Joomla! Modules & Extensions - Slideshow Galleries and Media Players for Your Posts

Joomla! modules, plugins, and components allow you to add dynamic, interactive media to any Joomla! blog or website. Putting a photo gallery, slideshow, or music player in your Joomla! site can make your site much more entertaining and engaging than a site which uses only text. Creating video blogs (vlogs), photo blogs, podcasts, and music sites are all extremely popular ways to hold the attention of visitors, give them something to talk about, share, and discuss.

Put Your Joomla! Site or Blog into Action with Media Modules and Extensions

Put your Joomla! site into action with a rich media plugin designed specifically for Joomla! Create visually stunning media galleries using Flash, JW Video player, Flowplayer, Cooliris, Lightbox, jquery tools 3D carousels, thumbnail viewers, multiple skins, transitions and controls. This kind of interactivity can be difficult to build and implement, on your own, by hand, without significant programming skills and tedious repetition. Joomla! modules and extensions were developed in order to make things easier for you.

The Cincopa Solution - All-in-one Joomla! Plugin

The Cincopa all-in-one media plugin for Joomla! makes it a very simple task to add photos, videos, podcasts, and music to any Joomla! site with just the click of a few buttons. Access the Cincopa platform interface directly from within your Joomla! control panel, or install our Desktop Media Agent to synchronize the folders on your PC with your Cincopa "cloud" drive. Choose your skin, upload your files, create your presentation, wizard-style, and place a single line of code (a shortcode) anywhere in your site.

Cincopa can handle the uploading, hosting, transcoding, and delivery of all your media quickly and reliably from a dedicated CDN (content delivery network) which you can access remotely from any PC or handheld device including your iPhone, iPad, or any other PDA or mobile device. It's 100% free for most users, but premium upgrades are available at extremely low cost for those users who need extra storage or bandwidth.

Joomla! Video Player Plugin

1. 17 skins to choose from
2. Fast, secure, reliable transfer and hosting
3. Automatic video transcoding to flv/3gp/mp4
4. Easy access from anywhere, remote uploading/downloading
5. Full compatibility for the iPhone, iPad, other mobile devices
6. API platform for developers
7. Customize your video player size, color, etc.
8. Option to allow guests to download your videos
9. Add customized playlists and menus
10. Easily upload your videos to YouTube, Vimeo, et al
11. Set the buffer length of your videos
12. Loop, autostart, autoscroll
13. Cooliris 3D gallery display
14. Flash video galleries

Joomla! MP3 Audio Player Plugin

1. 7 audio player skins to choose from!
2. set the width and height of your audio player
3. add menus, playlists, album art, or your own images to your playlists
4. customize your audio player with your own style sheet, or use the default styles
5. choose autostart and set the volume level to let your audio player begin playing on page load
6. allow visitors to your blog the option to download your files
7. access the Cincopa cloud drive from any device
8. automatic conversion to .mp3 if your original file is in another format
9. remote access from your iPhone, iPod, iPad, or any other mobile device or PDA
10. embed your audio player in any page or post with the click of a button with shortcodes
11. web application generates HTML code for you to place your audio player on any website, anywhere, easily!

Joomla! Photo Slideshow/Photo Gallery Plugin

1. Flash, Cooliris 3D, Lightbox
2. Multiple skins to choose from
3. Image transition and scrolling
4. Thumbnail to full screen viewer
5. Carousel views, tilt view, etc.
6. Desktop Media Agent for direct access
7. Upload photos from your Flickr and Picasa accounts
8. Remote access from any device
9. Combine photos, videos, and music all in one presentation

What is the Difference Between Joomla! Components, Modules, Extensions, and Plugins?

The difference between Joomla! components, modules, extensions, and plugins can be somewhat confusing for someone who is not familiar with how Joomla! works. First, understand that the term "extensions" is a generic term which applies to all the others. Joomla! modules, components, plugins, and templates are all extensions which are designed to add functionality to the core Joomla! framework.

1. Components: a component is a mini-application that renders the main body of the page, such as contact pages, web links, RSS feeds, articles, and the like.
2. Modules: modules are the sections of your pages that lie in predefined boxes on each page around the main content, such as headers, footers, sidebars, and navigation menus.
3. Plugins: a plugin is a kind of Joomla! extension which provides added functionality to the basic Joomla! framework. It is a section of code that runs when a pre-defined event happens within Joomla!

The number of available extensions for Joomla! are practically endless. These extensions can interact with each other in various ways, and you can install/uninstall any extension from the Extensions Manager within your Joomla! administration panel. The Cincopa Media Platform for Joomla! is a plugin which allows you to create a photo gallery, a video slideshow, a podcast, or music player as an article and place it literally anywhere in your site.