If you have a K2store and your site is in multiple languages, you might have found that there was no way to translate your product attributes and their options.

Now there is........

Read more: Translate K2store Product Attributes with Joomfish

I have been working recently with the K2 component/plugin K2store.

As a simple shopping cart it works great, but I had a nightmare trying to get hold of any translation files.

The forum is full of people asking questions about how to translate different parts of the store into lots of different languages, but no one has uploaded any of their finished files. I posted a few weeks ago about setting up a downloads section which was promiced to be added to the downloads section but as yet hasn't happened. I imagine they are working on a 1.7 version as K2 was recently released for 1.6/1.7.

Unfortunatly forum posts aren't live until approved by a moderator so it can be weeks before you get any reply.

Anyway, I got the language file translated into French and thought I would post it here for anybody who needs it. There may be some parts missing as my store was quite heavily modified, but for most installs it should be fine.

Download: French Translation for K2store

Inspired by Robert Vining over at www.joomstew.com and the fact that I am building most of my new sites using Joomla 1.7, I decided it was time to finally migrate this site to the latest Joomla version.

I think the actual decision maker was when I was adding about 50 flickr gallery modules to a site using 1.7 and found the new 'save as copy' feature saved me about 50% of the time it would normally take to save and create new modules for each page.

So, how did it all go?

Read more: How I Upgraded to Joomla 1.7

If you have the beta test version of firefox then it can be quite annoying when you upgrade to find that most of your addons don't work anymore.

I used to scour the internet for working versions that people had managed to pull from google trunk, but last night I discovered a must have extention which makes all addons work (I never said compatible!) with the latest version of firefox.

The reason addons stop working is the configuration file of the addon stating which version it is compatible upto. So how do they know if it is compatible with the latest version if it stops working as soon as the new version is released? The community of course! but how do they find out if it works?......

Read more: Pagespeed Addon for Firefox 7 (and enable all your incompatible addons!)

Another red warning light when running google page speed or yslow that is quite easy to sort out if you are running your own server.

Fist you need to know how to login through SSH as root user which you can do by reading this post.

And you need an editor installed to be able to edit the right file to enable the apache keepalive feature, which you can read about in this post.

(all links open in a new window so don't be afraid!).

So here we go....

Read more: Enable KeepAlive on Godaddy VPS

Last night I had my first play with the new Adobe Edge prieview (available free to download and works for just over 100 days). It creates flash style objects using only html, css and javascript.

Having never really used flash before I was unfamilliar with the layout of the program (it's a kind of cut down flash ui) but with the help of youtube I managed to knock something out in about an hour, including the time taken to prepare some images to use.

Read more: Playing with Adobe Edge and getting the Output into a Joomla site

I just made a quick module based on the K2 Quickicons admin module to add the quickicons from the K2store component to the Joomla dashboard.

After just building a site for a client with K2store, I thought the only reason they would want to go to the back-end of the site regularly (It is an online rental site and the products don't change) would be to check on the orders if they ever lost any of the emails.

For that reason, I just adapted the K2 admin module to show the K2store icons and repackaged it.

You can download the module here

Read more: K2 Store Quickicons Admin Module Released

I've just uploaded a joomla 1.5 module to display a share to diaspora button.

The module automatically takes the url of the page, the page title and the introtext and sends it to the users diaspora stream and shares it with their frineds.

I added a parameter to limit the number of chars sent, as I only use the readmore on blog posts and rarely add them to standard articles so posting a full article to your stream could be a bit too much.

Plugin and 1.7 version is on the way soon...

Demo here

Download here

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Joomla 1.6/1.7 module is ready

Demo here

Download here

Well, the google +1 works fine, the tweet this button is cool, but really.....FHTML is rubbish. Basically facebook never picks up the current url through fhtml, unless I'm even more stupid than I think I am. Here's how to get facebook to take the right url for each page.

Read more: The Facebook Like Button Never Picks Up The Right Url

I only realised a few days ago as I looked into someone elses site that the standard url on an xmap sitemap for the homepage is /home

Both this and the standard / urls exist and it can lead to problems when getting indexed.

Here's how to sort it out...

Read more: How to stop xmap showing your homepage as /home