Basic Setup

Getting Ninjamonials installed is a fairly straightforward process:

That's it for basic installation. You should now be able to add some testimonials to your site.

Using NinjaMonials is equally simple. We recommend the following process:

  1. When new Testimonials have been submitted they will initially be unpublished (unless you have turned Autopublish on in the settings) to protect your users from negative, insulting or crude submissions
  2. You should either install the Admin Notification module, or set up an email address for email notification in the parameters screen to be notified when new testimonials have been added
  3. Once new testimonials have been added, review them, edit or delete them if needed and publish those you wish to display.
  4. We recommend not allowing users to enter a summary themselves. Instead you should enter it after reading their testimonial and choosing the best sentence to include. Then use this summary for the rotator module or plugin.

Tips and Advanced Usage

How do I change the style output?

If you don't like any of the included styles, you can edit one to make your own style of testimonial display. You can find the files in: [joomla site root]/media/com_ninjamonials/styles/[style name].

Don't forget though, that Ninjamonials is a true Joomla MVC component, so you are more than welcome to make your own template overrides for even more control. Or you can disable the Ninjamonials CSS totally and edit your template's CSS files instead.

What is the summary field for?

The summary field is primarily for use with the rotator modules or plugins, but you can display it on the main component if you like. It is intended for use by the site owner not visitors, and allows you to trim down a testimonial and choose the best sentence to display when you only have limited space available.

This is because visitors will leave testimonials ranging from a few words to a few paragraphs. Especially for the rotator modules, you may wish to use a limited portion of a long testimonial (for space saving reasons) while keeping the entire text available if a visitor wishes to read it all.

Can I add images to testimonials?

Yes you can, either from the front end or the back end.

Why not just use the member avatars for the images?

Manual pictures are preferable over avatars because avatars very rarely are actual photos of the real user. Showing avatars without checking them could result in anything being displayed.

Showing random avatars is also not usually very professional as it appears as though the person may not be real.

However we do realize that in some cases, using member avatars may be a better option, so we will be implementing various integrations with popular community components in the near future.

How do I change the text on the form, or the page title?

All language strings can be edit via our lanugage editor in the administrator area. Just find the one you want and make your changes.

Can I add a new field? I want to collect visitor's age (or something)?

Right now we don't have custom fields available (planned for a future version!), but if there are any other fields you aren't using then you can just change the language file entries for these and rename them to suit your needs. e.g. change "Location" into "Age"

Trouble Shooting FAQ

My testimonials don't appear.

Check that all the testimonials are currently published and that you haven't configured the display to show an empty ctegory (if using categories).