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 in frontend: No / Yes
• Load font Awesome in backend: No / Yes
• Store IPs: No / Yes
• Require consent: No / Yes
• Default Modal: choose either Joomla! Bootstrap v2 modal or Magnific Popup when opening frontend modal links.
• Clear cache: No / Yes. This will clear the site cache for pages that have RSComments! on.
• Enable content prepare: No / Yes. Enable this to load content plugin in the comment.

Comment form

• Comment form position: can be Below the comment list or Above the comment list
• Author name: Joomla! name / username. In the author area of the comment the name or username can be displayed
• Show form labels: If enabled the form fields labels will be shown.
• Enable location: This will allow users to share their location (if enabled, a new field will appear - Google Maps API Key).
• Anonymous comments: Yes / No, enabling this option will not make the Name and Email address required anymore
• Show subject: Yes / No, if enabled a subject text box will be added to the commenting form
• Show website: Yes / No, if enabled a web text box will be added to the commenting form
• Add rel='nofollow' to website : this will prevent search engines to follow foreign links on your website. This will only be added for links that are added via the website field
• Enable smiles: emoticon buttons will be displayed in the comment submission form
• Enable BBCode: the BBCode bar will displayed in the comment submission form (if user has enough RSComments! group permissions)
• Enable votes: enabling this option will allow visitors to vote for comments (if visitor has enough RSComments! group permissions)
• Show 'My Comments' link: disabling this option will remove the My Comments icon from the frontend area
• Enable Subscriptions: Yes / No - if enabled, registered viewers will be able to subscribe a commenting thread
• Show subscribe checkbox: if enabled a subscription check will be added to the commenting form
• Enable Terms and Conditions: if enabled, Terms and Conditions will be added to the comment form
• Enable upload: Yes / No - if enabled the comment submitter will be able to upload a file to its comment
• Maximum file size: - specified in MB
• Allowed extensions: a list of the allowed file extensions that can be uploaded (each on a new line)
• Minimum comment length: you can't add a comment with a smaller length then the one specified here
• Maximum comment length: how many characters can be used within a comment
• Show remaining characters counter: Yes / No
• Enable accordion effect: Yes / No - Option to enable this effect on the front-end comment list.
• The comment form will be : Closed / Opened. If the accordion effect is used, this option will set the current state of the form.

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
• Avatar size: set the default size of the avatar
• 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 v2 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
• Size: select the size of the reCaptcha field. Available options are: Normal, Compact and Invisible. If Invisible is selected, a new field will be displayed where you can select the Badge location.
• Badge: select the location of the reCaptcha badge. Available options are: Inline, Bottom Right and Bottom left.
• reCAPTCHA Theme: chose the color theme of the reCAPTCHA widget
• Type (Fallback): chose the type of CAPTCHA to serve

hCaptcha Settings:

• Site Key: You can get this by registering your domain on the hCaptcha account
• Secret Key: You can get this by registering your domain on the hCaptcha account
• Language: Auto (Detected by hCaptcha) / Site (Joomla! language) - Choose the language used for the antispam method.
• Theme: Light / Dark - Choose a visual theme for the field
• Size: Normal / Compact / Invisible - Choose the HTML size attribute for the verification field

You can create an account for this anti-spam solution on the official hCaptcha website.

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).