A complete article submission and approval system for Joomla!, Article Factory Manager offers an approval oriented alternative to the default J! article submit form, allowing webmaster to filter any unwanted articles with a simple and clean interface. Approvers can reject articles with predefined reasons from a specific menu which displays relevant data regarding the article.
Administrators can set up their website to submit in multiple categories from different users with ease, have one approver for a single or multiple categories, have more approvers for a single category, and let users choose their approvers from a specific category, let writers manage their resource box to reduce workload, all of this is possible with the latest version of Article Factory Manager.
Key Features
Approval system for new articles and subsequent edits
Approver user groups (users that may approve articles from frontend)
Version system (multiple versions of the article are saved with each edit that can be restored at will)
Submission form
Guest submission (no registration needed)
Featured articles
Notification system
Resource box (predefined description of the user along with an avatar)
Permissions fully compliant with Joomla! ACL
Native Joomla! categories
Predefined reasons for article rejection
Alert words (approvers will be notified when these words are present in articles)
Configurable filters (word count, link count, image count)
Metadata
Quick search bar on the article list
reCaptcha Validation for frontend submission, using native Joomla plugin
Standards
Multi-language support, UTF-8 support, comes default with English INI language files
SEO/SEF friendly
Default integration with Joomla! user profile, allowing a single login for Joomla! and component
Easy transition to RTL
Simple installation, configuration and updating process
Main Settings
Enable/disable featured articles
Enable/disable approval system
Allow user to choose article approver
Define alert words
Enable and set up allowed HTML tags
Enable/disable metadata
Set up limits for word count, link count and image count
Enable resourcebox and set the number of allowed links
Enable and set up revisions system
Enable and set up avatars (allowed extensions, minimum and maximum size)
Allow users to set the ordering of the articles
Manage the permission settings for user groups
3rd Party Integrations
Community Builder integration for Article List
K2 integration with support for revisions (articles and revisions are processed the same way as with the Joomla! Content component, except they are saved in the k2_items table)
Notifications
Email notifications for important events to authors and approvers
Customizable email templates
Backend Management
Manage articles by editing or deleting them
Approve, reject, publish or unpublish articles in a batch
Manage reject reasons: add, remove, or edit them from the interface. Set them to appear in the Toolbar, buttons will be created with them for easy rejection of articles in the Frontend form
Add, remove, or edit emails which are sent upon predefined actions
Requirements
Joomla! 3.x
MySQL (min. 5.1 + )
cURL, GD2 libraries enabled
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