For those located in the far south of the planet, the Joomtraders team will be heading to the Adelaide Joomla! User Group Wednesday night (24th of February) to discuss all things Joomla! We would love to meet our users face to face, and find out what you have to say about our products and services.

For those of you out there wondering what a Joomla! User Group (aka JUG) is, it is basically a friendly and open Joomla! social gathering. JUGs are a great way to meet other Joomla! users to learn more about Joomla!, share your own knowledge and have fun contributing to the Joomla Project in various ways.

If you are keen to find out more about Joomla! User Groups or if you are keen to come along, please email me This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Ever been midway through writing an article and had the revelation “this sentence would make a fantastic status update?” There are few things more frustrating than being too short on time to navigate and login to yet another website to get your information out to your clients.

That is where allInstantFacebook shines! By simply highlighting the important text in your article (up to 120 characters) and the press of a single button in your WYSIWYG, your thoughts, ideas and important updates are instantly transmitted and posted directly to Facebook.

allInstantFacebook is stand-alone extension, but works well in conjunction with our Facebook extension called allArticleAnnounce; an automated article to Twitter and Facebook extension. This extension and many more can be found in our extension section of our website.

We've gone Plurk mad with the release of our second Plurk extension in a week! For those of you unaware of Plurk, it is a snazzy social networking site with traits similar to Twitter and Facebook. It allows users to showcase the events that make up their lives, and also follow the events of the friends and family through their "plurks", displayed on an easy to view  timeline.

To compliment our extension allArticlePlurk, which automtically post the a link, title and the first 80 characters of newly published articles to Plurk, we have created and released allInstantPlurk. It has been designed for people who have been caught out midway through writing an article by having the revelation “this sentence would make a fantastic plurk?” There are few things more frustrating than being too short on time to navigate and login to yet another website to get your information out to your clients.

After the success of our initial social networking extension, allArticleAnnounce, Joomtraders has had several requests to construct a similar extension for the popular, but relatively new, social network called Plurk (http://www.plurk.com).

allArticlePlurk has been designed as a link to Plurk from Joomla!, eliminating the need to manually publish an article to both websites. Using allArticlePlurk, a user can let their Plurk friends and followers know of the existence of a new article as soon as it is published.

Ever been midway through writing an article and had the revelation “this sentence would make a fantastic tweet?” There are few things more frustrating than being too short on time to navigate and login to yet another website to get your information out to your clients.

That is where allInstantTweet shines! By simply highlighting the important text in your article (up to 120 characters) and the press of a single button in your WYSIWYG, your thoughts, ideas and important updates are instantly transmitted and posted directly to Twitter with no fuss.

allInstantTweet is stand-alone extension, but works well in conjunction with allArticleAnnounce; an automated article to Twitter and Facebook extension. This extension and many more can be found in our extension section of our website.

We are nearly at the end of our extended discount period for our subscriptions. Over this time we have seen many people take advantage of the low prices to get extensions for a seriously discounted price. We have also released a further four extensions during this time which has brought our tally up to seven publically available. We are pleased to be able to let you know that more are coming in the near future.

Since our extensions have been listed on the Joomla! extension directory, we have received a lot of extra attention and feedback. The feedback has been greatly useful in refining and improving the extensions and we invite you to give us more.