How to show Linkedin Updates within JomSocial, the most popular Community Component of Joomla?
Our Linkedin Updates for JomSocial JomSocial Addon is geared to fulfill this need, using which you can show updates from Linkedin within your JomSocial profile and community wall.
Why you should use it? This is a great solution to let other members of your community to get to know your professional updates, networks and status. This greatly improve your connectivity and networking capacity. This is one is very easy to implement both for JomSocial Admins as well as members of JomSocial. As a powerful feature we’ve used separate component for authentication data store (free download available), no dependency on jomsocial
It comes with 3 styles: Gray, Dark and Plain to suit your site’s look and style.
Front End:
Video Demo
Live Demo:
Click here to see Live Demo on JomSocial, scroll at bottom to see how the updates are shown
Joomla Version Support:
This addon is compatible for all major Joomla version.
- Joomla 1.5 Native
- Joomla 2.5 Native
Licence & Copyright
GPL2 (See the license)
Features:
General:
1. Linkedin connect for user for status update to linkedin
2. Show linkedin updates as widgets
3. Widget has two section one for showing the connection statistic and another part is showing the recent updates(user’s share and status update in linkedin)
4. Core Application select-ability: yes/no
5. Caching: No/Global
6. Language Pack enabled: English is provided as default
Style:
3 Style for Lists: Gray, Dark and Plain
Rounded corner: yes/no
3 Position control for Admin: Main, Sidebar top, Sidebar bottom
Admin Screenshots
Product version history:
Updated v1.1 – 13.12.2012
1. Code refactored
2. Used separate component for authentication data store, no dependency on jomsocial
Initial release v 1.0 – 26.08.2012
FAQ: How to find ‘Consumer Key’ and ‘Consumer Secret Key’?
See below the section called, How to setup your Linkedin Application for this how to.
Download
Download link will be e-mailed automatically to your paypal id after payment is done. You may download it for a maximum of 5 times from the link and may use is for unrestricted domains.
To use this jomsocial plugin you need to install the following free component first based on your joomla version.
Codeboxr Social Oauthentication Component v1.0 for J2.5 (75.4 KiB, 473 hits)
Codeboxr Social Oauthentication Component v1.0 for J1.5 (76.9 KiB, 144 hits)
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Linkedin Updates for Jomsocial, v1.1, j1.5 jomsocial 2.5.x
Size: 19.8 KiB | Hits: 10
Added: August 27, 2012 | Last Updated: December 13, 2012
USD 12.00 / Download
Linkedin Updates for Jomsocial, v1.1, j2.5 jomsocial 2.5.x
Size: 20.0 KiB | Hits: 4
Added: December 8, 2012 | Last Updated: December 13, 2012
USD 12.00 / Download
Usage
Download and install the Plugin. This Addon installs as Joomla Community Plugin. Once installed, you have activate it first (find it by selecting community from plugin types in the plugin page).
For admin,
Select whether this is core application and other relevant settings for style such as gray/dark, rounder corner etc. Save and that’s it.
How to setup your Linkedin Application
We have provided a default Consumer Key and Consumer Secret key (generated by Linkedin Application Registration) which should work with you. But it is recommended to generated your own Consumer Key and Secret Key by registering one’s own Application with Linkedin. To do that, visit the URL: https://developer.linkedin.com/documents/quick-start-guide (see screen show below and click on the link highlighted) and once the Application details are filled and saved will generated Consumer Key and Consumer Secret Key which you may provide in this JomSocial Addon plugin settings.
Support & Q/A
For support, pre purchase question or any new idea please send us message via our contact page. We will back to you ASAP according to our timezone & office hours.









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