This Joomla! MODULE shows ALL weblinks on one page in columns or rowwise with lots of custom options.
The weblinks will still be managed by Joomla!s integrated component.
Features:
- Show new links (with how many days)
- Show hits
- Open ALL links in new window
- length of the title and cut-of Length
- custom text for new links
- category/link sort-order
- layout customizable with css
- include and exclude category IDs
- option for a dropdown (tree menu like) js-function to show or hide weblinks under a category title, incl. different selectable icons for showing links and hiding them
- option to show number of links in category
- option to hide category headers
- option to show category description
- selectable icon for all links
- option to show link description
- option for a default link-tooltip/popup (title) text
- option for use of 'real-url'
- valid xhtml
Installation:
- Install it the usual way on your Joomla! site
- goto the Module Manager choose a proper position and enable the module
- the Parameter options on the right pane offer popup help information when moving with the mouse cursor over the option-titles
How to use the module in a content item/article:
The All weblinks Module may be used in Module-position (that's what the module is mainly made for!) but it can also be used to display customizable linklists in a content item/article (just like in this demo):
- in the Module Manager for this module enter a custom position-name (the text-field is editable) like e.g.: 'allWeblinks_1'
- goto Plugin Manager and enable the 'Content - Load module' plugin (it should already be installed with the normal Joomla! installation)
- goto your article and insert { loadposition allWeblinks_1} (omit the space after the opening brace/curly bracket '{')
- done!
- you can have as many All Weblinks modules as you need on one page or on your site, just copy the module and give it a custom position-name (don't forget to enable and adjust the just copied module!)
How to use the 'Module Class Suffix':
- For customizing the layout of the module, the "Module Class Suffix" parameter may be used with the implemented css styles:
insert:
- _lnkcols
for having the links in colums below the categories, see example 1.
- _catcols
for having the categories in colums (with the links below-in one column, of course!-), see example 2.
- leave blank
for having a list of links in one column below the category (normal module layout!), see the module (example 3) on the top right side of this page
- _lnkcols
How does the 'link tooltip' logic works:
'Link tooltip', 'on mmouse over' or 'hover-text' behaviour logic:
- If a popup-text is inserted: this text will always be displayed
- if 'show link description' is enabled:
- if 'use real-url' is enabled: the real-url is displayed
- if 'use real-url' is disabled: the link-title is displayed
- if 'show link description' is disabled:
- if there is a link-description for the link: the description text will be displayed
- if there is no link-description for the link:
- if 'use real-url' is enabled: the real-url is displayed
- if 'use real-url' is disabled: the link-title is displayed
Examples:
Example 1:
AllWeblinks Module in a content item/article:
(dropdown and links in columns)
All Weblinks 1
- Park Links (3)
- Joomla! Specific Links (3)
- Other Resources (3)
[Parameter settings: dropdown active with default icon, show no. of links per category, show category description disabled, custom icon for links, use a custom tooltip/popup text for the links, show hits disabled, show new links disabled, show link description, real-url enabled, layout: link cols]
Example 2:
AllWeblinks Module in a content item/article:
(dropdown and categories in columns)
All Weblinks 2
- Park Links (3)
- Joomla! Specific Links (3)
- Other Resources (3)
[Parameter settings: dropdown active with custom icon, show no. of links per category, show category description, custom icon for links, use link description/link text as tooltip/popup, show hits, show new links disabled, show link description disabled, real-url enabled, layout: category cols]
Example 3:
AllWeblins Module in module posiition:
(no dropdown, as simple list)
see the AllWeblinks example 3 on the right of this this page!
[Parameter settings: dropdown disabled, show no. of links per category disabled, show category description disabled, custom icon for links disabled, use a custom tooltip/popup text for the links, show hits disabled, show new links disabled, show link description disabled, real-url disabled, layout:default ]