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We are proud to announce the powerful EasyBlog made MORE POWERFUL is finally released!

Here are some of the awesomely new features:

Featured entries
- Cluster and showcase a preview of selected blog entries for a prominent display at the top of your page

Social networks autopost
-Have your blog updates shared in Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn - automagically!

Improved 3rd-party component integration
- Take advantage of EasyBlog 2.0's integration options with popular 3rd-party components

Media management simplified
- Manage your images or other media on your blog hassle-free with the new media manager

All-new look and feel
- Fresh new themes yet highly functional design that will keep your readers captivated

Compose now, edit later
- Proper built-in draft functionality allowing you to easily draft blog entries for future publishing

Better interactions with users
- Rating system that allows your members to rate blog entries easily

Multiple blogging environment
- Create multiple blogs on the site using the new menu architecture.

... and MUCH MORE!

All systems go and you just need to download, install and your blog is up and running. The only thing left is WHAT to blog about :))

GET IT NOW!

We just released a newer version of our Joomla! blog component EasyBlog now at version 1.8.154!

Some of the major inclusion is EasyBlog now supports Swedish language. You can now use EasyBlog in Swedish inga problem alls! :D

We also did some enhancements to work better in Joomla! 1.6 like login issues, event triggers, modules fixes, to name a few.

See the full list of fixes in our changelog HERE.

It is still a new year and we're starting it with an awesome new component for all of you Joomla! users. Let me present to you EASYDISCUSS!

EasyDiscuss is a social collaboration tool that works for Joomla! website especially in gathering user-generated content on a specific topic. The component provides a centralized community-driven area for ideas, information, resources, and feedback that are valuable in making important decisions, or creating results.

We feel honored to share with you the best practices in blogging especially after you have successfully having EasyBlog installed in your website. Blogging takes a certain commitment and it must not stop because everything else will fail and that includes your business.

Because blogging represents the organic side of your company, the subjects you blog about will spark interests amongst your customers that you are serious in the things you do for them.

However, you may, at times, suffer from writer's block and not knowing what to blog about. You are only human and all you need is some inspiration or guidelines rather to keep your blog alive.

Chris Brogan is not someone new in the blogging world. He has worked with large corporations in achieving best practices in online communications. He is the man when it comes to blogging as he carries 11 years of experience in online community, social media and related technologies in communications.

Check out some of his best advices about blogging at his blog HERE

Firstly, we'd like to wish you all Happy New Year 2011! It may be a little too late to wish but our heart says better late than never.

It's a brand new year and what better way to start it with fresh ideas and new approaches. We wouldn't want to call it resolution because it sounds stressful. A little bit of stress is OK but too much of it will restrict creative juices from flowing. So, yeah, in this blog post, we'd like to make a few announcements of what's coming your way, both for the company and our products.

Let me start with the StackIdeas team. Looking at the number of EasyBlog users going up month-by-month, we cant help but to grow as well. It's not easy dealing with growing number of paid subscribers with the small team we have so in the next month or so, we will be welcoming new mates in the team. They will be in charged of both development and designs so do expect more products coming in, with a little more better eye candy in them!

There will be a couple more new products we're aspiring to release this year. One of them will be a social topic sharing component and the other will also be a social-based component, potentially adding more value to your website

Our pioneer product, SectionEx will still be available for subscription. We will still maintain updates on it but it will not be as regular as EasyBlog. More time will be spent on developing new products. You know you want new stuff so we're focusing more on that. However, if you still haven't got SectionEx, check out what it does for your Joomla! site HERE.

As for our blogging component EasyBlog, it will have more features in store. Hold your horses now because we will be releasing the details soon, but not today. :)

This May 2011, EasyBlog will turn 1 and to celebrate it's first anniversary, we will be offering a special rate to all our paid users when they renew their subscription. It will be at a very awesome price but we're keeping it till a month before the anniversary to announce the actual price.

Wishing you all good in health and best of wealth this 2011!

You realized lately we've been releasing minor updates for EasyBlog. Yeah, this is also a minor but essential update before you embark on your year end holidays.

Only two fixes in this version and they are needed because while we are in the midst of getting the codes ready for Joomla! 1.6 compatibility, some codes slipped through our hands, in version 1.2.132.

To be exact, the error causes user profiles to be saved in an invalid Joomla! group ID when users save their profile in EasyBlog. After logout, the user cannot login again due to the wrong group ID.

We could not thank a particular customer enough for reporting this bug and we have already got it working smoothly back again.

However, there are 2 ways to solve this at your end - 1. Self or 2. Email support. Kindly refer to our FORUM for steps to fix it. Or, if this doesn't help, please email to support@stackideas.com so that we can assist you, soonest possible.

Head on to our Downloads page to get the fix, or click on the Download button below for instant access.

The latest build for EasyBlog is now released with version 1.2.130

It's the start of the holiday seasons and we'd like to give a final push to wrap up 2010 with a feature-packed EasyBlog release. Besides the usual code tweaks, we are also proud to mention some major new features in this version of EasyBlog.

Blogging does not necessarily need to be at your Joomla! website now because the new build enables you to blog remotely with the new XML-RPC support. To accomplish this, a new plugin is available to download and you can start blogging, remotely.

Instead of sharing your blog posts in Twitter and Google Buzz, EasyBlog is now built with the popular pinging tool, Ping-o-Matic. Every blog that you post will be automatically pinged to search engines across the globe. We are more than convinced that the more exposure your blog has, the more traffic it brings to your blog!

For team blogging, EasyBlog is enhanced with better support for teamblog avatar and increased security settings -- better privacy controls for site administrators.

Head on to our Downloads page to get the latest build of EasyBlog.

In just short 7 months, EasyBlog has received numerous positive reviews about how easy and fast it is to start a blog in Joomla!. Many developers and users found out that EasyBlog offered the right kind of features for both advanced bloggers and the novice ones. We're not blowing our own horn, we invite you to read our reviews in the Joomla! Extensions Directory.

This Thanksgiving, we would like to give thanks to all the wonderful words that came in. We'd like to thank all of you who showed support in the things we do, the Joomla! extensions we create.

To show our appreciation, we are giving away $20 discount when you subscribe to our EasyBlog 12-months technical support. Instead of paying the full $59, you only need to pay $39 for a year's worth of professional support and software updates.

Please use this coupon code to redeem the $20 discount: easythanks

The discount is valid for one week only, starting today till Wednesday, December 1st, 2010.

Get EasyBlog now for only $39 at our online store.
Use coupon code: easythanks

Here's wishing you Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at StackIdeas!

Halloween too soon? No way! We're sure you guys have starting wrecking your brains on what costume to get and where to shop for it. It's tough, we know, and to  make things easier, we thought of giving you an early Halloween treat!

EasyBlog for Joomla! has been loved by many since its release months ago and to spread the goodness, we are giving you a 40% discount for a limited time only.

We trick you not! It's really an out-of-this-world treat - a huge 40% off the $59 price for a copy of EasyBlog!

No way, José!.. What's the catch?!

Simple. If you haven't got a web hosting that runs on Linux, get it from Lunarpages now. Why Lunarpages? Because we love them and many of our customers recommended them of their excellent service. Their web hosting supports Joomla! CMS, MySQL databases and runs on the latest PHP 5 too - the perfect combo to run EasyBlog smoothly.

They are giving away $15-off of any of their hosting plans. Just head on to our promo page at Lunarpage and check out their range of packages.

Ok, I want it! Where do I start??

You will need to redeem a coupon from us AFTER purchasing a web hosting plan from Lunarpages.Once the purchase is confirmed, send us your username and order reference number from Lunarpages by emailing to andrew@stackideas.com. We will reply you with the coupon code for you to be entitled with the 40% discount for EasyBlog. Missing this final step could cost you $23.60 so don't forget to email us those details above.

Promo ends October 31st, 2010.

Go check out Lunarpages' hosting plans and claim your 40% discount for EasyBlog now!

The Joomla! Extensions Directory (JED) is conducting the long overdue housekeeping to the list of Joomla! extentions with a little exercise - call for nominations for the Editor's Pick in the JED. Anyone especially Joomla! users can nominate their favourite extensions and plugins by simply filling up a form.

The winners of the Editor's Pick will have to pass a list of criterias set by the people at JED. There are a total of 10 criterias to meet and we're hoping to score the  Perfect 10, of course, with the help of our customers and users.

As a very young company, we at StackIdeas.com could really use all the support we could get from our beloved customers. Our customers are our most valued assets and to surpass this, we would like to invite all of you to nominate our best-selling blog engine EasyBlog, and our popular SectionEx.

It's a no-brainer to nominate us. Just fill up the form HERE and make sure to enter these details in the fields provided:

Extension name: EasyBlog or SectionEx

Link to listing:
For Easy Blog, use this: http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/news-production/blog/12630

For SectionEx, use this: http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/news-display/articles-listing/4212?qh=YToxOntpOjA7czo5OiJzZWN0aW9uZXgiO30%3D

And dont forget to drop a line or two about why you think our extensions are cool :D

The chosen ones will be featured in the Editor's Pick for 6 months only worth of 'glamour'.

We want you to be hurry because this nomination lasts for 7 days only. Nominate us now HERE.

Thank you all in advance. We love you lots for this!