26 04 2016
Tabs & Sliders has a new home
JoomlaWorks will be 10 in a few months, just a little older than Joomla itself.
In these 10 years we have managed to create some of the most respected and of course popular extensions in the Joomla community. Extensions like K2, AllVideos, Simple Image Gallery (Free and Pro) or Tabs & Sliders, all with more than one million downloads each. At the same time, we have developed more than 30 extensions for Joomla (both free and commercial), all with a combined download count of nearly 8 million.
As we progress into the future, building new & more complex products, while embracing new platforms (WordPress in particular), we must be laser focused on the products that matter most to our vision. And our vision is to offer solid, cross-platform products with a long lifespan, that redefine how we develop websites with Joomla and eventually WordPress. That way you can invest in them and know that they will be supported and improved continuously.
So as we move towards more such complex products, we (unfortunately) have to cut down on the resources we spend on extensions that are less important to us, as we really don't wish to become "Jack of all trades, master of none".
Our goal is to maintain a portfolio of less than 10 products for Joomla and (eventually) WordPress. Less products means we can be more agile when it comes to developing new features in the future.
In these 10 years we have managed to create some of the most respected and of course popular extensions in the Joomla community. Extensions like K2, AllVideos, Simple Image Gallery (Free and Pro) or Tabs & Sliders, all with more than one million downloads each. At the same time, we have developed more than 30 extensions for Joomla (both free and commercial), all with a combined download count of nearly 8 million.
As we progress into the future, building new & more complex products, while embracing new platforms (WordPress in particular), we must be laser focused on the products that matter most to our vision. And our vision is to offer solid, cross-platform products with a long lifespan, that redefine how we develop websites with Joomla and eventually WordPress. That way you can invest in them and know that they will be supported and improved continuously.
So as we move towards more such complex products, we (unfortunately) have to cut down on the resources we spend on extensions that are less important to us, as we really don't wish to become "Jack of all trades, master of none".
Our goal is to maintain a portfolio of less than 10 products for Joomla and (eventually) WordPress. Less products means we can be more agile when it comes to developing new features in the future.
Which brings us to "Tabs & Sliders"...
Although it's one of the most all-time popular Joomla extensions (1m+ downloads) and probably one of the top 2-3 extensions for Tabs and/or Sliders in content, we feel we haven't given it the attention it deserves.
The fact that Tabs & Sliders has become less important to us does not mean it's less important to its users. And because we value our users and the trust they put in JoomlaWorks products all these years, we would never just kill an extension, especially one that's popular already.
That is why we have decided to pass on development to our friends over at Alledia, the folks who also run OSTraining, both lead by Steve Burge.
We believe Tabs & Sliders is in good hands and the nice folks at Alledia will take good care of it and further extend and improve the product. In fact, they have already unified the plugin and module into one extension, as both already shared the JS scripts that powered the tabs and sliders functionality. Having a unified extension (package in Joomla lingo) will obviously speed up development and also make updating easier.
Alledia will of course honor Tabs & Sliders' existing distribution model and they will keep the extension free as it has been for nearly 9 years already.
Starting today, you can download the updated Tabs & Sliders extension from Alledia here: https://www.alledia.com/extensions/tabs-and-sliders/
We have also updated our XML update definition files to include the new release from Alledia. This means that sites already using Tabs & Sliders (the plugin) will be able to directly update to the new release (including both the plugin and module) supported by Alledia.
I'd like to thank Steve Burge for accepting the challenge and I believe he and his team will make Tabs & Sliders even more popular in the years to come.
P.S. Here's the blog post on Alledia's blog: https://www.alledia.com/blog/tabs-sliders/
3 comments
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Fotis 28 Mar 2017 Comment Link@Marijke Unlike other template clubs, our plan is to focus on generic designs that can be used anywhere and support them in time, while providing either code or visual updates. Beyond that, we plan on doing 1-2 new templates every year.
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MarijkeKovoKs 06 Feb 2017 Comment LinkHi there,
Regarding your future plans, how do the Joomla templates you have made fit in there? A client of ours is contemplating redoing her site with one of your templates (businessone). Will you continue providing and developing Joomla templates in the future?
Hope to hear from you,
kind regards,
Marijke -
ClaudiaZ 27 Apr 2016 Comment LinkHello,
this morning an update was released which I installed in Joomla. After that, the plugin didn't work anymore. The tabs weren't visible anymore except the very first one, and then the text followed with all {slider} and {/slider} visible. I guess this must be a bug due to the new update. I reinstalled the older version from yesterday again and everything works fine. Maybe you can check where the mistake is, I suppose, versatile users might have this problem.
Best regards from Germany,
Claudia
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