The may edition of the Joomla Community Magazine has arrived and it's a belter.

In it they cover a whole host of topics including

How to convert a Joomla 1.5 template to Joomla 2.5

How to migrate from Drupal to Joomla

And a whole realm of hints and tips.

The RSS feed is here.

The may edition of the Joomla Community Magazine has arrived and it's a belter.

In it they cover a whole host of topics including

How to convert a Joomla 1.5 template to Joomla 2.5

How to migrate from Drupal to Joomla

And a whole realm of hints and tips.

The RSS feed is here.

It's been a wee while in coming along by Jomsocial 2.6 is finally here.  Apart from having our hands on the new versino as a develper it's great to see this fantastic component now available to all.  Features include.

 

1. Notifiications improvements - note this has caused some load issues, but these should all be resolved.

2. Recurring Events

3. Group document sharing - a great new feature allowing users to upload documents into groups and get notificaitons when documents have been uploaded.

4. New content distribution

5. My Groups Updates view

6. Video User Tagging

7. Popular Overrides Support

8. A new module, and two updated modules.

9.  A new application.

 

All in all a major Jomsocial release.  If you're looking for a Jomsocial Developer to make Jomsocial do what you want it tod then contact Adonis Media.

The great developers at Kunena have announced their development roadmap for the next twelve months. 

Importantly, support for Joomla 1.5 will end in May of this year.  So if you run a successful Joomla/Kunena combination now's the time to upgrade your Joomla version.

Need help in upgrading your Joomla version?  Contact us and we'll see how we can help.

View the Kunena Forum roadmap here.

Mosets Tree is now fully compatible with Joomla 2.5.1 thanks to the developers of the popular Joomla Component.

The latest press release also includes instructions on upgrading to Mosets Tree 2.2.4

Check it out here.  Mosets Tree Upgrade.

 

The Imagine Live 2012 event that Magento are hosting in the birght lights town of Las Vegas is starting to look good. They've already sold over 75 % of the ticket allocation. With high profile headline speakers and a thousands of e-commerce devotees heading to the town has 1000 times more lights than Blackpool, they're building this as "Vegas will never be the same again." Quite how the locals will react to thousands of geeks descending on their town we've yet to find out, but it won't be pretty, that's for sure. To book your place and have a chance of winning a trip to Imagine Live 2012 go to http://www.imagineecommerce.com/

Virtuemart has released a point upgrade to fix a number of bugs in their popular shopping cart for Joomla.

Among the updates are the following list.

- Fixed security issue with uncasted virtuemart_userinfo_id, and two other
- Fixed security issue, it was possible to reveal address data of other shoppers

- Migrator enhanced to migrate bigger shops, code is more robust now, and faster.
- Migrator has now an option to migrate the old vm1 order_ids as vm2 order_numbers

- Advice for the safe path in the config

- Added plugin triggers for userfields (euvatid, captcha)

- Fix, enhancements for paginations, ordering

- Product edit allows to enter the final price and calculates the cost price for you
- Product edit displays all children, when it has a the customfield "dynamic child variant" attached

- Text input plugin and similar working again

- Cart is now also rounding prices
- Cart shows now values according to quantity
- Internal rounding decimals increased.
- Reduce of cart session data

- Custom orderstatus are now better useable without code hack
- Template override of plugins

- Some country, states fixes
- Some router fixes
- Js uses its own namespace now, added different fixes for better compatibility

- Waiting list by Seyi Awofadeju

- And many other small fixes, enhancements not written

 

If you want to download the latest version of Virtuemart, version 2.0.4 for Joomla you can get hit here.  Virtuemart 2.0.4

The develpoers at zen-cart.com have released a release candidate of the popular e-commerce solution Zen Cart. It's version 1.5 and they've released 3 revisions. There are many, many bugifxes in this release of Zen Cart, but we'd advise everyone to hold off until the final release prior to upgrading. At which point we'd be delighted to upgrade your version of Zen Cart to the latest version. To get the release candidate of Zen Cart just head on over to http://zen-cart.com