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[derketis Friend derketisJoin date: March 2009Posts: 4Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 2]

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Let us say there are three articles on the front page – At the default layout, Article 1 is at the top and spans the width of the content pane. Articles 2 and 3 both appear underneath and split the width between them, in newspaper column format. This is the ‘out of the box’ layout, as can be seen here.

I am trying to change this so that Article 1 is at the top, Article 2 is beneath it spanning the width of the area, and Article 3 is at the bottom. An example of this is this screenshot (although in the demo displays differently).

My coding skills are would fall under the ‘Joomla for Dummies’ section, I’m afraid. I think I need to make a change in index.php but can’t quite seem to figure it out. Can anyone help me? I would really appreciate any advice that could be tossed my way.

[scotty Friend scottyJoin date: March 2008Posts: 2339Downloads:0Uploads:13 Thanks: 76 Thanked: 827 times in 595 posts]

#294323

You can set this via the menu manager. Your ‘home’ link is a ‘frontpage’ menu item and it is in the setting for this that you adjust how the front page is displayed.

Go to backend>Menus>Mainmenu>Home and on the right you will see…
Leading:
Intro:
Columns:
Set them to…
Leading: 3
Intro: 0
Columns: 1

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[derketis Friend derketisJoin date: March 2009Posts: 4Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 2]

#294388

That was simple enough! No wonder I couldn’t find it in index.php haha. Thank you, Scotty.

/bows

[xpjammin Friend xpjamminJoin date: April 2009Posts: 1Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#300979

I was having the same problem. Thanks for the help!

[andi79 Friend andi79Join date: October 2009Posts: 2Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#321348

awesome….that was easy..thanks!

[hektorrr Friend hektorrrJoin date: May 2010Posts: 21Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#348323

Hi,
I Use qCategories module. This module shows categories with number of articles. But If I click on any categories its apear in blog layout with one articles on top and two others under. I cannot find place in files of blog layout where I can change number of columns. This module does not use menus.
Can You tell me how resolve my problem?
Thank You

[jacqueline stott Friend jacqueline stottJoin date: September 2014Posts: 35Downloads:0Uploads:5 Thanks: 3 Thanked: 1 times in 1 posts]

#422725

HI there

I hope someone can still help.

i am having the same issue my front page article is displaying only half the width of the page?

I can’t even with your settings get it to display the full width of the page?

can someone please help.

Thanks

[flying_scot Friend flying_scotJoin date: November 2011Posts: 41Downloads:0Uploads:2 Thanks: 6 Thanked: 4 times in 1 posts]

#423134

<em>@scotty 115707 wrote:</em><blockquote>You can set this via the menu manager. Your ‘home’ link is a ‘frontpage’ menu item and it is in the setting for this that you adjust how the front page is displayed.

Go to backend>Menus>Mainmenu>Home and on the right you will see…
Leading:
Intro:
Columns:
Set them to…
Leading: 3
Intro: 0
Columns: 1
</blockquote>

This isn’t working for me. No matter how I change those settings it is always the same. One article on top of the other. I am trying to get the blog layout to show 3 columns across with no luck. Site here

[tahouri Friend tahouriJoin date: July 2011Posts: 3Downloads:0Uploads:2 Thanks: 3]

#490018

I use your tip for changing the blog layout, but only the number of showing articles are affected ,
I’m using JAELASTICA,
I use a 4-cols grid content and 1-cols module grid in 5 cols ( wide layout).
I use these setting :

Leading: 0
Intro: 16
Columns: 4

but it only shows 16 articles in in one column, but I want to see my articles in 4 columns.

I Illustrate it in this image

also when I set Pagination to “show” or “default”, it doesn’t show page numbers when the articles exceeds 16 and only show the first page results. (16 article).

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