10/03/2006- BlogSidebar Module 2.6.0
* Cleaned up Itemid mangling issue
* Item access issue in calendar.
* Few misc cleanup

04/25/2006- BlogSidebar Module 2.5.0
* Thanks puzzlebird for providing feedback & suggestions!!
* User Authorization is Added.
* Catagory ordering based on Joomla catagory order. (corrected for all sections)
* Calendar is highly configurable and set of options added to
control month name, year format etc.
* Added control on Header - By default is <h3> but can be configured

04/20/2006
Component 2.4.0 Beta has following feature requests added
* Component Listed in Admin Component Menu
* Support for Configurable Parameter from Admin tool bar
* Cleanup of BlogSidebar component backend
* Removed typo from Component XML file - Backend should have all buttons now

Module 2.4.0 Beta has following additional features
* Categories are sorted based in ordering in Admin interface
* Configurable parameter support for Calendar view, links and current date highlight/background color.
* Included support for User Access Check - Major change
* User now do not have to comment out the "require" line. Only included if Mamblog is being used.
* Replace DAY with DAYOFMONTH to support older MySQL versions.

It works!!

1. categores are not sorted, need to order by "ordering".

2. at the calenda view, links and current date are highlighted with color. Maybe just bold is simpler for most of the theme

3. the header line of calenda is in h3 tag, which does not appear the same for IE and firefox.

4. the current month name in calenda is in full name, which is too long for Feburary. could you update it to short name?

5. not everyone uses mamblog. the "require" for mamblog fails the module in plain-installation. User have to comment out the "require" line themselves. please fix.

6. In the module SQL to mysql function DAY is used, which is not support for older version of MYSQL. changing to DAYOFMONTH will fix it.

6. com_blogsidebar uses "1 heading, 4 intro, 4 links, 2 coloumn" layout. Hope this could be configurable, or just uses the configuration from com_content.

Finally, thank you for the hard work.

1. categories are not sorted, need to order by "ordering".

Will do in next version!!

2. at the calenda view, links and current date are highlighted with color. Maybe just bold is simpler for most of the theme

Yes, I have that feature in BlogCal. I can extend it here as well.

3. the header line of calenda is in h3 tag, which does not appear the same for IE and firefox.

Yes. That is big issue. I like h3 tag which goes well for svtechie.com. I can make it configurable through module interface.

4. the current month name in calenda is in full name, which is too long for Feburary. could you update it to short name?

Yes, and again can be made configurable

5. not everyone uses mamblog. the "require" for mamblog fails the module in plain-installation. User have to comment out the "require" line themselves. please fix.

Oh, I forgot to remove that. Sorry and thanks for pointing out.

6. In the module SQL to mysql function DAY is used, which is not support for older version of MYSQL. changing to DAYOFMONTH will fix it.

Yes, I figured that today morning when somebody tried to install and it failed.

6. com_blogsidebar uses "1 heading, 4 intro, 4 links, 2 coloumn" layout. Hope this could be configurable, or just uses the configuration from com_content.

Yes, that is good idea.

Finally, thank you for the hard work.

Thanks and I appreciate your comments. please wait for next release. If you really need it now, I can speed it up but else if you can wait, that will be great!!

Thanks for positive reply. I have one more suggestion for improvement.

Currently when the module and compoent lists the available links or category, they does not consider user access level. For example, I set some category to be "registered" only, but they still appear on the category list for anonymous users. This is the same for the links on the calenda.

Though the users may actually denied access due to Joomla's access control, it is still better to hide the access, from my point of view.

So far so good. The module and componuents work well with SEF (amazingly). and i prefer waiting for your next release and giving a good rank at joomla extensiion site.

Tested for the new version. Good improvement. Here is the feedback.

1. The backend admin module does not work. There is no "save" or "cancel" button. There is also no configuration for sorting category.

2. The calenda title still show full name of month.

3. User access control seems not work.