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I’m trying to get the “Read More” links to show up in my Intro Article boxes like shown here- http://www.joomlart.com/templates_demo.php

I have the Read More showing in the top leading article but not in the lower boxes. I went into the Parameters (Component) and set the read more links to show but they still don’t show up.

Interestingly, I also set for this section to have the category and section titles as linkable but they still are not linked. I also set the created date and author name to hide, and it did hide them so I don’t really know what the heck the problem is.

Can someone help?

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#300751

<em>@leisurepublishing 123628 wrote:</em><blockquote>I’m trying to get the “Read More” links to show up in my Intro Article boxes like shown here- http://www.joomlart.com/templates_demo.php

I have the Read More showing in the top leading article but not in the lower boxes. I went into the Parameters (Component) and set the read more links to show but they still don’t show up.

Interestingly, I also set for this section to have the category and section titles as linkable but they still are not linked. I also set the created date and author name to hide, and it did hide them so I don’t really know what the heck the problem is.

Can someone help?</blockquote>

leisurepublishing,

Odd, you are showing a JA Nickel Demo site. Joomlart shows a perfect Teline II Demo page but the actual latest version has layout errors.

Why not show your actual site. Otherwise, we will be like those religious philosophers trying to understand how many saints can dance on top of needle.:)

The trouble with the Joomla 1.5 version is that you have to set each section and each category linkable to make an article linkable, or to make the :”Read more” appear.

ukfraterniti had a very long saga of woes on this also. He solved it mysteriously. Maybe it is worth revisting his thread.

Cornelio

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#300809

<em>@cgc0202 123634 wrote:</em><blockquote>leisurepublishing,

The trouble with the Joomla 1.5 version is that you have to set each section and each category linkable to make an article linkable, or to make the :”Read more” appear.

Cornelio</blockquote>

Doesn’t that pretty much negate the whole (at least the way I see it) point of having a “Global” setting? :((

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#300842

Here’s the page I’m having trouble with…you notice I was able to get the “read more” to show up on the top article and the article titles are all linked now, but I still can’t get the “read more” to show up in the bottom boxes… What do I do?

http://vps2.leisurepublishing.com/~blue/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&layout=blog&id=4&Itemid=296

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<em>@leisurepublishing 123707 wrote:</em><blockquote>Doesn’t that pretty much negate the whole (at least the way I see it) point of having a “Global” setting? :((</blockquote>

leisurepublishing,

Indeed. If you ever used the Joomla 1.0.5, linking and not linking the titles was a one-step process — in the global configuration. I do not see that anymore in the Joomla 1.5.x global configuration.

I am not sure if the this is unique with Teline II because of its news-magazine format but why did Joomlart have to do it one-by-one for each section and category??? I suppose there must be webcreators who wanted to see linked titles and Read more depending on their whim.

But, Joomlart could have added a global script that would allow the web creator to decide — unless I do so:

• all are linked (or unlinked) titles
• all all will show (or not shwo) the Read more

then you can make exceptions to the rule. Won’t all our lives be easier?

There are a few more features in Joomla 1.0.x that I find very useful but not found in Joomla 1.5.x, e.g., The ability to have

• different image for the Home and Intro Pages of Sections and Categories from the actual image showing in the whole article
• different summary (intro text) for the Home and Intro Pages of Sections and Categories from the actual intro text the whole article

Aren’t those neat features (done routinely by a number of newspapers and magazines)?

And, in Joomla 1.0.x, they used to just hack the index.php to add a simple one line statement at the footer to state:

Copyright by “Joomlart”….etc.

Now to add that simple statement in Joomla 1.5.x, it requires more than several dozen steps going from the root to the templates directory to the modules directory …. and on and on … looking for the various bits and bits placed all over the various files and directories.

Cornelio

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#300862

<em>@leisurepublishing 123747 wrote:</em><blockquote>Here’s the page I’m having trouble with…you notice I was able to get the “read more” to show up on the top article and the article titles are all linked now, but I still can’t get the “read more” to show up in the bottom boxes… What do I do?

http://vps2.leisurepublishing.com/~blue/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&layout=blog&id=4&Itemid=296</blockquote>

leisurepublishing,

I assume you thorough checked all the Sections and Categories menus so that they will behave as you wish them to? And when I say select, you responded Yes to choice:

Read more... Link (choices: Use Global Show Hide)

[But before you perform the above very tedious process, can you please read the next few lines. It may be what was not done.]

How about the JA News module edit menu? At the bottom right there is a choice:

Show Readmore: Show Hide

Did you select Show. to make the :Read more appear?

The defaut is Hide to make life easier for webcreators like me who believes that the reader should know that the content of an entire article is never shown completely in the Home page or Intro pages of each section or category.

Cornelio

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#301142

Thanks Cornelio for your continuing help.

I checked and indeed that module the “Read More” was turned off, so I turned it on and refresh the page in question and no “Read More” links showed up, so after banging my head on my desk for about 10 minutes, I decided to go in and make sure that my categories and sections were set up correctly. Rather than spend hours though checking every single one, I picked one single thread–

Section: Travel > Category: Getaways > Article: Asheville

So I checked the “Travel” section and it is set to “Use” and so is the category “Getaways” (through the menu manager) and then in the article, there is no option to set the “read more” to use so I banged my head again for about 5 minutes, then after all that head banging, I thought, I wonder if I actually have to insert a “Read More” into the article for it to show up, and sure enough, that’s what it needed.

THAT doesn’t make any sense to me because the “Read More” doesn’t show up where I put it anyway…oh well, I care not, it’s working now but I agree with you, a lot of this would be SOOOO much more simple if the global settings actually did what they should.

Cheers!

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#301203

<em>@leisurepublishing 124112 wrote:</em><blockquote>Thanks Cornelio for your continuing help.

I checked and indeed that module the “Read More” was turned off, so I turned it on and refresh the page in question and no “Read More” links showed up, so after banging my head on my desk for about 10 minutes, I decided to go in and make sure that my categories and sections were set up correctly. Rather than spend hours though checking every single one, I picked one single thread–

Section: Travel > Category: Getaways > Article: Asheville

So I checked the “Travel” section and it is set to “Use” and so is the category “Getaways” (through the menu manager) and then in the article, there is no option to set the “read more” to use so I banged my head again for about 5 minutes, then after all that head banging, I thought, I wonder if I actually have to insert a “Read More” into the article for it to show up, and sure enough, that’s what it needed.

THAT doesn’t make any sense to me because the “Read More” doesn’t show up where I put it anyway…oh well, I care not, it’s working now but I agree with you, a lot of this would be SOOOO much more simple if the global settings actually did what they should.

Cheers!</blockquote>

Are you referring to the end of these:

administration => Contents => Articles => (Click Edit) => Advanced Parameters =>

Parameters (Article)

• Author Author Alias
• Access Level
• Created Date calendar
• Start Publishing calendar
• Finish Publishing calendar
• Parameters (Advanced)
• Show Title
• Title Linkable
• Intro Text
• Section Name
• Section Title Linkable
• Category Title
• Category Title Linkable
• Article Rating
• Author Name
• Created Date and Time
• Modified Date and Time
• PDF Icon
• Print Icon
• E-mail Icon
• Content Language
• Key Reference
• Alternative Read more: tex <= This one?

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I just saw this today and I thought of you and ukfraternite. 🙂 And, I am sure you are not the only ones. Lucky me for this option, I prefer no “Read more”. But they got me with the Title linked YES is my preference but the default is NO. GRRRR!

The analogy is not perfect but this reminds me of paranoid city dwellers who are so afraid of being robbed or assaulted by intruders. They have double locks for the main doors, locks for each room and bars grills for the window. I kid you not, this is common in Asia (and I have been to a number of dwellings here in the US. Then, there was a fire….🙂

And, here’s the kicker. After all that, what if I am able to persuade you in the future that it is not a good idea to have “Read more” in your site.:) Just imagine your next adventure, to reverse a prior decision.

You should have been here between May and October 2008, when Teline II was so buggy. If, this “simple stuff” took this much time, imagine dealing with actual bugs. There was a time (during those months when more than 60% of all posts were from Teline II users. Did you notice how Teline II had almost twice as much threads and posts compared to other templates? It is not even the oldest template.

Anyway, to go back to your experience. Since you are now the expert: Would you consider writing a “finding the thorn in the haystack” kind of protocol for your very exciting Sherlock kind of experience.

It would be a good troubleshooting tutorial.

I started a website last year, intended for a Collaborative Support Group, but the world stock market got me distracted, I had to deal with it. When I came back last February. I am seeing the same questions again. It is good that there are a few members (and a few staff) who are helping but just consider this — only 15% of all thread (???) are answered. And, when it is marked answered, it may not even be the correct answer (but some Moderator) had decided it was.

Please let me know if writing the tutorial is something that you may want to do. I will give you the link to the site (see note below). And, I have to deal with my taxes before the 15th.

Cornelio

N.B.
I am revising the old site. No one seems to believe care that there was a radical change in the “structure and content” of the prior version of Teline II before the latest update last February 2008. It is causing complications.

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Sure, would be happy to for a link back.

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