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Ninjamonials allows you to quickly and easily collect and display testimonials from your sites's visitors and members.

When a customer is deciding whether to become a customer or not, one of the first and most important things they look at is your credibility.

One of the best ways to improve your credibility in the eyes of these potential customers is to provide independant testimonials from satisfied customers.

Making these testimonials available will show them that you do indeed do what you say, and will improve the confidence of the potential customers, which in turn improves the ability of your site to convert them into customers and members.

You can collect plain text testimonials, audio or even video testimonials. The ability to capture testimonials in categories allows you to show people what they need to read when they need to. 

Ninjamonials features a simple to use component for managing your testimonials, as well as modules and plugins to display the testimonials around your site.

It also includes a built in re-captcha system, allowing you to keep down or even eliminate automated spam testimonials.

For styling, Ninjamonials includes 2 default CSS style sheets, which are easy to edit to make your own changes to. Or you can even use your template's CSS if you wish. We use the standard P tag nested in a blockquote, which is used in most major templates today.

NinjaMonials is far and away the leading testimonial solution available for Joomla.

Basic Setup

Getting Ninjamonials installed is a fairly straightforward process:

• Install this component (done if you are reading this)
• Install the rotator module, and/or plugin if desired
• Install the Admin Notification module if desired
• You can use the default parameters to get started, or open the settings screen to change the configuration
• Create a menu item for viewing testimonials and/or adding them

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

Changelog:

Version: 1.9.0

Date: June 01, 2011

State:Major Feature Additions and Bug Fix

• Fixed Integration with NinjaBoard, Community Builder, Community Builder Enhanced, and Jom Social for Avatars and Autofill with Avatar Sizing
• Fixed Testimonial Submission Redirect
• Added Component Styles, Layouts, and Left or Right Alignment
• Added Optional Pagination
• Added jQuery Tooltips and Form Validation with jQuery Tools 1.2
• Added Audio and Video Sizing
• Added Video only Layout
• Added Message to top of Add testimonial form
• Added Default Avatar
• Updated Audio and Video to jQuery Flowplayer 3.2
• Separated display and add form parameters

Version: 1.8.0

Date: January 04, 2010

State:Major Feature Additions and Bug Fix

• Added Page title activation/hiding via menu item parameters
• Simplified website field parameters
• Added collect email functionality
• Added a language editor
• Moved parameters into a view (was in a modal popup)
• Compressed parameters using accordions into a manageable amount using custom param elements
• Simplified parameters
• Moved all media into media directory
• Added "text before entry form" parameter
• Added 7 Plugin events, with a group of 'ninjamonials'. These events allow for customization of input and output, such as a bad word filter.
  
  Events include:
  • onPrepareTestimonialsDisplay
  • beforeSaveTestimonial
  • beforeTestimonialsDisplayAll
  • beforeTestimonialsDisplaySingle
  • afterTestimonialsDisplayAll
  • afterTestimonialsDisplaySingle
  • beforeTestimonialsDisplayForm
  • afterTestimonialsDisplayForm
• Added tooltips to the front end
• Added "Redirect after Submission" parameter
• Refactored folder layout for easier updating in future
• Updated Icons and Logo
• Separated 3 alternate Layouts into separate files
• Cleaned some Php out of view files (moved to view preparation files)
• Added custom thank you message parameter
• Now inserts default settings, so no more white screens when people install and create a menu item without changing any settings
• Put missing language strings into language files

Version: 1.7.1

Date: December 02, 2009

State:Bug Fix and Feature Additions

• Fixed URL save bug in testimonial submit form

Version: 1.7.0
Date: Dec 2009
State: Bug Fixes & Enhancements

• Fixed a number of bugs
• Made PHP 5.3 compatible
• Added two new styles, each with four color variations

Version: 1.6.2
Date: Sep 2009
State: Bug Fixes

• Fixed Audio in Firefox
• Fixed missing avatars on Windows servers

Version: 1.6.1
Date: Sep 2009
State:Feature Additions and Bug Fix

• Added optional timestamps
• fixed front end categories not saving

• Added Audio and Video testimonials
• Added optional testimonial categories
• Added BBCode to testimonial entry form
• URLs now keep Itemid when chaning between display and add screens