Joomla is a system for designing and building websites. It is free and open source, which greatly simplifies the work of webmasters. The project was created in 2005 and is still developing successfully. A huge number of people around the world prefer Joomla for its versatility, practicality and accessibility.
Gradually, many additions, updates and various modifications are released for this system. Among these modifications are: built-in online chat, clock and block for the Vkontakte group. All this can be placed on the site.
Installing the social networking module allows you to add popularity to your project. This contributes not only to the popularity of the site among people, but also to search engine promotion. Therefore, it will be very useful to install this module on your website.
This module is called VKgroup. It allows visitors to subscribe to news without leaving the site itself. It is suitable for installation on Joomla version 2.5.x to 3.x.
What can this module do? Among its capabilities are:
- Setting the block size.
- Support for multiple modes.
- Implementation of multi-accessibility.
- Three modes of operation: showing the latest news, a simplified mode without photos, and photos of community members.
- The module displays information from public pages, groups and other Vk communities.
Setting up this module does not take much time and is quite simple. All you need to do is specify the group ID, login order and configure the list of libraries to be included.
VKgroup is a popular module for displaying groups of the Vkontakte social network. The module enables visitors to subscribe to news from your community, group or public page without leaving the site. This allows you to attract more people who visit your Internet resource to a social group.
The latest version of the module uses all the features and functionality of Vkontakte
- Key features of the VKgroup module:
- Support for CMS Joomla versions 2.5 and 3.
- Setting the block height.
- Setting the block width.
- Simple and extended wall mode.
- Multimodularity support.
- The ability to change the color scheme of the widget: buttons, text, group background.
- Three modes of operation: display of the latest news, reduced mode without photos, photos of community members.
- The ability to hide the link located in the module.
- The module displays information from public pages, groups and other Vkontakte communities.
Configuring the module for Vkontakte
After installing VKgroup, you need to configure it. It will not take much time and energy from you. To do this, you must specify the group ID. It can be copied from the group address, it looks like this: http://vk.com/club5525046
If you renamed the group, then it will look like this: http://vkontakte.ru/joomline
Additional module settings
Tab order is a setting thanks to which you can customize the order of tabs in VKgroup. The order is set by setting the sequential number of the tabs separated by commas. For example, 1-tab FaceBook, 2-tab Twitter, 3-tab Vkontakte.
Configuring library loading control: jQuery, Bootstrap, onConflict.
The settings are generated for Joomla 2.5, if you work with Joomla 3 with activated standard libraries, then they must be deactivated.
Module operating mode:
- Normal - works like a normal widget.
- Lazy loading - works through the VK API and allows you to manipulate the loading of the widget so as not to load the site.
It is recommended to use mode 2.
Application ID - if you have chosen the lazy loading mode, then for it you need to create a Vkontakte application with the "Website" type.
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If the mode is set to Normal, then no application creation is required.
Download delay - the delay is indicated in milliseconds. This is the case if the Lazy loading mode is selected.
Group ID - enter the ID of your Vkontakte group here. It can be taken from the url of the group page.
If the url has been changed to a more beautiful one, then in this case the group ID can also be found.
To do this, hover your mouse over the "Participants" block, right-click and select "Copy link address" from the list. After that, paste this address somewhere, there will be numbers - this is the group ID.
Display mode - select a display option for the widget.
There are 3 of them.
- Members - a widget with photos of group members will be shown.
- Title only - only the group name will be shown.
- News - news of the group will be shown.
Widget width - width of the block with the widget. You can specify it in pixels, or you can specify auto - so that the module stretches across the entire column width available to it.
Widget height - for the "News" display mode, you can specify the height.
For other modes, this does not work yet.
Decoration colors - you can leave it as default, or customize your color scheme.
This completes the settings.
The documentation is attached to the module archive.
Enjoy your use)
Discussion of the module on the forum.