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After months of endless commits and crazy pushes in our repository, we would like to announce that the beast is now available for beta tests! Yes, that's right! The all-new EasyBlog 3.5 beta, marks our 4th generation of EasyBlog and it is released officially!

Just some heads up for you that in this release we have made over 6000 crazy commits and introduced over 300 new exciting features and improvements.

Just weeks ago, we announced about a new Joomla themplate that supports EasyBlog and had enjoyed positive responses from our users. Once again, EasyBlog has a new partner! We are proud to announce Mainstream, a brand new theme by ThemeXpert.com also integrates smoothly with EasyBlog!

Mainstream is a great template for news sites where contents can be highly configured to appear in a streamlined manner. This template release also marks the all-new version of their template framework Expose 3, which is the main powerpack for all your template layout needs when you use any of ThemeXperts products in the future.

If you intend to start a news portal using Joomla, this EasyBlog-Mainstream combo has got great tools for you to kick things off, fast and smooth!

More reasons to start NOW as you can get EasyBlog and Mainstream
at 15% off each, for a limited time.

Get them by clicking on these buttons and use the coupon codes:

Offer lasts till Saturday, March 17th, 2012 at 2359 hours GMT+0.

Happy blogging! ;)

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

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 ...

It's been almost a week since we published some of the coolest features in EasyBlog 3.0. You can refer to the posts, Advanced Blogging in EasyBlog 2.1 and More on EasyBlog 2.1 if you missed them. This time around, the post is about the beta release which is now available in the forums.

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.

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.

We're proud to launch our campaign I BLOG WITH JOOMLA! today.

When it comes to starting a blog, there are many options available, both free and paid ones. We'd like to tell the world that the Joomla content management system (CMS) is a powerful system that also functions like a blog.

Powering government and business websites, the Joomla! CMS is slowly carving it's name as the preferred system for all things web and we have an article to prove it.

As the name suggests, EasyBlog is a powerful Web 2.0 platform blogging engine for your Joomla! site. To elaborate it further, this component makes blogging and sharing EASY across the mainstream social medias like Facebook and Twitter. More details on EasyBlog are HERE.

We're inviting you to try EasyBlog Alpha version. All you need to do is to login to our forums and download the component

In today's world of design, less is more. And we'd like to think that simplicity is the key to effective communication, hence, this new blogging component for Joomla will surely get that message across.

Every blog post will include an avatar of the blogger and if vanity you're looking for, this is the right blogging engine for you. This awesome component works seamlessly with other avatar systems too so you dont have to create another avatar for this.

If you are a blogger, and Joomla! is your cup of tea but in terms of choice for a blogging engine, you dont have much to play with. Here's an extension for your already-powerful Joomla! website, a peek at the part where you put your thoughts to words.

We kid you not, it's a powerful blog editor to use!

Friendly and interactive, we love WYSIWYG because it makes life easier to bear when you need to quickly cook up a story for your viewers to see.

Stay tuned for more spyshots of the new blogging component for Joomla!