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[emekamadusha Friend emekamadushaJoin date: April 2011Posts: 17Downloads:0Uploads:1 Thanks: 8]

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Please i need help and i am tired of asking for help and no one evr replies me.

Please help me!

I installed joomla community plus on my local host on my pc before i can transfer to my site online.

But it has some errors.

1. First of all how do i change my logo to my own file?

2. How do i back up the site i created on my local host and then export to my site online.

3. How do i add a 4th section to the USER1, USER2 and USER3 modules so they will be 4 there?

4. Also when i add new items to the Main menu they over lap on the login link on the top right.

5. How do i give my user access to my registration page?

6. How can i determine the articles that are displayed in the slideshow area? Can i pick them by most popular articles or how?

7. Also the newsletter script on the home page is not working or how do i activate it?

[lorddonk Friend lorddonkJoin date: November 2009Posts: 20Downloads:0Uploads:4 Thanked: 4 times in 1 posts]

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Hi emekamadusha! I can understand not ever getting replies it has happened to me a few times. These guys are busy cranking out new themes for us to enjoy so they may not get to answering us like they should. Your best bet would be to make your subject title actually reflect what your issue(s) are. i know the JA staff probably has different levels of knowledge so being able to scan the forums and pick the things that they can answer must be very important.

I didn’t just want to stop there because I can also answer a couple other questions for you based on my (limited) knowledge of JA and T3.

1.) If you use FireFox download and use firebug (get it here) this tool lets you see the coding of the page(s). Once it is installed, click on the little “bug” icon to activate the program on the page. A bar should come up on the bottom. In the upper left corner, click on the “Eyeglasses” to turn on the examining mode. Then simply move over the logo. The bottom of the screen will show you exactly where that image is, and then you can go to that location thru your FTP, name your new logo the same thing and overrwite it.

2.) I’m guessing you’re probably using WAMPP or something similar. I’m not too familiar with it but somehow there should be a spot where you can access your “PHPMYADMIN”. Once you open PHPMYADMIN you can click on the database for your website, then go to the “Export” tab. you can leave all the options at default, just make sure all of the tables are selected in the list in the upperleft.Then set the radio button to “SQL” and download the file it gives you. Then, on your live site you can get to PHPMYADMIN on the server, and this time create the database (with the same name, username and password and full privelges) and then this time IMPORT your sql file.

Then, you can just copy all the files from the directory on your computer onto the server via FTP. The site should then work, if it doesn’t there’s a 90% chance that nothing is wrong but your database info. Open your “configuration.php” file and make sure the database name, server, and password are exactly right). You may not have been able to make the details exit because depending on your host they may limit you to certain characters and add something before your database with an underscore

3.) Go to “template manager > {template} > layouts > default > edit” for your template. In the box that pops up find the line that looks like this

<blockquote><block name=”user” type=”spotlight” block-inner=”3″>user1,user2,user3</block></blockquote>

and change it to be like this

<blockquote><block name=”user” type=”spotlight” block-inner=”3″>user1,user2,user3,user4</block> </blockquote>

Even though the location won’t show up in the list of module positions you will be able to use it by writing this into the module positions spot. If you need it to show up in the list, you can open the “templateDetails.xml” file in your template and find where the <positions></positions> are listed. And just add <position>user4</position>

4. I’m not sure on that one, I think you will need a JA team member. But I don’t know if they can do much until you have a live link to send them or at least show us a screenshot of what is happening

5. I think this is a Joomla question (in which case you can just create a menu link to the User > Login layout page, or a community builder/jomsocial question which I can’t really help you there (too expensive!)

6.) If you are using JA Slideshow there should be options to change it to only display articles from a certain section/category. Then you can just place all your articles you want to show up into that section/category

7.) I’m sorry I don’t know this one either. Is this a JA extension or something you downloaded elsewhere?

I hope this helps! You’ll still have to wait it out for a few other answers but this should get you started! Patience will pay off! If your thread doesn’t get answered in a few days and drops onto the third page, I’d say you’re within your right to bump it. Also, you can always make a support ticket since they can’t ignore those :laugh:

Have a great day!
~lorddonk

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Hi emekamadusha,

Check the Template Userguide — Did you read through the userguide info at the top of the JA Community Plus member forum? It contains information on setting up the Slideshow module. It might help you to learn both Joomla and the JA Community Plus template if you also install a second site with the Quickstart version of the template. Then you can look at how the demo site and its components and modules and other features are set up.

Changing The Logo — The Joomlart guys/gals usually create a logo.png or logo.gif file. I’ve found that to change your logo, you can go and download the logo.png or .gif file from your template’s images directory. If you are using a particular color, it might also be in the specific directory for that color. Open it in an image editor and then paste your logo onto a new transparent layer and scale it to the correct size. Hide the old layer and export the file in the same format and with the same name. Then overwrite the original file on the server and reload your page. If you need to change the dimensional size of the logo space, you’ll have to modify the template files, probably header-related attibutes in the template.css file.

Backing Up the Site — A really easy way to backup your site for moving is to install the Akeeba Backup component. It backs up your site files and database in one step. Installing is pretty easy but a bit more involved. You’ll use the Akeeba Kickstart script. Just have your new server’s database and database admin all set up beforehand and have the connection info handy (host address (localhost), username, password). Follow the Kickstart instructions and everything ought to work fine.

Registration Page — As lorddonk mentioned above, you’ll need to check with the specific publisher of whatever reg page you’re using. One method to add a registration page would be to make a new menu item and select the correct option with the “User” area. If it’s a component, such as Jom Social, click it and see what menu options it offers.

Newsletter Subscriptions — This will probably be a module so look in there. Publish it and assign it to the correct module position. You can see your module positions by typing ?tp=1 after your url: http://www.yoursite.com/index.php?tp=1

Hope this helped. Good luck!

Best,
railer

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