Joomla Ideal Related Articles Extension

Ideal Related Articles (iRelated) displays related articles to Joomla articles. Quickly increase your readers' engagement with your articles by adding Ideal Related Articles inside your content. Automatically added Related Articles can increase your internal traffic up to 10%. Just install and activate. To attract attention and improve SEO you can manually link out to Related Articles across the web from the Article Edit Screen in Joomla back-end. Search for articles and hand-pick them with ease using the Ajax Auto Complete Search in the administrator area. Plugin supports different styles, thumbnails and it is fully customizable.

With Ideal Related Articles you can also:

- Display Google AdSense ads in articles;
- Add Custom CSS rules into all content items;
- Add Copyright Information to the bottom of the clipboard when the user copies an article or pressed the 'Ctrl + c' hotkeys;
- Auto Generate Meta Keywords based on the Article content;
- Display Related Articles in a module position;

Related article mode includes:

- Manual: You can handpick which related articles you want for each article;
- Keywords: You can choose to relate articles based on the Keywords meta tag;
- Tags: Will use Joomla core tags component to display related articles;
- Mixed: Will load related articles using Manual + Keywords + Tags modes in order to make sure every article has related articles;

Ideal Related Articles has several advantages when compared to Joomla! related articles and to the competitors:

Some of it's features:

- Increases the time the user spends in your website. As your visitors reads the article, they are presented with links to articles that are related to the one that is displayed;
- The content editor can manually set the related articles, in order to improve accuracy. However there is also an automatic mode, which displays the related articles based on keywords;
- Decreases user bounce rate: Because the content plugin displays related article in the middle of content, if the user does not like the current content is more likely to click on a related article than hitting the browser's back button;
- Improves Search Engine Optimization for your website (by adding the article's Keywords at the end of the content);
- More visually appealing: With the plugin you can display part of the article's text and a thumbnail image, which is created automatically using the first image in the article;
- Extra: The content plugin has an extra option: you can load custom code in selected paragraphs. Ideal for a note to your users in HTML OR a Javascript code, Google AdSense code for instance ;-)

- The package contains a Content Plugin and a module;

How the Content Plugin works:

It counts the number of paragraphs and inserts a "block" of "Related Articles" after the configured position(s);

Exclusions

Under some circumstances you might not want to load the plugin, so we've prepared a few options for you:
Exclude - Mobile browsers: If enabled the plugin will not be executed when the site is viewed from a mobile browser;
- Exclude Articles: Disable the plugin for selected menu items separated by comas;
- Exclude Menu items: Disable the plugin for the selected menu items;
- Exclude Categories: Disable a plugin for the selected categories. If you want to disabled it from the children categories you will have to select them as well;
- Exclude UserGroups: Plugin will not be loaded for the selected usergroups;
- Exclude from templates: Plugin will not be loaded for the selected templates;
- Block IPs: In order to disable the plugin for some IP addresses, enter one or more IP addresses separated by comas;

Add Copyright

Add Copyright Information to the bottom of the clipboard when the user copies an article or pressed the 'Ctrl + c' hotkeys;

Meta Keywords

Can be configured to add Meta Keywords based on most common words in article. Will only be executed if article has no Meta Keywords on content save OR on page load on both;

Custom Code

With Custom Code you can add ANY content to any part of article.This may include Javascript (including Google AdSense code) or HTML. This code can be placed in one or more positions.
Available positions:
- Fixed paragraphs: You can choose after which paragraphs you want to display the this custom code. Just enter multiple paragraphs numbers separated by commas;
- Middle of the content: The plugin will count how many paragraphs an article has and place the Custom Code in the middle of the content;
- After Content: The Custom Code will be inserted after the content;
- Middle and after content: The plugin will insert the Custom Code in the middle and after the content;

Tags (Create tags from Keywords)

The content plugin also has the option to display the article's keywords as tags, which will link to Joomla! Search Component; This also helps to improve the amount of time the user spends on the site and will add more pages indexed on search engines, which may result in more traffic from search engines;
Available Options:
- Position to load: Hide, before content, after content OR before and after content;
- Set Itemid: Force tag links to use the Itemid of the selected Menu item. Recommended in order to enhance SEF and to better control how the page will look like;
- Tag Style: Choose a styling for your tags. You can change the styling in the CSS files in this directory: /administrator/components/com_irelated/assets/css/tags/
- Word list separator: in case you do not load any Tag Style you can separate tags by a separator such as a comma , or pipe | for example;

Updates

Versions 5.2 (February/20/2024):

New features: Introduced options to ignore, exclude, and require tags when utilizing the Metakey mode. This enhancement offers increased flexibility and compatibility, particularly with the Mighty Sites Extension.
Improvement: Addressed deprecated warnings to ensure smoother functionality and enhanced performance.