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[febtonline Friend febtonlineJoin date: May 2009Posts: 121Downloads:15Uploads:80 Thanks: 24 Thanked: 2 times in 1 posts]

#180642

I have gone through the article options and the category options and can not figure this out.

I can get the rating system to show up, but not the “Read More” link.

Any suggestions?

http://www.showmeonanapple.com

Also is there a way for me to get more of the text to show up other than just the title and the first line?? Everything just looks like redundant content.

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#466899

Hi febtonline,

You can go to the back-end setting of the category which contains that k2 item, there under the panel of Item view options in category listing you select the ‘Read more…’ link to Show, I hope that would help !

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#466930

Hey Sherlock,

Maybe that’s my problem, I don’t have them in the K2 item section, I have them in the regular joomla article section??

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#466990

Hi febtonline,

I meant the k2 category section, not k2 item section, you go to the back-end of category which contains k2 items so see that fields

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#467069

Hey Sherlock,

I’m not using K2 at all.

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#467099

Hi febtonline,

Is that an article content ? if that you can go to the back-end >> Article Manager (articles listing) there you click at the Options button at the toolbar to open the Article Manager Options popup, there you would see a field name Show “Read More” select it to Show that I hope would help !

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#467282

Have done that already, still now working.

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

#467955

My guess is you meant, still not working.

Well, since we know that the coding shouldn’t have a problem, it’s most likely the conditions not having met thus the read more button doesn’t appear. So we look at this block of code.

<?php if ($params->get('show_readmore') && $this->item->readmore) :
?>
<p class="readmore">
<a href="<?php echo $link; ?>" title="<?php echo $atitle ?>" class="item-link">
<?php if (!$params->get('access-view')) :
echo JText::_('COM_CONTENT_REGISTER_TO_READ_MORE');
elseif ($readmore = $this->item->alternative_readmore) :
echo $readmore;
if ($params->get('show_readmore_title', 0) != 0) :
echo JHtml::_('string.truncate', ($this->item->title), $params->get('readmore_limit'));
endif;
elseif ($params->get('show_readmore_title', 0) == 0) :
echo JText::sprintf('TPL_WALL_COM_CONTENT_READ_MORE_TITLE');
else :
echo JText::_('COM_CONTENT_READ_MORE');
echo JHtml::_('string.truncate', ($this->item->title), $params->get('readmore_limit'));
endif; ?></a>
</p>
<?php endif; ?>

Looking at that code, most likely it failed at this part “&& $this->item->readmore” since you already have readmore set to show. Since it fail at this part, then most likely, you don’t didn’t have readmore included in the article thus all your information was only in introtext.

Try going to your article, look closely at the editor. Next to toggle editor, there should be a button that says “Read More”. Click on that and a red line should appear. Put whatever content text you want after the red line. Now the Read More button should appear cause there is content in the read more section =)

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#468144

So weird, because I had done this before and it wasn’t working but after I removed the code you mentioned in my other post now it suddenly works as intended. However for other reasons I think I’m going to have to abandon this template and move to something more stable and practical for display purposes.

I really do appreciate everyone’s help.

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#468150

Hi febtonline,

Why do you need to move to another template ? I think this is a great one , let me know the problems still there and if possible pm me your admin account, the FTP info I will take a look for you 🙂

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#468227

It’s several things Sherlock. I love the template and think that this would be a great feature if one could turn it on and off and whatever pages they desired, but it is giving my my fair share of issues consuming considerable time.

First, here is the main page. Take notice that the article does not have any formatting what so ever to it.

Now, here is the “Tutorial” page with the exact same article with all the formatting that is plugged into it in html within the article html code.

On top of that there is a footer problem. I created a module position for the footer and on the main page it displays exactly as I intended it to. As shown below.

However on some other pages this is the result I get.

These items along with it being a decent amount of work to add any positions kind of creates a rough situation. The client has an immense amount of content and is constantly sending me updates. I need to be able to focus on getting his work displayed and less on playing with the template.

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

#468232

Hmm… the solution code by Sherlock Holmes in the other thread didn’t solve the formatting issue? I’m pretty sure that can be fixed since the cause of the behavior is already known, so it’s almost there already.

The footer looks like a css problem but I think it can be fixed if its set to float. Shouldn’t look weird since the top navbar is also floating. Infact, I saw a JA Wall site that managed a floating social share footer with the use of a 3rd party API and it look great!

The way I see it, you’re almost there o.O assuming that’s all you need to fix.

As for the other ads modules position… I’m going to reserve my comments since it’s not my place to say xD. But I’ll agree that it’s hard to add a new module position in JA Wall. The choices are quite limited in that aspects, still you managed to complete that feat! You should pat yourself on the back.

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#468234

<em>@arucardx 339830 wrote:</em><blockquote>Hmm… the solution code by Sherlock Holmes in the other thread didn’t solve the formatting issue? I’m pretty sure that can be fixed since the cause of the behavior is already known, so it’s almost there already.

The footer looks like a css problem but I think it can be fixed if its set to float. Shouldn’t look weird since the top navbar is also floating. Infact, I saw a JA Wall site that managed a floating social share footer with the use of a 3rd party API and it look great!

The way I see it, you’re almost there o.O assuming that’s all you need to fix.

As for the other ads modules position… I’m going to reserve my comments since it’s not my place to say xD. But I’ll agree that it’s hard to add a new module position in JA Wall. The choices are quite limited in that aspects, still you managed to complete that feat! You should pat yourself on the back.</blockquote>

I did strip the code that Sherlock mentioned and that’s why in the “Tutorials” page there actually is formatting, but on the main page it’s still being stubborn.

I will try the float technique to see if that helps.

As for the critiquing, PLEASE do. One can not become better at his craft if all he gets is a sea “full of roses”. Criticism is what leads me to push back harder and do better. I definitely feel somewhat accomplished, especially after getting the header in place and having it replicate perfectly on every page… but the footer kind of has me feeling defeated, lol.

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#468242

Since the topnav is able to properly float above the sidebar on all pages, there’s no reason why the footer can’t do the same. Logically, it should be possible. (Note, you need to make the footer responsive too if it’s going to be floating)

As for the critics… the ads modules you added breaks the template’s responsiveness, which is what this template is all about actually. I don’t think it’s possible to make the ads responsive, but the template itself is responsive and will change css regardless so your site is going to look very funny on a mobile device. To the point where you may even lose visitors.

Use this website to test how it should look like on the different devices and you will understand what I mean. (Remove your site’s auto redirect though in order to test)
http://www.responsinator.com

You may however be able to rectify this by removing the javascript that’s actually checking the width of the screen/window and switching to different css. That means you will be giving up on the site’s responsiveness. But while that fixes the problem, it introduce another. It’s going to be hard to do horizontal scrolling on a mobile device that’s using touch screen without actually clicking on the article by mistake and getting redirected to another page by accident. And when he click back, he needs to start again from the beginning of infinite scroll.

Its ridiculous to assume that the user at this point would continue scrolling down again to find new content. A determined user with an idea of what his looking for would do so since he wants that information, but a casual user would just point the middle finger and leave your site. Telling his friends how annoying your site is. That’s not good, not good at all.

Though imo, a responsive templates need to be clean, very clean and simplified in order to look good across all devices while still providing easy accessible navigation. Thus it’s quite restrictive on what and how much you can add since there’s always the issue of overflow. Now your client clearly wants to fit as much advertisement as he can in every single empty space (Hate such ppl >_> they clearly dunno what a website is) so a responsive template is most likely not what he should be using. Unless he is willing to consolidate all ads in a single grid. For example, an aside module in the article. That will drop the ad to the bottom of the article when displaying on a small screen, thus not breaking the site responsiveness.

But if he insist on wanting the ads to be displayed at all times, then he is better off with a standard div or table only template. Also he needs to be aware of how the site would look like to a user with ad filter & a user without ad filter. For example the ads on your site are filtered by my firewall so all I see is just a small text that says “ads” followed by a empty spaces. But I doubt your client would care that much since he just wants to use ads on the site for revenues.

Phew, that’s a wall of text =) I hope you will find the comments of use.

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#468260

Oh I should still add that JA Wall is still a really great template to work with. *Don’t want the Joomlart team to smack me* cough…

In all honestly, I stopped building websites a long time ago and JA Wall is the first template I’ve picked up since years. I fall in love with it on first sight and I don’t remember having so much fun building a website granted it’s annoying problems gets resolved.

Infact, just on this one template alone, I have worked with almost every plugin & component developer that is being used on my site in order to get them working as I intended. Surprisingly, my suggestions also ended up getting added into their release code. I also have quite a number of tickets with Joomlart support lol and overall, all the developers have been friendly and helpful in getting things to work.

While JA Wall still has its own share of problem, granted some quite problematic, I still think and believe that it can be a great template once we somehow manages to get through with all the issues. It may be a bit time exhaustive to develop but there’s just no other template like this =) Eventually someday with enough contributions, and proper documentation >_> this template will be more friendly to work with, so don’t give up on it!

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