The Fabrik Blog

Welcome to the new Fabrik website

A change in Focus

We've had a lot of discussions internally and with our users to define a business model that will allow for the stability and growth of Fabrik.

Our goals are to enable as many people to use Fabrik as possible and to give top notch support for our subscribers.

To that effect we are removing documentation (both written and the video tutorials) from our paid subscription offers. These will be made available for free via the wiki (for written documentation) and the site's tutorials section. We realize the videos need a make over, and once the site is live we will be adding videos specific to Fabrik 3.1.

Please note that Fabrik will always be free to download and our source code is available from github.com

We have also altered our pricing structure to reflect the level of support we want to offer:

Professional support

1 day response time (excluding weekends)
Live chat support (accessible via the website)
€ 60 / month

Standard support

3 day response time (excluding weekends)
€ 20 / month

How does this effect existing users?

Existing Bronze users have been migrated to Standard Support, Silver users to professional support.

We've given the old mother-ship a lick of paint.

Joomla has been updated to 2.5 (yes we were still running 1.5 - shame on us). We considered jumping straight to Joomla 3.0 but thought it would be best to do so at a later stage. However we are still using a bootstrap template, and we have updated our Fabrik templates for the downloads and tutorials sections to match.

We are also running Fabrik 3.1 on the site.

The forum has been migrated from the slightly dated vbForum we were using to xenforo.com which is we hope more pleasing on the eye and more usable of mobile devices thanks to a responsive template.

We'd love to hear any feeback about the new site, what works, what could be improved and what we forgot to move over from the old site! Either post in the comments below or on the forum

Created on Sunday, 07 April 2013 17:48
Written by Rob Clayburn

Fabrik 3.0.7 OUT!

We're hugely excited to announce that we have released Fabrik 3.0.7 for Joomla 2.5

We strongly advise you to update if you are running earlier versions of Fabrik. Fabrik 3.0.7 is not for Joomla 3+ - for that you will need to use Fabrik 3.1b. Obviously our next focus will be to release a release candidate for Fabrik 3.1b. All of the changes listed here will also be available in Fabrik 3.1rc1

If you have been updating from github then there is no need to update to 3.0.7 - you are already running the code.

Download Fabrik 3.0.7

So What's new?....

Fabrik 3.1 Beta now out!

The latest version of Fabrik 3.1 beta is out now, you can get it from the downloads site

This is for both Joomla 2.5 and more importantly for Joomla 3.0. It is an beta release so please be aware that there may be bugs. If you find any issues please report them on the forum. It would be fantastic to get as many people testing this as possible so we can quickly move to a stable release

Here's a taster video of me making an application in Fabrik 3.1

New subscriber tutorial

There's a new subscriber video tutorial on the site, informing you how to set up Fabrik's Twitter form plug-in.

As of Fabrik 2.0.3 the Twitter form plug-in uses OAuth to enable users to access their twitter account without needing to supply their user name and password to a 3rd party site.Whilst that is great news for your users, it means the set up of the plug-in is a little more complex than before, so we thought we would document the set up process for you!

Download Fabrik's Twitter form plugin

Watch the tutorial