Aurora: Joomla Articles Particle
Your Guide to Recreating Elements of the Aurora Demo for Joomla
Introduction
The Joomla Articles particle gives you the ability to directly list and pull in Joomla articles directly from the CMS and present them in a clean, organized way. It's important to note this does not take the place of the Page Content particle which essentially displays any article content assigned to the page. This is a controlled, organized particle perfect for showcasing content.
Main Options
The particle's settings panel enables you to set exactly what content appears in the particle, and how it's presented. We have provided descriptions to the available options below.
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| Categories | Select the categories articles that appear in this particle should be sourced from. |
| Featured Articles | Select how Featured Articles should be displayed. You can choose to include them, exclude them, or show only them. |
| Number of Articles | Select the maximum number of articles to display. |
| Number of Columns | Select the number of columns you wish to have the articles displayed in. |
| Start From | Enter offset specifying the first article to return. The default is '0' (the first article). |
| Order By | Select how the articles should be ordered. This includes Publish, Create, and Last Modified dates, Title, Ordering, Hits, ID, and Alias. |
| Ordering Direction | Choose the direction ordered articles are displayed. You can choose: Ascending or Descending. |
| CSS Classes | Enter any CSS classes you want to apply to the particle. |
| Tag Attributes | Enables you to apply extra tag attributes to the particle. |
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| Image | Select to Show or Hide the article's image in the particle. |
| Article Text | Select to Show or Hide the article's content body (text) in the particle. |
| Text Limit | Enter the maximum number of characters in the title to display in the particle. |
| Text Formatting | Choose between Plain Text and HTML text formatting for the particle. If you want HTML in the article's content to be rendered, select HTML. |
| Title | Select to Show or Hide the article's title in the particle. |
| Title Limit | Enter the maximum number of characters in the title to display in the particle. |
| Date | Select which date (if any) to show in the particle. You can choose: Hide, Created, Last Modified, and Published. |
| Date Format | Select the format by which you want the date to appear. |
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| Read More | Select to Show or Hide the read more link in the particle. |
| Read More Label | Enter the text you want to appear as the read more link. |
| Button CSS Classes | Enter any CSS classes you want to apply to the read more button. |
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| Author | Select to Show or Hide the article's author in the particle. |
| Category | Select to Show or Hide the article's category in the particle. |
| Hits | Select to Show or Hide the article's hits in the particle. |
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