Do you run a blog site or a site with lots of articles? Would you like to attract your visitors to content that has been recently added/modified or the most “popular” content? With this simple plugin you can add additional tags to your Joomla articles: “new”/“updated”, “hot” topics, “popular” topics, featured, archived, etc. Pop-Art Tags for Joomla is a content plugin that adds tags [1] to your Joomla articles (as seen with the featured tag above the title of this article).
Plugin settings
Most of the plugin settings are suitable if left unchanged. Details of each setting are described below.
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| Within a div element | (Yes | No) Used in conjunction with the next three plugin settings. Display the tags within their own separate <DIV>; recommended to leave this setting unchanged. |
| CSS class for div | (class | ID) Define the selector for <DIV> (if Within a div element = Yes) as either a named class or as an ID. |
| Name of div | Enter the class-name or ID for the <DIV> (if Within a div element = Yes) as further qualified by the second setting above. |
| Custom style for div | Enter any custom CSS used with the <DIV> (if Within a div element = Yes). |
| Categories | Select which specific article categories you want to show tags with. If the list is empty then tags will be displayed for all categories. |
| Selected categories | (Show | Hide) Used in Categories setting. If set to Hide then this has has a similar effect to disabling the plugin. |
| Show in full view | (Yes | No) Show or don’t show tags in article full view. |
| Show in featured view | (Yes | No) Show or don’t show tags in featured articles view. |
| Show in category view | (Yes | No) Show or don’t show tags in category view. |
| Days | Used in conjunction with Display NEW tag and Display UPDATED tag. Define the number of days for when an article will appear as a new or recently updated. |
| Display NEW tag | (Yes | No) Show or don’t show tags about new articles created within Days. |
| Text to display | Used in conjunction with Display NEW tag. Enter the text that will appear with this item. |
| Display UPDATED tag | (Yes | No) Show or don’t show tags for modified articles (at least 24 hours after they were created) and display this tag for the next x Days. |
| Text to display | Used in conjunction with Display UPDATED tag. Enter the text that will appear with this item. |
| Display FEATURED tag | (Yes | No) Show or don’t show tags for featured articles. |
| Text to display | Used in conjunction with Display FEATURED tag. Enter the text that will appear with this item. |
| Display ARCHIVED tag | (Yes | No) Show or don’t show tags in archived articles. |
| Text to display | Used in conjunction with Display ARCHIVED tag. Enter the text that will appear with this item. |
| Display MOST HIT tag | (Yes | No) Show or don’t show tags if the number of hits is more than 2.6 and less than 2.95 times the average. |
| Text to display | Used in conjunction with Display MOST HIT tag. Enter the text that will appear with this item. |
| Lower limit | (60% quantile | 75% quantile | 85% quantile | 90% quantile | 95% quantile) Used in connection with the Display MOST HIT tag. Use larger values to reduce the number of articles that display this tag. |
| Display POPULAR tag | (Yes | No) Show or don’t show tags in category view. |
| Text to display | Used in conjunction with Display POPULAR tag. Enter the text that will appear with this item. |
| Lower limit | (50% quantile | 60% quantile | 75% quantile | 85% quantile | 90% quantile) Used in connection with the Display POPULAR tag. Use larger values to reduce the number of articles that display this tag. |
| Display CATEGORY tag | (Yes | No) Display the category of the article as clickable text. |
Notes:
[1] Pop-Art Tags for Joomla is a fork of JExtBOX Article Status, an original idea from Makhgal Ganbold of JExtBOX.
