I am excited to announce that iJoomla and JomSocial will soon become a part of the JoomlArt company. This merger will, effectively, make JoomlArt the largest Joomla company in the world.

The web has changed very fast in the last decade and, as Joomla loses market shares to WordPress and SaaS services, the only way forward is through powerful acquisitions like these. Combining the expertise of these three companies will make JoomlArt more competitive than ever.

With over 500K registered users JomSocial and iJoomla are home to a big Joomla user community and it would be a pleasure to take care of their concerns and help them get their projects completed on time.

I have known Merav from the time she started iJoomla.com and we have been friends. All current team members of iJoomla and JomSocial are part of the merger and we even hosted JomSocial core team at our office for 8 days to understand and finalize future roadmap.

JA Joomla Page Builder is the best of the builder tool around and we are not saying this, our users are. JA Page Builder is now stable and ready to be used for live sites. We also have different pricing plans to suit different requirements. With JA Joomla Page Builder you can build stunning pages based on beautiful pre-made content blocks and page library in addition to super powerful builder features to update content, customize layout and style.

NOTE: JA Builder is free for all subscribed to our current plans (3 months, 1 year and developers). So current users are not required to pay to access builder tool. Please refer to pricing plans for details.

JA Joomla Page Builder RC2 is available now. This release comes with few improvements and 40+ bug fixes, thereby bringing it very close to stable release next week.

• New Page management working panel
• Page library: Choose from ready to use optimized pages
• Improved page import: import page from page library or file
• 40+ bug fixes

Took us more time than expected to reach RC stage. Well, we were not all that pleased with the structure of the blocks and so we rewrote them, improved workflow and features based on member's feedback. There is still a lot to do but it would be at a much much faster pace and the foundation now is rock solid. JA Joomla Page Builder release candidate version is now available for everyone to try their hands on. Some of the important features are as below:

• New content block structure
• Improved editor tool
• Page import & export
• Revision history
• Popular Framework templates and 3rd Party extensions compatibility

In our last post we displayed how JA Joomla Page Builder works well with popular Joomla extensions. With so many template frameworks around, we tested our page builder tool with them and results are encouraging. With few tweaks, our Page Builder works well with all frameworks and we have documented the same as a guide for our users. T3 Framework, Gantry, Helix, Expose were included for the first round and here are the results and tips for each framework are mentioned at the bottom of this blog post.

JA Joomla Page Builder will soon be out of beta status with imminent RC release. We at random tested it with popular Joomla extensions and all seems good so far. The Joomla extensions used for compatibility testing were Virtuemart, Kunena, EasyDiscuss, EasySocial and EasyBlog. We have also tested JA Builder with other popular Joomla template frameworks and details would be available in the upcoming blog post.

We are pretty close to saying bye to beta version of JA Builder and release an RC version next week, which comes with some major changes and features.

One of the features is "revisions", which are stored for restoration at any later time. This feature can be tested on the JA Builder demo and would be part of the release next week.

The new feature will auto save the changes you did when editing the page (for now, each revision includes 10 changes). Meaning, after you do 10 changes, it will be saved as a revision. You can revert to previous revision to revert the content, pretty handy feature.

Be it Page Builder or any editor, Undo and Redo are important feature and as planned we are glad to implement them in the latest release od JA Joomla Page Builder. Taking it further the Page Builder now also supports export and import of pages, now that should make designing landing pages a breeze. More blocks and more settings also made it to this version. Thanks a ton for the feedback and feature requests, its shaping the Page Builder in the right direction. Try out the new version and let us know what more you want us to work on.

Joomla search filter component - JA Joomla Megafilter now supports J2 Store component - eCommerce Joomla extension. All one needs to do is install JA Joomla MegaFilter and choose J2store in settings. JA Megafilter is advanced Search and Filter Joomla extension for popular Joomla extensions such as : K2, Virtuemart, Hikashop, Eshop, JoomShopping and J2 Store.