We are pleased to announce a new Community Polls plugin - Content Polls for Joomla Articles. This plugin can be used to embed any poll created in Community Polls to your Joomla articles or any text which process content plugins such as Community Answers description.

Embedding polls is now pretty simple, no JavaScripts and no hassles of allowing permissions to add scripts to your articles. Just add below code anywhere in your Joomla article and the plugin will takes care of the rest.

{CONTENTPOLL ["id": POLLID]}

You can advanced parameters along with id such as container name, chart type, template name etc. The plugin supports all options that Community Polsl Anywhere function supports. Please see Anywhere documentation for advanced options configuration.

This plugin requires Community Polls v2.0.6 or above.

We hope you and your users love this extension.

We are pleased to announce Article Suggestions module and plugin v2.5.0. The module and plugin combo now supports same set of features. We have fully rewritten the module and plugin to fully take advantage of Joomla without compromizing the performance. Here are the major enhancements made in this release.

• Limit Most Read Articles to specified number of days
• CoreJoomla CJLib component support
• Image thumbnails support for articles which has images
• Choose jQuery UI theme right in module/plugin configuration
• Fixed issues with including meta keywords in searching related articles
• Smart load of the content display to support templates which loads modules dynamically
• 5 Listings - Latest, Category, Author, Most Read and Related Articles.

We are pleased to announce the much awaited feature release of Community Polls 2. With over 5 months of development, we have added many exiting features to power your community websites. Here is a brief intro about the new features.

1. Two new charts - Image bar chart and Image pie chart
2. Multiple poll support - Random poll & Polls anywhere update for supporting multiple polls on same page
3. Poll creation from backend - Now you can add polls from both front-end and back-end
4. Color palletes - No more fixed colors for charts, choose from different color palletes
5. Linking answers - Now you can attach hyperlink to the poll answers along with adding images for each answer
6. New dashboard page for more beautiful and customizable front-end
7. Full rewrite - The front-end is fully rewritten for best performance
8. Improved bookmarking: Better sharing tools
9. New timeline graphs for displaying voting timeline
10. Natural search feature
11. Improved poll suggestions - Now loads on demand to reduce load on your server
12. Facebook comments support
13. Tableless design

You can see the full change log  - Community Polls change log
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We are pleased to announce the v1.7.4 release of Community Quiz. We have added couple of new features in this release - Tagging and Human friendly timer for quizzes. We have also refactored most of the code to make it ready for upcoming Joomla releases.

We are pleased to announce the major revision of Crosswords component v2.0.0 for immediate availability to all existing members. For over three months of development time, we have added many exiting features and fixed few annoying issues in previous versions. Here is the list of major enhancements apart from the bug fixes.

• Redesign of crossword page to support dark themes
• UTF-8 languages support for Crossword questions/keywords
• CoreJoomla jQuery plugin v2.0.2 support
• Fixes issue with numbering of cross join cell
• Fixes the issue with selecting and solving cross join cells
• Performance improvements
• Keyboard events, now move cursor with keyboard arrow keys withing crossword grid
• Faster processing: The entire crossword logic is redesigned and is not only faster than previous one, but also takes takes very less database calls.
• New question helper area: Now a tooltip area shows selected question on top of the crossword grid, no need to look down for what the question you are answering
• Crossword description: Now you can add description for the crossword with either WYSIWYG editor or BBCode editor
• Improved bookmarking tools: No more sharethis API key is required. configurable buttons.
• Improved UI layout: Fully redesigned layout makes you feel more comfirtable
• Local theme selection: If you are using other corejoomla extensions, this will help you choose component specific theme

We value your feedback, please review and rate Crosswords on Joomla Extension Directory. It takes not more than 5 minutes. Please leave your review at http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/sports-a-games/board-a-table-games/14659

Thank you and appreciate your feedback.

We are pleased to announce Community Polls final release candidate. Major highlights of this release includes

• Random Poll module update: Now you can add as many polls as you want on same page using Random poll module. Preview result option is added to the module. Now it also supposes almost all the features that the main component has.
• Category list as menu: The dash board now display the category list as template-aware multi-level menu instead of one level category list.
• Updated Poll Suggestions

As usual, number of bug fixes makes this release much more stable and getting ready for production sites. Please report any bugs on forum and help us release the stable version as soon as possible.

Note: CoreJoomla API component needs update to use the new version.

We are pleased to announce community surveys v1.7.6 release. This release addresses issues with CSV download functionality. The CSV file also added a new column "Survey Key" to identify the responses recieved.

We are pleased to announce the first release candidate of Community Polls v2.0. With this release any new features for CP are freezed in v2.0 branch only bug fixes will be made prior to stable release.

Here is the list of major functional enhancements for v2.0:

• Full rewrite of front-end
• Backend poll creation
• New dashboard page on front-end
• Improved Anywhere function to include multiple polls on same page, custom templates etc
• New in-build charts along with Google charts
• Improved bookmarking
• More control over poll creation process
• Color palletes to color each poll chart differently
• Poll ordering for listing on front-end
• New timeline graph
• Linking poll answers with urls
• Improved poll suggestions
• Natural search feature
• Edit poll from both front-end and back-end
• Tableless templates

And there are many small features added along with many bugs fixed over past few months to make the component much more powerful and feature rich.

The new version is no longer needs corejoomla jquery plugin, instead uses newly released CoreJoomla Framework API component. Please install CoreJoomla Framework API component before installing CP.

Credits:

We would like to thank all our beta testers who have helped us making the component feature rich and stable. Special thanks to Andrian, Jimie, Edfel and all those who reported bugs on forum and emails.

Head over to downloads section to experience the power of the new CP, the most powerful polls component for Joomla 1.5, 2.5 or above.

We are pleased to announce the community answers v1.8.9 release. This is a bug fix release which address the issues related to JomSocial and other functionalities in administrator component.

Please read changelog for complete list of bugs fixed.

We are pleased to announce the fourth and final beta release of community polls. In this release we have added many more new features along with fixing bugs found in previous beta releases. The major enhancements include:

• New CJLib framework for standardizing our API
• Backend poll creation
• Manual ordering of polls and new All polls block on front-end dashboard page
• New pagination with support for jQuery UI themes

Please report any bugs on forum.

We are pleased to announce community quiz v1.7.3 release. Unicode aliases support for j2.5 is now added for community quiz urls. This release also fixes few annoying bugs in ratings and other parts of the component.

Please see change log for complete list of changes made.

We are pleased to announce community surveys v1.7.4 release. The major enhancements in this release includes the debugging feature and the survey responses management in backend along with bug fixes .

Please see change log for complete details.

We are pleased to announce community answers v1.8.8 which fixes bugs with JomSocial points system.

We are pleased to announce Community Answers v1.8.7 release. This is a bug fix release which addresses few related to category specific permissions, home page listing and email notifications.

We are pleased to announce Community Crosswords release 2.0.0 beta 2. It's been over a year many people are asking for UTF-8 support for crosswords questions (although other part of the component is UTF-8 enabled) and it is here now. Here is the brief overview of the new features:

• UTF-8 support for Crossword questions/keywords
• Keyboard events, now move cursor with keyboard arrow keys withing crossword grid
• Faster processing: The entire crossword logic is redesigned and is not only faster than previous one, but also takes takes very less database calls.
• New question helper area: Now a tooltip area shows selected question on top of the crossword grid, no need to look down for what the question you are answering
• Crossword description: Now you can add description for the crossword with either WYSIWYG editor or BBCode editor
• Improved bookmarking tools: No more sharethis API key is required. configurable buttons.
• Improved UI layout: Fully redesigned layout makes you feel more comfirtable
• Local theme selection: If you are using other corejoomla extensions, this will help you choose component specific theme

So go ahead and download the new beta to test it on your local server. Please report any issues and bugs on forum so the we can quickly deliver the stable release.