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#1053069

Hi,

I’d like to make a template override to change the way the categogry blog is displayed on this site.

Normally I can use the joomla core-file (which is located here: components>com_content>views>categry>tmpl>blog.php) to copy and place it in the html folder of the template and rename it.

But whatever changes I make in that file, it doesn’t seem to work; there are no changes on the page. I even tried deleting the complete content of the file with the same result. I also did this with the core joomla file blog.php This probably means that the php file that creates the category blog is another file.

What I actually want to do is to display the child category-titles above the items they belong to These titles are now at the bottom of the page. Can anyone help me to make these changes?

I am using Purity iii 1.2.0 on a joomla 3.7.4 site

• This topic was modified 7 years, 3 months ago by  skelp.

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#1053136

Hi
You can override the layout in the template folder/html/category folder.
Here is documentation helps you to override the layouts.

Regards

[skelp Friend skelpJoin date: January 2016Posts: 42Downloads:23Uploads:1]

#1053232

Hi,

Thanks you, I copied and pasted the files blog.php and blog.xml from components/com_content/views/categry/tmpl to the template folder/html/category folder and renamed these files (not using undersores etc.)
Now, where can I select this alternative layout in the backend? It is not visible, not in the (global) category layout and not when making a new menu item.

(p.s. I also saw that there is a tmpl folder in the template folder/html/category folder, I also placed the files there, with same results….)

Thanks for your help!

Kind regards,
Liesbeth

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#1053246

Hi
If you want to override the category blog layout of Joomla in the template. you have to use the same name of the files in the /html/com_content/category folder.
If you are looking for the new custom layouts, you can take a look on the template/html/com_content folder and see the new layout files are defined here.

But to get the override for category blog you have to use the same name for files that used in the Joomla.

Regards

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