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[willyram Friend willyramJoin date: August 2008Posts: 16Downloads:9Uploads:1 Thanks: 5 Thanked: 1 times in 1 posts]

#135795

Hi, I am starting to work on a Teline II template and I have the following issue:

I would like to have the articles highlighted by means of the ja_catslwi (“hot topics”) into a specific set of modules (let’s say I would like “landing modules”).

The hard way I found is to assign each article in the hot topic categories to a menu option and then assign each of the modules I want to appear to that option.

This is proving out to be very time consuming for a dynamic site, as ideally the hot topics would be changing frequently, sometimes daily (In my mind I even dream of a mix of “most popular” module with this one).

So a quick-and-dirty way would be to attach a “&Itemid=xxx” suffix to the non-SEF URL of the article, corresponding to a dummy menu option where you specify generic module placements (kind of a “template menu”). This way I only assign once for all.

The problem i see is that I could only use non-SEF urls, as the SEF URLs generated by JRoute sometimes are invalid (I am using so far native SEF URLs by Joomla 1.5.8).

Any ideas??? Perhaps the solution is fairly simple and I am just willing to complicate it.

Tks in adavance!!

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

#281070

Hi willyram !
This is heavy customization , I am afraid that you have to handle the changes at your end.
It isn’t easy to complete , seem there isn’t any one has done it.

[mayke Friend maykeJoin date: May 2008Posts: 281Downloads:0Uploads:1 Thanks: 55 Thanked: 13 times in 1 posts]

#281391

Hi,

Is possible to have an option that include selected article from all section/category ?

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