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JA Newspro Module Installation Guide
JA NEWSPRO Module comes with rich backend and advanced features for easy configuration. It lets you manage news on frontpage more professionally and supports many layouts such as Default layout, Linear layout, Pulse layout. Let’s check out JA Teline IV to see how does it work.
Step 1: Installation
You follow simple steps below:
1/ Install the module via Joomla Installer
2/ Assign module to the position as you want
3/ Enable the moduleThen, the module is instantly available in your front-end. If you are new to this stuff, follow detailed guideline below:
—-How to install Joomla module
Step 2: Configuration
Tip: Default layout
From the back-end of your Joomla site (administration) select Extensions->Module Manager, then create new module, named: JA News – Default Layout and click it to enter configuration panel:Module Parameters:
- Module Class Suffix: A suffix to be applied to the css class of the module(table.moduletable), this allows individual module styling.
- Profile Selection: Choose the news profile you would like to show on the frontend. Each profile has optimized settings for best results.
You can clone and edit the news profile as per your need. Select profile and click Clone to customize it. Any way the default settings for that specific profiles are always available as reference for you.
You can also delete profiles, however, there is no undo for this and you would need to reinstall the module or replace the default profile files in the ../modules/mod_janewspro/profiles/Content Settings:
Parameters Explanation:
- Group By Sub Category: Yes/No option to group by sub category
- From Resource: Select to show articles from K2 component, Flexicontent or Joomla content (of course, K2 component and Flexicontent must be installed in your site before)
- Select Categories: Select categories to display on frontpage
- Article Order: Select to order article by Most popular, oldest articles, lastest modified or random ordering…
- Maximum Subcategories: Enter maximum subcategories are displayed
Theme Settings:
Theme will be auto selected when you choose profile above
Parameters Explanation:
- Theme Selection: Choose module theme which you want. Recommend for using default theme
- Columns: Enter number of column displaying on frontpage
Display Settings:
- Show User Setting Tool: Show/ Hide user setting tool
- Columns: Enter number of column to display on frontpage
- Intro Items: Enter number of intro items, will be displayed on module
- Link Items: Enter number of link items, will be displayed on module
- Max Chars: Enter maximum characters of article will be displayed on module
- Show Category Title: Choose to show/hide category title
- Show Sub Category Title: Choose show/hide sub category title
- Show Create By: Show/Hide created by on each article
- Show Create Date: Show/Hide created date of article
- Enable Timestamp: Yes/No option to enable timestamp. For example: 10 DAYS AGO OR 1 HOUR AGO…
- Show Front Page Articles: If you choose “Show” option, all article will be displayed. If you choose “Show only front page articles” option, only front page articles will be displayed and if you choose “Hide” option, all articles will not be displayed.
- Show Readmore: Show/Hide Readmore link on each article.
- Enable tooltip: Yes/No option to enable tooltip when mouse over each article
Image settings:
- Show Image: Show/Hide image of article on frontpage
- Thumbnail Mode : Choose thumbnail mode type of image: Using crop, Using image source, Using resize
- Resize With The Ratio: Yes/No option to resize with the ratio
- Image Width: Enter width of image
- Image Height: Enter height of image
- Image Align: Select alignment of image
Advanced parameters:
See how it works in JA Teline IV demo site:
Tip: Linear layout
From the back-end of your Joomla site (administration) select Extensions->Module Manager, then create new module, named: JA News – Linear Layout and click it to enter configuration panel:
Module position: ja-news-2Menu assignment
Module parameter:
Select Linear profile or Clone it to customize parameter as per your need.
Content settings
Display settings
Image settings
Advanced parameters
See how it works in JA Teline IV demo site:
Tip: Pulse layout
From the back-end of your Joomla site (administration) select Extensions->Module Manager, then create new module, named: JA News – Pulse Layout and click it to enter configuration panel:
Module position: ja-news-3Menu assignment
Module parameter:
Select Pulse profile or Clone it to customize parameter as per your need.
Content settings
Theme settings
Display settings
Image settings
Advanced parameters
See how it works on our demo site:
Tip: How to make three layouts(Default, Linear, Pulse) to list layout?.
Firstly, you must set position for 3 modules as I guided above. Then, Access to your site folder >> …templatesja_teline_ivcoreetclayouts >> Open default.xml file and declare position name to default layout as below:[PHP]<blocks name=”middle” main-inner=”1″ colwidth=”17″>
<block name=”content-mass-top” style=”raw” type=”tabs”>ja-news-1,ja-news-2,ja-news-3</block>
</blocks>[/PHP]Now, see how it work on our demo site:
Click layout icon to switch layout.
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