List the Highest Rated Content

Comments gives you the ability to display, in a module, a list of the highest rated Joomla articles and other supported content (like JXtended Magazine articles).

Module Options

This module has the following options available:

• Context - This setting lets you specify whether to show links to the highest rated content for any content, or limited to a particular context such as just Joomla Articles, just JXtended Catalog Items, and so on.
  
• Limit - The number of links to display.
• Show Stars - Optionally show the rating visually using rating stars for each item in the list.
• Show Text - Optionally show the rating as text for each item in the list.

Advanded Options

• Cache - Optionally select whether to cache the output of this module.
• Cache Time - The time, in minutes, before the module output is refreshed.

For assistance with creating and maintaining Joomla modules, see the official Joomla documentation:

• http://docs.joomla.org/Screen.modules.15
• http://docs.joomla.org/Screen.modules.edit.15

Customization

This page may be customized using the Joomla 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 directory in which Joomla is installed.  When looking a files you need to create, it is assumed that you will create the necessary folders if they don't already exist in each case.  The directory default_template refers to the template that is set as the default for your site.  Please replace this name with the actual name of the template directory.

To create the layout override for this page, find the file:

/modules/mod_comments_highest_rated/tmpl/default.php

Copy this to:

/templates/default_template/html/mod_comments_highest_rated/default.php

Make the desired adjustments to the source code to the new file you created and then save it.  Your changes should be reflected when you refresh the appropriate page.

For more information on layout overrides, see http://www.theartofjoomla.com/topics/layout-overrides.html