Heh. Ioncube is gonna have to rewrite the loader to make it work. Nick has been on the case.

Oh, it's the live domain alright. We did setup IonCube in the Dev domain and it's running, but since it is 1.5, we are waiting for the new NP.

And 1.5 does look a little different from 1.0.x, so I do know the difference. 

Now, we get this when trying to access the backend at worldnewstrust.com:

The encoded file /home/.astra/temporary1/worldnewstrust.com/administrator/components/com_news_portal/admin.news_portal.php requires a license file.
The license file /home/.astra/temporary1/worldnewstrust.com/administrator/components/com_news_portal/license.txt is not valid for this server.

Now what? 

I am gonna have to agree with you, regarding the IonCube aspect. On top of that, it has been problematic for us with certain server upgrades. Right now, we have no backend showing on NewsPortal, due to these upgrades and nothing seems to work.

I love the component but IonCube is a finicky beast. I sure wish there was a better way for iJoomla to deal with the issue.

And our hosting company considers IonCube, and I quote, "an abomination". ;-)

Ok, Ricardo. We are really on tenterhooks here, because our site is all about content and your presentation layer is the thing that makes it work. That said, I am sure that once you release it, we will be glad for the wait.

NewsPortal is THE lynchpin of http://worldnewstrust.com and we have been waiting with bated breath for the release of the 1.5 version, so we can migrate and institute new concepts and designs. We really love the 1.0 version, it truly makes us what we are and your support has always been non pariel. It's just that we really need the 1.5 version.

So, all that said: Might we have an update as to when it will be released?

Many thanks for all you do.

Well, if you are running on Joomla 1.0.x, you can use sh404sef, which is really good. You can also use iJoomla's metatag generator. It does a fine job of creating metas.

On 1.5, well sh404sef works on the platform. As far as working with NewsPortal, I will not know whether it works on 1.5 until the new version is released. Someday.

The metatag generator? Same thing.

I hope it happens soon, Ricardo. The lack of a 1.5 NewsPortal is holding up our migration to 1.5.

http://worldnewstrust.com

Over at http://www.worldnewstrust.com we are waiting with bated breath for the 1.51 version of News Portal. NP is the linchpin component for our site. We have a 1.51 migration ready to take over, with the data migrated. We just need NP to push us much, much closer to the finish line on it.

Over at http://worldnewstrust.com we have a ton of content. We also have a strong desire to migrate to Joomla 1.5. To do so opened up a can of worms, because migrating all that content, not to mention all the other base Joomla settings presented a very worrisome obstacle. We lost a lot of content when we migrated WNT from Xoops to Joomla and we did not want to go through that again.

Now, I first tried com_migrator, a great effort by one of the finest gentlemen programming for Joomla, "pasamio", Sam Moffatt. I first had problems with this when it would not handle my zipped database migration dump. Sam got back to me promptly, was impeccably helpful and courteous to a fault. Oh, that all software developers were like Sam(Present company excepted, of course, Merav.  ) ! Sadly, While the database was migrated, there still seems some work needs to be done with the way it all goes down with com_migrator. The new 1.5 testbed site did not show a damn thing on the front page and returned no error messages, save "component not found". Which component? What component? Huh? Most frustrating.

I went to the Joomla migration forum and did some reading. I was at least heartened to note that I was hardly the only person to have this issue. In that thread, one person stated that he had easy success with the mtwMigrator component. This component installs on 1.5, you configure it for access to your old database and it drags the data across, reformatting on the fly.

I am happy to say it worked without a burp, fart or bobble. Of course, on the stock template and with some other things, we do have some display problems. These are, in comparison to the data migration, trivial.

For those who are going to making this migration and plan on using the same server they are already using, I highly recommend playing with mtwMigrator on your sandbox system. For now. That's what we will be doing, until Merav gets News Portal for 1.5 finished(it is the lynchpin of our site. Everything our site is, is about News Portal. And hopefully Magazine, in the future).

That's what we will be doing, because we want to get this one right. Happily, mtwMigrator makes one step of the process just that little bit easier.

Over at http://worldnewstrust.com , we use a lot of your products, including the metatag generator. It is a VERY nice piece of kit, one that makes life for us a lot simpler. That said, being a news and commentary site, we publish a lot of content that uses double quotation marks. The problem is that the MT-G tends to barf on those quotation marks and return an error, instead of results.

Is there any possibility of getting a fix for this problem?