Joomla Blogs, News and Extension Updates

We have been working really hard for the past quarter juggling between EasyArticles and EasySocial 2.1. As promised from my comments earlier, I took some time off to prepare this blog post and share with you the progress update for EasySocial 2.1. This is just the first part as 2.1 will be a feature beast :)

We are super excited to inform you that the long wait is finally over, presenting you the very first alpha release of EasyArticles.

​After months of toiling and multitasking along with EasySocial 2.1, the team managed to put together our very first version of EasyArticles. Since the initial introduction of EasyArticles, we have been receiving positive feedback and inquiries, which were very encouraging for the team and we greatly appreciate it.

The idea behind EasyArticles is to simplify your day to day operations when dealing with articles on Joomla. Hit the brakes to read more about the highlights & functionalities of EasyArticles, the next generation article management for Joomla.

​Wishing all our American friends, a very Happy Fourth of July!

​We have recently updated our EasySocial Application Directory Page. Don't you think our designers did an amazing job so far? The old EasySocial applications directory looked old school, disorganized, overly cluttered and aesthetically unappealing. More importantly, the page needed a new makeover, pronto!

It has always been our priority in ensuring that all our products are safe from any exploits. Today, while the team are in the midst of working on EasyArticles and EasySocial 2.1, a security analyst provided us with some insights on the way EXIF information was being processed in EasySocial which may lead to an unwanted xss attack. 

We have been trying to refine the process of authoring in Joomla from a day to day basis and one of the most painful process is editing articles on the front end with proper workflows. Although the ACL in Joomla is pretty robust, it's still isn't suitable for a day to day authoring and publishing process. 

EasyArticles approach is to introduce article management and minimalist user interface right on the front end. It will be suitable for blogs, news, or any other content generation that requires a more robust workflow, beautiful composing interface and awesome features. We have combined a decade worth of experience from when we were working with EasyBlog and we were trying to revolutionize the way articles are created.

We spent the week addressing minor teething issues and including several new functionality across all of our extensions. I would also like to take this opportunity to stress out that if you are still on Joomla 3.7.0, please update immediately! I have been troubleshooting several sites and noticed that some of these sites are still running on Joomla 3.7.0. 

In case you missed out on the announcement that was posted yesterday, the release of Joomla 3.7.1 addresses a critical security vulnerability and several other bug fixes.

Joomla! has just announced the immediate availability of Joomla 3.7.1 which is a critical update for 3.7.x. We would like to strongly encourage and advise anyone that has previously upgraded to 3.7.0 to update to 3.7.1 immediately to avoid any complications that you may encounter.