YooSocial Documentation
YooSocial is a Joomla content plugin that enables your users to bookmark articles over social networks. This plugin is available for Joomla 1.5, 2.5 and Joomla 3.
Note: Joomla 3 Plugin version is responsive.
Installation
Go to Extensions > Extensions Manager > Select plg_yoosocial zip file and click the Install button. Once this is done, go to Extensions > Plugins Manager and enable YooSocial plugin
Plugin settings
- Show on Top
- Whether or not YooSocial will display social bookmarks right after Joomla article title.
- Show on Bottom
- Whether or not YooSocial will display social bookmarks right at the very end of Joomla article title
- Title
- An optional HTML text displayed before social bookmarks
- Enable/Disable sharing on Facebook
- Enable/Disable sharing on Pinterest
- Enable/Disable sharing on Twitter
- Google +1
- Enable/Disable sharing on Google +1
- Linked In
- Enable/Disable sharing on Linked In
- Delicious
- Enable/Disable sharing on Delicious
- Digg this
- Enable/Disable sharing on Digg this
- Enable/Disable sharing on Reddit
- StumbleUpon
- Enable/Disable sharing on StumbleUpon
- MySpace
- Enable/Disable sharing on MySpace
- Categories
- YooSocial will NOT be displayed on articles of selected categories
How do I use plugin?
First, you need to make sure that plugin is enabled. Extensions > Plugins > Search for YooSocial plugin and enable it.
Once this step is done, you have two options:
- Use the {yoosocial} syntax directly in your Joomla articles.
- Enable the show on top/show on bottom option(s) and optionnally exclude categories
How can I modify the way bookmarks are displayed?
YooSocial main file is located under /plugins/content/yoosocial/yoosocial.php. Basic PHP knowledge is sufficient to reorder social icons display.
Plugin snapshot
You can see below an example of YooSocial output.
