Configuration

Love Factory is a dating and matchmaking Joomla extension, with fully editable member pages and configurable fields along with multiple social networking features.
To edit some of the features go to "Components/Love Factory/Settings" in the Joomla backend.

Next, click on "General Settings".

The Status section is implemented to provide basic information about the storage folders, settings and required plugins. These are required in order for the component to run properly, so make sure everything is green after installing Love Factory.

In the "General" section you will find the basic settings for the extension.
Enable user email notification will enable notifications send to the users via email.
With Show hidden fields status you can let users to hide specific fields from their profile by toggling the status or simply hide them completly.
You can allow users to change profile status by letting them toggle it from Online to Offline or Only for friends.
You can enable or disable Relationships or Top friends features by toggling Yes/No.
In case someone made an invalid action regarding his current membership status you can either show him an error message or you can also redirect him to the Membership Plans page.
To manage easier the users, you can enable the option to automatically delete the Love Factory profile when you delete the user from Joomla. This will require the Factory User plugin to be enabled.
You can change the Date Format, in case you do not like any of the formats implemented you can set a custom one. Clicking on "more info" will link you to the PHP manual for custom formats.
Furthermore you can set or remove restrictions like allowing admins to delete comments and users to delete received comments.

On the Registration section you can opt to use the standard Joomla's registration form or the Love Factory's one. In case you chose the second one, you must have the Lovefactory Plugin enabled!
Redirect after login option allows you to redirect users to a specific page after logging in.
You can set that new users to have email notifications enabled by default upon registration.
Next options are for Field mapping, here you can select the fields that will be used as username, email, password and name when registering a new profile.

In the "Groups" section you can enable the feature and allow users to create groups, allowing others to join as well and interact better making threads visible to the users in that group.
Allowed HTML tags for posts gives you the possibility to enable various HTML codes that users can use in their posts.
You can edit how many Groups per page will be visible when you are on the Groups page on the front end.
Group posts per page allows you to set a defined limit for posts per page on the threads made by users.

The "Approvals" section is where you can set which actions made on frontend will require approval on backend.
Here is a list of the available actions:

• Approve profile changes
• Approve photos
• Approve videos
• Approve profile comments
• Approve photo comments
• Approve video comments
• Approve messages
• Approve new groups
• Approve group threads
• Approve group posts

On the "Photos" section you can set a specific extension for default photos. In case you want the default member photo to be personalized on the user's gender, you can upload an image with the chosen id of the gender in the "/components/com_lovefactory/storage/defaults" folder.
Here you can also define the maximum size of width and height of the photos uploaded by the users or of their thumbnails.
Photos maximum size is where you can set a limit (in MB) for the size of the uploaded photos.
Storage mode allows you to either store all photos in the same folder or to store them in separate folders for each user.

From the "Page Settings" tab you can enable or disable features available for specific pages.
On their own profiles, users can set statuses, you can enable or disable this feature, if enabled you can also set a maximum length for them.
Other things that you can enable here:

• User comments
• User messages
• User rating
• Allow guests to view user pages

"Activity Page" section is where you can enable the "Activity Stream" page that is found on any profile and that contains a short history of the recent actions made by that user.
If enabled, you can change the maximum number of entries shown and which actions will be shown on the Activity Stream:

• User changes status
• User uploads new photo
• User receives a new rating
• User receives a comment
• User receives a photo comment
• User adds new video
• User makes a new friendship
• User makes a new relationship
• User creates a new group
• User joins a group

In the "Members Map Page" area you can enable or disable the Members Map feature, this page shows the users on the map. For this page to work properly you will need to activate Google Maps on your website. More on this in our Love Factory - Integrations Guide.

Allow guests to use this page will let you grant access or not for guests to use the Members map page.

You can enable Group members so that when more users are in the immediate proximity of each other it will create a popup to show all of them, also you can set a maximum zoom level at which this happens.

You have the option to show members with default membership on the map or to hide them, making another reason for them to upgrade their membership.

Next page that you can modify here is the "Search Page".

You can edit this page to show a specific number of search results per page adding an appropriate value.

Limit the number of returned results helps you to reduce the server load by entering a maximum number of results a search can find. Adding "0" will display all of them.
You can hide banned or ignored users from the searches by toggling Yes/No.

Results are shown under a predefined criteria, you can change this here, you can enable to sort first by membership order so that memberships will have priority before applying other criteria.

The default sort results can be set by "Username", "Profile rating" or "Last seen".

You can also modify the default sort results order to be ascending or descending.

Show results in will allow you to change the display of the searches, in 1 column or 2 columns.

You have the option to show members with default membership on the searches or to hide them, making another reason for them to upgrade their membership.

Next section is named "Search Radius Page", you can find this page as a tab in the Search page. For this tab to work properly you will need to activate Google Maps on your website. More on this on our Love Factory - Integrations Guide.

Firstly, you need to enable the search radius page and assign the mapping field for it.
Allow guests to use this page will allow you to grant access or not for guests to use the Search Radius page.

You can enable Group members so that when more users are in the immediate proximity of each other it will create a popup to show all of them, also you can set a maximum zoom level for this to happen.

You have the option to show members with default membership on the map or to hide them, making another reason for them to upgrade their membership.

In the Video Gallery Page settings you can add which HTML tags are allowed when embeding video code.

In this tab you can enable interactions between users like kiss, wink or hug.
If enabled, users can verify these interactions from the Inbox menu and then clicking on the "Interactions" tab.
In case you want to activate only one of them simply toggle to "No" the other ones.

The Info Bar displays information about new messages, interactions or new friend requests. If enabled, you can change many settings like the refresh rate and what it displays.

You also need to have Love Factory Plugin enabled to use Info Bar.

Infobar location field allows you to place the bar on the bottom of the page, top of the page or to let users select the location.
You have various buttons that can be displayed on the Info Bar and that you can enable or disable individually, here is a list of them:

• Interactions button
• Messages button
• Requests button
• Comments button
• View profile button
• Update profile button
• Gallery button
• Friends button
• Close Infobar button
• Logout button

Show button labels gives you the option to show or hide the names of the buttons next to their icons.

The Shoutbox allows users to communicate instantly as a group, enable it to activate all the settings.

You also need to have Love Factory Shoutbox module enabled to use it.

Number of messages to show lets you define a maximum number of messages to be shown on the Shoutbox.

By enabling Log shoutbox messages a log will be created containing all the messages written on it. Below this, in case you enabled the option, you can later download the log or empty it.

(!) The refresh interval for both these features should be set with caution, since a high refresh rate can lead to high server loads.

In this tab you can filter specific banned words by enabling the option and adding the words in the text area. Add one word per lane in lowercase.

Under the "Cron Jobs" tab you have some tasks along with a link to a simple Cron tutorial.
Send end membership notification, if enabled, will send a notification to the user via email when his membership is about to expire.
You can define the number of days before the membership expires to send the notification.
With cron jobs you can also set to delete activity entries, shoutbox messages or profile visitors at specific intervals of time.

In this last tab you will find various informations about some Joomla and PHP settings.

Love Factory's menu comes with 9 menu items that you can edit at a further date:

• Search - Opens a page where you can search for other users.
• Online users - Opens a page where you can see all the users currently navigating the website.
• Members Map - Opens up a page with Google maps where you can see other user's location.
• Friends - Opens up a page with a list of friends, top friends, requests and more.
• My Profile - Opens up the page where you can check your profile and edit your details.
• My Gallery - The place where you view your uploaded photos and videos and add new ones.
• Inbox - Opens a page with all the interactions or messaged you received or sent.
• Groups - Opens a page with the list of all the groups that have been made.
• Memberships - Opens the page where you can buy a new membership plan.