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How do I get the Front Page to publish more (and maybe all) of an article in the JA News feature box?

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<em>@benbrook 123436 wrote:</em><blockquote>How do I get the Front Page to publish more (and maybe all) of an article in the JA News feature box?</blockquote>

benbrook,

What happens if you have a 100-page article? You have a mile long page. 🙂 I am not sure anyone can answer your question without seeing your site and what sort of articles you have. If you have only 100-500 character articles no problem.

Just don’t do a “Read more” break or page break. However, whatever you do, your layout in the Section or Category will be terrible, if your articles have different lengths, unless you have a one-column intro page for the sections or categories.

Familiarize yourself with the JA New FrontPage menu.

administrator => extension => Modules => JA News FrontPage => click to get menu

Play with the numbers there. It is a complex interplay of the total number of characters you allow and the “Read more” break that determines what appear in the JA News frontpage module. You can set a higher number in the box where it asks you how many characters you want to appear in the feature article(s) or the other articles. If you have a long article, make sure your “Read more” break will be at higher number than the total characters you want to appear in each article.

Cornelio

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Thanks for taking the time to help. I completely understand what you are saying. Please note that I am shooting for the look found in the attachment. Notice that the top featured article is one article in two columns with the image at the top of the first column. I have not been working with Joomla very long and I have so much to learn. Thanks again for the tips.

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<em>@benbrook 123467 wrote:</em><blockquote>Thanks for taking the time to help. I completely understand what you are saying. Please note that I am shooting for the look found in the attachment. Notice that the top featured article is one article in two columns with the image at the top of the first column. I have not been working with Joomla very long and I have so much to learn. Thanks again for the tips.</blockquote>

Hi benbrook,

We have all been there. The thing is we keep on learning.

I am not expert myself. In fact, I am one of those who ask a lo of questions here. Actually, someone came asking the same question before — in fact he wanted three columns, like some magazine formats.

It is not the same as you showed, but JA Opal has a two-column format for the main feature:

JA Opal
http://joomlart.bayanihan-saranay.org/jopal15x000/

I have not played with it yet, but see what happens if you add more text.

The Frontpage module of JA Opal is in zip format, so you can install it. I tried the reverse. Place the JA News FrontPage into the JA Opal.

Note that JA Opal is not a true news-magazine. It is easier to import the look of JA Opal into JA Teline II than export the news-magazine feature of Teline II into JA Opal.

Cornelio

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