Top of the Page
The problem with creating "Return to Top" links in content is that they do nothing for SEO and can even detract from it, and they can clutter your page. When you have a very long page, how do you decide where to put them? Do you need more than one?
Top of the Page removes these concerns by creating a "Return to Top" link when the page has been scrolled by a certain (administrator) designated distance. When the page is scrolled back to the top (above the designated distance), the link disappears. If your page is short and users can't scroll down the designated distance, the link will never be visible and cannot cause disruption.
Your button can be text or images - the style is set by CSS in the plugin configuration, so you're not limited to any included images. The text is set using standard Joomla translation files, and can be overridden using the Joomla Language Manager in your /administrator interface.
Your site isn't about "Return to Top" or "Back to Top", so why confuse your SEO by creating links? There is no need to put links to named anchors in your content which can negatively effect SEO. "Top of the Page" links are automatically created by this plugin and float in the designated position regardless of your position on the page. The administrator also has the option to enable Smooth Scroll, along with scroll speed, CSS options and more! And, it's invisible to search engines!
You've seen a similar implementation here in the JED (look in the lower right corner), but the JED uses a JQuery implementation while "Top of the Page" is configurable to use either MooTools or jQuery so you can load the correct Javascript framework and keep your pages loading fast!
In MooTools mode, this plugin implements ScrollSpy and SmoothScroll, both by David Walsh ( http://davidwalsh.name ).
By Popular Demand: Option to omit the link text for users who want to use an image. No more making language overrides to accomplish this simple requirement!
By Less-than-popular Demand: Tweaked code to prevent adding the anchor to the URL as well as Fx.Transitions/jQuery.transitions (all 37/34 of them respectively) - added for completeness, and because someone copied my extension and added 7 transitions so he could release it as his own.
Version 1.21 resolves a strange IE incompatibility that causes the URL to be returned as an object instead of a string.
Version 1.22 adds jQuery library option.
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Advantages: Support for Joomla 1.6, 1.7, 2.5. Ease of installation and ease of customization. Multilanguage support. Flexible styling button. Support as a button as text and images.
Disadvantages: Sometimes problems arise when using Progressive caching Joomla 2.5. In this case there are two buttons.
Very easy to use navigation element. On my site 33% clicks on the home page - this button.
Support - good.
I use this plugin on the blog site and site post-graduate .
Engaged in web technologies since March 2007. Use Joomla since December 2009.
I've revised the plugin (version 1.14) to behave properly with Joomla cache. The plugin now handles invalid base tags correctly. Additionally, the JavaScript has been rewritten into a Mootools Class which is more compact and concise.
it redirect to my home page like this www.example.com/#topofthepage
any solution..plz help
If you are using joomsef, you need to turn the base tag setting off... it does not create a valid base tag.
Anyway I didn't figure out how to substitute the button with an image (this, I suppose, because I'm not an expert of javascript)
The curse of being a developer is that I understand everything I do, and just about everything everyone else does because I read their code... So, when I write an extension - It makes perfect sense to me.
Several of my extensions have the capability for very advanced/complicated configurations. Top of the Page is one of them.
I plan on writing some in-depth how-to articles about my extensions in the future.
Email me and I'll be happy to give a step-by-step to achieve your goal.
It does what it should do, is very easy to install, configure and style.
I was using an outdated version and noticed a tiny bug. I contacted the author and received a reply within hours, together with the latest version, 1.12. The tiny bug was fixed in this version and it has even more configuration options.
A must have.
Decided to give it another try now and was determined to work on any issues - but, there weren't any!
So the new version worked right out of the box now - great!
CSS can be directly edited in the backend. Try border-radius and box-shadow!
Also, with Joomla 2.5 it is now even easier to replace the default text ("return to top"): Simply go to the language overrides in the Joomla backend and add a rule for "PLG_SYS_TOPOFTHEPAGE_GOTOTOP". In my case I used "↑" (arrow pointing up), which works in most languages ;-)
Support is also helpful and quick - I had little problem with my site and author helped me quickly and solved my problem in 100%. I recommend this component for all Joomla users :)
One more thing: My template has a "Go to Top" link in it, but it wouldn't work with the Slider extension. (My template "Go to Top" link kept setting up a link like '.../page#last-slide-name#top'. Since that anchor didn't exist, the link went nowhere.) "Top of the Page" works perfectly every time - even with Slider links open or closed.
THANK YOU and GOD BLESS!
Yeah, z-index can't be anticipated. I never know what environment my plugin will be installed, so I can't anticipate everything. I can, however, provide options ;)
Like you said, CSS is right there - and that's why it's there. Glad you like the plugin!
For improvement it would be nice to include parameters that make it available to put in own text for the "Return to top" that is automatically generated.
Otherwise. Highly recommended. :)
Good job :)
I considered adding a field for the button text, but that would prevent use in multi language sites. Using the language override capabilities of joomla is the recommended method.
One remark : why is it installed with such an incomplete oldfashioned CCS preset ?
I added rounded corners, removed the underline, added a modern font and it looked great.
OLD FASHIONED!?!?
Yeah, I guess you're right. I didn't want to presume that I could create a perfect output which would work with every color scheme, so I made output that would stand out against most color schemes.
For me it was important to make it easy to style so site administrators didn't need to do anything other than configure the plugin.
Thank you developer
Thank you for your kind words.
I wanted to provide that seamless experience, with all of the flexibility I required when implementing it in my own projects. Everything needed to be customizable! I'm glad it works for you and everyone who's given positive reviews (and even those who haven't)
Is there a way to put graphics instead of text?
That can be done using CSS settings in the plugin configuration.
