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[Andrew Winkler Friend Andrew WinklerJoin date: September 2014Posts: 725Downloads:206Uploads:31 Thanks: 291 Thanked: 34 times in 2 posts]

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I’m running a news website with hundreds of new articles per day. For practical reasons, 99% of the new articles come in from over 150 sources via a highly customised fulltext RSS import tool which insures the articles have all the same look and feel and are complete. That includes videos from Youtube and Vimeo. Today, I upgraded the site to JA Wall. Everything went quite smoothly, except that the wall looks boring compared to the JA demo site because of the missing “extended classes” effects such as double and triple grid or different background colours which make JA Wall demo site really stand out aesthetically.

After some research on this forum and reading the manuals, I found that I have to change the “extended classes” parameters such as double-grid, triple-grid, new, hot, sticky, colour settings manually, article by article, which isn’t practical for people who are using RSS import tools such as mine or the one that comes with JA Wall. Nor is it practical having to search and search for exactly what parameters to use to produce the available effects, or for the average user to hack the Joomla code to be able to add those parameters from the frontend.

What I would like to see is this:
1. Easy findable and accessible information on the available parameters and their effect.
2. Template settings where the “extended parameter” settings for double-grid, triple-grid, new, hot, sticky, colour settings are automatically defined based on factors such as categories, article hits, featured yes or no. Alternatively, this could be done via a plugin.

[Wall Crasher Developer Wall CrasherJoin date: December 2011Posts: 1113Downloads:0Uploads:15 Thanks: 66 Thanked: 361 times in 300 posts]

#478240

Hi andrewwinkler,

I have answer your thread at
http://www.joomlart.com/forums/topic/please-provide-complete-list-of-extended-class-parameters-for-articles/#post-478178

For the function you are seeking, I am not sure that JA Wall comes with default.
You have make some customize like what I have said in the thread.
If it is too hard for your, please consider hire a developer to do it for you with a reasonable price at http://www.joomlancers.com/.
I can say it is not too hard.

Regards

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