iJoomla SideBars – iJoomla Blog https://www.ijoomla.com/blog iJoomla Blog Fri, 14 Apr 2023 08:50:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.4 New! Automatically add a sidebar to the end of all articles by category https://www.ijoomla.com/blog/new-automatically-add-a-sidebar-to-the-end-of-all-articles-by-category/ https://www.ijoomla.com/blog/new-automatically-add-a-sidebar-to-the-end-of-all-articles-by-category/#respond Thu, 11 Nov 2010 19:27:37 +0000 http://www.ijoomla.com/blog/?p=624 iJoomla SideBarsJoomla allows publishers to assign modules based on menu items. It’s useful but it does create a real limitation if you only want to display the module on articles in specific categories. iJoomla SideBars has been putting automatic sidebars in specific categories for a while, but a cool new feature now puts sidebars at the end of articles. That’s very useful if you’re using a module like “Related Articles” that comes with core Joomla.

We added this feature after we had a specific need for our new websites. We wanted to have a “related articles” module at the end of all the articles in our “features,” “FAQ” and “videos” categories. We didn’t want to use a module because we would have had to assign it based on menu items and not based on the categories. We also wanted to make sure that the related articles shown were really related, so we used iJoomla SEO to enter the keyword metatags for each.

Now you can add sidebars to the end of articles automatically

Now you can add sidebars to the end of articles automatically

The video below explains how we did it. We’re happy with the result.

[vimeo width=”600″ height=”400″]http://vimeo.com/16740568[/vimeo]

Now you can upgrade iJoomla SideBars and enjoy this feature as well. If you don’t have iJoomla SideBars yet, you can learn more about it here.

]]> https://www.ijoomla.com/blog/new-automatically-add-a-sidebar-to-the-end-of-all-articles-by-category/feed/ 0 What Do You Get When You Mix a Sidebar with an Ad Agency? https://www.ijoomla.com/blog/what-do-you-get-when-you-mix-a-sidebar-with-an-ad-agency/ https://www.ijoomla.com/blog/what-do-you-get-when-you-mix-a-sidebar-with-an-ad-agency/#comments Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:44:03 +0000 http://www.ijoomla.com/index.php?option=com_wordpress&p=124&Itemid=7070 I just love it when I can combine two powerful extensions. I always end up doubling the functionality while halving the effort – and reducing the cost. That’s a win-win-win!

And that’s why as our products evolve, I’m constantly looking for ways to integrate them. Two obvious combinations are the iJoomla News Portal and iJoomla Ad Agency, and iJoomla Ad Agency and iJoomla SideBars.

News portals, which can earn you income by selling advertising next to the content rather than by pushing products, really should be using iJoomla Ad Agency. It makes earning money from advertising very simple and it’s extremely powerful. You can place those ads in any module position and, for a more complete integration, you can put them right in your news portal layout.

Combine the Ad Agency with SideBars, and you can even put those ads right inside your articles!

Recently, we made the Ad Agency even better by allowing publishers to add an image to a text ad. We call it “Facebook-style” because the ads are similar to Facebook’s neatly optimized units. Because they look like a part of your site and not like ads, they get more clicks. Now you can earn even more cash by adding these Facebook-style ads to your news portal too.

Here’s a video that explains how to place an Ad Agency zone containing our Facebook-style ads right inside your News Portal layout:

And here’s a video that explains how to create an Ad Agency sidebar:

If you don’t have these combo extensions, then check out our packages. You’ll be able to pick up a $10 discount for each product.

Do you have any creative ideas to make our extensions work together — or even with third party extensions? Post them here.

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