JoomFish 2.5 - Alpha 2 package VM2 ready?

[keepitpromo]

Hello,

Before I purchase my Silvler membership to be able to download the Joomfish 2.5 Alpha package I would like to confirm that it is working perfectly fine with VM2 ?

I know that the development version had some issues when attempting to view the Virtuemart products (made the products dissappear).

Is this still an issue with Joomfish 2.5 Alpha ?

Thx

[quodo]

In the post viewtopic.php?f=48&t=11186&p=38132#p38132 you mentioned your problem with VirtueMart and the developers version. Of course you can get the latest developer version here https://github.com/JoomFish/jf-future and try it yourself, from what I've tested jf-future has improved quite a lot since that post.

On viewtopic.php?f=3&t=11378 Alex says

As already said, the extension is in an early alpha status.

"Alpha" means that you cannot expect it to work flawlessly, but it's ready to take a peek and try things. See for example Klas' post viewtopic.php?f=48&t=11356&p=38745&hilit=alpha#p38745 (Klas is working hard on jf-future as you can see from the commits he does: https://github.com/JoomFish/jf-future/commits/master).


Note: I haven't tried jf-future (nor JoomFish 2.2.3 for that matter) with VirtueMart, I have tried one other third party component with JoomFish and that had a problem which I want to look into before posting it as an issue.

[tobiasconrad]

Is it ready? I tried it with the Dev version of 20.05.2012. not shown the product right in Kategories view.

Howto get the Products shown in VM2.06 with Joomfish?
maybe the is a file provided like Virtuemart2_joomfish2.0.3 but only for Joomfish 2.5?

Thank you, for an nice solution.

[jk1]

Just curious - why do you think you need Joomfish for VM2?
VM2 has it's own multi-language system (I almost finished a bilingual shop with 500+ products plus product variants using this). So I would expect some conflicts when you have two extensions trying to do the same job.

[tobiasconrad]

Why use Joomfish in VM2?
May i put the answer in a question.
How clear is the SEO for a single language?
joomFish like? tld/de/product tld/eng/product

What are your experience?

[jk1]

I did assign every product to a shop category, so the urls are i.e.

tld/en/englishcategoryname/productname-detail
tld/de/germancategoryname/productname-detail

Reports on SEO performance for life Virtuemart 2.x shops are very positive. (Much better than for Virtuemart 1.x shops)

[cleverbargain]

The answer why I would rather use Joomfish instead of VM2 multilanguage is because I will not be doing my own translations. So hiring a freelancer to do the translation of a language using VM2 would raise some security concerns.

On top of that, Joomfish helps keep track on what is and what is not translated and helps follow a schedule with the hired translator.

I couldn't wait any longer and I uploaded my new Website (from Joomla 1.5 to Joomla 2.5) however without the translations. I was expecting my pagerank to drop and thankfuly it hasnt. However the hits dropped drastically.

I hope Joomfish 2.5 Beta is released sometime soon.