Updated April 7th 2008
I've been wanting to upgrade my site to Joomla 1.5 for a long time but most of my addon modules didn't work with 1.5 and neither did my theme. I would have hacked my way through it but I've been really busy at work and haven't gotten to it. I've had a Joomla 1.5 test site running parallel to the 1.0 site for a while but since the extra components weren't ready it just sat. And since I was going to migrate to 1.5 the old 1.0 site just sat. Well, this weekend I got tired of not being able to post and rolled out Joomla 1.5. There are some things that do work and a lot that don't.
Things that work:
- The theme is ok but needs tweeking
- The blogs all work
- The photo gallery sort of works. The old Gallery2 gallery is linked in and work is proceeding on getting Phoca Gallery to replace it
- Recipe module works now
- Download module works
Things that don't work or need improved:
- Theme needs improved
- Sufficient Integrated photo gallery doesn't exist yet (working on getting Phocagallery to do what I want)
- Review component will never be upgraded to run on Joomla 1.5. Never trust commercial software vendors. $70 lesson learned
- RSS feeds aren't there. I don't know why they changed how they work.. Maybe I'm missing something
For now this is enough functionality for me to use it. I plan on using Phocagallery to replace Gallery2 and it's flaky bridge as soon as Phoca is good enough. It's very actively developed so it's just a matter of time. There is no solution so far regarding the Review module.
Grant