Hello!
I built some nice websites with T3.
T3 is good!
For content, I use Custom Modules with TinyMCE editor.
I almost never use articles for content, because articles have baggage, and they create headaches, and are generally a nuisance!
Today, I worked with an extension that allows admin to display a radio button for user: "I accept the sitename Information Policy".
"Information Policy" is a link. User clicks "Information Policy" to open a pop-up window that contains policy text. The extension backend requires a link to an article that contains the policy text.
It's a nice feature.
So I wrote an article for policy.
It worked.
In the article, I disabled everything on the Option tab: no Title, no Tags, no Intro Text, no Info Title, no Category, no Author, no Parent, no Dates, no Navigation, no Icons, no Email, no Print, no Voting, no Hits, no Links, no NOTHING!
Just text!
But the article still displayed a "page-header".
I didn't want a page-header for the article. Just text.
I tried everything to disable the page-header. What a NUISANCE!
Finally, I found a thread from 2011 where many people complained about the same problem. They described several different ways to fix the problem: many core hacks, and also a simple less/css fix.
The way i fixed the problem: add a rule to my local/less/styles.less file to display: none; for the class.
Problem solved. No more header. Just text.
You guys need to take a deep look at ARTICLES!
They are such a nuisance.
What a developer wants is to add content.
Not content that has 40 different "features" included by default.
Just basic content.
Articles have headers that are impossible to remove. And much baggage.
Maybe a design goal for future Joomla versions could be this: make articles less of a pain in the neck.
Thanks.
Dave
