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Visit the inline ACL page on https://extensions.joomla.org. Click "Download" to go to the developer's site and find the file. Download the file to your desktop.

In your Joomla administrator area, go to Extensions >> Plugin Manager and enable the plugin.

In order to test out the inline ACL plugin, I went to Site >> User Manager and create three different users. Take note of their username and also their number in the right-hand column called "ID". You'll be able to use either the username or the ID# to show users different content:

Go to Content >> Article Manager and open up and article that you want to place content inside.

Use this formula for the code:

 {iACL type=username testa}Hi testa!{/iACL}

{iACL type=username testb}Hi testb!{/iACL}
{iACL type=username testc}Hi testc!{/iACL}

When the "testa" signs in, they will see "Hi testa!". When "testb" signs in, they will see "Hi testb!" and so on.

You can also do this by using the ID#s:

 {iACL type=userid 62}Hi testa!{/iACL}

{iACL type=userid 63}Hi testb!{/iACL}
{iACL type=userid 64}Hi testc!{/iACL}

When the user with ID# 62 signs in, they will see "Hi testa!". When the user with ID# 63 signs in, they will see "Hi testb!" and so on.

If you want to show content only to unregistered users, use this:

 {iACL type=userid 0}Hi unregistered users!{/iACL}

{iACL type=!userid 62}Your text{/iACL}

the content between the tags is invisible for the users with the specified IDs. Again you can target unregistered users by using ID# 0.

{iACL type=!username testa}Your text{/iACL}

the content between the tags is invisible for the users with the specified usernames.

{iACL type=group author,guest}Your text{/iACL}

the content between the tags is visible for the specified groups only. Possible values are: guest, registered, author, editor, publisher, manager, administrator, super administrator, special

{iACL type=!group author,guest}Your text{/iACL}

the content between the tags is invisible for the specified groups. Possible values are: guest, registered, author, editor, publisher, manager, administrator, super administrator, special

In order to integrate K2 and JComments you first need need to have both of them installed on your site.

If you haven't done so, you can find them on the K2 page on https://extensions.joomla.org and the JComments page on https://extensions.joomla.org.

In order to integrate the two extensions, we're going to need the JComments for K2 plugin that you can download from its page on https://extensions.joomla.org.

Upload this plugin to your Joomla site and then go to Extensions >> Plugin Manager >> K2 JComments Plugin and enable it.

That's it, you're done. Unfortunately it's not possible to import your K2 comments into JComments.

Go to the UserToolbar page on the Joomla Extensions Directory site and click Download.

You'll be taken to Joomlacode.org. Click on the link under "Files" and a file will be sent to your computer.

In the administrator area of your Joomla site, go to Extensions >> Install/Uninstall and click Browse. Find the file you just downloaded and then click Upload FIle & Install.

You should see a Congratulations message show that you've installed the component successfully.

Once you've installed the component, go to Components >> UserToolbar >> Button List

Click New in the top-right corner.

Here you can choose what you'd like to add to the toolbar on your site. In this example we'll choose an Internal Link.

Next we'll click on Articles, but in reality we could choose any element of our site.

Click Article Layout just as you would when creating a menu link.

You'll now see a very slightly modified version of the menu creation page. You can click on Select Article to find the page you want to link to. You can also enter a name that people will see on the front of the site. Finally, click the Icon link to choose from the default images or upload your own.

In this next example we're going to add a login module to the toolbar. In Components >> UserToolbar >> Button List >> New you can choose to add a Module.

Choose Login on the next page.

Now you'll see a modified version of the Login Module page. You can set a name and choose an icon as before. Save your choices.

Visit the front of your site and your toolbar will look like the one above. You can add many more items, linking to almost any page on your site or someone else's site. A common use for these toolbars is to add contact links plus social website links such as Facebook and Twitter.

Click on the Login link and you'll see the login box displayed in a pop-up.