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[bowman999 Friend bowman999Join date: April 2007Posts: 119Downloads:13Uploads:7 Thanks: 25 Thanked: 14 times in 1 posts]

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Just bought your template. Would like to display articles from”more than one category” on the front/home page.
It seems that The Wall only accepts Category Blog in the configuration settings, where only one Category can be displayed. Is it possible to override this? (using Featured articles instead for example?). Unfortunately I won’t be able to use the template properly if we are restricted to one category on the home page.

Let me know. Thanks. John.

[Sherlock Friend SherlockJoin date: September 2014Posts: 11453Downloads:0Uploads:88 Thanks: 221 Thanked: 2478 times in 2162 posts]

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<em>@bowman999 320820 wrote:</em><blockquote>Just bought your template. Would like to display articles from”more than one category” on the front/home page.
It seems that The Wall only accepts Category Blog in the configuration settings, where only one Category can be displayed. Is it possible to override this? (using Featured articles instead for example?). Unfortunately I won’t be able to use the template properly if we are restricted to one category on the home page.

Let me know. Thanks. John.</blockquote>

Hi John,

Yeah, the wall’s homepage menu item only accepts category Blog layout but it can display items (articles) from sub-categories that meant it can display items from more than one category as you mentioned , you would be able to display items from a category and items from all it’s sub-categories also 🙂

[cssyeah Moderator cssyeahJoin date: June 2006Posts: 653Downloads:73Uploads:15 Thanked: 121 times in 81 posts]

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bowman999,

For default Joomla content, in the Joomla core, each menu supports to display articles of 1 category and its sub-categories. If you want to display contents of different categories in one menu, you can move the categories that you want to a parent’s category (eg: show_home). After that, select Home for that parent category.

If you use K2 component to display many different categories at the same time, this much be easier. Simply choose the categories that you want to display in the menu that you had just created, articles from different categories will be displayed on the Home page.

We’ll update guide for this problem.

Thanks.

[bowman999 Friend bowman999Join date: April 2007Posts: 119Downloads:13Uploads:7 Thanks: 25 Thanked: 14 times in 1 posts]

#454250

Thanks. That helps, but unfortunately, having them structured this way changes the URL and I have a lot of legacy content. For example, if I add an article this way it renames the subcategories like this”…/gadgets/newsarticle” becomes “…/9_gadgets/news article”, etc.

Much better if I could use Featured articles.

Cheers.

John

<em>@Pixel Shot 321046 wrote:</em><blockquote>bowman999,

For default Joomla content, in the Joomla core, each menu supports to display articles of 1 category and its sub-categories. If you want to display contents of different categories in one menu, you can move the categories that you want to a parent’s category (eg: show_home). After that, select Home for that parent category.

If you use K2 component to display many different categories at the same time, this much be easier. Simply choose the categories that you want to display in the menu that you had just created, articles from different categories will be displayed on the Home page.

We’ll update guide for this problem.

Thanks.</blockquote>

[cssyeah Moderator cssyeahJoin date: June 2006Posts: 653Downloads:73Uploads:15 Thanked: 121 times in 81 posts]

#454458

Hi bowmain999,

We’ll apply this feature in next version, so i’ll guide you do it.

Step 1: Go to the “ja_wall / html / com_content/” folder.

Step 2: Clone the category folder and change name to featured.

Step 3: Rename two files:
blog.php –> default.php
blog_item.php –> default_item.php

Step 4: Open your site on an other browser and view it.

Best regards!

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[bowman999 Friend bowman999Join date: April 2007Posts: 119Downloads:13Uploads:7 Thanks: 25 Thanked: 14 times in 1 posts]

#454515

Thanks for that. Good to hear. I might wait for the update rather than hacking the core. I have to do a lot more modifications before I get it all going.

<em>@Pixel Shot 321548 wrote:</em><blockquote>Hi bowmain999,

We’ll apply this feature in next version, so i’ll guide you do it.

Step 1: Go to the “ja_wall / html / com_content/” folder.

Step 2: Clone the category folder and change name to featured.

Step 3: Rename two files:
blog.php –> default.php
blog_item.php –> default_item.php

Step 4: Open your site on an other browser and view it.

Best regards!</blockquote>

[ncase Friend ncaseJoin date: February 2010Posts: 15Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanked: 1 times in 1 posts]

#454589

I don’t think this is technically core hack as the files being generated are orrerrides within your template/html folder (not core).
I’m starting to investigate adding support for the Zoo components (which I am liking more than K2 nowadays) and this at least got me looking in the right place.

Thanks Pixel Shot.

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