Vkontakte community widget for Joomla 3 and Joomla 4
Module «VKontakte community widget» for Joomla 3 and Joomla 4 allows you to publish a widget with information about the community from the Vkontakte social network.
Do you need to place a widget with your community from the social network Vkontakte? Use our «Vkontakte community widget» extension for Joomla. It will help you.
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Screenshots of the administrative part of Joomla 3
Screenshots of the administrative part of Joomla 4
VKontakte community widget for Joomla 3 and Joomla 4
Module «VKontakte community widget» for Joomla 3 and Joomla 4 – extension for Joomla 3 and Joomla 4, which will help display on the site information about your community from the social network Vkontakte. If you need to display a widget about a community located on the Vkontakte social network, you need the module. The extension is easy to use, so just install and configure it, no programming skills are required. This module adds the ability to subscribe to the community, display the latest posts and display members of your community. Currently, a website cannot exist without social media. By adding a module and displaying information from your community, you can attract site visitors to your community. In other words, your site will help you recruit members to the Vkontakte social network community.
The module supports all the features of the public API of the Vkontakte social network when working with the community widget. In the module you can choose whether to connect the public API of the Vkontakte social network, enter the ID of the community, the information about which you want to display in the widget. By the way, there are three community data display options to choose from. Let’s look at each option below.
- Members – the widget will display the community name, the cover with the logo, the number of members who have joined the community, a list of photos of community members, and a button to interact with the community.
- News – the widget will display the community logo, a cover with the community name, the number of members of the community, a block with a list of recent entries in the community, with the ability to scroll vertically, and a button to interact with the community.
- Name only – will display a simplified version of the widget. This version will display the community cover, a logo with the community name, the number of people who have joined the community, and a button to interact with the community.
The module also allows you to set the width of the widget in pixels, but if you don’t want to fix the width, the widget has the full width of the parent block. In addition to all the available options there are important three options that allow you to set the background color, text color and button color in the widget. Extensive module capabilities in interaction with the open API of the Vkontakte social network will help to set up a convenient and beautiful widget with information about your community on your website, which will attract the attention of website visitors and invite them to join your community.
The main features of the module «Vkontakte community widget for Joomla»
Supports all the features of the public API of the Vkontakte community widget.
There are three options for displaying data in the Vkontakte community widget.
Fully customizable widget. You can customize the width, height and colors on the widget.
The module supports all the basic features of Joomla when working with the module.
Support for the public Vkontakte API
The module generates code to display a community chat widget based on the public API of the Vkontakte social network and supports all the features of the community chat widget API.
Three options for displaying data in the widget
In the widget, you can choose the option to display the data. There are three options in the module. The first displays the participants in the community, the second displays the latest entries in the community, and the third option displays just the name of the community.
Adjust the width and height
The widget supports widget width setting. Use the automatic width, or specify a fixed width. In the mode of displaying the latest entries you can adjust the height of the widget.
Adjust the widget color
The module supports the ability to customize the color of the widget with communities. This feature will allow you to customize the widget to the color of your site individually. Set the color of the buttons, text and background of the widget. The default color scheme corresponds to the design of the social network Vkontakte.
Additional widget settings
There is an option to enable the community cover to be displayed and to enable advanced mode when the Community News widget is displayed, which adds a community avatar and «Like» buttons.
Joomla feature support
The module supports all features of working with modules in Joomla. Automatic installation, automatic updates and cloning function of the module occurs in just a few mouse clicks within one site.
No programming skills required
Management of the module is so simple that it does not require programming skills. You will need to fill in the ID of the desired application, select the desired widget display option, and all the rest the module will do itself.
Get the module to add a widget with your community from the social network Vkontakte absolutely free.
Additional information
Demonstration of the user part of this module is available at the link: https://joomla.iws.by/en/joomla-modules/free-joomla-modules/24-iws-by-widget-community-vk. A demonstration of the administrative part is located above on the page in the image gallery (go).
All the documentation for the module «Vkontakte Community Widget for Joomla» is available under the main image on the page above in the button «Joomla Documentation». First of all, before you install and configure it, we recommend reading it.
Extension «VKontakte community widget for Joomla» developed by Web Studio IWS.BY and is constantly being updated. You do not need to perform complex steps for updates. This module is automatically updated by standard CMS Joomla tools, you only need to agree to install the update.
There are suggestions for adding new functions, please contact us by e-mail shop@iws.by.
If you need to adapt this module for another CMS, please contact us by e-mail admin@iws.by.
System Requirements
- Joomla version 3.0 and above.
- PHP version 5.6 and above.
- MySQL version 5.6 and higher.
- Virtual memory is limited to 128MB or more.
Available translations
No translation of the extension you need? Write to admin@iws.by and we will add a translation of the extension.
Module update history
1.0.8
- Optimized module operation.
1.0.7
Joomla 3 version:
- Optimized module operation.
Joomla 4 version:
- Optimized the module according to the documentation of the developer for Joomla 4.
- Optimized interface in the admin panel.
- Implemented the function to display a list of changes when updating the module.
- To keep the module safe, a sha256, sha384 and sha512 hash sum check has been implemented for module updates.
1.0.6
- Optimized interface, some fields are displayed in the appropriate widget display mode.
- Optimized module operation.
- Corrected links to documentation.
- Module development branches are separated for Joomla 3 and Joomla 4 separately. This is necessary in order to optimize the interface and proper operation.
1.0.5
- Minor corrections.
- The OpenAPI version of Vkontakte has been upgraded to version 169.
1.0.4
- Optimization of the module.
1.0.3
- Added option «License key». The field must be filled with the license key generated when purchasing. Without a license key the module will not update automatically.
- Added support for Joomla 4.
1.0.2
- The version of the public API of the social network Vkontakte has been updated to version 168.
- Added «Advanced mode» option, which turns on the advanced information display mode in the news display mode.
1.0.1
- Optimized module operation.
- The version of the public API of the social network Vkontakte has been updated to version 167.
- Added an option to connect the public API of the Vkontakte social network to the site.
- Added the English version of the module.
- Added support for automatic module updates by standard means of CMS Joomla. In the case of a new update to the module, Joomla system will notify and offer to update to the updated.
- Removed the field with the entry widget ID, now the widget ID is formed automatically on the basis of the id of the module in the system Joomla.
1.0.0
- Release of the module into the world.
Free
Additional information
| Developer | IWS.BY |
|---|---|
| CMS | Joomla |
| Joomla Version | 3.x, 4.x |
| Extension type | Module |
| Release date | 20.05.2019 |
| Last update date | 08.11.2021 |
| Module version | 1.0.8 |
| License | GNU/GPL v3 or later |
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