Configuration
The Configuration tab (Components > RSComments!, then click the "Options" button) is the place where general component settings can be adjusted. For better navigation, these have been divided into 5 tabs:
General
- Please enter your license code to receive updates: the license code required to receive updates. This is available in the rsjoomla.com > My Downloads area, after you have registered a domain.
- Date and Time Format: A mask used to display the date. This is based on the PHP date masks.
- Enable RSS: Enabling this option will display the RSS icon.
- Load Bootstrap: No / Yes
- Load jQuery in backend: No / Yes
- Load jQuery in frontend: No / Yes
- Load font Awesome: No / Yes
Comments list
- Comments per page: the maximum number of comments that will be displayed on a page
- Hide comments from these Joomla! categories: categories that RSComments! will not be displayed on(press CTRL to select multiple categories)
- Enable avatar: if this option is enabled, the comment will also display a image of the person who has submitted the comment. The avatar can be imported from: Gravatar, Community Builder, JomSocial, Kunena, Fireboard
- Show User Social Link: no link, Community Builder, JomSocial. The avatar can be linked to the listed profiles, depending on the installed components.
- Comments display order: Most recent first/last
- Show 'No comments' text: Yes / No - if enabled the text will be displayed if no comments are available
- Enable last edited text: enable this to show when and who edited the comment
- Enable reports: enable this to allow people to report comments
- Enable captcha for reports: before submitting a report, users will be prompted with captcha anti-spam security
- Enable Report notifications: if set to "yes" the a notification email can be sent when a report is submitted
- Report emails: Report notification emails will be sent to these email addresses, emails should be separated by using a comma
- Enable Email notifications: if set to "yes" the a notification email can be sent when a new comment is submitted
- Notification emails: Notification emails will be sent to these email addresses, emails should be separated by using a comma
Captcha
The Captcha tab offers some controls over the anti spam options that can be enabled on your commenting form:
- Spam protection: Built-in captcha / reCaptcha. RSComments! comes by default with a integrated captcha system but, if preferred, it can use reCaptcha
Built-in captcha
- Number of Characters: numerical value. This option allows you to set how many chars the built-in captcha will generate (does not apply if reCaptcha is used)
- Generate lines: if enabled some lines will be added to generated captcha image (built-in) making it harder for some spam boots to pass through
- Case sensitive: the validation of the generated chars will be case sensitive. For example, if the captcha generates "AB" the system will only validate "AB" not "ab"
reCAPTCHA (Legacy) Settings
- reCAPTCHA Public Key: key required to run the reCaptcha feature
- reCAPTCHA Private Key: key required to run the reCaptcha feature
- reCAPTCHA Theme: by default, reCaptcha offers the following display themes: red, white, black glass and clean
reCAPTCHA (New) Settings
- reCAPTCHA Site Key: you can get this by registering your domain on the Google reCAPTCHA account
- reCAPTCHA Secret Key: you can get this by registering your domain on the reCAPTCHA account
- reCAPTCHA Theme: chose the color theme of the reCAPTCHA widget
- Type (Fallback): chose the type of CAPTCHA to serve
Filters
The Filter tab allows you to set what words can be filtered upon posting a comment:
- Akismet key: to use the Akismet comment validation you will require a key. Using the Akismet option will provide some protection against spammers.
- Interval between posts: what time should pass before a new comment can be added by you.
- Word length: the maximum number of chars a word can have. This is useful for preventing the comment to break the layout.
- Hide comment limit: sets the limit of negative votes a comment has before gets automatically hidden, use 0 for no limit
- Add 'nofollow' attribute to the comment links: you can set this attribute to notify the search engines not to pass PageRank to the linked page.
- Forbidden names: the listed names can't be used when filling up the comment form(each on a new line).
- Censored words: a list of the words that will be censored. Each has to be separated by comma (,)
- Word replacement: the censored words(each on a new line) can be replaced with the configured chars. For example: *****
- Block users: listed users are not able to comment(each on a new line).
- Block IP's: listed IP's are not able to comment(each on a new line).
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