The section will help you with steps to install the JA Sport quickstart or manual installation.

• Quickstart installation: Replicate Template demo to your server.
• Manual installation: install template, plugin manually on your Joomla site

System requirement

Please make sure your system meets the following requirements:

Download packages

JA Sport download section includes the following files:

• Quickstart package for Joomla 3 and Joomla 4
• JA Sport template
• T4 Framework plugin
• JA ACM Module
• JA Masthead Module
• JA Ajax - JA Content Type plugin
• System - JA Content Type plugin

Quickstart installation

Quickstart installation allows you to replicate the demo site to your server with all T4 extensions installed and demo content

Joomla 3 tutorial Joomla 4 tutorial

Manual Installation

Installing the JA Sport, T4 framework, and other extensions on your existing Joomla website.

From your back-end setting panel, go to: "Extensions > Extension Manager", browse the extension installation files then hit the "Upload and Install"

• T4 Framework plugin
• JA Sport template
• JA Masthead module
• JA Content type plugins

By default, the T4 plugin will be auto-enabled after installation. You can check this by going to "Extensions > Plugin Manager" then find T4 Plugin.

Set JA Sport as default template style

Joomla 3: Go to: "Extensions > Template Manager", set JA Sport template style as your default template style.

Joomla 4: Go to: "System > Site Template Styles", set JA Sport template style as your default template style.

Template folder structure

This section is to help you understand the folder structure of the JA Findus template, where to find the files you want.

JA Sport template

JA Sport template is built on the T4 Framework so its folder structure is almost the same as any other JA Templates that are developed with T4 Framework.

/templates/ja_sport/
	+-- scss/                 /*  all SCSS files */ 
	+--     scss/tpl                 /*  theme tpl SCSS files */ 
	¦    +--  acm.scss
	¦    +--  all.scss
	¦    +--  offcanvas.scss
	¦    +--  styles.scss
	¦    +--  type.scss
	¦    +--  utilities.scss
	¦    +--  variables.scss
	¦    +--  vars.scss
	¦    +--  jpages.scss
	¦    +--  rtl.scss
	¦    +--  template.scss
	¦    +--  bootstrap.scss
	¦    +--  components.scss
	¦    +--  forms.scss
	¦    +--  global.scss
	¦    +--  joomla.scss
	¦    +--  megamenu.scss
	¦    +--  modules.scss
	¦    +--  navigations.scss
	+-- scss/tpls 
	+-- css/                     /*compiled files from SCSS*/
	¦    +-- template.css
	¦    +-- rtl.css
	¦    +-- acm.css
	¦    +-- jpages.css
	¦    +-- off-canvas.css/
	¦    +-- offline.css/
	+-- acm/               /*JA Advanced Custom Module content type*/
	¦    +-- features-intro/
	¦    ¦    +-- config.xml
	¦    ¦    +-- css/
	¦    ¦    +-- tmpl/
	¦    ¦    +-- js/
	+-- html/               /*override modules and Joomla com_content*/
	¦    +-- com_content/
	¦    ¦    +-- article/
	¦    ¦    +-- category/
	¦    ¦    +-- featured/
	¦    +-- com_contact/
	¦    ¦    +-- contact/
	¦    ¦    +-- com_komento/
	¦    +-- com_virtuemart/
	¦    +-- mod_acym/
	¦    +-- mod_articles_categories/
	¦    +-- mod_articles_category
	¦    +-- layouts/
	¦    +-- ...
	+-- fonts/ 
	+-- js/ 
	¦    +--owl-carousel
	¦    +-- bootstrap.bundle.js
	¦    +-- template.js
	¦    +-- imagesloaded.pkgd.js
	¦    +-- isotope.pkgd.js
	+-- images/
	+-- language/
	+-- templateDetails.xml  
	+-- templateInfo.php/
	+-- templateHook.php/
	

CSS and SCSS customization

Any customization is not recommended in the t4 plugin.

To customize your site style, you can use either CSS or SCSS customization tool.

More details

1. Layout configuration

JA Sport supports different layouts by default and you can create more layouts using layout builder.

Assign Layout for a template style

To assign a layout for a JA Sport template style, open the template style » Layout setting panel » and assign a layout for the template style.

JA Sport supports multiple layouts for different landing page such as About Us, Admission, Alumni.

You can create multiple template styles with different layouts assigned. Then assign each template style to specific pages.

View layout builder detail docs

2. Site settings

Logo settings

The Logo settings are present under Site configuration > Logo Settings.

For the logo, you can select to use an image logo or text logo. You can also select the different logos for mobile view.

Typography settings

The typography includes the global settings for font family, font weight, line height.

You can enable the custom font setting for heading and navigation (menu).

Other settings:

• Page: set page backgroud image and background style attributes
• Author Settings: show, hide the author block and link for the author
• Favicon setting: add custom favicon

Site setting detailed docs

3. Navigation configuration

JA Sport supports Megamenu for Desktop layout and dropdown or Off-canvas for Mobile layout.

Megamenu setting

Go to Navigation > Megamenu, select a menu and configure the megamenu. You can build a mega menu with multiple rows, each row can include multiple columns. You can assign menu items, modules or a module position to each column.

Megamenu detailed docs

Off-canvas Menu setting

Enable Off-canvas (it is enabled by default), select module position, module style and other options.

Next, create a menu module, assign it to the position: off-canvas.

• Module settings

4. Theme color settings

The theme color allows you to use the color picker to change color for brand colors, base colors, main menu colors and footer colors.

You can view the changes in the website preview on the right panel.

Color Palettes

The color palettes are pre-defined color sets to configure color palettes for sections faster, easier and more consistent.

In the Theme Color, open the Palettes and you can edit the default palettes, delete or add new.

In the layout setting panel, configure a section, select Palettes tab and assign a color palettes for the section.

5. Global settings

JA Sport template global settings include:

• T4 edit layout: this is the front-end editor (article, module) layout setting, you can select to use clean layout or full position layout
• CSS & JS optimization: JS and CSS optimization is the process of making your website smaller and faster to load by minifying the JS and CSS codes.
• Custom Code: You can insert any CSS, JS, meta tags, links, and verification codes using the custom code option. With multiple options to add custom to specific tags.
• Add-ons: includes settings to enable or disable font icons like Font awesome, Iconmoon. When an Addon is disabled, its CSS and JS will not be loaded in your website, this is to help keep your site clean and load faster.
• Open Graph:

Detailed docs

6. CSS & SCSS editor tool

Customizing style for your site is even simpler with the inbuilt custom CSS Editor. In the Tools panel, hit the Edit Custom CSS button and you can add your own custom CSS rules to the editor.

You can override the default variables in the Variables customization editor, as well as the adding custom SCSS.

Detailed docs

Landing pages

This section will help you build the main pages - landing pages the same as the JA Sport demo site, that includes:

• Home page
• Our Awards
• Our Mission
• Our Tours
• Our Partners
• Tickets
• Shop

Step 1 - Create menu item

Go to Menu » Main menu, add a new menu item, select Articles » Featured Article menu type.

You can keep other settings as default.

Step 2 - Create a template style

As the pages are landing page, its content is loaded from modules and its layout is a set of sections.

To create a new template style for JA Sport, you can duplicate JA Sport default template styles, rename it, assign the menu item created in step 1.

Assign "home" layout for the template style

Here is the "home" layout structure.

Step 3 - Assign content to the landing page

Content of the landing pages are loaded from modules. Here is the detailed configuration of each module.

1. Header modules:

Topbar Menu

Module position: topbar-l
Module Suffix: NOT USED
Alternative layout: default

• General settings

Social icons

Module position: topbar-r
Module Suffix: NOT USED
Alternative layout: default

• General settings

Shopping Cart

Module position: header-r
Module Suffix: NOT USED
Alternative layout: default

• General settings

2. Hero module

JA ACM - Hero:style-1

Module position: hero
Module Suffix: NOT USED
Alternative layout: default

• General settings

3. All Matches

JA ACM - Live Matches : style-3

Module position: section-1
Module Suffix: NOT USED
Alternative layout: default

• General settings

4. Sport News

Articles - Category

Module position: section-2
Module Suffix: NOT USED
Alternative layout: news-1

• General settings
• Filtering settings
• Display settings
• Advanced settings
• Extra Fields settings

5. Featured Videos

Articles - Category

Module position: section-3
Module Suffix: mod-highlight
Alternative layout: news-2

• General settings
• Filtering settings
• Display settings
• Advanced settings
• Extra Fields settings

6. Football history

JA ACM - Features Intro : style-1

Module position: section-3
Module Suffix: NOT USED
Alternative layout: default

• General settings

7. Player Profiles

Modules: Articles - Category module

Module position: section-4
Module Suffix: NOT USED
Alternative layout: player-2

• General settings
• Filtering settings
• Display settings
• Advanced settings
• Extra Fields settings

8. Top Products

Modules: VirtueMart Products

Module position: section-5
Module Suffix: NOT USED
Alternative layout: slide

• General settings
• Extra field settings

9. Special Features

Modules: Articles - Category module

Module position: section-6
Module Suffix: NOT USED
Alternative layout: news-4
	

• General settings
• Filtering settings
• Display settings
• Advanced settings
• Extra Fields settings

10. Our Partners

JA ACM - Clients : style-1

Module position: section-7
Module Suffix: NOT USED
Alternative layout: default

• General settings
• Extra field settings

11. Newsletter Signup

AcyMailing subscription form

Module position: footsub
Module Suffix: NOT USED
Alternative layout: default

• General settings
• Advanced settings
• Extra field settings

12. Footer modules

The footer section includes multiple modules.

Following is the module position layout of the footer section.

Module configuration:

12.1 Menu module

Module position: footnav-1
Module Suffix: NOT USED
Alternative layout: default

• General settings

11.2 Copyrights - Footer Module

Module position: copyright
Module Suffix: NOT USED
Alternative layout: default

• General settings

You can update content (copyrights) of the footer module in the templates/ja_sport/html/mod-footer/default.html

11.3 Social icons - JA ACM (Social : style-1)

Module position: footsocial
Module Suffix: NOT USED
Alternative layout: default

• General settings

Team page

Create Team menu item: go to Menu, add a new menu item, select Articles » Player List menu type and assign "JA Sport - team" template style.

• Category settings
• Blog Layout settings
• Options settings

Shop landing page

Create Shop menu item: go to Menu, add a new menu item, select Articles » Featured Articles menu type and assign "ja_sport - Home" template style.

Create modules:

1. Hero module

JA ACM - Hero : style-2

Module position: hero
Module Suffix: NOT USED
Alternative layout: default

• General settings

2. Shop By Player module

VirtueMart Products

Module position: section-2
Module Suffix: NOT USED
Alternative layout: default

• General settings
• Extra Field settings

3. Featured module

JA ACM - Features Intro : style-3

Module position: section-2
Module Suffix: NOT USED
Alternative layout: default

• General settings
• Extra Field settings

Virtuemart - Category Layout

Create Shop Category menu item: go to Menu, add a new menu item, select VirtueMart » Category Layout menu type.

Joomla pages

This includes Blog, Contact, Tags, Search, Login and more.

News page - Category Blog

Create News menu item: go to Menu, add a new menu item, select Articles » Category Blog menu type and assign "JA Sport - Default" template style.

• Category settings
• Blog Layout settings
• Options settings

Contact page

Step 1: create contact: access "Component > Contact" and create a new contact item.

• Contact settings
• Miscellaneous Information

Create contact menu: Add a new menu item, select Contact » Single contact menu type and assign "JA Sport - Default" template style.

In the Contact component, assign the contact created in step 1.

The best method to upgrade JoomlArt products is using JA Extension Manager. The FREE extension brings a new way to manage extensions: upgrade, rollback, remote install, internal repository and compare versions and more.

1. Set up JA Extension Manager Component

Download this free extension from this link. Install the extension to your website.

Go to Components > JA Extension Manager then selects Service Manager, now set JoomlArt as your default service. Next, hit the "Edit" button then add your account.

2. Upgrade JA Sport template

Check the new version of the T4 plugin template. Use the filter to find the JA Sport template then hit the "Check Update" button.

3. Upgrade T4 Framework and other JA extensions

Using the filter to find the extensions you want to upgrade (JoomlArt products only), hit the "Check Update" button to check for a new version then hit Upgrade Now to upgrade the extension to the latest version.

Check out more details about JA Extension manager