Your Guide to Recreating Elements of the Zenith Demo for Joomla
The BookBlock particle enables you to present content in a way that mimics a book, with its own page turning animation and plenty of room for written and visual content.
Here are the topics covered in this guide:
Option | Description |
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CSS Classes | Sets the CSS class for the content of the particle. |
Content Source | Select Particle or Joomla to determine where particle content is pulled from. |
Section Height | Set the height of the section (in pixels). |
Loop | Enable or Disable looping. |
These items only appear on the front end if you select Particle as the Content Source.
Option | Description |
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Category | Enter the category you would like to appear in the particle. |
Subject | Enter a subject for the item. |
Intro | Enter the introductory text you would like to appear in the particle. |
Content | Enter the content you would like to appear in the particle. |
Read More Label | Enter the text you would like to have link to the link you set in the Read More Link field. |
Read More Link | Enter a URL for the Read More link to take users to. |
Read More Target | Select a target window for links to open into. |
Read More Classes | Enter any CSS Class(es) that you want to have apply to the read more. |
Image | Select the image you would like to have appear on the right side of the particle. |
These options are only useful if you select Joomla as the Content Source.
Option | Description |
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Categories | Enter the categorie(s) you would like to appear in the particle. |
Articles | Enter the number of articles you would like to have loaded in the particle. |
Featured Articles | Choose whether or not to allow Featured Articles to appear in the particle's rotation. |
Number of Articles | Set the number of articles to appear as items in the particle. |
Start From | Set a starting count for the first item. |
Order by | Choose how articles are ordered. You can set it to everything from Publish Date to ID. |
Ordering Direction | Set Ascending or Descending ordering. |
These options are only useful if you select Joomla as the Content Source.
Option | Description |
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Image | Enable or Disable the image appearing in the particle. |
Categories Names | Enable or Disable the category of the article in the particle. |
Title | Enable or Disable the title of the article appearing in the particle. |
Title Limit | Set the limit (in characters) for the title being displayed. |
Article Text | Enable or Disable the Article Text appearing under the image in the particle. |
Text Limit | Set a limit of text (in characters) appearing in the item. |
Text formatting | Choose between plain text and |
Button Label | Enter the text you would like to appear in the Read More link. |
Link Target | Select a target window for links to open into. |