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[pavit Moderator pavitJoin date: September 2007Posts: 15749Downloads:199Uploads:2274 Thanks: 417 Thanked: 4028 times in 3778 posts]

#422195

Hi

You must enable the ftp user to let take control of your site, after you have enabled it, you can change the chmod on your configuration.php to the old settings

I’ve tried to enable it on your back end but i cannot do

[tworld Friend tworldJoin date: October 2011Posts: 58Downloads:0Uploads:5 Thanks: 6 Thanked: 1 times in 1 posts]

#422648

I’ve enabled the FTP layer for you, but I had to temporarily put 777 on the configuration file to save the settings to the configuration.php file. Now it’s back to 755. If you run in to any permissions/ownership errors, please let me know.

EDIT: Actually, I disabled FTP again because it was giving me problems with other modules I am currently working on. Let me know when you are ready to start on this again and I will re-enable it.

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#425737

Hi tworld

I have created another menu item “beginners” type is link to an article “82” and you can see that the ja_slideshow module doesn’t appear on that page

In other words you must create item menu and add your content to that items

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#425761

No, that’s not the problem I am trying to fix. The problem that needs to be fixed is the Featured articles that appear on the home page. If you click on the featured articles, they also show the slideshow.

I am still not sure if this is happening because of SEF URLs or because of multi-language.

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#425771

<blockquote>is the Featured articles that appear on the home page.</blockquote>

Your Home page is a featured article item type

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#425775

Ok, let me ask it differently: why does the slideshow not show when I click on Read more: Marketing Solutions Company this page.

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#425779

Because about Joomla is a different item menu type and the slideshow is not published in that page

I don’t know how to explain but the structure of the menu is different

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#425782

Did you just change something? The slideshow is not working on the home page anymore…

EDIT: something just got changed because I looked at the home page and the slideshow is not loading my 3 pages, Can you tell me what you changed please?

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#425784

<blockquote>something just got changed because I looked at the home page and the slideshow is not loading my 3 pages, Can you tell me what you changed please? </blockquote>

Absolutely nothing

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#425786

Well, this is very weird. All the slideshow settings just completely disappeared, I am re-doing them right now…

EDIT: Ok, I just fixed it, I wonder why the settings disappeared like this. Anyway, I will have a look at what you said by the About Joomla menu structure.

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#425795

What is the position where Featured articles appear, is that content-main? The reason why I ask is to find out if the following solution would work:

– use a custom html module to display articles from Featured category
– show custom html module on home page (but I need to know the position to use)

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#425803

<blockquote>What is the position where Featured articles appear, is that content-main?</blockquote>

You are right is that the position

<blockquote>show custom html module on home page (but I need to know the position to use)</blockquote>

all positions are available except the content main that is for joomla default the psoition assigned from the menu item type

example your home page the menu item type is Featured articles so in the content main it will show all articles Featured

if you change the menu item type to another ( single article ) then your page in the content main will show the article choosen

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#425805

I created a Custom HTML module called Testing Featured, placed it on my Home page and then used a position of content-main. Nothing appeared on the home page. Then I switched the position to content. Have a look in the admin panel, you will see what I mean.

Also, if I switch the Home page menu type to Single Article, it will only show one article and it will keep showing the slide show for that article. So the same problem is still there.

There’s gotta be a way to configure it to NOT show the slideshow for Featured articles, no? I am surprised this is so complicated. I was not expecting it to be. :-[

EDIT: I also tried to use Vittorio’s suggestion. I created a new layout and removed the following line from it:
<block name="slideshow" type="modules" wrap-inner="2">slideshow</block>

I then created a new profile and added the new layout to it. After that, in the Page Assignments settings, I applied the new profile (without the slideshow) to All Page, but for the Home page I left it using the layout with the slideshow. When I reload the site, all the pages don’t have the slideshow, including the home page. 🙁

EDIT 2: Also, I think the reason why my custom HTML is not showing on the home page is because there is no content-main position defined. Can you please explain how I can add a new position to the Ores template? I tried to follow the instructions on this page, but it’s for Joomla 1.5 and the template structure seems slightly different for 1.7.

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