It wasn't easy, but we made it. Hotspots 6.0 is now Joomla4 compatible! Thank you to those who helped us make this reality!

Joomla! has a lot of "hidden" features that few people know about. Starting with Joomla 1.6 ( I think) we were able to define custom fields using plugins. This feature is relatively easy to use, if you know your way with PHP. Most probably this is one of the reasons why very few people actually know that they can define custom fields, override any ...

I'm happy to announce that CComment 6.0 Alpha1 is ready for download. Version 6 is a major rewrite of the Frontend Part of the component and in this blog post, I would like to give you a glimpse of our development process. The major thing that we had to tackle in v6 was removing our Mootools dependency. Mootools was a great framework back in 2006, ...

No, this is not a critical security release, but you should still update today. In the beginning of last year Mailchimp announced v3 of their API. Initially it didn't support all the features that v 1.3 had and we were reluctant to update, despite it being RESTful and better organized. But things changed. In February this year Mailchimp announced t...

Today I stumbled on a bug in CComment on Joomla 2.5 (we actually don't support 2.5, but that is another story) and upon investigating I discovered few interesting things and I thought that I'll share them with you. So here is the issue: in order to deliver nested comments in CComment we do 2 queries - one that fetches the parents and one that is su...

​Yves and I, we are going to participate in the Joomla! Automated Testing Code Sprint from the 28th of October until the 2nd of November 2015 in the city of Karlsruhe, Germany. The goals of this event are as follow: create all system tests for com_weblinks prepare an action plan to migrate all the current system Tests prepare unit tests for PH...

Today we've released CMC 2.0 (for those who don't known it - our Mailchimp to Joomla integration). This is a release that adds some cool features. Maybe the most interesting of all would be the new module templates. A lot of you wanted to show the newsletter form either on the right or the left side of your site. Some of you also wanted to have a p...

Since I started compojoom in 2008 there have been a lot of users who have asked me if we have an affiliate program. The answer always has been, no we don't. Lately the same question has started to pop-up nearly every week, so I decided that it was time to finally do that. I was postponing it long enough and at the end there was nothing wrong with happy customers promoting good Joomla extensions. So here it is! Say hello to partners.compojoom.com

By now you are most probably thinking - ah, not another affiliate program. Well, there is one important detail. Unlike most other affiliate programs where you get paid once for a sale, with us you'll get a commission every time a referred customer purchases any subscription from us for life! Yes, that's correct! Each time a referred customer purchases something from us you get a commission!

If you've recently updated to Joomla 3.4 you might have noticed this message:

A change to the default robots.txt files was made in Joomla! 3.3 to allow Google to access templates and media files by default to improve SEO. This change is not applied automatically on upgrades and users are recommended to review the changes in the robots.txt.dist file and implement these change in their own robots.txt file.

I've decided that it was time to improve some parts of our site. I had a look at the Redirect component in Joomla and unfortunately people are landing way too often on 404 not found page. And often there is no redirect that I can make. The resource no longer exist on our site and the user has to see a 404 page. Sadly for the past few years he was presented with this:

As you know this is the default Joomla 404 page - it gets the message across, but it is anything else than pretty and relaxing. So, today I decided that it was time to improve this! Since neither Yves or I are good designers I decided to find a good 404 template, change it a little and add it to our template. After some searching I found this: http://themeforest.net/item/wordsearch-responsive-404-error-pack/6531230 - the template could be used with 400 or 500 errors, so I decided that it was a good fit for compojoom.com.