Change template used for featured articles (home page)

drumscore

I had my site working as desired and accidentally changed some setting that changed the template used to render the home page. My site is using JA Social II.

In the working version, this file is used to render the featured articles on the home page:
plugins\system\t3\base-bs3\html\com_content\featured\default.php

In the current (busted) version, this file is used:
components\com_content\views\featured\tmpl\default.php

I think the change might be associated with a Blog template setting, but I can't figure out what changed. After digging through the template and menu settings several times, I resorted to diffing backup versions of the database to no avail. It is sad how many hours I have wasted on this. It has been several years since I set things up, so I am not as savvy as I used to be and could really use some help.

I would really appreciate some guidance on where to look.

Thanks!
DS

pavit

Hi drumscore

All template settings are illustrated into documentation page at THIS URL

I think you are referring to the template layout ( features-intro) to assign to your home menu item.

Also if this doesn't solve your issue then add to your first post a temp super user account for your backend as showed HERE Point-5

We will help you to restore default settings.

Regards

drumscore

Thank you for the offer to help. As I tried to make changes, things just got worse.

I setup a test version of the site that exhibits the problem:

http://test.drumscore.com

The working version of the site is located at:
http://stage.drumscore.com

The live version is:
www.drumscore.com

I use http auth to protect production site admin and the two test sites. Creds are posted in the secure area.

On the working stage site, the styles for the leading articles look like

  <div class="blog-featured" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Blog">
    <div class="items-leading clearfix">
      <div class="leading leading-0">

In the busted version (www and test), , the styles for the leading articles look like

  <div class="blog-featured" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Blog">
    <div class="items-leading clearfix">
      <div class="leading-0 clearfix" itemprop="blogPost" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/BlogPosting">

Thank you so much for taking a look.

Cheers,
DS

saguaros

drumscore
Hi,

Somehow, the main + test sites are loading old Bootstrap v2--in which it uses span class instead of new class inn Bootstrap 3: http://prntscr.com/kf6xec

I copied this file: plugins\system\t3\base-bs3\html\com_content\featured\default.php

to this folder: templates\ja_social_ii\html\com_content\featured\default.php

for the test site and it's working as stage site now: http://test.drumscore.com/index.php

You can apply the same for the main site.

Regards