A Mambot (soon to be renamed plugin) is a small add-on for the Joomla! Content Management System.   Joomla! supports a  number of different categories of Plugin(Mambots)but the ones we are most interested in are content plugins. The great thing about a content plugin is that they intercept content and manipulate it in some way immediately prior to display.

Plugins - what they look like

Typically mambots take the form of text commands embedded within curly braces (brackets)
Chances are that the wysiwyg editor that you use to draft your own articles has a couple of buttons which will produce some plugin (mambot) tags for you. The next time you are editing content on your site look around your editor for mosimage and mospagebreak buttons.

Plugins (mambots) you may already be familiar with:

The most used plugins within Joomla are [mosimage] and [mospagebreak]

note 1: I have used square brackets for demonstration - if I used real curly braces (brackets) they would be executed by Joomla)

note 2: a curly brace is like an elongated S reflected below itself - on my UK keyboard they are on the same keys as the square brackets but require the shift key.

My Plugin - mosAPF

Many components now provide optional plugins (mambots) to add extra functionality to your site. The Amazon Products Feed Bridge also has a mambot and it is potentially a real winner. If you want an easy way to link to products in your store that are related to your articles or if you would like to bring product details directly into your articles please read more about mosAPF.