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[waelali Friend waelaliJoin date: February 2012Posts: 336Downloads:11Uploads:87 Thanks: 88 Thanked: 10 times in 1 posts]

#174435

Hi

Any one can tell me what is the difference between the following 2 modules?

1. mod_janews_fp
2. mod_k2_content

I believe that these 2 modules are the same – both of them are retrieving featured items…

So the questions is , how these featured items or articles are filtered??? based on Hits??

Thank you

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#440888

Those serve very different purposes:

K2 is a so called content construction kit (CCK) and is an alternative to Joomla’s native content system. You shouldn’t use both; choose one. K2 has some more advanced elements like tags and a comment system.

JAnews_fp presents featured articles whether they are produced in Joomla’s built-in system or in K2. It’s the module with the Obama picture in the upper right of your home page. You yourself decide if an article (called item in K2) is featured or not. You will find «Featured» as a choice in the Article manager, a few lines below the title of the article.

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#440890

How can I know if I am using K2 ??
I have installed the template using quickstart.

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#440892

At least in the native Joomla adm control panel you have two sets of quick icons, one marked K2. You can also choose K2 items and categories from the component menu. If you have no K2 items or K2 categories you don’t use K2.

If you should want to use K2, you can import articles to that system from Joomla.

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1. waelali

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#440894

Thank you my friend.
I will check that as soon as possible 🙂

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#441244

<blockquote> You yourself decide if an article (called item in K2) is featured or not. You will find «Featured» as a choice in the Article manager, a few lines below the title of the article.</blockquote>

Actually I am using Joomla 1.5 , and I am not able to find this Featured issue under the title of every article.
What do you think??:)

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#441250

<em>@waelali 304380 wrote:</em><blockquote>Actually I am using Joomla 1.5 , and I am not able to find this Featured issue under the title of every article.
What do you think??:)</blockquote>

Can you find a setting for front page? Then try enabling that. The lingo was changed from front page to featured between the J1.5 and J2.5 versions.

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1. Phill

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#441253

<em>@steinar 304386 wrote:</em><blockquote>Can you find a setting for front page? Then try enabling that. The lingo was changed from front page to featured between the J1.5 and J2.5 versions.</blockquote>

So you mean assigning it as Front Page?? … Oh yes there is something like that in Joomla 1.5

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1. steinar

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#441255

<em>@waelali 304389 wrote:</em><blockquote>So you mean assigning it as Front Page?? … Oh yes there is something like that in Joomla 1.5</blockquote>
Finally! Lovely 🙂

I have noticed that the counter (1 of 4, 2 of 4 and so on) in the lower left corner of your front page module is racing away. The reason is probably that the modules theme settings are set to auto play but you haven’t set any auto play duration. Try giving it a value of 10000 or so (I believe that is milliseconds). Or you can turn off auto play if you prefer.

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1. waelali

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#441260

<blockquote>I have noticed that the counter (1 of 4, 2 of 4 and so on) in the lower left corner of your front page module is racing away. The reason is probably that the modules theme settings are set to auto play but you haven’t set any auto play duration. Try giving it a value of 10000 or so (I believe that is milliseconds). Or you can turn off auto play if you prefer.</blockquote>

You are totally right 🙂 Thank you

Regarding the numbers – I have also opened a thread
http://www.joomlart.com/forums/topic/rtl-version-numbers-and-indexes-problems/

Can you check that please??

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#441266

<em>@waelali 304398 wrote:</em><blockquote>Can you check that please??</blockquote>

I am afraid I have to throw in the towel. It’s close to 3 in the morning here, the Friday is coming up like a high speed train.
Good night for now!

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1. waelali

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#441267

🙂 good night and thank you

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