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The plugin comes in two forms: this is the commercial version. It is similar to the free version but contains many additional features:it comes with a variety of extra layouts, the ability to display additional images for the product, and a more sophisticated add to cart button. It allows you to display a product thumbnail with a link to a lightbox full size image. The pro version supports a choice of lightboxes: the Joomla modal lightbox; slimbox and JCE mediabox. With the pro version you can also specify the image sizes as parameters rather than being limited to the default Virtuemart thumbnail sizes.
You can see some examples of the layouts here.
The product information is embedded into the article with some very simple embedding code, it can be as simple as the following:-
{product id=51}
Most options can be set through adding additional parameters to the embedding code. All the output is controlled through templates (which can be overridden in your site template), making it easy to customize the layout as you require with some basic knowledge of html and css.
Read the documentation for further information.
Joomla 2.5.x and Virtuemart 2.0.x
Joomla content plugins are supported by the Joomla core content component, also by many other CCKs and articles components, such as K2. If you have any doubts about whether your preferred component will be compatible with the plugin, we suggest that you download the free version of the plugin and check for yourself before buying.