Joomla! plugins are very useful gadgets that can take your VirtueMart theme to another level. We will discuss integration with the content plugin in this section.
We introduced Joomla! content plugins in Chapter 7, VirtueMart Templates and Joomla! Modules, when we discussed the product snapshot. VirtueMart snapshot plugin is not the only content plugin available. There are lots of content plugins available in the Joomla! extension directory (http://extensions.joomla.org). You can certainly integrate them into your theme if you want to.
As you will recall, content plugins are Joomla! extensions that will parse special tags in Joomla! content items and replace them with appropriate HTML code. For more detail about content plugins, you can refer to the Joomla! wiki site (http://docs.joomla.org/Plugin). Here are some of the HTML code that can be inserted into the content items:
Image: Usually you just need to specify the image filename in a certain...