Introduction

Snippets is a Joomla administrator component with a system plugin and an editor button. It lets you manage reusable pieces of content and place them through a simple tag:

{snippet alias="my-first-snippet"}

The tag remains visible while you edit the article, module, or other editor content. When Joomla renders the page, Snippets replaces it with the current content of that snippet.

Edit the snippet once and its output changes everywhere that tag is used.

Free and Pro

Both editions let you create and categorize snippets, insert them by ID, alias, or title, use the administrator editor button, and control their normal output behavior.

Snippets Pro adds variables and fallbacks, If Structures, Dynamic Tags, the Variables Fill Wizard, frontend editor-button availability, and per-snippet control over editor-button lists.

Snippets or Content Templater?

Snippets keeps a tag in the item and resolves it whenever the page is rendered. If you want to insert content permanently into the editor so it can then be changed independently, use Content Templater.

Snippets or ReReplacer?

Snippets is designed for reusable content made with Joomla's standard editor. For arbitrary search-and-replace rules, custom plugin-style tags, regular expressions, or PHP replacements, use ReReplacer.