The ZOO Apps
Managing Content Types
Start with one of the 14 prebuilt apps to manage your content types. Choose between apps rendered with the YOOtheme Pro page builder or stand-alone apps which have their own layouts.
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Kitchen Daily
Publish your recipes, cooking videos and daily tips.
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Creative Hub
Showcase companies with their projects and clients.
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Tech Space
Create a product catalog or an E-commerce shop for your products.
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Framerate
Present movie and TV show reviews along with their actors.
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Design Bites
Create a download directory to share your design resources.
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Blog Pro
Create a blog to showcase your daily news and inspirations.
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Blog
Easily build your own blog with comments, tags and social buttons.
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Product Catalog
Create a clearly arranged catalog with lots of built-in features.
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Cookbook
Build a tasty recipe database, tag and rate your favorite meals.
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Movie Database
Create a review resource of your favorite movies and actors.
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Business Directory
Manage companies, addresses and employees with ease.
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Download Archive
Provide downloads that are protected from direct linking.
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Documentation
Create complex documentations with syntax highlighting.
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Pages
You need to create simple static content pages? Here you go!
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User Interface
Content Management Made Easy
The ZOO CCK is perfectly integrated into the Joomla user interface. Manage all your
apps and their content types, categories, tags and comments.
Custom Fields
Add Your Content Types
The content builder is used to create custom content types. Any combination of custom fields is possible to build the content type you need.
Form Elements
Form elements are the essential part of content type construction. They save all text information to be displayed in the frontend of your website.
| Name | Description | Repeatable | Submittable | Docs |
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| Text | Single line input field | View | ||
| Textarea | Multi-column text field | View | ||
| Radio | Group of radio buttons | - | View | |
| Select | Dropdown select box with optional multiple selections | - | View | |
| Checkbox | Group of checkboxes | - | View | |
| Link | Link with options for the title, target and rel attribute | View | ||
| Email with optional subject or body – supports email cloaking | View | |||
| Date | Display dates and allow selection through a date picker. | View |
Media Elements
ZOO offers various elements to display all kinds of media. For example, you can display single images or galleries with lightboxes, slideshows and integrated thumbnail creation.
| Name | Description | Submittable | Docs |
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| Image | Display an image which can be resized – supports custom links and titles. | View | |
| Media | Display HTML5 video and audio formats and videos from YouTube and Vimeo. | View | |
| Download | Display a downloadable file which can be protected from direct linking. | View | |
| Gallery | Image gallery based on the Widgetkit Gallery with Slideshow, Spotlight and Lightbox. | - | View |
Social Elements
Social elements allow your users to communicate and interact with you and each other through your website. These elements are typically used for blogs but can also add a social feel to any type of app.
| Name | Description | Submittable | Docs |
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| Rating | Display an ajaxed based rating system between 3 and 10 stars. | - | View |
| Social Buttons | Display Facebook Like and Twitter Tweet buttons. | - | View |
| Social Bookmarks | Display icons for Google, Facebook, Reddit, Twitter and Email to share items. | - | View |
Web Service Elements
These elements implement 3rd party web applications for various purposes – most of them are social web services. Usually, you must have an account at the respective third-party website to use their service.
| Name | Description | Submittable | Docs |
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| Google Maps | Display any item on Google Maps. | View | |
| Disqus | Integrate Disqus comment service. | - | View |
| Flickr | Integrate Flickr photo sharing service. | - | View |
Other Elements
This set of elements extends your item’s functionality and also the way your content relates.
| Name | Description | Submittable | Docs |
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| Group | Display repeatable groups of text, textarea and image fields. | View | |
| Related Items | Display related items from any ZOO app. | View | |
| Related Categories | Display any related categories. | View | |
| Joomla Module | Display any Joomla module in the item. | - | View |
| Country | Display a dropdown select box of all countries with optional multiple selections. | View | |
| Widgetkit | Display Widgetkit widgets anywhere in ZOO. | - | View |
Powerful CCK Features
Get Everything You Need for Building Amazing Websites
Custom Types
Use your custom content types to create all the items you need, e.g. articles, movies or different product types.
Element Library
Choose from a rich set of elements like forms, images, videos, ratings and more to build custom types.
Template Manager
Arrange your content via drag & drop! Just assign the elements to lay out positions in pre-built templates.
Widgetkit Integration
Combine the power of ZOO and Widgetkit to create slideshows, galleries and more based on ZOO items.
Comment System
Nested comments with spam protection and support for Gravatar, Twitter and Facebook are included.
Tag System
Managing your tags is a breeze with text suggestions, auto completion and multiple selections.
Frontend Submission
Use our drag & drop form builder to let your users submit content from the frontend of your website.
Frontend Editing
Trusted authors can review and manage created content directly from the frontend of your website.
Importers
Automatically import your content from Joomla, CSV files and popular Joomla components.
More Features
- Unlimited Apps and Content Types
- Extendible App Parameters
- Pre-built Template Layouts
- Lots of Style Settings
- Automatic Image Sizing and Caching
- Render Templates for Elements
- Repeat Functionality for Elements
- Powerful Related Items Element
- Drag & Drop Category Sorting
- Extend Categories With Fields
- Multiple Category Item Assignment
- Advanced Item Ordering
- Automatically Generated Slugs
- Easy Upgrades That Preserve Settings
- Support & Regular Updates
- jQuery for All Scripts
- Built for Developers
- Use Events to Hook Into ZOO
- Email Notification for Comments
- Akismet Spam Protection
- Avatars Provided by Gravatar Service
- Black List Comments by IP & more
- Automatic URL Linking in Comments
- Highlighted Author Comments
- UTF-8 Characters in Alpha Index
- Alpha Index for Categories & Items
- Blog Template for Warp Themes
- Google Maps Integration
- Item Module With Its Own Layouts
- Tag Cloud Module
- Latest Comments Module
- Joomla Search Plugin
- Natural Language Search
- Fast Search Index
- Admin Quick Icon Module
- Shortcodes Show Content Anywhere
- Native Joomla SEF Support
- Joomla Plugins Work Inside ZOO
- Email Notification for Submissions
