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[bicker Friend bickerJoin date: July 2011Posts: 9Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 2]

#167544

I’m trying to figure out how to address two pages on our website. Hopefully folks can help me understand how best to accomplish that.

Specifically, it is the front page of the website, and an internal “newsletter” page. Both pages have the same characteristics (coincidentally), i.e., that they need to display multiple blocks showing articles from specific categories. These blocks would need to display full articles, not just titles with links. It seems like the “Featured Articles menu item type” functionality that would populate the content block of a page with articles marked as featured articles, but I don’t see how to limit it to certain categories, nor doI see how to have multiple blocks of that sort of thing on a page. I’ve also looked into putting multiple modules on a page, using the Newsflash module, but it only shows titles.

Could someone please help me understand what I’m missing?

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#406925

You should be able to use the latest articles module to restrict by category – it is usually sorted by time, so if the featured aspect is just what items have been published recently than it would work perfectly!

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#406929

Thanks, but I don’t see a Latest Articles module: I see a Latest News module, but it only shows article titles, not full articles.

[chukar Friend chukarJoin date: August 2008Posts: 10Downloads:2Uploads:0 Thanks: 4]

#471602

<em>@bicker 260636 wrote:</em><blockquote>Thanks, but I don’t see a Latest Articles module: I see a Latest News module, but it only shows article titles, not full articles.</blockquote>

I think this is the same problem I’m having with the Newsflash module. Why no content?

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#471656

<em>@chukar 344402 wrote:</em><blockquote>I think this is the same problem I’m having with the Newsflash module. Why no content?</blockquote>
Hi, can you give your link here ?
I will check for you to see what if there’s a JS error or style.

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#471788

Sure, compare the headers of these two pages:

http://www.way2age.com/

http://www.way2age.com/15-ways/conquer-your-addictions

On the second page (JA Social), I can get the Newsflash module to display the Module title and/or the article title, but not the article contents, which is what I want. The first page (another template) works great.

I want to transition the whole site to JA Social, but am stuck at this point.

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#471922

<em>@chukar 344651 wrote:</em><blockquote>Sure, compare the headers of these two pages:

http://www.way2age.com/

http://www.way2age.com/15-ways/conquer-your-addictions

On the second page (JA Social), I can get the Newsflash module to display the Module title and/or the article title, but not the article contents, which is what I want. The first page (another template) works great.

I want to transition the whole site to JA Social, but am stuck at this point.</blockquote>
It shows all Newsflash content, but as you demanded, in JA Social the Newsflash module is not override to made this, so you can do this by editing file:
modulesmod_articles_newstmpl_item.php

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#471999

<em>@Luna Garden 344850 wrote:</em><blockquote>It shows all Newsflash content, but as you demanded, in JA Social the Newsflash module is not override to made this, so you can do this by editing file:
modulesmod_articles_newstmpl_item.php
</blockquote>

I’m still not sure what to do. Is this a core edit? Seems like the JA Social template would be compatible with standard Joomla modules. I really like the template, but don’t think I should have to hack my Joomla core to use it.

[Luna Garden Moderator Luna GardenJoin date: July 2011Posts: 2617Downloads:80Uploads:96 Thanks: 78 Thanked: 453 times in 425 posts]

#472049

No, The News Flash module in Joomla 2.5 show both the title and content also. Your template show the Newsflash only the Title, means it override the code of Newsflash
If you don’t want to core edit, then create a folder name ‘mod_articles_news’ in
templates/ja_social/
Copy all files in:
modulesmod_articles_newstmpl
to new folder above.
Then edit the file ‘_item.php’ there.

[chukar Friend chukarJoin date: August 2008Posts: 10Downloads:2Uploads:0 Thanks: 4]

#472187

Very strange. Is this necessary for all JoomlArt T3 templates or just JA Social? I definitely think this is something that your template designers should fix. It should not be necessary for end users to do this.

And if I edit ‘_item.php’, what do I add and where? For instance, After line 12, add “???????“

Thanks for your help.

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#472243

<em>@chukar 345211 wrote:</em><blockquote>Very strange. Is this necessary for all JoomlArt T3 templates or just JA Social? I definitely think this is something that your template designers should fix. It should not be necessary for end users to do this.

And if I edit ‘_item.php’, what do I add and where? For instance, After line 12, add “???????”

Thanks for your help.</blockquote>
Just find this line in file ‘_item.php’

<?php echo $item->introtext; ?>
then comment out like below

<?php //echo $item->introtext; ?>
Here the setting in back-end for you to compare: http://easycaptures.com/fs/uploaded/713/5145512046.png
And I have attached the zip file for ‘mod_articles_news’ to you to upload to
templates/ja_social/html

If you still get error, please send me your admin account and FTP info.
Hope this helps.

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Attachments:

1. mod_articles_news.zip

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#472387

Luna Garden wrote:

After starting this thread, I downloaded the JA Module News Ticker, which I think I might prefer to the core Newsflash, but I can’t get that working either.

Both modules work on the homepage with a different template, but on

http://www.way2age.com/15-ways/conquer-your-addictions

(with JA Social) they don’t work.

Regards,

Chuck</blockquote>
Hi,
Thanks for the info.
I have done for you. Of course, I use NewsFlash Module default of Joomla. Please check to see it’s fine or you want to use the other module.
I think News Flash didn’t show cause you set wrong position, in JA Social there’s no position name ‘newsflash’, I have created a new Newsflash one and changed to ‘search’.

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#472415

Thanks much, but we’re still not there. The fundamental problem is that the TITLE displays, but not the CONTENTS. I want the CONTENTS to display, but not the TITLE. Compare the home page (Afterburner) with the Addictions page (JA Social). If I have the module settings wrong, the module would appear wrong on both pages.

http://www.way2age.com/

http://www.way2age.com/15-ways/conquer-your-addictions

I use the Newsflash module on many sites with many different templates and have never had this issue except with JA Social.

Chuck

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#472471

<em>@chukar 345528 wrote:</em><blockquote>Thanks much, but we’re still not there. The fundamental problem is that the TITLE displays, but not the CONTENTS. I want the CONTENTS to display, but not the TITLE. Compare the home page (Afterburner) with the Addictions page (JA Social). If I have the module settings wrong, the module would appear wrong on both pages.

http://www.way2age.com/

http://www.way2age.com/15-ways/conquer-your-addictions

I use the Newsflash module on many sites with many different templates and have never had this issue except with JA Social.

Chuck</blockquote>

Hii,
OK I got you point.
I have fixed this problem on your site now.
Hope it work as you expect.

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[chukar Friend chukarJoin date: August 2008Posts: 10Downloads:2Uploads:0 Thanks: 4]

#472536

YES!!!!!! It works. Thank you.

If you have a chance, would you tell me what needed to be done. It could be very helpful to me in the future, and perhaps to others as well.

Regards,

Chukar 😀

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