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[obliat Friend obliatJoin date: December 2010Posts: 416Downloads:12Uploads:64 Thanks: 108 Thanked: 31 times in 1 posts]

#161631

I do have K2 blog categories associated with Home in the mainmenu and Hide main content set to NO at Template>Profiles>Home and it displays at the front page.

I also have JA News Pro Linear at ja-news2 position.

Here’s the problem.

K2 blog on the Front Page appears at content-top position
JA News Pro Linear ja-news2 is at content-mass top position.

When you go to template manager, under Layouts when you hit edit (on the Default) you can see
that content-top is before content-mass top in the code:

Here part of the code:

<blocks name="middle" main-inner="1" colwidth="17">
<block name="content-top" style="raw">content-top</block>
<block name="content-bottom" style="raw">content-bot</block>
<block name="content-mass-top" style="raw" type="tabs">ja-news-1,ja-news-2,ja-news-3</block>

But for some reason ja-news2 appers before K2 no matter positions say K2 (content-top) should be before ja-news (content-mass-top).

Am I missing something?

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#382112

Yes, the block ordering is not set here but elsewhere in the template code. All the xml is doing here is making sure all the blocks are loaded.

Can you not simply assign your modules to different module positions in the module manager?

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#382114

Thanks Phil, I’d do that with pleasure, but I don’t know how to do it.

JA News pro is set to ja-news2, that’s OK I mean I know it and I can change it.

But K2 blog, that is associated with Home position in the mainmenu – I don’t know how to associate K2 blog with a module and (I guess you will tell me) if I know which position on home page to choose in order to make it appear before JA News pro?

Like, may I associate it with ja-news1 for example, if this will put it before my current JA News Pro Linear, that is at ja-news2?

Thanks

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#382115

I am not certain what you mean. K2 blog is a layout in itself, not a module.

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#382116

Can I send you my site details so you can have a look?

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#382117

I am still not sure what you are trying to acomplish. Please post images of what you are trying to do.

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#382119

Simply trying to switch positions.
Now I have JA News Pro above K2 blog, and I want to put K2 blog over JA News Pro – that’s it.
See picture please.

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#382120

Simply publish the JA-Nowes modules in the position content-mass-bot

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#382122

Thanks, I already tried that as it was the obvious solution – but it takes half of the width – see picture.

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#382123

That we can fix easilly. Please post a link to your site with that option setup. Make sure css optimization is set to “No” in the template manager first so we can check the css easilly.

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#382137

My site is http://www.ecars.bg, but it’s offline now – where do I send you login details?

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#382140

Feel free to PM me.

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#382145

PM sent now.

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#382152

I couldn’t get on your test site so I setup one of my own and came up with the following fix.

First go into your template manager and change this.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layout name="desktop">
<!--Extra css load for this layout-->
<stylesheets>
</stylesheets>
<blocks name="top" style="xhtml">
<block name="header" type="header"></block>
<block name="topmegamenu" type="topmega"></block>
<block name="mainnav" type="mainnav"></block>
<block name="topbar" type="topbar"></block>
<block name="cpanel" type="usertools/cpanel"></block>
<block name="slideshow" type="modules" style="raw">slideshow</block>
<block name="topsl1" type="spotlight" special="left" specialwidth="66">sl1-l,sl1-r</block>
<block name="topsl2" type="spotlight">user1,user2,user3,user4,user5</block>
</blocks>
<blocks name="middle" main-inner="1" colwidth="17">
<block name="content-top" style="raw">content-top</block>
<block name="content-bottom" style="raw">content-bot</block>
<block name="content-mass-top" style="raw" type="tabs">ja-news-1,ja-news-2,ja-news-3</block>
<block name="content-mass-bottom">content-mass-bot</block>
<block name="right-mass-top">col-mass-top</block>
<block name="right-mass-bottom">col-mass-bot</block>
<block name="inset1">left</block>
<block name="right1">right1</block>
<block name="right2">right2</block>
</blocks>
<blocks name="bottom" style="xhtml">
<block name="botsl1" type="spotlight">user6,user7,user8,user9,user10</block>
<block name="botsl2" type="spotlight" special="left" specialwidth="66">user11,user12</block>
<block name="footer" type="footer" main-inner="1"></block>
</blocks>
</layout>

to this

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layout name="desktop">
<!--Extra css load for this layout-->
<stylesheets>
</stylesheets>
<blocks name="top" style="xhtml">
<block name="header" type="header"></block>
<block name="topmegamenu" type="topmega"></block>
<block name="mainnav" type="mainnav"></block>
<block name="topbar" type="topbar"></block>
<block name="cpanel" type="usertools/cpanel"></block>
<block name="slideshow" type="modules" style="raw">slideshow</block>
<block name="topsl1" type="spotlight" special="left" specialwidth="66">sl1-l,sl1-r</block>
<block name="topsl2" type="spotlight">user1,user2,user3,user4,user5</block>
</blocks>
<blocks name="middle" main-inner="1" colwidth="17">
<block name="content-top" style="raw">content-top</block>
<block name="content-bottom" style="raw">content-bot</block>
<block name="content-mass-top" style="raw" type="tabs">ja-news-1,ja-news-2,ja-news-3</block>
<block name="content-mass-bottom" type="spotlight">content-mass-bot-1,content-mass-bot-2</block>
<block name="right-mass-top">col-mass-top</block>
<block name="right-mass-bottom">col-mass-bot</block>
<block name="inset1">left</block>
<block name="right1">right1</block>
<block name="right2">right2</block>
</blocks>
<blocks name="bottom" style="xhtml">
<block name="botsl1" type="spotlight">user6,user7,user8,user9,user10</block>
<block name="botsl2" type="spotlight" special="left" specialwidth="66">user11,user12</block>
<block name="footer" type="footer" main-inner="1"></block>
</blocks>
</layout>

Then open layouts.css and around line 103 change this

.ja-box-right { position: absolute; right: 0; }

to this

.ja-box-right { position: relative; right: 0; }

Finally go into template.css and arround line 530 remove the complete line below

#ja-content-mass-bottom .ja-module { border-top: 0; float: left; width: 49%; }

You will loose the position content-mass-bot but gain 2 new ones called content-mass-bot-1 and content-mass-bot-2

As these are now spotlight positions they will expand to fill the space available. If you use both then the page will look exactly as it did before the edits but if you put your ja-news module in content-mass-bot-1 then it will fill the entire width and give you the layout you were after.

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#382167

Great thanks a lot Phil. Probably needs some more tweaking or I’m not doing it correctly. Please see my screenshots with comments inside. The setup I’m looking at actually is in the third picture:
First – K2 – full width
Then – JA News Pro – full width
Then – (ex)content-mass-bottom (now 1 & 2)
So maybe that’s why I wanted to play with content-top positions to leave mass-bottom like it was having 2 columns and just place JA News below K2…

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