JComments

JComments - comment extension for Joomla

The JComments allows to website visitors to leave comments to any published materials. It provides the flexible system of access rights settings, wide possibilities of custom view setting, uses the AJAX technology and provides many other features.

Main features

  • Allows turning on/off the comment system for categories, single material as well as for static material.
  • Allows automatically to publish the comments for existent users' groups.
  • Setup the edit/delete rights for existent users' groups.
  • The spambots and flood protection.
  • Informs the administrator about new comments.
  • Allows users to be informed about new comments.
  • Possibility to edit comments from front-end.
  • Possibility to display comments page by page and custom view of page numbers position.
  • Setup the comments display order. (the last comment in the beginning or otherwise in the end of the list)
  • Supports smiles, allows to customize their display order in the list, and allows to assign symbol combination, which can be converted into smiles.
  • Supports the BBCode with possibility to setup the access rights to tags for different users' groups.
  • Supports "hot" keys to send comments or insert BBCode tags.
  • Usage of AJAX technology allows to add, delete and edit comments without page reloading.
  • Allows to show the comment adding rules to some users' groups.
  • Supports RSS-feeds for comments on any material or for all comments.
  • Supports the template system to customize the view.
  • Possibility to show and check the "Website address" and "Email" fields in edit form.
  • A simple filter of unquotable words.
  • Multilingual support (russian, ukrainian, belorussian, bulgarian, english, german, latish, italian, turkish).
  • Supports the search within comments by help of search mambot.

Additional features

  • Automatically removes repeated line breaks.
  • Setup the minimum/maximum username length.
  • Possibility to forbid usage of some user logins.
  • Possibility to setup the maximum allowed comments length.
  • Definition of the external links in comments text.
  • Check the duplicate presence while adding comment.
  • Built-in protection of e-mail addresses in comments from spambots.
  • The technology to avoid the design break by very long links or words.
  • Allows automatically to remove nested quoting in comment.
  • Allows automatically to delete prohibited or unsupported BBCode tags in comments.

Import of comments/reviews from other components.

JComments supports import from other commenting components what significantly simplifies the migration process from your commenting system to JComments. Currently JComments allows to import data from 16 other commenting components. Please refer to section Data import in JComments for more details.

Access rights setup

In administration panel you can set up for each user group (including unregistered) their rights to different functions of the component.

For example, you can switch off spam protection for registered users and leave it on for unregistered users, further you can allow for registered users to use only basic BBCode tags (I,B,S,U) and for authors and above to use links and images tags. So you can configure what rights have each group of users.

License

JComments is released under the GNU GPL license and is distributed for free.

Compatibility

The JComments is completely compatible with Joomla 3.x, Joomla 2.5 and Joomla 1.5.

Comments integration to other components.

The component can be integrated with any other Joomla extension. Currently it supports 27 most popular Joomla components. The detailed integration manuals can be found in JComments integration to third-party components.

JComments Roadmap

What is planned for future versions:

  • User's possibility to choose the comments template.
  • Possibility to limit the comments publishing in time. (for example, one month later after first comment) etc.
  • Possibility to customize the comments in different components. (for example, for articles one view and rights and for galleries other)
  • Option to hide the comments with lower rate then determined in setting as lowest.
 
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