Recent discussions in the Joomla! security forum have made it clear that a particular weak point of the Joomla security system is the front-end password reset function. If your site includes any extension that is vulnerable to a relatively common security problem - sql injection - then an attacker can potentially abuse the password reset function to change your administrator password.

This is why we think it makes sense to be able to block the password reset function for administrative users, and it is why we have created our 'block password reset' system plugin. This is a non-commercial plugin (and will remain so), and is freely downloadable.

Unlike other approaches to this problem it does not require any hacks to the core Joomla! code. You just install it like any other plugin and select the users or groups for which you wish to block the password reset function through the plugin parameters. At the moment it is just designed to work with the Joomla! user component, but we plan to extend it to work with other registration systems as well, such as community builder, if there is a demand for it.

We have released a new featured products module for Virtuemart, mod featured product grid.

This module extension for Joomla 1.5 and Virtuemart is an alternative to the Virtuemart featured products module. It can be used to show featured products, top ten products, recent products, and random products from some or all categories.

It has two views, a grid view and a list view: the list view can be used to show product information.

The module is particularly useful when you want to display additional images for your products, as these are shown in a gallery scroller.

The module is versatile. The size of the images are adjustable, as is the height and width of each cell (and so the numbers displayed per row can be adjusted). You can chooce whether or not to show the price and add to cart button. There is a choice of transition effects for the images.

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We have released a new featured items module for the SOBI2 online business index.

This versatile module displays entries from the SOBI2 index in a variety of formats, including accordion, tab pane, and thumbnails only. Items can be selected in a variety of ways: selected from categories, or listed individually. A variety of orderings are available, including alphabetical, recently modified, most hits, and random.

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We have recently updated our modules, mod featured items, mod featured items pro, and mod featured items carousel. These modules show a short extract from selected Joomla articles with image thumbnails.

The updates include additional ordering options, improved image size calculation, and the option to set an itemid for the article links, so modules can be loaded properly.

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