Live JomSocial totals in a publishable Joomla module

This job arises when a community site wants visitors to see activity and scale without maintaining figures by hand. Joomla can place modules in template positions and assign them to menu items, while a Custom module can display text or manually entered numbers. Its core modules do not, however, provide a built-in view of JomSocial's member, group or photo totals.

A template override is only useful when the required data and output already exist in a component or module. For live JomSocial figures, site owners generally need JomSocial-specific code or an extension. According to the listing, PluggerBox goes beyond Joomla core by reading those totals from JomSocial and letting administrators choose and relabel the figures displayed. It does not replace JomSocial; it presents data from it.

This is aimed at JomSocial community sites that want a small statistics block in a sidebar, footer or landing page, especially where the site team does not want to build and maintain a custom module. A standard Joomla site without JomSocial, or a community that does not need public counts, has no apparent use for it.

• The download is paid and licensed under GPLv2 or later.
• The listing identifies PluggerBox as the developer, shows no reviews, and offers no documentation.
• Check the price, support terms, the exact totals available, update policy and whether the module handles empty or private data as expected. The listing says it supports Joomla 4, 5 and 6 with PHP 8 or newer, but the software has not been tested here.

Listed on the Joomla Extensions Directory.