Video Tutorials
Learn the basics of JReviews while creating a City Guide directory and review site.
JReviews is a powerful, highly flexible component that extends the functionality of any Joomla-based site. And because JReviews works with the core content system, you can set it up quickly with your existing articles and take advantage of 3rd party plugins and core search and management capabilities
- Create professional travel, product and service review sites: Define complex or simple sets of ratings criteria, then apply them to different content categories.
- JReviews is media rich allowing listing owners and users to upload photos, videos, attachments and audio to listings and reviews.
- Let users and editors duke it out: Editor ratings (optional) are kept separate from user reviews.
- Use it with or without reviews: Use JReview's structured content capabilities to extend normal content items and articles.
- Take control of layouts and presentation: Frustrated by Joomla's limited content presentation capabilities? JReviews lets you create virtually any presentation you want.
- Let users easily find what they need: Create advanced search forms using only the fields you need to create a better user experience.
- Integration with most popular user systems: Links to profiles and avatars shown for Community Builder and JomSocial.
- Comes loaded with modules and plugins: Improve your site's navigation through the use of modules (listings, reviews, totals, fields, range, advanced search) and Community Builder and JomSocial plugins (MyListings, MyFavorites, MyReviews).
Listings
- You decide which user groups submit listings.
- Listings can be published instantly or moderated.
- Automatic image thumbnail generation.
- Users can add listings to their favorites list.
- Listing feeds for any list and search result page.
- Listings comparison.
- E-mail notifications for users and administrators.
Reviews and ratings
- You decide which user groups submit reviews and who are the JReviews editors.
- Reviews published instantly or moderated.
- Multiple sets of rating criteria in different categories.
- Review usefulness voting.
- Inappropriate review reporting to administrators.
- User rank based on number of reviews and review usefulness.
- Review feeds for directories, sections, categories and listings.
- E-mail notifications for users and administrators.
Custom Fields - Content Construction Kit (CCK)
- Build your own listing and review forms using custom fields.
- Custom fields include: text, textarea, email, website, select list, integer, decimal, code, multiple select list, checkboxes and radio buttons.
- Pre-assign images to field options.
- List pages can be sorted using custom fields (i.e. price)
- Click2search automatically hyperlinks fields for one click searches.
- Click2add lets users add new field options while filling out the forms.
- Easily insert affiliate code and create affiliate buttons to generate income from affiliate programs.
Advanced Search
- Multiple advanced search forms, based on the field groups assigned to product categories.
- Create your own search forms using the advanced search module
- Click2search functionality for custom fields allows users to quickly find related listings.
Social Networking
- Twitter integration with the site's Twitter account for new listings, reviews and review discussions.
- Facebook integration to post new listings, reviews and helpful review votes to the visiting user's wall and friends' feeds.
Languages
Thanks to user contributions of language files, the frontend of JReviews has been translated into the following languages (*): Arabic, Basque, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal and Brazil), Rumanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese.
(*) All language files may not be fully translated and some areas of JReviews may require additional work, like the alphaindex bar in directory pages where translation is not currently supported.
