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[zdmdesignz Friend zdmdesignzJoin date: October 2009Posts: 122Downloads:0Uploads:25 Thanks: 54 Thanked: 11 times in 1 posts]

#193033

I’m wondering how to link an Image Content Type featured homepage tile to a blog page.

I do see that you can set the Content Type to “Text” or “Image,” but what I’m really looking to do is simply have a tile with an image on it link to a blog.

A homepage tile linked to a page like these would really make my day and my website:

http://joomla-templates.joomlart.com/ja_fixel/index.php/en/easyblog
http://joomla-templates.joomlart.com/ja_fixel/index.php/en/j-blog

Any help is hugely appreciated 🙂

Best,
Zechariah

[Ninja Lead Moderator Ninja LeadJoin date: November 2014Posts: 16064Downloads:310Uploads:2864 Thanks: 341 Thanked: 3854 times in 3563 posts]

#515848

Hi Zechariah,

When you click title or image in frontend, it should open associated article details page, this is default behavior of Joomla.

In order to make it direct to a blog, I’m afraid that you must customize / change link for title of article in com_content, depend on type of that featured article then you change associated file as below:

Open templates/ja_fixel/html/com_content/featured/default_item_images.php file
Line 36: <a class=”article-link” href=”<?php echo $link; ?>” title=”<?php echo $this->escape($this->item->title); ?>”>

Open templates/ja_fixel/html/com_content/featured/default_item_gallery.php file
Line 36: <a class=”video-link” href=”<?php echo $link; ?>” title=”<?php echo $this->escape($this->item->title); ?>”>

Open templates/ja_fixel/html/com_content/featured/default_item_default.php file

Line 24: <a class=”article-link” href=”<?php echo JRoute::_(ContentHelperRoute::getArticleRoute($this->item->slug, $this->item->catid)); ?>”> <?php echo $this->escape($this->item->title); ?></a>

This requires customization in core and you should try by yourself.

Regards

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[zdmdesignz Friend zdmdesignzJoin date: October 2009Posts: 122Downloads:0Uploads:25 Thanks: 54 Thanked: 11 times in 1 posts]

#515900

Ouch :((

That sounds a bit daring for me. I have no real experience with php. Maybe there is a workaround…

Thanks

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