Entropy: Recreating the Demo - Featured Article

Featured Article

This area of the front page is an article. Articles appear within the Mainbody area of the front page.

Turning on Mainbody Content

This content appears on the front page because the Mainbody Enabled option has been turned on in the template settings. You can find these settings by navigating to Administrator -> Extensions -> Templates Manager -> Entropy -> Advanced.

Once this is done, you can navigate to the Menu Manager by going to Administrator -> Menus -> Menu Manager. From here, you'll want to find the menu item for your home page and select it so you can access its settings. For our demo, it is located in Main Menu -> Home.

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Intro Articles

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Article Order

In order to show two featured articles on the front page, we placed a 1 in the Intro Articles setting within the Layout Options menu. The Article Order has been set to Featured Articles Order. We also turned Linked Titles off in the Article Options menu.

Article Properties

The Popular Features article is a standard article with the Featured option turned on so it appears in the front page mainbody.

Here is the Article Text we used:

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<p>The Entropy template is built for both the Joomla <strong>1.5.x</strong> and <strong>1.7.x</strong> platforms, with full support for both. This includes the template, the RocketTheme Extensions demoed, the Gantry Framework, version specific PDF tutorials, in addition to <strong>RocketLaunchers</strong> for both versions. All products are available from a consolidated Joomla Download area for Entropy.</p>

<p>The template is based on the <strong>Gantry Framework</strong>, therefore, standard features such as the 960 Grid System, <strong>iPhone/Android</strong> viewing support. Layered on top is an intricate array of design elements, textures, patterns and backgrounds providing an elegant but complex appearance.</p>

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Once this article is created and set to Featured, it should appear on the front page.