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I have added a new getting started help topic. More help coming soon.

Version 2.2.1 has been released. New users can download the installer here, existing 2.2.0 users can download a patch here (2.1.2C users please apply the 2.1.2C – 2.2.0 patch first).
This releases includes a few small bug fixes and allows Joomla content plugins to work in reviews.

Version 2.1.2C users can now upgrade to version 2.2.0. Files can be found here. Please backup your site and database first and then follow the instructions in the readme file. You will loose any modifications to files as well as your configuration settings, so please back these up. This will be the last major change (in terms of file structure) and the next upgrades will not result in loss of configuration settings

Version 2.2.0 has been released. You can see some of the new features in this post. Apart from some bug fixes the main changes are usability and customisation. The user reviews functionality is about half done and was holding up this release so I decided it was more important to get these new features out, I hope to release user reviews very shortly – there is a change in 2.2.0 in that any back-end user can now create reviews rather than just the super administrator.

In the coming days I will release an upgrade for 2.1.2 users and some help guides on the new template system and what files to change.

Some things coming up in version 2.2:

• Configuration is now more robust and is easier to backup, all configuration files live in www/administrator/components/com_simple_review/config/.
• The old web-based review template system has been renamed to Default Content as this better reflects what it does. Reviews can now have a file based template as well as default content.
• Templates now live in www/components/com_simple_review/templates/
  
  www/components/com_simple_review/views/.
• Captcha has been fixed and now works with Security Images 5.1.2.
• I have started work on user submitted reviews. Reviews submitted from the front-end cannot contain any HTML, but they can enter BBCode which will probably be provided via the yvBBCode plugin.

I will most likely release a beta version in 1-2 weeks.

A native version of the search plugin is now available.
Please remember to enable it else it will not work.
It only works with Simple Review 2.1.2 and higher.

A user is reporting an issue after upgrading to Joomla 1.5.15. I believe that it is to do with changes to the WYSIWYG editor. If you are unable to save reviews after upgrading please respond in this thread. I am unable to reproduce the issue on a fresh installation of Joomla 1.5.15, but it does seem to be a known issue with some components. In the meantime please try some of the suggestions or try turning the Joomla ‘Default WYSIWYG Editor’ to no editor.

I have released version 2.1.2C which fixes this issue.
If you already have 2.1.2 you can either patch it yourself or just download 2.1.2 and upload the mentioned file CategoryForm.php.

I have temporarily unreleased version 2.1.2 due to a bug where you cannot add new titles to a category.
In the meantime you can apply the fix yourself.
Directory: www\administrator\components\com_simple_review\addons\
modules\Category_Module\templates\Admin
File: CategoryForm.php
Line: 89
(insert a new line after
var tm = new CategoryTitleManager("tm", "title", "", 20, tmLang);)

Add the following:

jQuery("#addTitle").click(function(){
tm.AddTitle('', tm.GetNextNumberedTitleName('Title'), 0, 'Text', 0);
});


Version 2.1.2 has been released. There is also an upgrade available for 2.1.1 users, please read the instructions carefully before upgrading – especially the part about adding missing names to your reviews (for pre 2.1.1 users). There are a few new features but it is mostly a bug fix and clean-up release. Special thanks to forum user NRyan115 for his assistance.

Full list of changes:

• Added a new tag {sr_name} to display the name of the review.
• Added pathway/breadcrumbs.
• Added new language strings:
  Category_Module.php:
  • FormTemplateCategory
  • FormTemplateCategoryTip
  • Error404Title
  • Error404Description

  Review_Module.php:

  • Error404Title
  • Error404Description

  Language_Module.php:

  • ConfigPluginFooter
  • ConfigPluginFooterTip
  • ConfigPluginHeader
  • ConfigPluginHeaderTip

  Tag_Module.php

  • TagReviewName
• Added frontend 404 error pages to be displayed if a review or category is not found or not published.
• Added a template for categories. This will be used when the user visits a category i.e. clicks your reviews menu item and sees the list
  of categories and their reviews.
  The templates are found in:
  www\administrator\components\com_simple_review\addons\modules\Category_Module\templates\Front\
  To modify the template copy the ‘Default’ directory and give it a name e.g. ‘MyTemplate1′.
  Edit the HTML in MyTemplate1\Template.php (editing area is marked with START EDITING).
  Edit the CSS in MyTemplate1\Template.css
  Go to the Category administration page and change the ‘Category Template’ to your new template ‘MyTemplate1′.
• Changed the HTML and CSS for the rating boxes – they will now be displayable horizontally (and inside P tags) rather than the forced vertically.
  To revert to vertical change the css in:
  www\administrator\com_simple_review\admin\addons\modules\Review_Module\templates\Front\Default\Template.css

  to (from display:inline-block;):
  .scoreBox, .userScoreBox
{
display:block;
text-align:center;
}

  The new HTML looks like – note that the class names have changed and the divs have been replaced with spans.
  
<span class="scoreBox">
<span class="ratingHeadingContainer"><span class="ratingHeading">Rating</span></span><br/>
<span class="ratingContainer"><span class="rating">0.0</span></span><br/>
<span class="ratingTextContainer"><span class="ratingText">out of 5</span></span><br/>
<span class="ratingFooterContainer"/>
</span>


• Changed Administration Review listing to now use the review name instead of title 1, 2 and 3.
• Changed and improved the plugin selection configuration.
• Fixed a bug where if Joomla ‘Search Engine Friendly URLs’ was turned off a user will be redirected to the main page rather than the review after adding a comment.
• Fixed a bug where you could not view a review if ‘ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY’ was turned on in MySQL.
• Fixed star rating not being shown on category listing.
• Fixed configuration options:
  
  Category:
  • Sort options. Added “Review Name” as the default sort field.
  • Limit Top N to Current Category
  • Removed option ‘Show Review Count’ (edit via category template see here)
  • Removed option ‘Show Reviewer’ (edit via category template see here)
  • Removed option ‘Title 2 is Review Link’ (edit via category template see here)
  • Removed option ‘Title 3 is Review Link’ (edit via category template see here)
• Moved:
  www\administrator\components\com_simple_review\addons\modules\Review_Module\Review_Module.css
  to:
  www\administrator\com_simple_review\admin\addons\modules\Review_Module\templates\Front\Default\Template.css
• Moved:
  www\components\com_simple_review\images\
emptystar.png
emptystar-alt.png
fullstar.png
fullstar-alt.png
halfstar.png
halfstar-alt.png
  to:
  www\administrator\com_simple_review\admin\addons\modules\Review_Module\templates\Front\Default\
www\administrator\com_simple_review\admin\addons\modules\Category_Module\templates\Front\Default\

  The reason for moving into both Review and Category folders
  is incase you want smaller or different coloured star icons in the review listing (category page) or review page.

• Removed file Category_Module.css and merged it into the Default template.
  If you have made changes to this file copy them into the template.
• Removed directory:
  www\administrator\components\com_simple_review\addons\modules\Review_Module\images
  and merged the contents in:
  www\administrator\com_simple_review\admin\addons\modules\Review_Module\templates\Front\Default
• Removed directory:
  www\components\com_simple_review\frontend\css.
  File Simple_Review.css has been merged into the Default Review and Category template CSS files.