Joomla: Create Automatic Contacts with Contact Creator Plugin

Joomla allows you to automatically save new contacts in your Contact component when a user create an account.

In this tutorial we will show you how to use Contact Creator plugin to build a simple user's directory.

Enable the Contact Creator plugin

• Go to Extensions > Plugins
• Search for "User - Contact Creator" plugin

• Automatic webpage is optional
• Select the category for new contacts
• Set automatically publish the contact as yes
• Set status as enable
• Save when you’re done

Test: register a new user

• Go to the register area in your frontpage
• Fill all the information such as username, email, password, etc
• When you're done, click register button

In your backend, go to Components > Contacts to confirm the new contact item was created automatically.

Create a menu item

Let’s create a public page to display all the contacts

• Go to Menus > Your menu > Add new menu item
• In menu item type choose Contact > List contacts in a category
• Select the category
• Save when you're done

Visit your public site to see the end result:

 

How to Create Tabs without Third Party Extensions for a Joomla Article

Joomla comes with native tabs support for single articles. The plugin that render this feature is the same that split an article into several pages.
In this tutorial we will show you how to add tabs in your articles with the Page break plugin.

The article

• Go to Content > Articles > New
• Add some content, in my example I’m using dummy text.

• Put the mouse cursor at the beginning of the first paragraph, which later will be displayed as a tab.
• Click Page break

• Set a Page title
• Add an Alias, such as some-text-with-no-spaces (optional)
• Insert page break

Repeat the process to create a new tab. Put the mouse cursor in the end of the first set of content. For example: the second paragraph.

• Set a title for the article
• Save and close

The Page Break plugin

• Go to Extensions > Plugins
• Search “Content - Page Break”

• Set Presentation Style as “tabs”
• Be sure the plugin’s status is enabled
• Save and close

The menu item

We need a link to display the article in frontend.

• Create a menu item through Menus > Your menu > Add new menu item
• Menu item type: Articles > Single article
• Choose the article
• Set a Title
• Save and close

End result

Preview the article with tabs from the new menu item in your public site: