Omnicron: Recreating the Demo - Featured Articles

Featured Articles

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 Display Component and Display Mainbody options have been turned on in the template settings. You can find these settings by navigating to Administrator -> Extensions -> Templates Manager -> Omnicron -> 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 a featured article 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 Frequently Asked Questions 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:

<div class="rt-demo-grid-4">
  <ul class="bullet-notes">
    <li><em class="bold">What is RokFeatureTable?</em></li>
  </ul>
  <div class="rt-block">
    <p><strong>RokFeatureTable</strong> is designed to show tabular <strong>data</strong>, offering a user friendly <strong>interface</strong> and integrated styling.</p>
    <a href="/?amp;view=article&amp;id=11&amp;Itemid=110" class="readon"><span>More Details</span></a>
  </div>
</div>
<div class="rt-demo-grid-4">
  <ul class="bullet-calendar">
    <li><em class="bold">What is Fusion with MegaMenu?</em></li>
  </ul>
  <div class="rt-block">
    <p><strong>MegaMenu</strong> describes a series of advanced features, such as <strong>grouped items</strong> and <strong>inline modules</strong>, to the <strong>Fusion</strong> dropdown menu.</p>
    <a href="/?amp;view=article&amp;id=22&amp;Itemid=118" class="readon"><span>More Details</span></a>
  </div>
</div>
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<div class="rt-demo-grid-4">
  <ul class="bullet-monitor">
    <li><em class="bold">What are the CSS 3 Features?</em></li>
  </ul>
  <div class="rt-block">
    <p><strong>Border radiuses</strong> for rounded corners, <strong>color transitions</strong> on hover, box shadows and CSS <strong>rotation</strong> are all included.</p>
    <a href="/?amp;view=article&amp;id=4&amp;Itemid=107" class="readon"><span>More Details</span></a>
  </div>
</div>
<div class="rt-demo-grid-4">
  <ul class="bullet-briefcase">
    <li><em class="bold">What is the Gantry Framework?</em></li>
  </ul>
  <div class="rt-block">
    <p><strong>Gantry</strong> is an advanced <strong>framework</strong> that powers our latest templates, offering an excellent <strong>foundation</strong>, full of <strong>features</strong>.</p>
    <a href="/?amp;view=article&amp;id=5&amp;Itemid=133" class="readon"><span>More Details</span></a>
  </div>
</div>
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Once this article is created and set to Featured, it should appear on the front page.