SocialAds JomSocial Integration - Monetize your Social Network

SocialAds has always had the best integration in the industry for JomSocial. Built to be flexible and scalable with targeting plugins and flexible enough to let you target by any field, if you need advertising for your Joomla JomSocial based social network, then SocialAds is the best choice for you. 

From JomSocial 1.6 onwards, JomSocial supports some built in module positions so you have the flexibility to publish Modules anywhere inside JomSocial. Plus if you are ready get your hands dirty with some simple code copy paste, you can even add your own positions inside the JomSocial template..

Lets see how you can utilise this great feature to better monetise your site with SocialAds. Note that this tutorial can be applied to any module(So even our own Network Suggest, People you may know, Featured etc modules can be shown inside JomSocial using this tutorial) . You can also use this general tutorial on the JomSocial website :http://documentation.jomsocial.com/wiki/Built-in_Module_Positions

Default Module positions supported by JomSocial

These module positions are supported by the default JomSocial template. You can use any of these to publish a module inside the JomSocial content area. Positions in JomSocial are of 3 types

1. Global - One position that is shown on various different pages
2. Page specific - These positions will only show on certain JomSocial pages
3. Only Mine - These module positions are only available on the profile page and are show to the owner of a profile

Global Positions

1. js_side_top - Placed on top of the side column (sidebar) of Frontpage, Profile, Groups and Events Pages.
2. js_side_bottom - Same as js_side_top except that is placed on the bottom of the sidebar.

Profile Positions

On profile page, all Global Positions are available as well as

1. js_profile_top - Placed between the Toolbar and the Profile Page.
2. js_profile_mine_top - Placed between the Toolbar and the Profile Page only for the profile owner
3. js_profile_feed_top - Placed before the Activity Stream section of the Profile Page.
4. js_profile_feed_bottom - Placed after the Activity Stream section of the Profile Page.
5. js_profile_side_top - Placed before any JomSocial content on the side column of Profile Page and after js_side_top.
6. js_profile_mine_side_top - Only shown to the owner of aprofile on top of the side column
7. js_profile_mine_side_bottom - Shown only to the owner of a profile at the bottom of side column
8. js_profile_side_bottom - Placed after any JomSocial content on the side column of the Profile Page and before js_side_bottom.
9. js_profile_mine_bottom - Placed at the bottom of the profile page and visible only for profile owner
10. js_profile_bottom - Placed at the bottom of Profile Page.

Groups Positions

All global positions are available on the individual group page and there are two more additional positions you can use

1. js_groups_side_top - Placed before any JomSocial content on the side column of the Groups Page and after js_side_top.
2. js_groups_side_bottom - Placed after any JomSocial content on the side column of the Groups Page and before js_side_bottom.

Events Positions

All Global Positions are available on Event Page as well as two more

1. js_events_side_top - Shown at the top of the side column in events page
2. js_events_side_bottom - Shown at the bottom of the side column in events page

Frontpage Positions

All global positions are available on this page. In addition, you can use one more position

1. JomSocial 4 js_side_frontpage_top - Top frontpage position. On clean installation will show Members and Who's Online modules.
2. js_side_frontpage - Middle frontpage position. On clean installation will show Photos and Videos module.
3. JomSocial 4 js_side_frontpage_bottom - Bottom frontpage position. On clean installation will show Group and Event modules

No Access Page

No access page features two module positions only

1. js_noaccess_top - Shown at the top of the page
2. js_noaccess_bottom Shown at the bottom of the page

Adding your own module position

You can add your module position name and insert it anywhere within any JomSocial template files. The code snippet that does that is:

Note that use the code between php tags

renderModules( 'yourModulePositionName' );