News, Announcements, Updates

We are updating MintJoomla to Joomla 3.

We will have now subscription options for Emerald, which will provide cheaper price. And we will offer 35% discount coupon MINT-R3DY on all plans from 1 year long. This will allow you to purchase 1 year subscription for Emerald or Cobalt paying 6 month subscription price.

This offer will work only till 20 March. So we want to inform you before, so that you have enough time to plan your budget.

We plan to update our site by the end of

New version of Cobalt - Joomla 3 CCK extension 8.473 is here.

• fix - email field - Link to article not full and not SEF.
• fix - multilevel select load values
• fix - RSS feed ordering
• fix - related articles select in popup where name contains ‘
• fix - gallery create thumbs and download

Affected files

• Cobalt [com_cobalt.j3.v.8.473.zip]
• Field [field_cobalt.j3.datetime.v.8.67.zip]
• Field [field_cobalt.j3.email.v.8.54.zip]
• Field

We are happy to announce new version of Emerald - 9.156 with cool new features.

Acymailing Integration

AcyMailing is a great newsletter/mass mail extension. Now we have an action that will subscribe user to indicated newsletter list after successful Emerald plan purchase.

It can serve as additional plan features, or you may simply use emerald to sell newsletters.

K2 Integration

First we have K2 action. This action will move user

New version of Cobalt CCK 8.470 is here.

This version includes some cool new additions and enhancements.

• add - geo field added text search for address enter.
• add - restrict comments per article for Cobalt as comment adapter
• add - new category index template called select in advanced template package. May works like quick navigation.
• add - menu element parameter for import to limit by type
• enhance - cobalt - if during article submission field with error in tab or slider it is

New version of Emerald 9.144 is here with lots of cool updates.

Akeeba Subscription Pro - Migration

Now we have one click migration plugin. Akeeba Sub has dropped it's support. SO you may plan to migrate to other cool membership extension. And that might be Emerald.

Invoicing

We added invoicing support. As a result 2 new section for Country States and Taxes managers. To enable invoicing simple turn it on in global Emerald configuration. And users will be recurred to enter

Meet new version of oldest and most advanced Joomla CCK component. Cobalt v. 8.464.

In this release field geo (Address and map) has received some new features. Long discussed and desired, address text search in distance search filter.

1. Ajax search with suggestions from Google places service.
2. restrict search by country.
3. When you switch country select or initially it is zoomed and panned to fit current

Online education is one of the most popular trends nowadays. And to have good platform to create your online training site is very important. In this article i'll highlight important possibilities you will have with Cobalt.

Great Platform

Cobalt is Joomla extension. Should you use Joomla for your training site? We all know what is Joomla good about.

1. JED - Thousands of additional extension that will allow you very quickly extend your site with additional features.

New version of Cobalt CCK - 8.461

Although learning curve for Cobalt may be little bit challenging, it is totally worth the efforts. And in fact when you grasp an idea of Cobalt it is very easy and quick to learn all its features and possibilities.

Hmm, may be I was too optimistic by saying "learn ALL possibilities". Cobalt is so advanced that even me, Cobalt developer do not know all possibilities. Sometimes someone asks, "Can I do this and this with Cobalt" and boom! Why not. I did

New version 9.137 of Emerald - amassing joomla membership extension is here.

Easysocial Integration

This version contains integration with Easysocial. It is registration field. This field allows user to select subscription plan during registration and after success registration be redirected to payment page.

It will perfectly work even if user activation is set to confirm email. It means that newly created, unconfirmed user may purchase and

Here is new version of amazing Joomla membership extension - Emerald 9.135.

This release we added Kunena(com_kunena) forum rule adapter. This adapter makes it easier to assign rules and allows better restriction control. You may select categories to protect topics view access or topics submission or replay.

This is perfect if

New version of Emerald 9.128 - great Joomla 3 series membership/subscription extensions is here with 2 amazing new features.

I'll remind that Emerald is the oldest membership extension for Joomla with tons of features and dozen thousands of satisfied users. Fully fronted managed. With unique algorithm to restrict any page or action of any extension without need of additional integration.

Hikashop Integration

Now you can sell Emerald plans as products or with products of Hikashop

New version 8.455 of Cobalt - Joomla CCK is here.

• fix - lightbox2.
• fix - some fixes and improvements for easysocial integration.
• enhanced - cobalt tool "user replacer".
• add - to all fields with upload parameter to sort field by ID
• fix - Notification center does not delete or mark read.
• fix - toolset fatal error on user replacer tool.
• fix - cobalt - checkin in backend
• add - cackle comment adapter use new widget interface. Now with callbacks on comment add, which add

New version of Emerald 9.124 is here with Smartresponder integration.

Smartresponder is an email newsletter service. Basically Russia with English language support and tones of features.

Now with new Smartresponder action for everald, you can automatically add users to Newsletter, Channel or user group after success purchase. It is like paid subscription to receive series or periodic newsletters.

В этой версии выпущено действие

Welcome Cobalt 8.451. Cobalt is great Joomla CCK. You can create anything with it and now it is integrated with EasySocial!

EasySocial Integration

It works with EasySocial version 1.1 and above.

This is very deep integration. Here is what you get.

• User name as link to EasySocial profile in Cobalt section.
• User name with send PM link in Cobalt section.

Welcome new version of amazing Joomla 3 series membership extension Emerald 9.119 now with Skrill (moneybiookers) payment gateway.

Emerald has gone a very long way to get where it is. It took almost decade to finally get this innovative, simple and flexible paid access extension. Its unique years proof protection algorithm may protect any Joomla extension without need of integration.

• fix - emerald - sorting plan groups.
• add - emerald - skrill (moneybookers) payment gateway.

New version of Cobalt 8.449 CCK is here.

• add - unique value parameter for text field.
• add - filter module parameter to switch between filter template for module or for section.
• fix - router full category path article edit page category detection.
• fix - api - call in backend.
• fix - bookmark fail from article full view.

Affected Files

• Cobalt [com_cobalt.j3.v.8.449.zip]
• Field [field_cobalt.j3.text.v.8.39.zip]
• JomSocial

New Cobalt 8.430 - Joomla CCK is here.

It looks like new update system is fully ready. Now we are absolutely sure that every one have up to date DB structure.

• fix - instaltion DB updater.
• fix - user commented articles.
• add - module submit button tooltipp for registration or login.
• fix - cobalt - emerald plans selection in type and fields.
• fix - cobalt - gallery fix styles, comments, off switsh on scroll if comments is on.
• fix - reset filters if filters and menu set not

Emerald v 9.116 exclusive Joomla 3 series extension is here.

This version of Emerald was heavily refuctored. To avoid collisions with table, modules or view classes of other extensions all of them was renamed with prefix em. That does not sound like something important but for technical people it is good to know.

For non technical it simply means that Emerald less probably fail to work because of other extension installed.

• add - SQL action connect to external DB.
• add - install

New version of Cobalt 8.425 is here. Cobalt is a great Joomla form generator or CCK.

This version has very important update. We have dropped the way installation handles DB consistency. Joomla offer attach SQL patch to be applied on every update. But we discovered that in our case this is not very reliable process. And we can obviously wee it during update from Cobalt 7 to 8.It always produce errors because during supporting Cobalt 7 and 8 simultaneously, some change goes to both versions

Cobalt 8.360 - amazing Joomla CCK is here and 3.2 ready.

In this update some cool improvements and additions.

• fix - module category show records when no more categories test change
• Improve - users do not get notification from the record if they have no access to full view.
• Improve - do not autosubscribe user to article if he do not have access to full view.
• Improve - do not show follow or bookmark buttons in list artiles view if user have no access to full view.
• add all