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[cybernun Friend cybernunJoin date: July 2009Posts: 226Downloads:0Uploads:16 Thanks: 111 Thanked: 6 times in 1 posts]

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For Joomla 2.5.1

I feel very dense but after searching Forum I must ask if someone could SHOW me how to just pull images from the images/stories/masshead folder? No articles, just images. I don’t understand this:

[Masshead Itemid=”504″ title=”Blog Page” background=”images/stories/masshead/mh-2.jpg”][/Masshead]

:confused::confused:

[pavit Moderator pavitJoin date: September 2007Posts: 15749Downloads:199Uploads:2274 Thanks: 417 Thanked: 4028 times in 3778 posts]

#439941

Hi cybernun

Have you already read this Userguide ? it’s explained how to fetch images.

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1. cybernun

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#440020

Dear Pavit–

Yes, and I don’t understand it. As I said, I’m a bit dense. Thank you for answering BUT
If ALL you want to display there are several images from an image folder or even one image…how do you do that?

MassHead is an amazing mod but I only want several images to exchange. It does not simply state how to do that.

Is it not possible to do? :((

[Phill Moderator PhillJoin date: February 2014Posts: 7013Downloads:40Uploads:77 Thanks: 917 Thanked: 2206 times in 1818 posts]

#440026

If you want to remove the text from all masshead instances then you could adjust the css adding the visibility:hidden; to the code from template.css line 779ish below

[php]#ja-masshead span {
background: url(“../images/trans-black.png”) repeat scroll 0 0 transparent;
display: inline-block;
line-height: 1;
padding: 5px 10px;
visibility: hidden;
}[/php]

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1. cybernun

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#440028

Yes, THANK YOU.…I saw that from another post. I will do exactly that.

I still don’t understand what path I put into the mod paramters to show images.

I will alter the css for showing text but exactly what do I type in to tell it to show images from the images/stories/masshead folder?

It seems like I have to observe a format and I find very very confusing.

[Phill Moderator PhillJoin date: February 2014Posts: 7013Downloads:40Uploads:77 Thanks: 917 Thanked: 2206 times in 1818 posts]

#440030

It is all quite well explained in the userguide Pavit linked to.

What exactly are you trying to do?

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1. cybernun

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#440032

I CANNOT LOCATE THAT CODE IN TEMPLATE.CSS FOR JOOMLA 2.5 :confused:

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#440034

Sorry if I am confusing. When you open the Masshead mod, in “Configuration Condition” you see this:

[Masshead Itemid=”446″ title=”Sample Category 1″ background=”images/stories/masshead/mh-1.jpg”][/Masshead]

[Masshead Itemid=”500″ title=”Sample Category 2″ background=”images/stories/masshead/mh-2.jpg”][/Masshead]

[Masshead Itemid=”501″ title=”Sample Category 3″ background=”images/stories/masshead/mh-3.jpg”][/Masshead]

[Masshead Itemid=”448″ title=”User Page” background=”images/stories/masshead/mh-1.jpg”][/Masshead]

I need to know how to set a path in there just to show images from the images folder. No articles, no categories, just a few images.

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#440036

I’m dense too so maybe we speak the same language! 😉

Masshead will display one image taken from an image folder.

[Masshead Itemid=”504″ title=”Whatever” background=”images/stories/masshead/mh-2.jpg”][/Masshead]

assuming you want to have a new masshead for each menu item, Itemid = the menu item id of the link. so if you want masshead to appear on a page you look for the menu item id (on the right in the menu manager) of that menu and use this ID.

title = well you don’t want that and that’s been done with css anyway

background = this is the path of the image folder and the file name so for your case it is

images/stories/masshead/mypicture.jpg

I hope that explains the code used.

Sorry Phil, for jumping in on you but I know that this foxed me for ages too, until I understood exactly what the code was asking me to provide. It may help cybernun.

I’ll leave the css to Phil but glad to see that my thought of visibility: hidden; was the right one!

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#440039

Thank you, Swissa (and Phil). You have helped me in the past. This forum is remarkable and MOST helpful when I simply cannot understand something.

JUST 2 QUESTIONS

1. How or where do I get an Itemid if just showing the image path?
[Masshead Itemid=”504″ ????

2. I cannot seem to locate where in the template.css that mass head code is. I used “Find” and it did not locate it. I’m using 2.5.1 but that should not make any difference.

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#440041

To answer 1

I take it that you want someone to click on a menu item and it will then take them to a new page and there will be the masshead?

If you go to Menu Manager | Menu Items and look for that menu – the one you would click to take you to that page, you will see on the right hand side a list of numbers headed ID. This is the number you need to give into the code in masshead.

Effectively the code says for this menu item with the ID XXX show this picture (the picture path) please. Without a valid ID number it says this isn’t the right page so I’ll not show the picture.

Does that make it any clearer for you? 🙂

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#440045

I wanted to use the Masshead only because it displays behind content.
This site will be for a gallery.
I guess I just want it to function like Slideshow2…but no text, no linking, just a background image.

So I’m guess that one cannot use Masshead without it being connected to an article.

Thank you for your help. Thank you so so much. I think I will just disable and go with Slideshow2. :((

PS: This is the second time I’ve given up on Masshead on a Kranos template.

Sigh.

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#440049

I think this post is resolved so I will indicate that. Essentially, I misunderstood Masshead vs Ja Slideshow. I have however, learned more about how to use Masshead and I thank you all for that. Please do not feel that you wasted your time…I am saving all of your answers and at some point, I WILL learn to use MassHead on a different type of site. :-*:-*

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1. Phill

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#440050

I did have a feeling you were confusing things somewhat. Glad we got there in the end.:D

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