RSMonials – Documentation and Support

RSMonials is a Joomla Component that works natively in Joomla 1.5.x environment. This is a very simple and user friendly testimonial component. Using this component you can easily able to accept comments / feedback / review / testimonials from your clients or visitors. This is a free component. The features included:

Front End:

  • Display all active testimonials / comments / feedback / review.
  • Visitor can submit a feedback.
  • If you approve the feedback from back-end it will start to display.
  • Secured form by Captcha. (Re-Captcha Enabled).

Back End:

  • Add Testimonials.
  • Edit Testimonials.
  • Delete Testimonials.
  • Publish/Unpublish Testimonials.
  • Manage Front-end display using CSS.
  • Manage Language Specific Content.
  • Easily configure the basic features of the component.

How To Use the Component (Steps):

  1. Download and Install this Component. If you are Upgrading this Component please read the next point.
  2. In case of Upgrade just unistall the previous version first and then install the new version. Do not worry, this process will not delete any “Testimonial” that you have already in your website. But you need to re-configure your settings once again. After you install the new one please access this component and configure the “Settings” and “Language” tab as per your needs. That’s all.
  3. Now go to “Components” => “RSMonials”
  4. Access “Testimonials” tab to Add/Edit/Delete/Publish/Unpublish your testimonials.
  5. Access “Settings” tab to set some basic settings. You can set the following settings:
    1. Name of Administrator
    2. Email Address of Administrator
    3. Display “Testimonial Submission Form” in front end or not.
    4. Show/Hide “About You” field.
    5. Show/Hide “Your Location” field.
    6. Show/Hide “Your Website” field.
    7. Show/Hide “Image Upload and Display” field.
    8. Enable/Disable Captcha Verification.
    9. Enable/Disable ReCaptcha Library.
    10. On/Off Automatic approval of newly submitted testimonials.
    11. Enable/Disable Pagination.
    12. Set how many testimonial will display in a page.
    13. Manage alignment of the pagination text.
    14. On/Off “Administrator Email Alert” for newly submitted testimonials.
  6. Access “Display Style” tab to set some basic display style settings. You can set the following settings:
    1. Border Style of Testimonial Display Block.
    2. Background Color of Testimonial Display Block.
    3. Style of Quotation Images.
    4. Default image for testimonials in no image is found.
    5. Image Position.
    6. Image Width.
    7. Show/Hide Date.
  7. Add one Menu Item to display RSMonials component in front-end:
    1. Go to “Menus” => “{YOUR-MENU-NAME}”
    2. Select “New” button from top-right of the page.
    3. Now select “Select Menu Item Type” => “Internal Link” => “RSMonials”.
    4. Then add “Title” of the menu and click “Save” button at the top-right of the page.
  8. If your website is MULTILINGUAL OR if your website is not in ENGLISH OR if you want to modify the text that is displaying in the front end then please do the following steps:
    1. Go to “Components” => “RSMonials” => “Language”.
    2. Then select the proper language file from the list and “Edit”. That’s all.
    3. If you think you made some mistake and the component is not working properly for that mistake, then just click the “Restore” button of the language file. It will again restore the default settings in the language file. Then again you can edit that as per your requirement.
  9. If you notice that the image uploading is not working in your website, that should be the permission issue. To solve this issue just login to your server using FTP account and then change the permission (CHMOD) of “/components/com_rsmonials/images/” folder to “777″ or “755″. Hopefully this will solve the issue.
  10. That’s All. Now your testimonials will display in the front end. Site visitors now also able to submit their testimonials.

Now 2 modules are also available to use with our RSMonials component:

  1. RS-Monials Module: Using this module you can able to display testimonials randomly or serially.
  2. RS-MonialScroller Module: Using this module you can able to display all of your testimonials in a module position with auto scroller.

Support: For any kind of query please mail us at support[@]rswebsols[.]com (Please do not forget to mention the extension name and the version)

 

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