Best Extensions

Tweet this auto footer plugin

Written by Sudhi | 28 May 2009

Barrie over at Compass Designs offers a really handy plugin that automatically inserts a "Tweet This" link below each article. Twitter is a powerful tool for building traffic. In addition to bringing your readers back to your site, someone with many followers may update that they are reading your content, driving even more traffic to your site.

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Bump it with Joomla!

Written by Sudhi | 23 May 2009

We've talked about to "bump" type services like Digg and Joomocracy a few times. If you're not familiar with these you first need to move out of your cave, then read this article. These services are community-powered information portals. People submit sites or news, and if they appeal to people, they get "bumped" up the list. The cooler your content, the more bumps, the more traffic; pretty simple.

Did you know Joomocracy isn't powered by Joomla? It's powered by a CMS called "Pligg" which is designed specifically for the purpose of creating "bump" services like Digg. Our guess is Joomocracy chose this option because there wasn't a way to turn Joomla into a bump site... until recently.

YouJoomla.com has released an extension called YouBumpit for both Joomla! 1.0 and 1.5. Check it out here or you can demo it here.

Acajoom PRO provides complete newsletter solution

Written by Sudhi | 13 May 2009

Acajoom PRO is the in-house solution for newsletter management in Joomla. With a full array of features, Acajoom PRO lets the admin create and manage subscriber lists, design professional newsletters and even send them automatically using a cronjob.

The feature list is overwhelming but here's the good stuff:

• Integration with modules for list subscription
• URL signup feature to easily integrate with other sites and extensions
• Complete integration with the existing user table so there's no copy/pasting needed
• Access level control based on user level
• Send full HTML newsletters as well as embedded styling to be compatible with all email clients
• Easily include Joomla! articles in your newsletters
• Automatic newsletter sending and scheduling
• Full statistics support
• A so much more

So what's the best feature of Acajoom PRO? You're not paying for an ongoing newsletter service. This is the only newsletter extension for Joomla that is actively supported and supports cron job sending which means 1-click newsletter sending. With Acajoom PRO, you are only limited by your creativity.

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New events component for J 1.5

Written by Sudhi | 09 May 2009

RSJoomla! has released their new event component for Joomla! 1.5 native. Although in beta, we tested it pretty hard and found not major issues, but use at your own risk. Right now RSJoomla! is offering a 25% discount because the version is still in beta. In their words:

RSEvents! is an event scheduling and management extension developed for Joomla! 1.5. This Joomla! Event extension is the ideal tool for everyone organizing events starting from individuals that invite close people to join a party to music bands organizing concerts or companies organizing meetings.

Demo it here | Visit