Using AllVideosReloaded, it’s pretty easy to add YouTube, Vimeo, and many other videos to a Joomla article. Click here to see our new Joomla Video Tutorial: How to Add Videos to Joomla Articles.

It sounds simple, but adding a link to an image in an article seems to confuse some users. See our new Joomla Tutorial: How to add a link to an image in a Joomla article.

The 2J News Slider is a great, commercial Joomla News component that creates a slideshow from your articles. If you want an automatic slideshow that shows the article intro and thumbnail for articles in a section or category, this is the tool.

This Joomla News Slider cost $30, but it’s well worth it. 2J News Slider is easy to set up and configure. Just publish the module to a position and point it at a section or category. If you want, the look and feel can be adjusted using the CSS style sheet.

Features:

• random article selection
• configurable article rotation: ordering, creation date, hits, or votes
• show article titles only
• several transition / fade effects to choose from

If you want to add some zing to your home page, this is a great Joomla News component.

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You can change the Joomla Read More Link text, but it can be difficult to find the correct place to change it. See our new Joomla Article: How to Change the Joomla Read More Link Text.

After a few years of reading about Mosets Tree Directory software component for Joomla, I finally paid $119 and gave it a try. Money well spent. Mosets is easy to set up and use, for the developer AND the client. (more…)

Joomla allows you to add an article index or table of contents to a Joomla article. For example, if you have long Joomla article, you might want to spit it into smaller pages. With Joomla, you can easily do this and automatically add a table of contents (TOC) so the user can navigate to different parts of the article quickly. Usually, you would want to split the articles at headings, but you can split them anywhere you want.

Watch Joomla Video: How to add a table of contents (article index) to a Joomla article