Are you creating your website using Joomla, and would you like to add Crowdfunding capabilities, and campaigns to your website? This tutorial will show you how you can quickly add a fully white labeled Crowdfunding campaign to your new or existing Joomla website.
This is the second article of the blog series for adding Crowdfunding features on your CMS website. Other articles include Drupal.
The solution described in this blog article can be used for any rewards/pre-order, or donations based Crowdfunding campaigns and paradigms. It is great for running a single campaign, or multiple campaigns on separate pages for any new or existing Joomla website using white label technology such as Atlas. To gain the capabilities to run a fully white labeled Crowdfunding campaign on your Joomla website, you need to subscribe to an Atlas subscription plan. The Micro subscription plan is great to use for this purpose. Included in the subscription plans is the Sedra widget. You can use the Sedra widget to host a campaign on any web page.
NOTE: To use the widget, you need to modify specific settings on the Joomla site to allow JavaScript to be posted on your pages.
Please note that it is recommended to read the following article to quickly set up the widget for this tutorial.
Creating a Crowdfunding campaign page on your Joomla site
Step 1: Subscribe to the Atlas subscription plan.
Step 2: Create the Crowdfunding campaign, and copy the widget code.
Step 3: Enable the settings to embed the widget code on your pages.
Go to the Admin dashboard, and click on the system dropdown menu as shown in the image below:
Choose the global configuration option in the drop down menu.
Once in the global configuration page, choose the text filters tab, and make sure that both the super user, and the administrator have the “no filter” option on.
Next, click on the extensions dropdown menu, and click on plugins option.
Once you arrive at the plugins page, search for the following “tinymce” and click on the option.
After choosing the TinyMCE option. The Set 0 tab, and scroll down to the prohibited elements field, and delete the items listed. Enter any text, for this example, we enter “blah” and save the settings.
Step 4: Create a new page, and paste the widget code.
Click on the content dropdown, and choose the article option, and create a new article.
Fill out the title, click on the toggle editor button on the bottom right of the content box, and paste the widget code.
Step 5: Save and preview the page.
That is how you can add any pre-order, rewards, and donations based Crowdfunding campaign on to your Joomla website. For a full and more detailed tutorial, you can watch the following video: