⚙️ Easy to configure and manage

• Fully featured backend
• Admin can approve, add, delete, edit all testimonials
• Easy moderation from frontend

✒️ Customizable Layout and design

• Customizable and extendable layout system, developer can create their own template for testimonial listing
• Simple list, quotes, cards, timeline templates
• You can configure to fit your website template or your purpose such as layout, font, color, avatar size, field to be shown
• Responsive design, works good on all mobile devices
• Support namespaced Bootstrap 4 no more conflicts with old versions
• Works good on all Joomla! templates frameworks like Gantry, Warp, T3 ...

🔘 Predefined Fields

• Rating field
• Avatar uploader / picker field
• Website field
• E-mail field
• Position field
• Category field
• Company field
• Name field
• Video field (support Youtube, Dailymotion and Vimeo)

📑 Text Limiter

• Enable or disable text limiter feature
• Shorten testimonials to a specified size and then add an ellipsis to the end of each item
• Show full testimonial text on mouse hover or on read more button click
• Hide testimonial text with show less button easily
• Add custom read more and show less buttons classes

➕ More Features

• Joomla 4 & 3 support
• Support Joomla multilanguage system
• Support Falang multilanguage component
• Unlimited categories and subcategories
• Avatar can be picked from pictures list or uploaded from computer
• Joomla! Captcha Integration to prevent spams
• Statistics in backend dashboard
• You can show testimonials list from a specified category or categories
• You can limit text of testimonials
• You can force predefined fields to be required in submission form
• Joomla! ACL Support
• Support Joomla! Update System
• Email notifications
• You can configure auto approve when a user submit a testimonial
• Provides various fields : avatar, position, company and website.
• You can choose which field to display in the submit form, it can be required or not.
• Testimonials Module with slide feature, and many options to change style and layout (quote, timeline or as slide).
• Testimonials stats module
• Submit form module with 2 layouts (modal button and full form view)
• Content plugin that let you display testimonial inside Joomla article using shortcode ex: {joomtestimonials id=xx}
• Joomla! custom fields integration
• Animate testimonials items inside list view

🔄 Latest Updates

v4.4.0 (31/08/2022)

New Features

• Ability to redirect guest user to login page if not allowed to submit testimonial

Improved

• catids variables removed from list url
• save testimonial image before sending email [Form Submission]
• don't send email if details are not set [Form Submission]
• display warning message if image picker folder doesn't exist  [Submission form]
• created date now use JHTML Date
• use Joomla string truncate helper
• displaying custom html code before submission form now use language constant to support multilanguage

Fixed

• Incorrect images height in image picker field [Form Submission]
• possible fatal error when using custom css code params

v4.3.0 (24/06/2022)

New Features

• Integration with Falang multilanguage component
• Support of editor field [Submission form]
• Open submission form in new page or modal [Testimonials list]
• Ability to change text alignment [Default layout]
• Ability to add custom css class [Default layout] 

Fixed

• missed class in submission layout field [Config]

v4.1.5 (23/05/2022)

Fixed

• Class FieldsHelper namespace was missed
• some php warnings in module
• make sure DS constant is not defined [Frontend entrypoint]
• Some issues on installation

v4.1.4 (19/05/2022)

New Features

• support for Joomla Download ID integration

Improved

• removed Download ID widget from dashboard cuz we support now Joomla Download Key Integration

Fixed

• some duplicate language constants was removed
• removed non used language constants
• Wrong Update server link

Required Actions:

• Don't forget to rebuild update sites once this version installed. (go to backend -> system -> update -> updates sites -> then click on rebuild button)

v4.1.0 (19/02/2022)

Improved

• don't allow downgrade [Installation]
• refresh folder structure if version lower than 4.0 [Installation]

Fixed

• fatal error if module displayed with selected category [Module]
• layout fields doesn't display [Backend] for linux servers
• Some php warnings [Backend]
• don't enable plugins on uninstall process [Installation]

v4.0 (17/02/2022)

New Features

• New extendable layouting system for testimonials
• Easy customization of testimonials layout true modal
• Layouting reuse for module and menu items

Improved

• Joomla 4 full support
• Bootstrap 5 update
• remove of all old assets (BS4, fontawesome ...)
• Lighter package then previous version
• Using webassets for better assets management

v1.5.7 (01/12/2021)

Fixed

• Some possible blocking issues when updating to Joomla 4 in plugins
• added update server tags in all plugins and modules
• Small issue in plugin system

v1.5.6.3 (04/10/2021)

Improved

• Add page number in meta title [Testimonials list]

Fixed

• Don't display readmore/showless buttons truncated testimonial text is same as full testimonial text [Testimonial]
• Date format not changing in quote and timeline layouts
• PHP notice [Default Layout]
• User was not able to edit own testimonials if authorized

v1.5.6 (22/06/2021)

Improved

• Authorization checking now use Helper [ACL]

Fixed

• Some times duplicate add button displayed [Page Header Layout]
• User was not able to edit own testimonials if authorised [ACL]

v1.5.5 (02/06/2021)

Fixed

• Submit button not displayed if show page header disabled [Header Layout]
• Compatibility with php 7.4+

v1.5.4.1 (05/05/2021)

Fixed

• Download ID not saved correctly [Dashboard]
• Hidden captcha badge should not float [CSS]

v1.5.4 (19/01/2021)

New Features

• New modern dashboard on backend

Improved

• Blank loop in carousel disabled by default [Testimonials Module]
• Use local fonteawesome instead of remote link
• Bootstrap 4 updated to last version
• Better solution to display full testimonial on hover in cards

Fixed

• Auto height when hover on testimonial text when text limiter activated and mode carousel
• Force jQuery load first [Submit button module]
• iziModal loaded before jQuery [Submit button module]
• Fatal error when type is button modal

v1.5.2 (09/02/2020)

New Feature

• Show / hide submit button in testimonials list

v1.5.1.15 (16/10/2019)

Fixed

• Double error message if captcha not validated removed from module form as well.

v1.5.1.14 (11/10/2019)

Fixed

• Double error message if captcha not validated

v1.5.1.13 (23/08/2019)

Fixed

• Custom field value not saved from frontend [Custom fields]
• Label hide if has tooltip in some template frameworks like helix [Testimonial Form]

v1.5.1.12 (18/08/2019)

New Features

• Ability to show or hide form input placeholders
• Ability to move custom fields position using field label class name like "jtaftername"
• Ability to change date format

Improved

• iziModal instead of squeezebox modal to avoid conflicts
• Now we use font-awseome icons instead of old icomoon icons

Fixed

• Show more text on hover don't work [Quotes Layout] [Testimonials view]
• Joomla reload page when the category field has changed [Form]
• Invalid input css code missed [Form]
• Avatar upload field missed some BS classes [Form]
• If form validation is wrong and submitted through modal error validation display also in testi list
• Wrong submit button base path layout [submit module]
• Submit button custom classes was not working [submit module]
• Old code of tab state removed no more needed because joomla fixed this issue long time ago
• Custom field input always disabled [Edit form] [Custom fields]
• Fatal error when displaying form module outside component [Form module]
• Menu item header shown in module [Submit form module]
• Fields values in one line [fields layout]
• Category select display all categories also the unpublished [Form]

Added Features in v1.5.x:

• New modern dashboard on backend
• Namespaced Boostrap 4 support
• Layouts support in views and module for better reuse
• PHP 7.3 support
• Ability to strip tags of testimonial text
• Old carousel replaced with Swiper in testimonials module
• Grid mode support in testimonials module
• Ability to change Border radius in default layout
• Ability to change Border type in default layout
• Ability to change Link color in default layout
• Ability to change Permalink button class in default layout
• Ability to change card background in quote layout
• Ability to change card border in quote layout
• New option to change name text color in timeline layout
• Showon attribute added to many fields for better UX
• Old bootstrap frameworks removed
• Duplicated code reduced by 90% after using JLayout feature
• Change navigation buttons color in carousel mode [Testimonials module]
• Ability to show navigation buttons on hover in carousel mode [Testimonials module]
• Ability to enable or disable autoplay for carousel and also change delay between transitions [Testimonials module] [Mode carousel]
• Ability to show navigation buttons on hover in carousel mode [Testimonials module]

Upcoming Features in version 4.x

• Rich snippets integration
• Open graph integration
• Twitter cards integration
• Joomla 4 support

Features and Improvements added in previous version 1.4.x

• Joomla custom field integration
• Ability to change custom fields position before or after testimonial text
• Full view of testimonial with all layouts support
• Predefined video field that support Youtube, Dailymotion and Vimeo
• Ability to make video field required and disabled
• Animation support in testimonials list
• Testimonials stats module
• Submit module support modal button or full form
• Content plugin that let you display testimonial inside Joomla! articles using shortcode {joomtestimonials id=xx}
• Ability to set max upload size of avatar field
• Ability to show or hide permalink of testimonials
• New recently added testimonials graph added in backend dashboard
• Animate testimonials items inside list view
• Unified backend dashboard
• Predefined fields tab in component config more organized
• Chunks in BS2 layout replaced by matchHeight library

More Infos

• Roadmap in Trello: https://trello.com/joomtestimonialsroadmap
• Full changelog: https://www.joomboost.com/components-changelogs/9-joomtestimonials-changelog.html
• Community Forum: https://www.joomboost.com/support/forums/categories/14-joomtestimonials.html
• Help in translation: https://translate.joomboost.com/