August.09.2011

The following instructions apply to Yt JComment Version 1.0 and later.

Installation

Please make sure that you have the zip file of module from our site.
In Administrator, please go to Extensions => Install/ Uninstall, please choose to upload the zip file to install
Finally, navigate to Extensions -> Module manager, find Yt JComment module and publish the module. To edit the module parameters, simply click on its name “Yt jComment” module.

Requirements

• Joomla! v1.5.x latest stable version is highly recommended.
• JComment Component latest stable version is highly recommended.
• You also have to make sure that Joomla's /cache folder is writable, in other words, check that the permissions for this folder are 755 or 777.

Setting

The parameters are divided into the following areas:

• General Settings
• Title Options And Link Options
• Image Options
• Theme, Other Options
• Advanced Parameters

Let's examine all the settings in detail:

• General Settings

  

  • Module Class Suffix : please refer here http://docs.joomla.org/Module_class_suffixes
  • Width Module: Allows you to add a width for the module.
  • Select Option:
    • Section: show the section list in content component
    • Category: show the category list in content component
  • Select Categories or Sections : here you can choose some categories or sections which you want to read articles for the module
  • Total articles: allow you to limit the number of article
  • Column number: the column number for each theme
  • For frontpage articles: Allow you to filter articles with 3 options
    • Hide frontpage articles : hide articles which are frontpage article
    • Show frontpage articles only : Show frontpage article only
    • Include frontpage articles: Show all articles
  • Sort order by: Allow you to sort order articles by
    • Most comments : show articles which have the number of comment is biggest
    • Least comments: opposite with most comments
    • Most Popular: Show articles which have more hits
    • Least Popular: opposite with most popular
    • Recently Added First: Show latest articles
    • Recently Modified First: Show latest modified articles
    • Ordering
    • Title: sort order by alphabet
    • Random
• Title Options And Link Options

  

  • Show title of article: Allow to show/hide article title
  • Max length of article titles: The number of characters of title
  • Show read more link: Show/Hide Read more link
  • Read more text : Change read more text
  • Link for article title: enable/disable link for article title
  • Color of article title: a value hexadecimal code. Example: #E32636 or #FF7E00.Also, you can use color text: red, blue, white
  • Show date of comment: enable/disable comment’s date
  • Show count of comments: enable/disable the total of comment in an article
  • Link for commenter title: enable/disable the link for author
  • Max length of commenter title
  • Color of commenter title: a value hexadecimal code. Example: #E32636 or #FF7E00.Also, you can use color text: red, blue, white
  • Characters of comment:
    • Count characters: use for Remove html tags of comment description
    • Use entire description text: show all the content of comment without cutting
  • Remove html tags of comment description
    • Keeping HTML code: the module will keep html code in comment
    • Removing HTML code: the module will remove all html code before cutting
  • Max length of comment: the number of characters of comment. Example: 100
  • Color of comment
• Image Options

  

  • Show avatar of commenter or image of article: show/hide image in the module
  • Choosing commenter avatar or article image:
    • Avatar: show user’s avatar in the module
    • Item Image: use article image to show in the module
  • Link for avatar or article image: Enable/Disable the link for image
  • Thumbnail width of avatar or article image
  • Thumbnail height of avatar of article image
  • Resizing image
    • Using Resize
    • Using crop
  • Open Link
    • Same Window
    • New Window : open the link in new window
    • Popup: open the link in new window without navigation
• Theme, Other Options

  

  • Select a theme. Please see demo
    • Theme1
    • Theme2
    • Theme3
    • Theme4
  • Intro text: the content to show at the top of module
  • Footer text: the content to show at the end of module
• Advanced Parameters

  

  • Caching:
  • Do not use Cache: Turn off caching
  • Use Cache: Turn on caching
  • Cache Times: the time to cache
  • Include jQuery Library: enable/disable jquery library. If the template is loading a jquery library, you can turn off jquery of the module to do your site loading faster