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CompojoomComment Support

row1 — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 13:15:36 +0000

A plugin is available to allow CompojoomComment to be used as the commenting system in Simple Review. Compojoom adds a lot of features such as nested comments and rich text formatting. The plugin can be purchased here.

Module 3.0.13 Released

row1 — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 04:13:16 +0000

Version 3.0.13 of the Top and Latest Review modules has been released. They now support reviews with no ratings.

hReview Support Reminder

row1 — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 01:44:52 +0000

Since version 3.0.0 Simple Review has supported the hReview microformat in the default template.
The below image is a real-life example of a Simple Review review appearing in Google search results (you can Google “kool keith drugs review sardless” to see for yourself)

This is quite a cool feature and will make your site standout in the search results, so if you are using an old template it might be a good idea to upgrade it.

Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! have teamed up to created http://www.schema.org/ so that their new review formats (and others) will be supported amongst their search engines. The current hReview format will still work, but if you are keen you can upgrade your review templates to support the schema.org ones.

3.0.13 Released

row1 — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 10:04:15 +0000

Simple Review 3.0.13 has been released (download). An upgrade is available for 3.0.12 users (download, unzip and then follow instructions).

Component release notes:

New. Support for Joomla 2.5.
Fix. Turning star rating off in comments.
Fix. Star rating JavaScript error in comments.
Fix. JavaScript error if comment rating is turned off.

This is the last release that will support PHP 4 and the last release for the version 3.0 series.

2012 Update

row1 — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:25:50 +0000

It has been a long time since the last update. I have had some expensive medical issues for the last 4 or so months. This has limited my computer time and I have spend what little free computer time I have had on doing paid work to recoup medical bills. The paid work is starting to dry up in the next two weeks and I seem to be on the mend, so I think the next release will be in February. Version 3.0.13 will be another minor release to fix some niggling bugs and provide the framework for some upcoming changes.

3.0.12 Released

row1 — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 08:23:37 +0000

Simple Review 3.0.12 has been released (download). An upgrade is available for 3.0.11 users (download, unzip and then follow instructions).

A Joomla 1.7 compatible version of the search plugin has also been released (download).

Component release notes:

New. Comments no longer require a body (configurable).
New. Comments no longer require a rating (configurable).
New. More debug information if a category could not be found.

3.0.11 Released

row1 — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:28:06 +0000

Simple Review 3.0.11 has been released (download). An upgrade is available for 3.0.10 users (download, unzip and then follow instructions).

A minor release which removes the restriction of reviews requiring a rating.

Release Notes:

New. Reviews no longer require a rating.
New. Updated jQuery Validation Plugin to 1.8.1.
Fix. Placeholders. Issues with the following tags have been fixed: {Category:Alias}, {Category:ID}, {Category:Name}, {Review:ID}.

Twitter

row1 — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 09:06:28 +0000

Simple Review is now on twitter. Check us out.

Drop PHP 4 Support?

row1 — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 04:26:09 +0000

I am considering dropping support for PHP 4. Please vote in this pole so I can make a decision.

3.0.10 Released

row1 — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 05:36:32 +0000

Simple Review 3.0.10 has been released (download). An upgrade is available for 3.0.9 users (download, unzip and then follow instructions).

The main new features are support for Joomla 1.7 and paging in reviews.

Release Notes:

New. Support for Joomla 1.7.
New. Support for page breaks in reviews. Uses the standard Joomla page break button. Your templates template.css may require a new class to force the pager on a new line: .pagination{clear: both;}
New. Basic Joomla 1.6 ACL support.
New. Added support for getting comment avatars from phpBB via p8pbb.
New. Added a setting for the date format in comments.
Fix. Real name display not working in comments.
Fix. Export comments. Not working in PHP4. Not working if using non-default database name. Export getting cached.
Fix. Category page, Undefined variable: link.
Fix. If you have switched Avatar Providers, try using the previous avatar if the Avatar Provider can’t find one for the user.