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Congratulations to the Joomla team for the release of the latest Joomla 2.5 just days ago. Many have anticipated for this release and as excited as you were, we had put in the hours to get all our Joomla components ready and compatible with Joomla 2.5.

The all-new EasyDiscuss 2.0.3689 was already compatible with Joomla 2.5 when it was release weeks ago. If you haven't find out what's new in EasyDiscuss, read more in our blog post http://stackideas.com/blog/entry/easydiscuss-20-released.html

EasyBlog version 3.0.7756 is also Joomla 2.5-ready, too, if you need to start a blog in Joomla.

Of course, our components still support native Joomla versions 1.5, 1.6 and 1.7 and expect to have them around till their respective end-of-life arrives.

Go ahead and get a copy of the latest Joomla 2.5 at http://www.joomla.org/download.html

Creating a blog post that’s rich and engaging to the audience isn’t always easy. This can take up some time and effort even for the seasoned blogger. If you want to focus on putting together a good piece and spend less time looking for materials relevant to your post, you may have found the right tool for it.

And, what if you have a virtual assistant who can add some zest into your blog content, in real time?

Read more after the jump.

Our commitment to provide the best support possible to our component users has always been in the forefront since StackIdeas started. The support team are willing to go the extra mile in solving any sort of customer inquiries, be it on software or system issues -- we do it in our best endeavor, even if it is beyond our working hours.

And because of this commitment, we are proud to have gained the trust from users, like you, of what we always promised -- top quality service. Here are just some of our happy users from the Joomla Extensions Directory.

We strive to carry forth the value we so strongly hold, and to do it requires a great amount of time and energy; the resources that are always limited to us.

Read more after the jump.

We made the move to OpenTranslators just last week and so far been receiving a surge of translators looking to contribute their linguistic expertise in our Joomla components. We couldn't be grateful enough to all of you for the faith and support!

You can also be part of this all by joining OpenTranslators, the good people who co-ordinates teams of translators for Joomla components.

To be a translator, just follow the steps after the jump ...

In the spirit of giving, we are proud to announce that we are sponsoring the upcoming Sydney JoomlaDay 2011 to be held this weekend (in a couple of days!). It gives us a sense of enjoyment to be able to contribute to the worldwide Joomla community particularly users in Australia.

It is also a good feeling to be able to give every participants of Sydney JoomlaDay a free copy of our Lean Mean Forum Machine for Joomla, EasyDiscuss. Yeah, participants will be given a little printed coupon to redeem their copy of EasyDiscuss. In the coupon also is a 50% discount for EasyBlog, our popular Joomla blog component, that you could use it to purchase.

Just the only treat you want this Halloween and what better way to celebrate it with us at StackIdeas! You are getting the best combo of Joomla blog component and Joomla themes with over 50% discount for 3 days only.

Celebrate Halloween with this package consists of EasyBlog Pro and ThemeXpert membership.

Get the popular blog component for Joomla EasyBlog at 31% off (Community, Professional or Unlimited)
Use coupon code : BLOG31

You also enjoy themes from our partner ThemeXpert for a 25% off on ALL Club memberships (Basic, Standard, Classic or Pro)
Use coupon code : XPERTBLOG

Promo ends at 2359hours, November 3rd, 2011 (GMT +8).

If you need any further details, please drop us a comment below.

I am very excited to be the first person to announce this and I guess the title of this blog itself already explains what the we've been busy with :) Yep, we've completed a new plugin that extends the basic functionality that JomSocial group offers. The plugin allows group members to contribute new blog posts for the group that they have joined and they will also be able to see them in the group pages itself.

If you had experienced an outage while accessing our website lately, it was because we were in the midst of moving to the new servers. We wanted to do this for the longest time but the recent workload got us all caught up with datelines.

And if you noticed, the site should load faster than usual now and we hope this migration effort is worthy of our investment.

Because this is a new server, there may be some technical issues that you may experience and when you're at it, please shout out to us on any weird stuff to support@stackideas.com immediately.

Meanwhile, feel free to download the beta version of the all-new EasyBlog 3.0 and let us know your thoughts. We shall be releasing the final version very very soon.

For smart users like you, we'd like to invite you to grab a copy of EasyBlog before the new price starts as soon as EasyBlog 3.0 is released.

Congratulations to John-Pierre and Friederik! They won the professional subscription copy of both EasyBlog and EasyDiscuss respectively at the recent Joomla! User Group Montreal meeting. If you are around there, you should also try to participate in their meetings! It's really cool!

I hope you are feeling excited as I am right now over the next upcoming major release of EasyBlog 3.0 . Yep, we initially planned to release it as 2.1 but considering the huge amount of new and improved features, a major update is more appropriate. So, instead, we'll be releasing it as EasyBlog 3.0 to help us and the users distinguish between the different version of the products easily.

The I Blog With Joomla campaign continues!

If you noticed from the previous series of featured partners in this campaign, all of them were meant to provide you with the tools for starting a blog in Joomla. From web hosting provider to plugins, we are committed to offer you the best recommendations so that blogging in Joomla will be as easy as it should be.

This time around, we are featuring an awesome Joomla templates developer who designs professional themes specifically for business and corporate websites -- FinishJoomla.

It's been a week since we posted some leaks on EasyBlog 2.1 and just thought that I should share more about the new features that we've added in it since we are getting near towards the beta release...

Refreshed blog management

The current back end has been revamped to ensure that you would get a clearer picture of all the rich features that comes with EasyBlog unlike the prior which looks a little congested. Oh yes, the refreshed back end works well with Mission Control from Rocket Themes now.

After the initial birth of EasyBlog 2.0, we haven't been really working on additional features as we are trying to assist users to build / migrate over from EasyBlog 1.8.x and quite frankly, it wasn't a walk in the park.

We had to help users migrate their themes and revert any modifications done on the older version. It was tough and it wasn't easy but it's the best way to do it.

Moving forward...

As our development grow, so is the size of our components. I don't know about you but downloading heavy files is a major put-off if, for some reason, your Internet connection decided to lag on you.

As a professional Joomla component development company, we do the best we can to make things easy for our customers. We make sure you cut on the caffeine so that downloading our components will be a breeze.

As Joomla users, we all love a little extra when we part with our money. That little extra could be in monetary terms or getting more value at a minimum price. Either one, we all adore promotions and special deals because it makes us happy and perhaps, motivated to carry on doing the things we passionate about.

In the world of Joomla, you will get special deals from specific Joomla developers here and there. I must admit, we at StackIdeas are one of them giving away special promotions when we feel like it, be it direct from us or with a partner. A partner of ours TechJoomla has recently came up with a brilliant way for Joomla users to be smarter shoppers.

I have to admit it. My online purchases are motivated by the level of trust I have on that particular website. The product may be cheaper than other websites are selling but on looking deeper and I don't see a 'Money Back Guarantee' and off I go to another Google search.

Why I love those 3 words is because it gives me a sense of security whenever I buy anything online. To be a smart consumer is no rocket science. Products or services made available for sale online originates from humans. And as humans, mistakes and imperfection prevails.

I may end up getting a lemon instead of that cool shiny bag for my iPad 2!! What I am trying to say here is we all love some sort of protection whenever our money is parted away from us, an assurance that our money is worth its while..

Here in StackIdeas, we could never thank enough to our customers for trusting us. To keep that trust, and perhaps affirm it, we are now putting peace of mind in your purchase - a 30-Day money back guarantee.

Whether you buy our Joomla blogging component EasyBlog or SectionEx, we honor you with the 30-day policy, as enshrined in our Refund Policy page. If there is some way that our component is not up to your requirement within this 30 days, you are entitled of your money back, no questions asked.

Of course, it is our greatest endeavor to assist you in any aspect of our products to make them work for you. We thrive when we have happy customers who buy from us.

And if all else fails, we are happy to return your money. :)

We would like to invite all existing EasyBlog users to help spread the love for us at JoomlaBlogger (A professional blogger that blogs mostly about Joomla! related news ). JoomlaBlogger offers quick looks which is a preview of the component to their users.

If the component is rated well enough, they will then provide a full review of EasyBlog. It will be an un-biased review I believe as we do not actually pay them to have a full review. Therefore, we would like to invite our existing or new users to help us spread the love by voting us at the following URL :)

We are proud to be part of ChillCreation's ongoing $25% discount on their extensions, plus a giveaway bonus that includes our very own EasyBlog and EasyDiscuss components.

It's their way of thanking their customers for the support all these while and we couldn't agree more that the success of an organization comes from supportive users.

You will need to purchase Joomla extensions from ChillCreations in order to redeem our EasyBlog Community (6-months subscription) and EasyDiscuss Community (12-months subscription).

See their promotional feature at http://www.chillcreations.com/blog/10-company/286-25-discount-free-bonuses-worth-more-than-215.html

Offer lasts for 1-week only so better hurry!