Joomla Templates Club 406,261 posts

[Andrew Winkler Friend Andrew WinklerJoin date: September 2014Posts: 725Downloads:206Uploads:31 Thanks: 291 Thanked: 34 times in 2 posts]

#183579

Please provide a complete list of “extended class” parameters available for articles displayed on the JA wall. I’m using the default configuration.

[Andrew Winkler Friend Andrew WinklerJoin date: September 2014Posts: 725Downloads:206Uploads:31 Thanks: 291 Thanked: 34 times in 2 posts]

#478178

Skimming through the demo content table I found the following parameters:

grid-double
grid-tiple

dark
no-color
purple
orange
blue

item-sticky3
item-sticky2
item-sticky

item-hot
item-new
item-free

Please advise whether this list is complete and accurate and whether it can be found anywhere in your documentation or template?

[Andrew Winkler Friend Andrew WinklerJoin date: September 2014Posts: 725Downloads:206Uploads:31 Thanks: 291 Thanked: 34 times in 2 posts]

#478183

I’m trying to insert the code in my RSS fulltext article import component to automatically define the metadata depending on source, categories and key words in the article title, but without luck. The code I’m inserting into the content metadata fields is this:

{“xclass”:”purple “}
{“xclass”:”orange”}
{“xclass”:”grid-double dark”}

I also tried adding a blank in front of the purple or orange settings, but it made no difference.

[Wall Crasher Developer Wall CrasherJoin date: December 2011Posts: 1113Downloads:0Uploads:15 Thanks: 66 Thanked: 361 times in 300 posts]

#478232

Hi andrewwinkler,

Your list is completed list.
You can also take reference from here.
http://joomla25-templates.joomlart.com/ja_wall/en/pages/item-variations.html

And also
http://www.joomlart.com/forums/topic/item-variations/#post-461800

For automatic Extended class from RSS, you can take a look at
http://www.joomlart.com/forums/topic/youtube-extended-classes/#post-476054

I think you are missing some steps, please describe your situation clearer so that I can help.

Regards

[Andrew Winkler Friend Andrew WinklerJoin date: September 2014Posts: 725Downloads:206Uploads:31 Thanks: 291 Thanked: 34 times in 2 posts]

#478274

I just want a complete list of the extended classes parameters supported in JA Wall.

[Wall Crasher Developer Wall CrasherJoin date: December 2011Posts: 1113Downloads:0Uploads:15 Thanks: 66 Thanked: 361 times in 300 posts]

#478346

Yeah, As I said, your list is completed list. 😉

[Andrew Winkler Friend Andrew WinklerJoin date: September 2014Posts: 725Downloads:206Uploads:31 Thanks: 291 Thanked: 34 times in 2 posts]

#478592

For some reason most of the parameters in my list don’t work on my site. The on only ones working are:
– dark
– hilite
– grid-double

the others such as purple do not work at all.

[arucardx Friend arucardxJoin date: July 2010Posts: 346Downloads:0Uploads:10 Thanks: 21 Thanked: 138 times in 104 posts]

#478623

Because they are meant for other themes >_> If you want to use all of them then you need to copy those codes from the different theme.css to template.css but it most likely requires modification else your layout will break.

1 user says Thank You to arucardx for this useful post

1. Wall Crasher

[Andrew Winkler Friend Andrew WinklerJoin date: September 2014Posts: 725Downloads:206Uploads:31 Thanks: 291 Thanked: 34 times in 2 posts]

#478637

What you should do then is provide a list of which parameters work with which style. It is VERY frustrating for your customers not only to waste hours finding out for what kind of parameters exist at all and then – through trial of error – try out which parameters actually work with the style they are using. My impression so far of JA Wall is this: great template, lousy documentation. >:( This would be understandable if JA Wall was one of your new monthly templates and had just come out, but it has been out for a while and you charge an extra 50 USD for it. In such a case, I would expect the document to be excellent and comprehensive.

1 user says Thank You to Andrew Winkler for this useful post

1. Arvind Chauhan

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

#478723

Hi andrew,

Appreciate your frank feedback. I would be getting the above verified and added to the JA wall documentation. Let me know if there are any other important info missing from the JA wall documentation.

Regards

Arvind

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

#479037

A quick guide for extended classes has been updated on the documentation section of the demo site :

http://joomla25-templates.joomlart.com/ja_wall/en/documentation/item/417-ja-wall-insight-.html#8-extended-class&Itemid=627

hope it helps

1 user says Thank You to Arvind Chauhan for this useful post

1. Andrew Winkler

[Andrew Winkler Friend Andrew WinklerJoin date: September 2014Posts: 725Downloads:206Uploads:31 Thanks: 291 Thanked: 34 times in 2 posts]

#479559

One other missing point that comes to my head is instructions how to change Joomla so that extended class parameters can be edited from the site frontend. The documents should also contain links to the three files customers need to upload on their Joomla to overwrite the original files provided by Joomla. Those ‘patched’ Joomla files should also be already included by standard in the ‘Quickstart’ files.

Let me use this opportunity to make another remark. I’ve trained and managed IT helpdesks for over 10 years. One of the most important points I’ve always hammered into my helpdesk staff was this: Whatever you write in response to a customer call, make it as easy as possible for the customer to follow your instructions and try to anticipate his next question and/or what kind of problems he might run into. It’s called customer SERVICE. Unfortunately, most Indian and American style IT helpdesks measure their staff performance mainly by how many posts they have answered and how quickly they have responded, not how well have SOLVED the customer’s problem. The best indicators for that is how many times a customer comes back with the problem unsolved, and how many other customers with the same or a similar problem post questions on that problem, not how many times they have clicked on the thankyou button.

And last but not least, when customers log service calls with questions that aren’t covered well enough in the documentation then CHANGE THE DOCUMENTATION. A helpdesk forum is no substitute for badly written/incomplete documentation.

[Andrew Winkler Friend Andrew WinklerJoin date: September 2014Posts: 725Downloads:206Uploads:31 Thanks: 291 Thanked: 34 times in 2 posts]

#479563

<em>@drarvindc 354244 wrote:</em><blockquote>A quick guide for extended classes has been updated on the documentation section of the demo site :

http://joomla25-templates.joomlart.com/ja_wall/en/documentation/item/417-ja-wall-insight-.html#8-extended-class&Itemid=627

hope it helps</blockquote>

Thanks for adding this item so quickly. I suggest you add in above list a short description of what the parameters actually do, because that’s not always obvious to someone who is new to the template. If you don’t, customers are forced to try out what the effects are caused by the parameters and that’s quite time-consuming and frustrating.

[Andrew Winkler Friend Andrew WinklerJoin date: September 2014Posts: 725Downloads:206Uploads:31 Thanks: 291 Thanked: 34 times in 2 posts]

#479720

One more item that should find more attention in your documentation is how to change the logo. I don’t really understand why you make it so difficult for your customers to do something as basic as changing the logo from the default logo provided by your template. EVERY customer needs to do, and yet you make them edit CSS files, a task that is not without risks and has to be repeated every time they upgrade the template to the latest version. Why can’t you have the three logo parameters (file name and location,width, height) as editable fields in the template configuration?! But even if it can’t be done – for technical reasons that I don’t know about – why can’t you have all the instructions needed how to change the logo IN ONE PLACE in the documentation, instead of waiting for a customer to ask how to do it in the forum, usually followed up with a reply linking to two, three previous threads, wasting the customers time by making them read through the entire threats and try to work out which information is relevant to them.

1 user says Thank You to Andrew Winkler for this useful post

1. Arvind Chauhan

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

#479826

A quick guide to logo customization for JA Wall is now available : http://joomla25-templates.joomlart.com/ja_wall/en/logo-customization.html

Hope it would be of help to the new users.

Regards

Arvind

1 user says Thank You to Arvind Chauhan for this useful post

1. Andrew Winkler

[Author]

Posts