Thanks to AlterBrains' p8pBB bridge, the #1 free, open source bulletin board software is integrated with AutoTweet PRO and Joocial on Joomla CMS!

phpBB Forum is now integrated with AutoTweet and Joocial!

phpBB is a free flat-forum bulletin board software solution that can be used to stay in touch with a group of people or can power your entire website. On Joomla! CMS, AlterBrains' p8pBB bridge is a complete bi-directional integration of phpBB forum. Forum is displayed inside Joomla! template as usual component. And now, AutoTweet PRO and Joocial are integrated to automate and publish phpBB Topics and Posts to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and more.

Simply, AutoTweet PRO or Joocial publish from phpBB to social networks.

The new "AutotweetP8pbb bridge for phpBB forum" plugin is already available in the latest AutoTweetNG PRO and Joocial 7.9.5 or 8.0.6 Beta.

Our customers can get a discount coupon for AlterBrains' p8pBB bridge (please, contact us to receive the coupon).

Joocial Composer App Editor

Mobile Apps for Joomla! are coming. At this time, we are glad to introduce Joocial Composer App.

Breaking new grounds, Joocial Composer App is a mobile app to manage your social content management from your Joomla! CMS site.

In a nutshell, Joocial Composer App has the core features to create and publish posts from Joomla!

  • Control Panel - Stats: A control panel, to show general operation stats
  • Composer Editor: An advanced form to enter or edit social posts, with custom control types.
  • Requests list: A list of posts: to navigate and manage social posts

From a technical point of view, it is powered by JoomGap. JoomGap is a solution to integrate hybrid mobile apps and Joomla! on an OAuth secured communication.

We have just released:

Both technologies work together to connect and manage social content in Joomla!.

In September-October 2015, we plan to complete all features, release the app for Apple Store and release the final AutoTweet / Joocial next major version.

To test the current release, you only have to download AutoTweetNG PRO or Joocial 8.0.6 BETA 2 and install Joocial Composer App 1.0.1. Please, check these steps to enable OAuth integration to your site: Joocial Composer App - How to enable the mobile App access

To the moon!

Facebook API 24 UpdateFor us, there's nothing quite like having a perfect Summer vacation with friends and family. On Facebook world, Summer also means the best time to release a new API!

On July 8, 2015, Facebook released API Version 2.4.

It comes with API several tweaks. Most notably in our our area of interest:

  • Operations that reference the admin_creator object of a Post in now requires a Page access token.
  • The maximum limit for Page related objects is now set to limit=100
  • Declarative Fields, to try to improve performance on mobile networks
  • user_groups permission has been deprecated. We may continue to use the user_managed_groups permission (only managed groups can be accessed).

As usual, we have released maintenance releases to keep compatibility with the new Facebook API v2.4. This new API only applies to new Facebook Apps. Please, remember to update to the the latest version:

AutoTweet and Joocial 8 Beta 1 are hereAutoTweet and Joocial 8 Beta 1 are here!

At this time, we have released AutoTweet and Joocial 8 Beta 1. They are the first step to renew from the ground up our line of extensions. These are the guidelines we are following to design and implement the next major versions:

  • AutoTweet 8, Joocial 8 and XTDir for SobiPro 6 will have mobility support to provide the best user experience
  • All extensions will have integrated Android and iOS apps
  • Our mobile apps are developed with JoomGap, a free and open source framework based on PhoneGap, Ionic and AngularJS for Joomla

Finally, Joomla 2.5 is not longer supported by Joomla community (EOF December 31, 2014) and JED has removed J25 extensions on June 30, 2015. All upcoming major versions are focused and optimized for Joomla 3. AutoTweetNG 7.9.2, Joocial 7.9.2 and XTDir for SobiPro 5.6.2 are the LAST versions compatible with Joomla 2.5. Be ready for Joomla 3 - migrate as soon as possible.

To the moon!

Following the release of AutoTweetNG and Joocial 7.9, we are working with social content management on mobile devices and responsive technologies. On the same trend, EasyBlog 5 Beta 2 Comes With Mobile View:

We are living in times where everything is at the tip of our finger. Mobility is the key to ensure that software are able to provide the best experience to our users.

Even though EasyBlog 5 is still in Beta 2, we are already testing concepts and integrating the new user interface for social management and content auto-posting. In these screenshots, we show how a Quick Post from EasyBlog can be edited in AutoTweet Joocial Composer before publshing to social networks.

Social content management on EasyBlog 5 Beta Mobile View

To the moon!

60 social plugins for Joomla The biggest social hub ever

We have just released AutoTweetNG and Joocial 7.9. In this version, AutoTweetNG and Joocial have peaked to include 60 social plugins, more integrated Joomla extensions than ever, to reach this outstanding achievement:

  • 57 Social Plug-ins for Joomla extensions, including K2, Zoo, JomSocial, Fabrik, RSForm!, Cobalt CCK, among others.
  • Social Profile Links for Google plug-in
  • Facebook OpenGraph Tags plug-in
  • TwitterCard Tags plug-in

In addition, besides the usual set of new features, enhancements and bugs fixes, Joocial 7.9 includes the new Paywall mode to support this paid content distribution model. For more information, Joocial - Social Management on Paywall systems

A mobile app from your Joomla! website

Finally, AutoTweetNG and Joocial 7.9 are the LAST versions compatible for Joomla 2.5, be ready for Joomla 3 - migrate as soon as possible. Upcoming AutoTweet and Joocial 8 will be optimized for Joomla 3 only AND include the first Composer App. Composer App is going to be a hybrid mobile app to empower your social management, tighly integrated with Joomla via JoomGap (framework based on PhoneGap, Ionic and AngularJS for Android, iOS and Windows Phone 8)

Post Management - Repeat Until date field

According to Joomla timeline, Joomla 2.5 hit its end-of-life (EOL) on December 31, 2014. Starting in June the JED Joomla! Extensions Directory will begin phasing out 2.5 extensions.

The 2.5 Timeline

  • June 1, 2015: JED will no longer accept Joomla 2.5 only extensions.
  • June 30, 2015: The 2.5 compatibility icon will be disabled and any 2.5 only listings will be removed.

Today, we are releasing AutoTweet and Joocial 7.8.2 Beta. These packages include the last new features for Joomla 2.5, leading to the final release of 7.9.

AutoTweet and Joocial 7.8.2 Beta include the following new features:

  • Joocial Post Management - Repeat Until date field
  • Joocial Post Management - Post description field
  • Feeds RSS Script removal
  • Feeds Get Image from Page
  • Multilingual - Define language tag by content

To check the full changelog, please, click here.

Upcoming AutoTweet and Joocial 8 are going to support Joomla 3 or superior.

 

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