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Plugin - Crunchbase

• Name: jfoobar_crunchbase
• Type: System Plugin
• Compatible: Joomla! 1.5+
• Last update: 2009-01-09
• Copyright: jfoobar
• License: GPL 2.0

With this Joomla! 1.5+ plugin you can insert Crunchbase information using content markups. When you look at Techcrunch articles you see they use the methodology to insert informational snippets from techcrunch, with this plugin you can do exactly the same but then from within Joomla!

CrunchBase is the free database of technology companies, people, and investors that anyone can edit. TechCrunch, founded on June 11, 2005, is a weblog dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing new Internet products and companies. In addition to covering new companies, we profile existing companies that are making an impact (commercial and/or cultural) on the new web space.

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Tip - Why does some HTML get removed from articles in version 1.5.8?

In Joomla! 1.5.8, a default filtering choice is in place for those who have not selected an Article Filter option. The default applied for those who have not made a selection implements "black list" filtering as a security precaution against possible XSS.

Due to this change, you might notice problems trying to save a Youtube video, or embedding other Javascript or Flash objects into your Articles.

If the default filtering option is not suitable for your needs, you can change it by using the Article Global Configuration options.

Full info and examples

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Plugin - Author Biograph

• Name: jfoobar_author_bio
• Type: System Plugin
• Compatible: Joomla! 1.5+
• Last update: 2009-02-13
• Copyright: jfoobar
• License: GPL 2.0

With this Joomla! 1.5+ plugin you can create an content item (article) for registered users on your site and when a visitor clicks on the article detail (or read more) from a specific user, the user details page is rendered. This logic is used on the JFoobar site.

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Snippet - Load module in article

You can load a module position in a Joomla! 1.5 article with following tag:

{ loadposition user7 }

Change user7 to a different position name to load the published modules for that position.

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Plugin - JPress Alias

• Name: jpress_alias
• Type: Content Plugin
• Compatible: Joomla! 1.5+
• Last update: 2008-12-13
• Copyright: JPress Team
• License: GPL 2.0

This plugin can auto-correct double alias fields in an article or just throw a notice when a double alias has been found. When using double aliases the system won't know which article to pick, with this plugin you can prevent this from happening.

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Snippet - Strict valid You Tube movies in your articles

If you want to put movies in your articles on a site with a strict doctype you will run into problems with the embed tag that is used by the default code YouTube gives you for example. Embed is actually not XHTML strict valid and this is because embed has been deprecated from XHTML 1.0.

<object width="425" height="344">
<param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/M15hurmvnhI&hl=en&fs=1"></param>
<param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param>
<embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/M15hurmvnhI&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350">
</embed>
</object>

You can solve that by making a little change to the code:

<object width="425" height="344" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/M15hurmvnhI&hl=en&fs=1">
<param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" />
<param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" />
<param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/M15hurmvnhI&hl=en&fs=1" />
</object>

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