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    #178384

    Good evening,

    I am triying to activate the “content” module that is shows on the demo template so I can use it to display articles of my “News & Events” category. I am not using k2 component and I have just created a category called “News & Event”, where I have alredy published 3 articles.

    I want to display the 3 articles that I have published on this category, but I don´t really know how to handle this. I have tried but I cannot find the module position called “content”… :((

    ¿Could you please give me some advise?

    Thank you very much.

    Saguaros Moderator
    #458448

    Hi Optimus74,

    If you wanna open a page that displays this category’s articles, you can create a new menu item with type of ‘category’ and assign category “News & Events” to this menu item.

    If you wanna display in a specific module position, you need to create a new module with type of articles/ categories > select category you want to display then assign this module to that position.

    Hope this helps.

    optimus74 Friend
    #458471

    Hello Saguaros,

    I have followed your instructions. The menu item “News & Event” that conect to the “News & Events” category its been created. But when I try to create a new module to display the articles of the category mentioned, I cant see the “content” position, it is not there.

    On the other hand, on the Ja Mendozite demo, the news that displays on front page are paragrhaps that contains onlye 3 lines of text and the next line the “read more buttom”.

    ¿Could you please let me know ho to archive this?

    Many thanks for the help!

    Saguaros Moderator
    #458584

    Hi optimus74 again,

    It’s Home menu item with types of Featured Articles, it shall display all featured articles from selected categories: http://easycaptures.com/fs/uploaded/575/8951431434.png

    optimus74 Friend
    #459004

    Hello again,

    I have spent 2 days trying to make news appear at the front page (as it shows on demo), but cannot make it. I really need to know in wich module position should I put the news published in “News and Events” category. I would like this articles to appear same as in the demo.

    I have installed the Ja Side News, but even that I dont know wich module position to asign.

    ¿Is there anybody that can help me to archive this please?

    Thank you very much.

    Saguaros Moderator
    #459012

    Dear optimus74,

    About the JA Side Newsmodule, do you mean this one: http://static.joomlart.com/images/templates/j25/mendozite/mega-front.png. ?
    This module is assigned to mega position, you can check this in backend settings

    optimus74 Friend
    #459117

    Dear Saguaros,

    Thank you very much for your answer and help. I have tried to put the Ja Side News module at position you said (mega), but it doesnt work at all. I may have done something wrong in my site, but its imposible for me to set up this module properly.

    I have checked the position layout and aparently the position I suposse to set up the Ja Side News is the “content” position. But, in the module setup section, this position doenst exists at all, I mean, the “content” position doesnt exist in my site.

    This is really confising for me; in the past I used the Ja Teline in other sites and it was so easy to set up this module, but now I cannot make it.

    I really need some help, and honestly, I cannot find a solution to archive this.

    I forget to say that I am using Joomla 2.5 version from Joomlaspanish.

    Thank you again.


    1. module_ja_side_news
    2. position_layout
    Saguaros Moderator
    #459181

    Dear optimus74,

    I would suggest that you could activate the content-mass-top position and assign this Ja Side News module to this content-mass-top position. You can follow these steps:

    – Open file: templatesja_mendoziteetclayoutsdefault.xml
    Replace:

    <blocks name="middle" colwidth="33">
    <block name="right1">left</block>
    <block name="right2" width="25">right</block>
    </blocks>

    With:

    <blocks name="middle" colwidth="20" fixheight="1">
    <block name="content-mass-top">content-mass-top</block>
    <block name="right1">left</block>
    <block name="right2">right</block>
    </blocks>

    – Open file: templatesja_mendozitetemplateDetails.xml

    <positions>
    <position>hornav</position>
    <position>breadcrumbs</position>
    <position>search</position>
    <position>banner</position>
    <position>content-mass-top</position> Add this line
    <position>left</position>

    – Go to Ja Side News module and assign to content-mass-top position

    – If you wanna remove this current main content: http://www.joomlart.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=22066&d=1340844589
    you should go to Template manager > Your default template http://easycaptures.com/fs/uploaded/580/1880004841.png

    Hope this helps.

    optimus74 Friend
    #460914

    Hello again Saguaros,

    Sorry it takes so long to reply. Now it is working very well for me, I could make it as in the template demo.

    Thank you so much for your help.

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