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

#195168

Documentation is very clear about duplicating Magazine layout so thanks a lot about it guys!

Documentation shows I need to use magazine-sub in Category Layout (Magazine Category tab) to show Category articles below Featured articles.

If you have subcategories, of course, they show up, but if you don’t have subcategories, page is empty (only Intro featured and other featured articles shown). In my case I don’t have sub categories so I’m unable to show articles from current category, assigned to xLayout – Magazine menu item. I guess I need to use magazine-list in Category Layout (I see magazine_list.php file in templates/purity_iii/html/com_content/category and even modified it to make images linkable), but magazine-list layout/class is not available to choose in Category Layout.

My question is:

How can I use magazine-list option (make it avaible to choose in Category Layout on Magazine Category tab)or show list of articles in current category assigned to xLayout – Magazine menu item?

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#524249

Hi obilat,

With magazine menu item, there will be 2 layouts: magazine and magazine-sub (with hyphen symbol in the file name)

The magazine layout has 2 sub layouts: magazine_list and magazine_featured (with underline symbol in the file name)

If you don’t need sub categories, meanwhile want to view in the magazine-sub layout, you can follow these steps:

– Change the type of menu item: from xLayout – Magazine to default ‘Category Blog’ layout.
– Select category you want to view, for example, I choose ‘T3 Framework and Bootstrap 3‘ category as demo site.
– Open this T3 Framework and Bootstrap 3 in Backend > Content > Categories > Options (tab) and select magazine-sub as Alternative layout: http://prntscr.com/2vo1w9

Best

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#524324

Thanks, tried it – works, just does not look as Magazine layout :). Is there a way to apply magazine_list class to a menu item or Category layout?

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#524483

I need more time to check whether it’s possible or not and will keep you updated on this soon.

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#525692

Hello. I lke how does Magazine Category looks:
http://joomla-templates.joomlart.com/purity_iii/index.php/layout/new-layouts/magazine/92-news-and-updates

But I can’t create menu item with the same style.
I set:
“Menu Item Type: Category blog” with “Template Style: Purity III – Magazine” and “# Columns: 3”.
Also I set this for categiry: Alternative Layout: magazine-sub.

But it looks a little bit different with big fonts and another style:

http://wsw-energy.ru/analitika/obzori

What did I miss? Thanks.

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#525715

You need to add additional style for the article title by opening the file: /templates/purity_iii/css/custom.css and add this css rule:


.item .article-header h2{
font-size: 16px; <<< change to your desired value
}


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#525906

Hello, Saguaros.
But there is more difference between good looking “category link” http://wsw-energy.ru/90-energopotentsial and “category menu item link” http://wsw-energy.ru/analitika/ : title and intro image order for example.

Is it possible to apply Magazine’s category style for the “category menu item link”?
Thanks.

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#525940

Could you update again the ‘category menu item link’? and how is it different from ‘category link’ here?

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#526022

Hello.
There is Magazine’s category with 3 column I like:
http://wsw-energy.ru/90-energopotentsial
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And there is joomla’s category (was created menu item for this):
http://wsw-energy.ru/analitika/obzori
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may be I did something wrong?

Thanks.

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#526401

@slepoy: could you PM me admin credentials of your site? I will take a look into the setting of this menu item: http://wsw-energy.ru/analitika/obzori

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#526819

PM was sended. Thanks for help.

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#527329

Hi

I check again and see that that menu item: http://wsw-energy.ru/analitika/obzori will still get style / layout from category blog of Joomla inspire of that you set magazine-sub as alternative layout in category settings.

Hence, if you want to have exact style / layout of magazine-sub, you need to customize the category blog layout of Joomla. You change in this file: templatespurity_iiihtmlcom_contentcategoryblog.php (a simple way is that you can copy code from this file: templatespurity_iiihtmlcom_contentcategorymagazine-sub.php into this blog.php file).

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