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Hi, all.
Have a new site that I'm developing in 2.0 and am looking for some thoughts on the best way to create a "Testimonials" page. I don't want just anyone being able to post something, but I also don't want to be entering everything myself. My hope would be to allow customers to write up a short note, submit it, they get an email to prove that it's a legit user, and then I have to approve them before they show up.
Or, something along those lines. The site is not currently one that requires or even allows any form of user accounts, and I don't know that it will ever need to be.
I'm open to any advice / guidance! Thanks in advance.
I think you could use Quip to do most of what you need, actually. Alternatively you could make something custom (a formit form?) that stores testimonials in a MIGX tv; that's what I do
on my site except I don't let others add their own testimonials; I collect them myself.
Oh and if you can, use the latest Revo (2.2.6 currently) and not 2.0
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I am actually creating an extension specifically for testimonials as I have just needed to do this myself. I can send you a pre-release package once I've fixed up a few issues and finished it if you want.
Quote from: ember1205 at Jan 16, 2013, 07:55 PMAre the specific reasons to use 2.2 over 2.0 for a simplistic, content-only site?
You mean, other than 2 years worth of updates including security updates and a ton of bugfixes, compatibility with the most recent extras (a larger number of extras are becoming 2.2+ every day), a cleaner interface and the luxury of being able to update more often than every few years?
The manual setup is easy enough (< 5 minutes) and basically needs you to upload files and fill in some database details the first time. That "hassle" is not worth being stuck with a two year old release.
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I'll have to see how "portable" the work is that I've already done so that I can evaluate an update.
Thanks.
Indeed, it was the 2.2 features that finally motivated me to switch from Evo to Revo. I can't begin to imagine using it without those features.