We would like to send a big thank you to everyone who participated in our customer survey. During 5 days, thousands of surveys were completed, ending in a surprisingly favorable result – more than 90% of participants feel satisfied with ExtStore products. We are extremely overwhelmed and pleased with the zeal for us. We will wholeheartedly take your suggestions into consideration and use your valuable feedback to improve our products and services in the coming time.

To thank you for supporting us through the years, all survey-takers were entered into a contest to win a free ExtStore extension. Today, we would like to announce 10 lucky winners and their prizes:

Hamed Hakimy – Testimonials
Manuel Godinez – Media Store
Markus Michalke – Media Store
Rico Nehring – Advanced Poll
Mark Tuttle – Menu Pro
Richard Sparks – Advanced Portfolio Pro
Daniel Pardons – Media Store
Denis – Keyword Linking
George Eduard Petcu – Downloads Pro
Tony Albrich – Downloads Pro

Next year, ExtStore will be working hard on creating and improving better products and customer services, use of social media and newsletter. In the mean time, if you have any other opinions, feel free to send them to us.

Congratulations to our winners! If your name is not on the list, you still have chances to buy our extensions with 1$ so please check your inbox now.

It is so great to announce you about the release of Advanced Portfolio Pro 3.4.6 with several minor of bug fixes that will be more useful and convenient for your site.

Please check new information at changelog below, and remember to back up your site before proceeding the update process.

Demo | Changelog | Buy Now

Moreover, we would like to give our users many thanks for their feedbacks so that we can release such the most powerful and usable Advanced Portfolio Pro

30% DISCOUNT ON ALL EXTSTORE EXTENSIONS

LET’S SAY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO JOOMLA WITH DISCOUNT CODE "EXT30JOOMLA"

Dear value customer,

You are eagerly waiting for the 10th birthday anniversary of Joomla, and ExtStore too.

ExtStore with Wind are having a passion to practice a birthday song to congratulate 10-year-old Joomla.

ExtStore with Cloud are busy to make a fantastic birthday cake which will be given to Joomla to thanks for the great dedications which Joomla brings into.

Happy birthday to Joomla with plenty of new successes and new discoveries!

EXT30JOOMLA

Prom period is until 20 Aug 2015 only. So hurry before you miss your chance on this amazing offer.

Media Store version 2.0.2 has been released with various bugs fixes and updates.

For the details on the update, please find at its changelog below and don't forget to always backup your site before proceeding to the update process. 

Demo | Changelog | Buy Now

Any issue related to the above can be discuss at Media Store forum

Recommended: Find this Docs for how to upgrade using Media Store - Joomla Extensions Helper

Holiday spirit is spreading in the air. What have you done to prepare for this Christmas? Are you buying present wrappers or reading the Yule Log recipe? Well, just stop thinking about red-and-green ornaments in some minutes and check our list. Perhaps you can find a great item for your Joomla house here.

Simple PopUp

A popup message is one of the best ways to welcome visitors to your Joomla house. You should not think that Simple PopUp is too simple. With some epic images or overwhelming messages, you can turn the ordinary popup into a sweet holiday greeting.

Snow Falling

Don’t ever feel surprised if you see blue snow in some websites. Probably, they are using Snow Falling module to color the snow. This simple module can also control number of flakes, falling speed, make snow stick at the bottom or follow your mouse direction.

If snow is not enough and you like some firework, try YOOholidays!

FlexBanner

Banners are strongly recommended for online shops in Christmas. Colorful banners appears everywhere without molesting viewers because everyone is in happy mood and they need to see something cheerful.

Flash Countdown Timer

Let’s bring a countdown clock to your site this year by using this lightweight yet flexible module. The timer will display how many days, hours, minutes and seconds in left.

Tiny Bubbles

Tiny Bubbles module adds a little fun to the holiday. You can blow any PNG image in bubble shape across your Joomla site.

ODude Ecards

This “From Santa with love” extension allows you to create a powerful greetings card system. This can be small amazing presents for your customers.

Christmas Time & Christmas Tree

The Christmas template duo provided by Site Ground looks a bit old-fashioned to today’s web design trends but I’m sure that they are adored by many users. Plus, these templates support both of Joomla 2.5 and Joomla 3.x

Merry Chrismas and Happy New Year!

As a professional Joomla extension provider, ExtStore has developed many popular components such as Advanced Portfolio Pro, Advanced Poll and Media Store. Now, Christmas party is so close to us, ExtStore is super exciting to introduce the biggest sale promotion of the year – Mega Sale X’mas 2014. From 23 December 2014 to 3 January 2015 12:00 (GMT), enterEXMAS20 during checkout to get 20% off your purchase on ExtStore (the coupon is not available for Mega Bundles).

More particularly, all of you will have a unique opportunity to buy hottest extensions with lowest prices. You only pay from $29.99 to own a cool mega bundle with amazing extensions.

One more year passed away and we’re so happy to say that we had an incredible time in the past 12 months. 2014 was obviously one of our most energetic years since we had taken a big step forward with dozens of new products and related services. Now we should spend a little time to look back what we have done together in the past 365 days.

36 Joomla extensions and constant updates

We welcomed 2014 Advanced Portfolio Pro – a powerful component with strong gallery supports. After that, it is followed by 3 more commercial products during the year.

• 11 Joomla components: Downloads Pro and Advanced Poll appeared as great options for your Joomla sites. Especially Media Store became the favorite choice among ExtStore fans because of unique and amazing features.
• 10 Joomla modules: Our modules brought the neat Accordion menu to business websites based on Virtuemart, HikaShop and Joomla content categories. Furthermore, we made a cool approach on the popular social networking sites with free modules for Facebook, Twitter and Google+.
• 15 Joomla plugins: Most of them are free. These lightweight but useful tools have been adored and chosen by many Joomla users.

And of course, everyone who owns previous products also felt pleased with constant updates and new features from ExtStore Team.

Related activities

Along with Joomla products, we subsequently offered more extra supports for clients. Here are the most noticeable remarks in 2014:

• New Demo: Being built on materials of three former demo sites, new Joomla 3 demo allows users to experience all product features in the finest way.
• Documentation and Blog: All the products are accompanied with full documentation. Blog posts are also regularly published to provide users with useful tips or latest updates.
• We keep the tight connection with dear customers via: Support Ticket, Live Chat, social networking sites and emails.
• Many promotion campaigns had launched during the year, especially Thanksgiving Customer Survey and Mega Sale events.

What’s next in 2015?

• New logo & website design is an interesting improvement of ExtStore, bringing new UX experience to customers.
• More new products, promotion deals and extra services.
• Smoother customer service workflow.

Keep on following us on Facebook, Twitter and Google+ get latest news.

Joomla users come from different countries all over the world and many of them don’t speak English. To benefit more users and contribute to Joomla community, we are calling translation works for all ExtStore extensions.

I like to contribute my translations

If you like to contribute your language files as a translator for our Joomla extensions, we would be more than happy to accept you! Being a part of this project, you will enjoy special benefits from us. We will select high quality translation works to publish on the official ExtStore website.

Cool! Where should I begin?

You can contact us via email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and mention which language you would like to translate. If you have any query, please feel free to send your questions to the same email address.

It’s been three months since we said goodbye to Joomla 2.5. Upgrading your website to Joomla 3 has become an urgent task now. Clearly, not all of you are Joomla experts but the migration from Joomla 2.5 to 3.x is not complex if you follow the guidance steps carefully.

Pre-Migration

1. Create a backup of your website
Creating a backup of your website before the update is to avoid any problem that might happen. Among many extensions.Akeeba Backup stands out with it is simple and easy for an end user to use.
Now you create a test site or area to restore the backup copy of your Joomla 2.5 website. It is strongly recommended that you should try on a test site first. You should restore your site on a subdomain, a subdirectory or a local device via WAMP, MAMP, LAMP, XAMPP.

2. Update your website to the latest version of Joomla 2.5

To view the current Joomla version, check your Control Panel. If you see the note: Joomla! is up-to-date, you are ready to upgrade. If your site is not using the latest version of Joomla 2.5, you need to update first.

Go to Extensions > Extension Manager > Database to check if there is any error. If your schema is not up to date, click theFix button.

3. Check your system for Joomla 3 compatibility
Go to Site > System Information to review. Your site can only run well if all the settings meet the technical requirements. Check the list of technical requirements for Joomla 3.x here.

4. Check 3rd-party extension/template list
Many third party extension can be upgraded by one click while some are not. To avoid unwanted errors created by 3rd-party extensions or templates, you should check to see whether if they support Joomla 3 or not. All types of extensions need to be checked, including Package, Component, File, Language, Library, Module, Plugin and Template.

Going to Joomla 3.x

First of all, you need to purge the update cache. Go to Extension Manager > Update and click in Purge Cache icon in the upper right corner.

Next, go to Components > Joomla Update and click Option button on the right corner. Choose Short Term Support and click Save & Close.

If everything is ok, you will see a Joomla! update message. Click Install the update and wait until the update process ends.

Done!

So now, your website is Joomla 3.x. You can take your time to discover the new amazing Joomla 3.4. This guidance is done in a simple Joomla website. Actual scenarios could complex because of installed third-party extension. Good luck and do not forget to share with us your experience in the comment box below.

You have a question about ExtStore product, but don’t know what to do? No need to worry! With smooth support process, you can find the best answer quickly and easily.

While waiting for next changes of ExtStore services in the coming year, you can browse through the following Infographic. Hope you could find useful information and know how the process works.

What do you think about our infographic? Just feel free to leave your comments here. You are also welcome to share the infographic on your own blog or website.