News July 30th 2022

xbBooks xbFilms and xbPeople all updated to v0.9.9.5 J3
 

Getting close to Version 1.0 😅 but not quite there yet. Since J3 is no longer being developed the plan is to develop to v1.0 against Joomla 3.10.10 and then to fork Joomla into "Roomla" (Roger's Joomla) and start to make my own improvements to the core. This means that gradually my components will likely become incompatible with Joomla 3.10.x and will require Roomla/Joomla 3.11+

xbRefMan Component provides back-end management and front-end views for xbRefs references. NB this component is packaged with the xbRefs Plugins . 
 
xbRefMan Package (includes plugins) v1.0.0
10th May 2022  J3

xbRefs Plugins Package contains two plugins - xbRefs - Content and xbRefs - Button - which form a replacement (with many improvements) for the previous xbFootnoteTag package. 
 
xbRefs - Button is and editors-xtd plugin which adds a button (on the admin site only) to TinyMCE or JCE editors to insert a shortcode {​xbref...}  for a reference footnote or popover.
Of course you can also insert the shortcode manually, but the button enables you to easily select a tag to use for the citation, enter text, choose whether to generate a popover or footnote, whether to trigger the popover on hover or focus, set the footnote number, and also will highlight the shortcode in the editor to make it clearly visible.
 
xbRefs - Content is a plugin that processes article text before display and replaces any  {​xbref...}  shortcodes with the appropriate content - inserting popovers and footnotes as required.
 
 
xbRefs Pulgins Package v2.1.1
24th April 2022  J3

xbMaps Content Plugin is a Joomla plugin which replaces a shortcode in an article with an embedded map or track. Currently the shortcode has to be entered manually, but a companion button (editors-xtd) plugin will be available dreckly.
 
xbMaps Content Plugin v0.1.0
26th December 2021  J3

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xbMaps is a Joomla component for displaying maps using OpenStreetMaps (OSM) tiles. Version 0.9.0 is the initial release. Help links to documentation pages here are not complete.

map viewI have long wanted a non-googleMaps component to display gpx track in Joomla so that I could move my cycling blog from Wordpress to Joomla. Phoca Maps is the best available, but it wasn't able to display gpx tracks on OSM maps. I started by modifying Phoca Maps to display tracks with OSM, and rapidly found myself wanting to rewrite more of it. Jan at Phoca will be working on an update to Phoca Maps that may include more of the features from xbMaps and will be J4 compatible. 

The primary intended user is someone needing to display OSM maps on a Joomla 3 site (I will not be developing for J4 for at least 5 years so don't even ask).

It is intended to develop a plugin to allow maps (with tracks and markers) specified in xbMaps to be embedded in a conventional Joomla article. The component provides map (and track) views for the front end with associated descriptive text. Joomla categories and tags may be used.

xbMaps v0.9.0
8th November 2021  J3

xbbooks bookThe xbCulture is a family of closely related Joomla Component Extensions which are designed to keep a record or catalogue of artistic/creative/cultural works,

The primary intended users are individuals, like myself, who wish to keep a record of books, films, plays, gigs, exhibitions and similar events that they have experienced.

There are initially three core components and a common supporting component in the family, although there are ideas for extending it into further areas;

  • xbBooks - as the name implies is for a catalogue of books of all sorts.
  • xbFilms - not surprisingly is for movies, although it can also handle series, tv shows and box-sets
  • xbGigs - is for live music performance, and spoken word and comedy - IN DEVELOPMENT
  • xbPeople - a support component bundled in the packages for the above, provides tools for managing a common database of people and characters as well common styles, language and code across the components.

A set Modules to display short information about the datasets is in development. These include:

Coming dreckly

  • Search titles/names across xbCulture items
  • Top/bottom rated
  • Popular People
  • Common Characters

 

  1. xbFilms - film catalogue
  2. xbBooks - book catalogue
  3. Footnote Tag Package
  4. Truncate String Plugin
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