iFAQ Documentation

In order to avoid problems, by default iFAQ does not process plugins. You have to enable them in the menu parameters. Set the "Enable Plugins" to Yes under Component Parameters.

Contact Enhanced Menu Parameters:: Enable Plugin

iFAQ is a full-feature FAQ component! It allows you to order your question in 9 different ways:

  1. Oldest first
  2. Most recent first
  3. Title (Alphabetical)
  4. Title (Reverse Alphabetical)
  5. Author - Alphabetical
  6. Author - Reversed Alphabetical
  7. Most Hits
  8. Least Hits
  9. Article Manager Order

In the Admin menu go to:

  • Components →  Ideal FAQ, click on the options tab, and under the Articles tab change the ordering according to your needs.
  • You can override the Component Options in the iFAQ menu items. 

Go to Components → iFAQ, click on the Options button and you can change the iFAQ default templates.

iFAQ tries to inherit most of your template's style. It should look like your content items and have the same styling such as font-size, color, headings (h1, h2, h3, h4), blockquotes, pre-formated text, buttons, and so forth.

In order to customize iFAQ Look and Feel all you have to do is edit the CSS file:

[Joomla 4 or newer] /media/com_ifaq/css/templates/[template_name]/ifaq.css

[Joomla 3 or older] /components/com_ifaq/templates/[template_name]/ifaq.css

How to create a new template

It's recommended to create a new template from an existing one, so choose the template you want to copy from and copy the entire directory:

[Joomla 4 or newer] /media/com_ifaq/css/templates/template_name/

[Joomla 3 or older] /components/com_ifaq/templates/template_name/

to:

[Joomla 4 or newer] /media/com_ifaq/css/templates/new_template_name/

[Joomla 3 or older] /components/com_ifaq/templates/new_template_name/

Then edit the/new_template_name/ifaq.css file and replace all instances of template_name with new_template_name, then change the color and background properties according to your needs.

For Joomla 4+, edit the the media/com_ifaq/joomla.asset.json and add the following JSON code

 {
      "name": "com_ifaq.template.new_template_name",
      "type": "style",
      "uri": "com_ifaq/templates/new_template_name/ifaq.css",
      "dependencies": [
        "com_ifaq.core"
      ]
    },

Editing tip: We minimize the CSS file in order to improve performance, so you can use a CSS beautifier tool. There are many available online;

After the changes you can take a screenshot of the FAQ area and replace the thumbnail.png

Once you are done, if you want to share your customization with everyone send it to us and we might add to the existing templates;

You can have as many categories you want!

For multiple FAQ pages you have to create more menu items, one for each category that you want to show.

In order to display multiple categories at once, please create a iFAQ » Categories menu item.

The shadowbox extension actually gives the option of using one of 4 different javascript libraries, so just try each one.

A user named Elaine Lee said that "there was a conflict when I had it set to 'jquery' but not when I had it set to 'EXT'. I also cleaned up some of the unnecessary javascript files being used."

We advise to all choose MooTools when possible for a few reasons:

  • You will avoid Javascript incompatibility. MooTools is the Joomla! default Javascript Library.
  • If you have too many Javascript files and libraries your site will take longer to load.
  • Our extensions only use MooTools.
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