Customization for Designers

Comments allows you to optionally collect a web site URL from the comment poster.  At present (and this may change in a future version), this field can be used for non-URL purposes to collect different information.  For example, you may like the poster to enter the their country or locality.  To do this, we can use the Joomla layout override system to change the URL link into...

All fixed text in the Comment component, the modules and plugins are controlled by language files.  These files can be altered to suit the terminology on your site.  Please note though, custom changes to these files will be overwritten when you upgrade the Comments extension. The following files control the text in the Comments...

When submitting a comment, the email field is mandatory (this is set at the program level and cannot be changed).  However, it is possible to workaround this required field in the case where you want a visitor to post a comment without providing their email address.  You can do this by creating a layout override for this the comments module. The directory default_template refers to...

This tutorial explains how to move the comments, ratings and/or bookmarks above the article separator.  To achieve this we use Joomla's layout override system.  You need to be able to create new files and edit them on your web hosting site using FTP or other tools that are available to you (contact your web host if you need more information). All file paths are relative to the...