iJoomla SideBars - Get more out of your articles! 

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Want to make your article pages more exciting? Want to pack more information into a single page? Place ads? Use polls? RSS feeds? Or tease readers towards another article? SideBars are the perfect solution... and with the iJoomla SideBars Extension for Joomla, they're now a breeze to use.

1. Google ads;
2. Videos;
   
3. Any module;
   
4. Teasers to other articles;
   
5. Polls;
   
6. Promotions;
   
7. Banners;
   
8. RSS Feeds;
   
9. Latest Articles;

With iJoomla SideBars you can create as many SideBars as you wish, place them on any page and customize their look using our "Advanced Style System" (no CSS knowledge necessary!) You'll be able to pack more information into one page and still keep your site as attractive as ever.

How to use:

First, install the extension:
 
1. Install the component (com_SideBars.zip)
2. The mambot (plugin) will be installed and published automatically

Accessing iJoomla SideBars

1. Select Components-> iJoomla SideBars from the drop-down menu.
2. Create a style by choosing Style Manager -> New.
3. Next, create a new SideBar by choosing SideBars Manager -> New.
4. Finally, choose the type of SideBar you'd like to add. Your options are:
• Article - Shows the intro text of an article of your choice with a link to the full article.
• Module - Displays any of your modules in the position of your choice.
• Poll - Shows any of your available polls created with Joomlas standard polls component.
• Banner - Displays any of your available banners. 
• Custom - Enter any content you choose in the HTML editor for display in the SideBar. You can enter Google AdSense code, YouTube code, etc.
• RSS Feeds - Displays an RSS feed of your choice
• Latest Articles - Displays the most recent articles from a selected category
5. Once you have chosen your SideBar type, complete the required fields and Save.
6. On the SideBar manager, you will now see the SideBar tag, for example:
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7. Click the Access Content Items link located on the right side of the SideBar manager to access your content items. Or, choose Content->all content items from the drop-down menu.
8. Now open the article to which you'd like to add a SideBar and place the SideBar tag where you would like it to show. (This tag allows you to place the same SideBar on as many pages as you wish.)
   
9. Save and view online to test the results. 

New Features:

• Automatic SideBars - Assign a SideBar to a category and it will show automatically on all that category's articles! It's a very easy way to add the same SideBar to many articles.
  
• SideBar categories - Create categories for SideBars for better organization.
• Copy styles - Copy a style to save time when giving your SideBars a uniform look.
• Round corners - Give your SideBars curved corners. Just upgrade and install the nifty corners mambot to give your SideBars the sophisticated look so many users have been asking for.

Placing Google AdSense ads in your articles is a great way to generate revenue using ads that match your content. You can place any of the Google AdSense banners or text ads in an AdSense SideBar, and then blend the SideBars into your articles which will help improve your clickthrough rates compared to AdSense ads that are not part of your articles. You can even use more than one Adsense SideBar on a page, and you can combine Google AdSense with other types of SideBars.

iJoomla SideBars lets you place advertising banners directly on your article pages, which frees you from having to depend on the placement and positioning of separate modules. Just create a Banner SideBars and add it to your article, anywhere you like. You can control whether it is aligned to the right or left margin of the article, and you can add borders to set the Banner SideBar apart from the article and make the SideBar more attractive.

RSS SideBars give you an easy and attractive way to add RSS feeds to your site. Simply add an RSS SideBar to your article and you'll be able to present fresh content on your article page automatically. Just choose any RSS feed, choose the formatting options you'd like for your SideBar, and watch your users enjoy a steady flow of news and information with no additional effort.  

Point your visitors towards new articles on your site by adding Latest Article SideBars that contain the title and intro text of your newest content items. You can choose the categories you want to use for getting the articles from, the number of items to show in the SideBar, and whether to display the title, the intro text, or both... and much more.

SideBars are a great way to spice up any article, that's why magazines and newspapers use SideBars in their articles all the time. Custom SideBars are a great way to highlight any message inside an article -- the place where your readers are already looking. For example, you could add some additional information related to the article, promote a product that has a tie-in to the article, announce an event, or even use it to post your readers' comments about the article. A little creativity here can go a very long way.

Ever wanted to place a module inside an article? Joomla by itself won't let you. But now you can, thanks to the Module SideBar feature of iJooma SideBars. The possibilities are almost endless - for instance, you could include the latest forum posts, display an image gallery, or even play a video. Just specify the module position, add the appropriate SideBar tag... and you're done. 

With Poll SideBars you can now post polls on your individual article pages -- and display the results. This is great for creating a poll that asks a specific question that is directly related to the article itself. How neat is that?      

SideBars are a great way to spice up any article--that's why magazines and newspapers use SideBars in their articles all the time. Custom SideBars are a great way to highlight any message inside an article--the place where your readers are already looking. For example, you could add some additional information related to the article, promote a product that has a tie-in to the article, announce an event, or even use it to post your readers' comments about the article. A little creativity here can go a very long way. 

A great way to get readers to stay on your site longer is to add teasers to other articles they might be interested in. Your visitors will begin reading, become curious and click the "Read more" link to continue. The more pages they view, the more successful -- and profitable -- your site will become.  Teaser SideBars make it easy, just select the article you want to use for the teaser, select the formatting options for the SideBar, and you're ready to place the SideBar anywhere you want.

• 1 Component
• 1 Mambot (plugin)
  
• 16 free styles!

• Free upgrades for life!
• Free support 

"Another well thought out addition to Joomla. SideBars works great with Ijoomla's News Portal software. It is very easy to configure and setup and gives your site some added punch."

"...you can feel safe knowing that the company always offers great support...I've dealt with this company for a while now, and they really go out of their way to help!"

iJoomla SideBars is a Joomla extension for Joomla 1.0 and 1.5 that allows publishers to plaace SideBars right inside their articles! Instead of depending on modules and module positions to display Google Ads, videos, related articles, RSS feeds, polls -- and anything else you can think of -- you can use iJoomla SideBars to put those features wherever you want!

• 1 Component
• 1 Mambot (plugin) - installed automatically with the component
• Free support
• Free upgrades for life!

Yes, a 1.5 version is available.
 

Yes, our 1.5 version works with legacy mode on as well as legacy mode off. It's your choice.

Once you create the SideBar, you will see a tag next to the SideBar name. Copy the tag and place it anywhere on your article content. The tag will be replaced by the SideBar. 

Yes, you can show a SideBar automatically on articles in any category you choose. You can even place them in more than one category. For example, to show a Google AdSense SideBar on all your news content, simple choose your news category. The AdSense SideBar will be displayed on all the articles in the category automatically. You can also choose to show the SideBar in the intro text or in the full text. 

Yes, you can add as many SideBars as you want to your articles, and place them in any position you choose. Simply place the tag where you'd like the SideBar to appear. 

Yes, the SideBar will align to the right by default, but you can have it align to the left by adding "align=left" to the tag. For example [SideBar id=x align=left]  (replace the "[" with "{" )

The SideBar will automatically change on the article to reflect your new design.

Yes. Using a "Custom SideBar," you can enter anything you want in the HTML editor, including images, text, links, promotions, etc.

Yes, easily. You just need to install the nifty Box mambot. You can download it here. After installation, you will be able to choose "round corners" in the style properties. 

Yes! Each Ad Agency zone is also a kind of module and has a module position assigned to it. To add a zone to a SideBar, just choose "Module" as the SideBar type, and select the zone’s module position.

No, iJoomla SideBars was designed as a stand-alone component has some enhancements and features not found in the SideBars used by iJoomla Magazine. iJoomla SideBar added capabilities include:

• Advanced style control system that lets you design your SideBars without needing to deal with CSS stylesheets
• Greater control over where on your site you can use SideBars. Joomla SideBars are not tied to particular articles.
• The ability to place SideBars anywhere on the page, to add more than one SideBar to the same page, and to use the same SideBar on many different pages.

Yes! Just make sure that you place the iJoomla SideBar tag lower than the iJoomla Magazine SideBar tag; the magazine SideBar will always appear on top. You can see an example here.
 
The banner is the iJoomla SideBar; the SideBar above it was added with iJoomla Magazine.

No, the license is for one domain only. You can, however install it on a testing domain as well. You can also use it on any sub domain and sub directory of that domain. 

Version 1.5.1

• Fixed pagination in Categories/SideBar/Styles Manager
• Fixed select Category for "Latest Articles" type;
• Fixed categories selection for "Add automatically";
• Fixed "Place SideBar in" intro text or full text;
• Fixed "read more" for teaser SideBars.
  

Version 1.5.0

• New 16 styles added by default
  

Version 1.0.9

• Fixed slowing up site when assigning to a whole category
• Fixed questions marks showing instead of spacing 

Version 1.0.08

• SideBars Categories
• Copy Styles
• Round conrners
• Automatic SideBars assignment 

Version 1.0.07

• Fixed some problems with mosimage inside SideBar
  
• Fixed calltime pass by reference type problem