5.x with docman_v1.5.15...

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JGive 1.0.2 released

We have released JGive 1.0.2 today. The key features added include allowing to choose the type for the new campaign. You can create new campaigns for donations or investments. Also, you can put a restriction on total number of donations/investments allowed for the campaign you create. We have added new filter and sort options on all campaigns blog ...

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25% Off Everything this Thanksgiving !

Happy Thanksgiving from Techjoomla ! Get an awesome 25% off all our extensions as well as Combo packs this Thanksgiving ! Just use the discount code below & make your Holiday even more Awesome ! Code : THANKS12     Here's What our Top Extensions will cost you with this code Invitex 45$ 33.75$ BuySocialAds 70$   52.5$ BuyjGive 30$ 22.5$ BuyJ!Bolo 30...

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Drag & Drop Ordering in Joomla 3.0 - Discovering Joomla 3.0 Series

Continuing with our Joomla 3.0 Discovery series, this blog is targeted at End users. Joomla 3.0 has brought some awesome improvements in usability & you are sure to discover something new every time you open up the Admin panel. While working on the Joomla Day India site today, i had one such moment & thought i'd quickly share it :...

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JGive (formerly jomGive) - Donations & Fund Raising for Joomla is here! Rewritten from Scratch with awesome new features

It gives us great pleasure to introduce JGive the Fundraising & Donations extension for Joomla. After we took over the reigns of JomGive from CorePHP, we wanted to take it to a completely new level. The result is right in front of you... JGive!  JGive is a powerful  “crowdfunding” extension that enables your members to create fundraising projec...

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Rendering Zoo Records flexibly - Example with Record lists

Rendering a List view of Zoo items using Code

 

Zoo is one of the most versatile CCK extensions available in Joomla. It's flexible & at the same time easy to use for end users. In spite of these positive points, there are times when you have to dive into development & Zoo APIs to develop your own custom views.

In this particular case, we wanted to develop a List/Grid view with Zoo ( of a particular Content Type)  which showed all Zoo attributes in a table view for easier data viewing on the frontend for content managers. In this blog, we will tell you just how to go about doing that

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Awesome Halloween Offers from Techjoomla & Partners !

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Halloween is here!!

altThis Halloween season Techjoomla is treating you to make yourselves happy by offering great discounts on all our Techjoomla products in the store till 1st Novemeber, 2012, starting today.

Coupon Code : Halloween15 

Read on for some more awesome offers from our Partners !

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Quick2Cart Update!

Its been a while since we gave you an update on Quick2Cart. I got an email today morning asking about updates & I realized we hadn't posted a blog in a while. So here it goes! In the past few weeks, we have been tweaking Quick2Cart based on results on the various production sites as well as Beta tester inputs that we have been getting. We have ...

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Sneak peak at the JomGive in its new Avatar as J!Give

After we took over the JomGive extension from the CorePHP guys, we planned to give it a major architectural overhaul so that we could easily scale it & support all the feature requests we were getting & to be able to reach our vision for this extension. We are almost ready with this awesome new release which can work independantly of JomSoc...

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Adding Custom Fields to Joomla Categories in Joomla 2.5 and Joomla 3.0

We recently had a special case scenario where we had to develop a Quick2Cart plugin to sell Joomla Categories.  We were consistently hitting a wall trying to show our custom fieldset for Quick2Cart in the Joomla Category Add/Edit view. We already have a content plugin for this which shows Quick2Cart in Joomla content items. But it simply wasn't wor...

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Discount on all Joomlapolis subscriptions and products for Techjoomla Members & readers !

Joomlapolis is offering a 20% discount coupon for Techjoomla customers and newsletter recipients. The coupon code jp-gives-20-to-tj is valid for the next 48 hours only and can be used for any membership subscription, template product or CBSubs purchase. This is a fantastic opportunity ...

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SocialAds 2.8 brings Contextual Ads & Search Ads to Joomla !

context sads flatYes ! You heard it right !! Contextual Ads is the BIG new feature in this SocialAds release.

In line with our commitment to bring you the most versatile and feature rich Advertising solution for Joomla, we now introduce our next BIG feature - Contextual Ads or Keyword based targeting.  For contextual ads to be accurate, its necessary to be able to accurately find the most important keywords in a page, such that the user viewing the ads will find them to be closely related to the content he is seeing.

Keyword Density, Pattern matching, reference matching ... the list of methods that can be used to accertain accurate keywords can go on and on & this is a technology that is continuosly under improvement. Google does this pretty well with Google Adsense & Adwords products.And now, SocialAds has brought it to Joomla ! 

Search Ads which leverages contextual ads to display Ads relevant to searches is the next awesome feature. Using this, Search pages on your site can be monetized by showing relevant Ads alongside !

Both these features are a huge boost & SocialAds can now boast of a combined feature set of Google Adssense & Facebook & LinkedIn Ads all bundled in one ! Contextual Targeting can be used individually or in combination with Geo & Social Targeting if needed.

With these features, SocialAds is now highly recommended for Content heavy websites like News Portals & Blogs ! Make sure you get SocialAds for your site today !  You can demo the Contextual Ads feature here & the Search Ads feature here.

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Get an awesome 15% Discount on Purchase of SocialAds only for the next 24 hours !  There is no need of any Discount code ! Buy it now !

Read on for details about both the features & the full changelog ...

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