Ninja Content 1.6 Beta #488 is now available for members on the beta channel.

No builds from the beta channel are recommended for production sites. Please don't install this on live websites, as it still needs lots of testing.

Don't install this unless you know what you are doing. It may break your website and your sanity.

Ninja Content 1.6 Beta is installable and works on both Joomla 1.5 and Joomla 2.5. However, extensive testing has not been done and it is very likely that there are numerous bugs hiding just beneath the surface. Also note that NinjaContent 1.6 beta will only work with the beta version of Ninjaboard available here

Please report issues on the forum

Revision 491: Keeping things in date with the napi beta

We were recently alerted to the existence of a security vulnerability in NinjaXplorer. The vulnerability affects all versions of NinjaXplorer up to and including 1.0.6.

We've released a new version, 1.0.7, that patches the hole.

If you use NinjaXplorer, upgrade to the new version immediately. Do not wait, do not pass go, upgrade immediately.

Thanks to CloudAccess for reporting the vulnerability.

Ninjaboard 2.0 Beta #2252 is now available on the beta channel.

No builds from the beta channel are recommended for production sites. Please don't install this on live websites, as it is still very unstable.

Don't install this unless you know what you are doing. It may break your website and your sanity.

Ninjaboard 2.0 Beta is installable and works on both Joomla 1.5 and Joomla 2.5. However, extensive testing has not been done and it is very likely that there are numerous bugs hiding just beneath the surface. Also note that Ninjaboard 2.0 Beta does not currently work with Ninja Content, so don't install those two extensions on the same website. A new release of Ninja Content that fixes this is forthcoming. will only working with the Ninja Content 1.6 Beta available here

Other than 2.5 support, this release introduces (finally!) a 'sticky' feature as well as other minor fixes (for avatars, etc). Please report issues on the forum, or on github if you have fixes to contribute.

Special thanks to Stian, Richie, John, and Matt for contributing to this release.

Rev #2253 Minor:

• Updating language strings
• moving com_ninja language strings out into its own language file
• removed + image from the backend placeholder buttons

Rev #2254 Minor:

• Fixes errors in firefox on sortable change

Rev #2255 Minor:

• Fix the hanging on 'finding additional packages' once and for all

Rev #2257 Minor:

• Fixes 500 error on settings page when upgrading from Ninjaboard 1.x
• Fixes sticky functionality not working correctly

Rev #2258 Minor:

• Updating Search Plugin and adding it to the package
• Fixes users not being able to edit there own posts
• Fixes users being able to see and edit screen even though they dont have permission to edit the post
• Fixes update from dashboard not showing the revision number

The first alpha build of 1.2 is now available on our beta channel!

No builds from the beta channel is recommended for production sites. Please don't install this on live sites, it's very unstable and we don't expect it to be usable until beta status.

We're currently refactoring our codebase to not only use Nooku Framework Alpha 3 (Ninjaboard 1.1 is on Alpha 2, and the differences between the two is like Joomla 1.5 vs 1.6), but also to work on Joomla 1.6, 1.7 and on Nooku Server.

Wait, this is a Nooku extension, shouldn't it work out of the box with all of these platforms especially Nooku Server?

Ninjaboard have been able to run on Nooku Server all along as long as the Nooku Server shipped with the same revision of Nooku Framework as Ninjaboard.
Nooku Server got a lot of new innovations in terms of what we can do in the administrator UI using CSS3 flex layouts and more, and we intend to take full advantage of those.

For Joomla 1.6 and onwards, we need to update our MooTools javascript to work on MooTools 1.3, and we need to upgrade our ACL code to work with the new data model in Joomla 1.6+.

This build of Ninjaboard 1.2 focused on making the installer and built in updater work seamlessly on these 3 new platforms. So you can install it, and use the dashboard "Check for Updates…" button for updating to the latest nightly build.

Other than that, the code in 1.2 is extremely "work in progress" right now, so very little of the overall functionality of Ninjaboard is working.

Since 1.2 is expected to be very unstable during the alpha stages we'd like to ask everyone to wait with testing for bugs until we reach beta.

We have exciting news to share today, about what’s coming and what’s happening!

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Ninjaboard is a very young extension. It's a forum system built from scratch that only turned stable at the beginning of this year.

Ever since we started coding it we've given the feedback we've got from the community the attention it deserves.

And we are constantly working hard to make Ninjaboard work as intuitively as possible.
But in the midst of all this work there is one thing we haven't been able to do yet, and that is proper documentation and "getting started"-like tutorials.

However thanks to Steven Zeegers there's now an guide that will help you get up and running in mere minutes! Get it here.

Great work Steven, and thank you for sharing!

We want to let you know that we will soon be making changes to the way we sell our extensions. There are two changes coming...

One Plan To Rule Them All

There are currently four paid plans: Silver, Gold, Diamond, and Lifetime. We have decided to stop selling them. Instead, we will have just one plan: Developer Membership.

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Hi everyone,

We've been quiet for some time now, so about time we told you what's happening with Ninjaboard!

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At last, it's finally released!

There is just too much to mention in just one blogpost, so we'll tell you just our top 5 most interesting changes since RC7 and leave you with a link to the full changelog.

Click here to download.

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This article gives a brief introduction on layout overrides, and explains the additional assets overrides support found in Ninjaboard.

All Joomla! 1.5 native components and modules supports something called template layout overrides.

Template layout overrides allow you to copy the files that generate the HTML in a component, into your template. The component will then use the files found in your template instead of its own.

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There's some buzz on twitter that Ninjaboard got an SQL injection vulnerability.

Here's the first tweet that started the buzz:

New Exploit [dos] - Joomla Ninjaboard Component (com_ninjademo) SQL Injection Vulnerability: http://bit.ly/aa5CnQ

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About a week ago one of our members came to us and reported that he was suddenly getting spammed on an account that he had only ever used for our site.

We started doing some looking but as it was "only one" we figured that it was most likely something on their end.

Then the second one came in. And another.

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If you are in business, putting your head in the sand doesn't work anymore. You need to be listening and talking to your customers, because if you aren't, they will be doing it with each other, and they won't be happy about it.

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Every year some friends and I participate in the Nagoya Marathon, well at least the 10 km fun run section.

Usually I do a little bit of training in the months before the race and as a result I usually finish in the top 20% of runners. This year though, I was really busy with various things and did basically no training, resulting in my worst ever time and putting me just inside the 70% mark.

While running the race this year, I noticed something very important...

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My wife and I were recently looking for baby beds on the Internet and we found two that we really liked, they looked good and the prices were very good.

Being Japanese, my wife is a little more into the group consensus than I am, and so she was looking around for comments and reviews on the two beds.

We found the usual stuff, and both of the beds were rated around the four and a half out of five mark. But one comment really stuck out to me. One person was saying that they had bought the bed and had it delivered to their house. When it arrived there, they opened it and found that it was broken. They then apparently immediately called the company asking what they should do to get a replacement or refund.

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Not satisfied controlling almost every advertisement on almost every website in the world, Google has decided that it's going to cut the middleman out of its advertising revenue, the middleman being the content providers for the sites their advertising is on.

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Many people have already given their opinion on the latest Nobel Peace Prize so I don't think I need to really say anything that hasn't already been said. However, I still thought it was worth doing a cartoon.

Simple point & click enrichment of your blog posts. In real-time, while you type.
We suggest tags, links, photos, and related articles. You save time and aspirin.

5M+ pictures, 5M+ articles. 10M+ possibilities.

Whether you run a blog or write the odd article you will be familiar with this situation.

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It's amazing how many misunderstandings that can happen when you have to limit your message within 140 characters.

So instead of continuing this on twitter, I'll make my statements on the sprites, placement of Javascript in your document and that, very clear.

For one, all in for sprite sheets. Hell, if you take a look at the front page of this blog and take a closer look at the "Read More" buttons, you'll see that they are in sprite sheets.

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Today, while searching a nice and handy GTK+ compatible Twitter client for my Xubuntu box, I accidentally found a very funny comic, I want to share with out community.

I nearly fell off my chair! :D

Found on sizlopedia.com:

Have a Lot of Fun

Maybe this is old news and I just didn't notice it before, but I got a new follower today, and went to check out their profile, as you do.

Anyway the profile name was macey121 with a nice pic of a pretty girl there.

But when I checked out her profile there was a single post advertising how she was going to make $40,000 this month and a link to the site.

http://twitter.com/macey121

She also has several thousand people she is following. How anyone could follow several thousand other people's twitters and stay sane I am not sure, so it's obviously a spam account, using the follow others as a way to get them to come and check out your twitter which has an big fat add in it.

I wonder if Twitter has some sort of policy about this? Because pretty soon it will be stock full of bots following everyone (including each other)