Before installing holdonstranger on your website, make sure you’ve registered it inside your holdonstranger account. If you don’t have a holdonstranger account, click here to get one.
Different versions of Joomla, have different methods of installation. Select your Joomla version below.
Inside holdonstranger
1) Click on Install holdonstranger to open the installation modal.
2) IMPORTANT. Click the HTML icon, and NOT the Joomla icon.
3) Copy the code snippet.
Inside Joomla
1) Login to your Joomla Admin panel
2) From the Extensions dropdown, select Template Manager.
3) Switch to the Templates tab, from the column on the left of the page.
4) Find the template your website’s using and click it’s [Name]
5) Click the Details and Files link.
6) Under the Template Master Files section click Edit main page template.
7) Find the </head> closing tag, and just above it paste the holdonstranger code snippet you copied.
8) Click Save.
That’s it!
To check if it was correctly installed, switch to Check Installation in the installation modal, and click (Re)check installation. Your website should open on a new window/tab. Wait for it to close automatically. If everything went well a ‘Successfully installed’ message should appear.
Installation
1) Click on Install holdonstranger to open the installation modal.
2) Click the Joomla icon.
3) Click Download the Joomla plugin button. A .zip file should begin to download in your browser.
4) Login to your Joomla! admin panel.
5) Go to Extensions > Manage > Install > Upload Package File.
6) Click the Choose File button, and select the .zip file you downloaded in Step 3.
7) Click Upload File & Install.
Setup
1) Still inside your Joomla admin area, go to Extensions > Plugins.
2) Type ‘Hold’ to find the holdonstranger plugin you’ve just uploaded.
3) Check the checkbox near it and click Edit.
4) Change to the Plugin tab, and change the Status to enabled.
5) Change to the Options tab.
6) Back in your holdonstranger admin area, below the Download the Joomla plugin button you clicked before, you’ll find an API Key (with random numbers and letters). Copy that key.
7) Back in your Joomla admin area, paste the key you just copied into the field labeled API Key.
8) Click Yes to activate it.
9) Click Save & Close.
That’s it!
To check if it was correctly installed, switch to Check Installation in the installation modal, and click (Re)check installation. Your website should open on a new window/tab. Wait for it to close automatically. If everything went well a ‘Successfully installed’ message should appear.