Hope my answer below would help.
<blockquote>1. When I click on the link more info link… I would like it to load on a new page… right now it simply loads lower down the same page.</blockquote>
In Joomla, if you want to view article individually, that article must be assigned to a menu item.
You can create a new menu item (or use an existing one), then assign article (or category that article belongs to) to this new menu item. Also make sure that you don’t assign any module to this menu item.
<blockquote>2. I do not want the item title to load at all… have turned the option of in K2 options…
News Pro gives me the option to show or hide the category but do not see an option to do this with the item title.</blockquote>
At the moment, no show/hide option is available as you mentioned. If you wish to control the length of title (i.e. limit the length of title), you can try with workaround below:
Open the modules/mod_janewspro/tmpl/default/blog_item.php file:
– Add following function between the <?php …?> tags:
if(!function_exists(cut_string)) {
function cut_string($title, $max)
{
if($title!=''){
if(is_array($title)) list($string, $match_to) = $title;
else { $string = $title; $match_to = $title{0}; }
$match_start = stristr($string, $match_to);
$match_compute = strlen($string) - strlen($match_start);
if (strlen($string) > $max)
{
if ($match_compute < ($max - strlen($match_to)))
{
$pre_string = substr($string, 0, $max);
$pos_end = strrpos($pre_string, " ");
if($pos_end === false) $string = $pre_string."...";
else $string = substr($pre_string, 0, $pos_end)."...";
}
else if ($match_compute > (strlen($string) - ($max - strlen($match_to))))
{
$pre_string = substr($string, (strlen($string) - ($max - strlen($match_to))));
$pos_start = strpos($pre_string, " ");
$string = "...".substr($pre_string, $pos_start);
if($pos_start === false) $string = "...".$pre_string;
else $string = "...".substr($pre_string, $pos_start);
}
else
{
$pre_string = substr($string, ($match_compute - round(($max / 3))), $max);
$pos_start = strpos($pre_string, " "); $pos_end = strrpos($pre_string, " ");
$string = "...".substr($pre_string, $pos_start, $pos_end)."...";
if($pos_start === false && $pos_end === false) $string = "...".$pre_string."...";
else $string = "...".substr($pre_string, $pos_start, $pos_end)."...";
}
$match_start = stristr($string, $match_to);
$match_compute = strlen($string) - strlen($match_start);
}
return $string;
}else{
return $string ='';
}
}
}
– Then change this line:
<span><?php echo $cat->title;?></span>
To
<span><?php echo cut_string($cat->title,15);?></span>
You can make a test by using format below:
echo cut_string("Profesionální fotograf zachytí momenty radosti a štestí Vašeho dítete v jeho prirozeném prostredí a to na hrištích, pri hre, sportu, ci jiného konícku, budete tak mít na vždy uchovány vzpomínky, profesionálne zpracované tak jak si budete prát", 60);
Ninja Lead 10 years, 6 months ago.
