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[captainbohica Friend captainbohicaJoin date: December 2008Posts: 45Downloads:0Uploads:1 Thanks: 3 Thanked: 1 times in 1 posts]

#139095

Can someone please help me with this or help me understand what is going on with JA NEWS Front page?

This is how my front page looks normally:

however, when I tried to add another article to the front page, i get this: (top and bottom shots of full page)

The User5 module position and left and right columns got pushed down before JA NEWS module. What is going on? Why can’t i just add a an article to the front page with no errors?

there has to be an error with the “Panini buys Donruss” article?!?!?!

Is this an HTML markup error? I had a similar problem addressed in THIS thread, but i dont know if the same issue is causing me problems now… am I doing something wrong with the articles? or adding pictures in the articles? i think i had a smiliar prob

PLEASE HELP ME WITH THIS PAID TEMPLATE.

[questbg Friend questbgJoin date: May 2008Posts: 1912Downloads:0Uploads:1 Thanks: 146 Thanked: 339 times in 197 posts]

#295889

Hi

This can happen if the new article you added contains text that has been ‘pasted’ from elsewhere (MS Word is the biggest culprit).

Unpublish your latest articles one by one until the front page returns to normal. Once you’ve found the problem article, open it in the Article Editor and click the HTML tab.

Check through the article code to make sure there are no strange bits of code in there that don’t belong. For instance, text from Word often contain a lot of <DIV> commands which could be causing the problem.

Take everything out that doesn’t look like it should belong and republish. Then refresh the front page to ensure all is well with the new article.

Tip: If you are taking your text from Word, etc., copy it, paste it onto your Notepad, then copy it and paste it into the article. This seems to clean up the code!

Hope this works
Chris

[captainbohica Friend captainbohicaJoin date: December 2008Posts: 45Downloads:0Uploads:1 Thanks: 3 Thanked: 1 times in 1 posts]

#295895

Hi Quest –

Thank you for your response.. i did what you suggested and i THINK i’ve narrowed the culprit to one of the articles that had youtube embed code in it….

here is the HTML:

The original embed code didn’t contain the div tags, so i dont know how those tags got in there.. if you could suggest another way around it.. i’m all ears.

<div><object classid=”clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000″ codebase=”http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0″ width=”425″ height=”344″><param name=”width” value=”425″ /><param name=”height” value=”344″ /><param name=”allowfullscreen” value=”true” /><param name=”allowscriptaccess” value=”always” /><param name=”src” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/FjW_kPaW7_o&hl=en&fs=1″ /><embed type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” width=”425″ height=”344″ allowfullscreen=”true” allowscriptaccess=”always” src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/FjW_kPaW7_o&hl=en&fs=1″></embed></object></div>

[questbg Friend questbgJoin date: May 2008Posts: 1912Downloads:0Uploads:1 Thanks: 146 Thanked: 339 times in 197 posts]

#295896

Hi Captain!

Wow, now that looks a real mess! I’m using a simple YouTube plugin which allows me to embed videos in articles but without all the embed code.

Basically, I just type this in the editor:
{youtube}X06UPTfCqGM{/youtube} (Just put the YouTube video reference between the tags)

It’s not even necessary to do this via the HTML editor, just whack it in and it works!

You can grab the plugin free of charge here:
http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/youtubeplugin/

It may be worth trying this for the YouTube Vids and see if it fixes the problem with the front page.

Let me know how you go on!

Chris

[captainbohica Friend captainbohicaJoin date: December 2008Posts: 45Downloads:0Uploads:1 Thanks: 3 Thanked: 1 times in 1 posts]

#295898

Chris – is that the same as the AVReloaded plug in?

because I have the AVR plugin installed, and when I use their ’embed’ code, it ends up showing the ‘share this’ code at the bottom…

any other ideas? weird right? im a newbie when it comes to all this, so thanks for being patient with me

for some reason its always the JA NEWS FB that’s always giving me issues!

edit: the reason I have the AVReloaded plug in is so I can put a video in the user 5 position. just fyi

[questbg Friend questbgJoin date: May 2008Posts: 1912Downloads:0Uploads:1 Thanks: 146 Thanked: 339 times in 197 posts]

#295899

I would only use the AVR plugin for User five, nothing else! In fact, I’ve removed it from my sites.

No, this plugin is totally different and is only used to embed YouTube videos into actual articles, not in any other module position.

Follow the link in the post above, install the plugin and then just try put a {youtube}YouTubeReferenceHere{/youtube} command and everything should work fine!

Good Luck!
Chris

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#295900

if i install that plugin, it will NOT conflict with AVR? the embed tags are the same, no?

[questbg Friend questbgJoin date: May 2008Posts: 1912Downloads:0Uploads:1 Thanks: 146 Thanked: 339 times in 197 posts]

#295901

I believe it acts totally independent of the AVR module.

Try install it, if it messes anything up, just Disable it! 😀

[captainbohica Friend captainbohicaJoin date: December 2008Posts: 45Downloads:0Uploads:1 Thanks: 3 Thanked: 1 times in 1 posts]

#295902

didn’t work…

here are the results of the embed:
Front page

Article

BUT its weird because I embeded another video in another article using the embed code from youtube and its fine in the article (non-front page published)

http://www.cardboardjunction.com/commentary/my-two-cents/113-hitlers-reaction-to-0809-premier-basketball-box-break.html

[questbg Friend questbgJoin date: May 2008Posts: 1912Downloads:0Uploads:1 Thanks: 146 Thanked: 339 times in 197 posts]

#295903

This sounds strange!

If you move the article that’s working into Front Page position does it mess up?

Also, that ‘Read More’ on your front page article is really messed up. When I clicked it, I got the following as a new e-mail:

<script language='JavaScript' type='text/javascript'><!-- var prefix = 'ma' + 'il' + 'to'; var path = 'hr' + 'ef' + '='; var addy60791 = 'captainbohica' + '@'; addy60791 = addy60791 + 'cardboardjunction' + '.' + 'com'; document.write( '<a ' + path + ''' + prefix + ':' + addy60791 + ''>' ); document.write( addy60791 ); document.writ...</a></script><script language='JavaScript' type='text/javascript'><!-- document.write( '<span style='display: none;'>' ); //--></script><script language='JavaScript' type='text/javascript'><!-- document.write( '</' ); document.write( 'span>' ); //--></script><em><script language='JavaScript' type='text/javascript'><!-- var prefix = 'ma' + 'il' + 'to'; var path = 'hr' + 'ef' + '='; var addy16569 = 'captainbohica' + '@'; addy16569 = addy16569 + 'cardboardjunction' + '.' + 'com'; document.write( '<a ' + path + ''' + prefix + ':' + addy16569 + ''>' ); document.write( addy16569 ); document.write( '</a>' ); //-->n</script><script language='JavaScript' type='text/javascript'><!-- document.write( '<span style='display: none;'>' ); //--></script><script language='JavaScript' type='text/javascript'><!-- document.write( '</' ); document.write( 'span>' ); //--></script></em></a></p> <a href=

That may need some attention! Let me know what happens if you move the article that works OK into Front Page position.

Thanks
Chris

[captainbohica Friend captainbohicaJoin date: December 2008Posts: 45Downloads:0Uploads:1 Thanks: 3 Thanked: 1 times in 1 posts]

#295904

interesting..

I dont know what was up with the “read more” link… but at the point where the intro text broke, I had email code there.. so I took out the email and now the ‘read more’ link works correctly.

Also, if you look at the site now, I moved the Panini article into the FP and it worked fine…

I still do not know why the video embed works in one article and not the other?

EDIT: I just noticed in IE, the video will appear in the FP… so im going to take the hitler article out of the FP. weird. it doesn’t show it on the FP in firefox.

[christool Friend christoolJoin date: August 2008Posts: 39Downloads:0Uploads:10 Thanks: 10]

#314965

I have got the same problems…

1) When i add an article in the front page, if i insert a “read more”, it is the mess just like in your screen copy.

2) When I add a video from youtube inside the article using youtube embedcode, it is the mess with IE and it is ok with Firefox.

Does anyone has a solution please ?

😉

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Well i tried using JCe editor and the problem 1) is now different… Bug with firefox and ok with IE…

WITH FIREFOX (bug)

WITH IE8 (display ok)

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