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[dtwaddell Friend dtwaddellJoin date: April 2012Posts: 3Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 2]

#177820

Hi,

I installed JA_Graphite yesterday here:

http://www.peterdsowatskey.com

I want the blog on home page, but cannot see how to get it to work? I am wondering if the install didn’t work properly, but don’t want to re-install unless I have to, because I have set up a fair bit of other content. Can someone please take a quick look and advise course of action?

Kind regards

David

[HeR0 Friend HeR0Join date: August 2011Posts: 3626Downloads:0Uploads:61 Thanks: 33 Thanked: 588 times in 549 posts]

#456055

Hi Dtwaddell

I see that you had set single article as homepage so i change to blog category layout

Check your site and let me know if that’s what you wanted?

regards

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1. dtwaddell

[dtwaddell Friend dtwaddellJoin date: April 2012Posts: 3Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 2]

#456101

HeR0,
Thanks, that looks better.
But I purchased the Graphite template, and it still looks nowhere like the sample. How do I add new blog entires and how do people add comments? Perhaps you could point me to some help on it?
If all blog entries are added in back-end as articles, then it will be simpler just to integrate Blogger or WordPress, don’t you think? Then maybe I don’t need to Graphite template after all.

Regards

David

[TomC Moderator TomCJoin date: October 2014Posts: 14077Downloads:58Uploads:137 Thanks: 948 Thanked: 3155 times in 2495 posts]

#456103

Have you reviewed the JA GRAPHITE USER GUIDE ??

[dtwaddell Friend dtwaddellJoin date: April 2012Posts: 3Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 2]

#456175

Tom, thanks. I just now went through fairly carefully.
I don’t think I can use the quickstart because I don’t have that sort of access to my server
It seems I have to go through and manually install and configure each module and plugin. I am part-way through this. I reached the point where I need to configure the JA Latest Comments and the Comments System component. But it seems that these are not part of the template I purchased and so I need to pay extra to get those (another $50 by the looks of it).

If this purchase does the trick then I am ok with it, but the way things are going I am not minded to pay more for something that might not work for me.
For example, I am not very happy that the template does not work without paying extra, and that this was not made clear up front. What else do I need to purchase to make it work?.. Also, I have made most of the config changes but the site doesn’t look any different yet. I don’t want to become Joomla/JA expert – I just want a simple site that works.. There is a lot of scope for errors for a novice like me.

Can anyone please confirm that I need to purchase the comments modules, and that there is nothing else I need to buy?

regards

David

[Arvind Chauhan Moderator Arvind ChauhanJoin date: September 2014Posts: 3835Downloads:74Uploads:92 Thanks: 1240 Thanked: 1334 times in 848 posts]

#456476

David,

JA Comment is not part of the template club and has to be bought separately. It is a big extension if it was to be given free, it would have been mentioned.

The product page of the template mentions what is complimentary with it. http://www.joomlart.com/joomla/templates/ja-graphite

There is no mention of JA Comment in that.

I am not sure if i need to explain more?

Regards

Arvind

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