Here you will find my only contribution so far to the Joomla Community.

I took the OptimizeTables v2.0 plugin that was made by Joomlaportal.ru which was never upgraded to Joomla 1.6 and up and converted it to a Joomla 1.7 and higher native system plugin. It has not been tested on Joomla 1.6.

Since I am NO expert in PHP by any length of the imagination, I offer this software AS IS and recommend that everyone - as they should always - make backups of their files and database. Akeeba Backup is a very nice choice for this and even includes a free version .

I hope this is helpful to some people out there - personally I looked for 6 months for an alternative and figured I had waited enough!

Donations are of course welcome should you be interested. My Paypal email is:.

Download: Optimize Your Tables v1.2 

Changelog:

v1.0 - Beta 1 - released as Beta 1 as I am not a very experienced programmer.
v1.0 - Updated the way the plugin accesses the database
v1.1 - Bug fix - thanks to Ebo Eppenga
v1.2 - Tested on Joomla 3.x

P.S.:  Anyone who IS good at PHP, please feel free to send me suggestions/corrections.

Here you will find my 2nd contribution so far to the Joomla Community.

I took the Admin Panel Simplifier module that was made by Andy Sharman of www.udjamaflip.com which was never upgraded to Joomla 1.6/1.7/2.5 and converted it to a Joomla 2.5 native administrator module.

Since I am NO expert in PHP by any length of the imagination, I offer this software AS IS and recommend that everyone - as they should always -  make backups of their files and database. Akeeba Backup is a very nice choice for this and even includes a free version.

I hope this is helpful to some people out there - I found the need to make this conversion as I didn't find that I could control/hide everything that I wanted with the native Joomla ACL system.

Donations are of course welcome should you be interested. My Paypal email is: .

Download: Simplify your Admin Panel v2.5