JOOMItaly - Professional Joomla! Extensions

The "VOTItaly" Plugin by JOOMItaly is the evolution of the default Joomla! voting/rating system. The plugin is an eye-candy "star rater", which uses AJAX technology to seemlessly process your visitor votes on your articles (content items) without reloading the page. It's probably the coolest way to add voting functionality to your Joomla! website.

This extensions is released for Joomla! 1.5.x and is published under GPLv2.

See the "VOTItaly" Plugin in action in our exclusive demo site HERE!

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Features

• Mootools v1.11 compatible - It uses Joomla! core files
• Ajax rating system
• Possibility to choose what to show: stars, number of votes, average
• Full customization of the stars description
• No components required

Installation

You can install VOTItaly for Joomla! 1.5 in few steps, just go into the administrator panel and:

• Select from the top menu: Extensions -> Install/Uninstall.
• Click on Upload Package File button.
• Select plg_ji_votitaly_v1.1_j1.5.zip from your local drive.
• Click Upload & Install button.

VOTItaly is now installed. You can customize your new plugin accessing from: Extensions -> Plugin Manager, where it's listed as "Content - VOTItaly".

Usage Instruction

• publish Content - VOTItaly (JOOMItaly)
• unpublish Content - Rating

Now, enable rating on your contents or your menu to see it in action. That's it! Now visit your website and you will see that the voting (rating) system is enabled!

Changelog

Version 1.1 (released on January 6th, 2009)

• The plugin makes now valid XHTML 1.1 content.
• Full customizable content rating description.
• Fixes an Internal Server Error (e500) problems with some servers.
• New languages compatibility added (de-DE, es-ES, fa-IR, nl-NL, pl-PL, ru-RU, zh-CN, zh-TW).

Version 1.0 (released on July 01th, 2008)

• First stable version of the "VOTItaly" Plugin released.

Comments (12)

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info said:

	would be great if its possible tha tonly members can comment. right now people can comment useless posts and spam. also would be great if and admin can approve comments first, before it will be posted to the website.
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September 22, 2008
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dh said:

	More star image option would be great how can we create our own star image?
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October 12, 2008
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cichy said:

	Hi i Have one problem with this plugin, when i enable global rating in joomla votitaly doesn't work, but when i enable rating manually for some content everything it's ok. i don't understand this.
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January 21, 2009
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JOOMITALY said:

	You have to check your content section and category configuration, You probably force not to show stars in that configuration.. If you have more questions please post in the forum...
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January 21, 2009 | url
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banchow said:

	I do as writen: ..." go to Extensions -> Plugin Manager, where you need to * publish Content - VOTItaly (JOOMItaly) * unpublish Content - Rating" Than on every article put Article Rating Show, but there are no stars? Where is mistake?
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January 23, 2009
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JOOMITALY said:

	@banchow: try to look at http://www.joomitaly.com/compo...d,618/#684
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January 23, 2009 | url
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Marc said:

	The only thing I would improve is this: A lot of Review sites (like for example mine, which review cds), would need a double rating system: One for the people to rate the cd, and one fix, that only the Admin can use. The admin stars should be in a different colour than the visitors votes. That would be a great improvement, but thanx anyway for the extension!
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January 28, 2009
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Natouriano said:

	Its really a great plugin and it works in a very nice way.. Just FYI and as a feedback to you, it seems there is a conflict between VOTItaly and JoomlaComment since it did not work on my website after JoomlaComment was installed and active.
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February 21, 2009
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Nicolai said:

	Thank you for a great plugin Is it possible to get the stars to appear at the bottom instead of the top??
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March 06, 2009
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Lorinc said:

	I'd like too if it'd be possible to change the position to the bottom of article.
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March 12, 2009
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flaco said:

	Just two notices. 1) This module seems to conflict in articles with universal playground flickr plugin (Stars drawn, but I can't register vote). 2) If I open image in lightbox, stars remain in foreground... Firefox 3.0.7 Bye
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March 24, 2009
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timm said:

	Hello, I have one question: does ajaxifying your joomla template improves performance in any way? I mean if it reduces bandwidth use by not-loading-whole-page, just the needed element. Or is it just user experience that is improved, and the transfered data amount is the same? Thanks in advance!
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May 07, 2009
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