Shack Article Sharing

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Introduction

Social Web, Social Display

Social media sharing buttons are essential for every Joomla site. These buttons do more than just use social media to engage your users and help them stay up-to-date with your company's news. They are highly instrumental in helping your site's SEO.

The best Joomla social sharing extension

Shack Article Sharing is a Joomla social sharing extension. This plugin allows you to add easy-to-use social sharing buttons to your site. Shack Article Sharing plugin supports the most popular share buttons, such as Facebook and Twitter.

Shack Article Sharing uses Facebook's Open Graph meta tags which are Facebook's visual social connections tool. They allow Facebook to understand important information about your site. Open Graph meta tags allow you to have a much more successful connection to Facebook.

Joomla social sharing for all your articles: Enable Joomla social sharing buttons for all your content, including articles and blog posts.
Complete Facebook support: Shack Article Sharing allows your site to support both Facebook Share and Like buttons. You can customize the content that is pre-filled when visitors click to share.
Powerful Twitter support: Shack Article Sharing allows your Joomla visitors to tweet your articles. You can customize the content that is pre-filled when visitors click to tweet.
Open Graph support: Shack Article Sharing has support for Open Graph metadata: og:type og:site_name og:url og:title og:image og:description

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Just What I Needed

Geoff Colmes (1).
Posted on 09 July 2022

Functionality

This Shack Article Sharing plugin works very well on my Joomla 4X website.

Ease of use

This Shack Article Sharing plugin is very easy to use and configure

Support

Customer support is very good, had some questions on Joomla 4X and was answered right away.

Documentation

The documentation is very east to find and understand on their company website.

Value for money

I purchased this plugin as part of a larger package, well worth it.

I used this to: I use this plugin on Joomla4X site for sharing blog posts to Facebook.

Awesome Integration!

Scott Weaver (2).
Posted on 09 December 2016

Functionality

It works flawlessly on our sites.

Ease of use

It couldn't be easier to integrate it in our websites.

Support

Support is fantastic - quick and quick to help resolving any issues you may have (and you won't anyway...).

Documentation

Easy to follow instructions - very intuitive.

Value for money

Worth every penny.

I used this to: Non-profit and for-profit sites... works in all!

Lifestream - the good, bad, and oh so very ugly.

Alex Stevens (1).
Posted on 19 April 2013

This extension promised so much.

So I pulled out the wallet and gave some of my money, in return for 3 months support and an extension that offered a great deal. I was so happy, until I installed it and found that some of the backend refused to work and the Tumblr feed crashed my site.

I submitted a ticket for support, and after a very long wait (weeks) and update was given. Tumblr had been fixed (Hooorah!) but now YouTube had been broken (boooo!). So once again I returned to the support.

My 3 months of support is now closing tomorrow, and I have yet to have a working example of Lifestream on my Joomla site.

The last comment made by any Joomlashack representative was 9 weeks ago. Nothing short of despicable customer support that I would be embarrassed to associate my company with.

The current version of Lifestream DOES NOT work properly and there's no sign of this company doing anything about it. BUYERS BEWARE.

What a let down

Brian Heffron (1).
Posted on 01 September 2011

I haven't been able to get this to work right since day one. Since my first install the component has thrown error after error trying to get facebook updates to display to no avail.

Tried to get a fix using Joomlashack's "forum" (before my 6th month subscription ran out...stupid) and all I got, in so many words, was "it's a problem with facebook's api, nothing we can do about it"

Well guess what, don't release a component, ESPECIALLY a PAID one if you can't support it. Don't advertise it to do something if it can't.

I really expected more out of Joomlashack. This was my first purchase from them and I am let down. The 6th month "support" subscription shows poor service and just makes them sound greedy, and on top of it even when my subscription was up to date, the site was clunky and cumbersome.

I'll be moving on, unfortunately.

Owner's reply: It's a fact that Facebook update's their API on occasion, however, it's also a fact that whenever they do we are sure to update Lifestream to work with it. If you were given information that Lifestream was not working with Facebook because of API issues, it was simply to let you know that there was a temporary issue until the extension could be updated.

As for 'poor service' - a support 'subscription' is not at all uncommon in the Open Source world. Please have a look around at other extension providers and you will see that many do the same. There is nothing at all 'greedy' about needing to pay for development time to update extensions, especially in light of the need to make updates to ensure an extension that works with 3rd party services works when those services make changes.

waste of time and money

PAUL DEBOCK (1).
Posted on 29 July 2011

I spend 23 hours working with this extension and had no success after installing (finally) it crashed the site. Get to start over now... how fun... Support was very slow in responding some responses took more then 3 hours. The have packaged everything together to make a huge file so you have to change max_upload in your mysql and if you can do that the install may crash your site like it did mine. Very complicated and not at all user friendly at least on the install side i was never able to actually use the extension. However they did refund my money immediately upon request.

Owner's reply: We're very sorry that the extension did not work out for you. We would, however, like to be sure that reviews are accurate and fair, and you've written one that is neither.
3 hours for a reply in a support system is nothing to complain about.
You don't have to touch your database to increase max upload file size, and if you don't want to adjust php.ini or ask your hosting company to do it for you, then you can use the provided details on how to 'manually' install the extension.
The complexity of this extension does require some assurance that a server environment will allow it to work, however, it's not so complex as to keep 99% of the people who download and use it successfully from doing so.

Great Tool

AlSc (2).
Posted on 21 April 2011

Using it on J1.6.3.

Really a great tool - enables you to incorporate all your social streams on one site. Highly configurable. If a filter is added per stream to show only certain messages, then its the ultimate social stream tool.

Support is very friendly and helpful.

Highly recommendable and definitely worth it´s money!

Owner's reply: Thank you for the review, and we do have your feature request for stream filters on our list. That is a great idea and we plan to implement it in the next major release.

Nice component

Stephanie Allen (3).
Posted on 30 March 2011

I have been using Lifestream for a few weeks now. It was relatively easy to install and looks great out-of-the-box, but I was able to easily modify the look to suit my "brand".

It is too bad the Facebook users have to make their profiles open to the public in order to work, but that is a Facebook privacy issue, I suppose. I don't have many users on my site because of this. There are many Facebook Connect type components that pull the status without having to make the profile open.

Anyway, the support is great with any questions I have had. I am surprised more people aren't using it. It pulls all your social media together and displays them in one place. I really love this product!

Fantastic idea, Terrible execution

Anton Wintergerst (2).
Posted on 28 March 2011

Pros:

This extension promises to be the all in one news feed, and looking at the demos it does this quite well.

Cons:

This extension has major compatibility issues with any average server.

Old versions of MySQL and PHP will not run this extension, so don't waste your time and money.

I presume you need the very latest versions of these as I have MySQL 5.0.92

I signed up here to warn others as the level of support was very poor from the developers.

I have used/built many extensions in my time and never have I had such difficulty getting an extension to install.

Owner's reply: Hi there. I am sorry to hear that you experienced issues getting Lifestream installed on your website.

The vast majority of our customers have never experienced any issues getting Lifestream installed & configured. But in case any of our customers ever experience issues, we have a very helpful, prompt and efficient support system in place to help them.

Have you upgraded your version of MySQL and PHP? The minimum requirements to run Lifestream are: PHP 5.2.6+ with MySQLi support; MySQL 5+; Support for CURL, OpenSSL; Joomla 1.5+

If you are still experiencing issues with lifestream after you have upgraded PHP and MySQL, please submit a ticket at our site and we will be more than happy to promptly assist you.

Excellent idea but a bit complicated

Alex Barrett (4).
Posted on 07 March 2011

The major hurdle I had to overcome was actually installing the package. This appears to be a shared problem as the situation of hanging during the install process is documented and the workaround procedure explained.

Once past that hurdle every thing works as far as I have used it so far (with Facebook, Flickr and Twitter combined into a single feed).

A big plus is not having to mess around with getting app ids from the sites as some extensions require.

It's not expensive and it would have cost me considerable time and hassle to think out a similar way to use free extensions so therefore I don't grudge the contribution towards costs!

So persevere to get it installed and you'll appreciate the effort! Of course it would be even better if it could be packaged in a more friendly manner.

Not so simple. Not so working ...

Steven Jackson (1).
Posted on 28 December 2010

Let me first say ... I understand this extension can probably be made to work. However, it is seldom that I run across an extension that gives so many problems right off the bat. (you can see the most popular thing on support site is "I'm having trouble installing Lifestream" etc ...) I tried it on 2 server setups, 2 separate sites, (after having to install manually) then got off-the-wall errors on both sites. And since the Joomlashack folks don't give refunds ... I'd say buy at your own risk. Again, I'm sure there's some good support to help fix the problems (and Joomlashack is traditionally a good company) but geez I'm not use to this much run-around to make a Joomla extension play nice.

Owner's reply: We're sorry that you had trouble installing our product, and you are correct that in some certain server environments Lifestream may not install without updating a setting or two. Since you didn't take advantage of our support, we cannot say why this might be, but so far we have been able to help anyone set it up that has contacted us. I encourage you to do so, and if we are unable to get it running we will provide a refund (as we have done for cases where a product was purchased but cannot be used). Lifestream uses some features of PHP that are standard, but we have come to find some hosting providers disable a lot of PHP functionality in the name of security. In reality they are disabling a lot more than necessary, and making it hard to use more advanced functionality of PHP.

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