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SOLVED J! menu option in a particle?
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- Joombler
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Currently I am looking for a J!4 functionality that is not in its latest version.
Perhaps there is a way to put this menu-functionality in a particle (if it does exist otherwise please let me know):
Creating a menu item one can choose for 'Articles >> Featured articles'. I can remember that this functionality could be created as a module in earlier version of J!3 and J!2. Unfortunately the current available Article modules do provide some listing/overview but not the blog Featured articles configuration as we can use it from a menu-item.
What I would like is to use that exact blog feature for a separate page that contains regular text and for which I created an article group that contains articles that are part of the text on that page.
Is there a way to create this in J!4/Gantry with or without particle functionality?
Thanks!
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I'm not sure I understand your question at all. Every thing you could do in J3 still exists in J4 (with improvements).
To create a blog you can just create a menu item of that type and ensure that whichever outline you are using for that menu item has a "page content" particle on the layout (this is where the blog will be rendered).
Alternately you can present articles using particles (e.g. "joomla articles" particle or "latestnews" particle).
Basically there are many different ways you can use to get what you want but I'd need a lot more information and perhaps some examples to narrow that down for you.
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If you look @
cloudzeeland.nl
, you see the articles (2x2)
I configured that in the Main menu settings with Articles >> Featured articles.
The selection on articles is 'all' categories.
Now I made a category 'Raspberry' that I would like to show under the present text and in the same way
@ www.cloudzeeland.nl/index.php/raspberry2
using the same Articles >> Featured articles configuration but for raspberry articles only.
Hope this helps. Best, Jmblr
PS/ I created the site with plain vanilla J!4/Hydrogen/Gantry5 - Last Edit: 3 years 2 months ago by Joombler.
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Ok, you cannot do what you want using the method you have already used. A menu item type is a Joomla component output - you can only have one Joomla component output on a page (since the menu item can only be one type). So, the alternate method that you can use instead is to do the following.
1. Change the menu item type to "Gantry 5 custom page" instead - this will not actually give any component output.
2. Add a "joomla articles" particle on the layout of your outline (either directly or via a "module position"). This particle can give a very similar layout to the "blog featured" menu item type that you are using now.
3. repeat step 2 as many times as you like on the layout of your outline using different category settings.
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Ok, let me know the outcome.
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That works great!
There's only a tiny issue:
Vieuwing cloudzeeland.nl/raspberry2 shows the article with under it (in a module) the particle we created.
There is something going with the images in these articles: clicking on the NEXT button shows the 2nd page with (in this case) one article (there are no more). Unfortunately the image is missing.
Going back from this page with the PREV button shows the first three articles without the images too.
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It's the way you entered the image url embedded in the textual content of the article. First, It's a bad idea doing this since you really should use the "image & links" tab and set an "intro" or "full image" and then tell the joomla articles particle to use one of those fields instead (on the display options tab). But, if you are going to embed the image, then you need to put "/images/Images/UbuntuPi22.jpg" and not "images/Images/UbuntuPi22.jpg" (without leading slash) as you have done.
Also, it's a bad idea using uppercase letters, spaces, or special characters in your filenames (except a hyphen).
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Mark, thanks for explaining. Makes sense.
Must be that JCE editor is missing some basic important rules when it comes on embedding images to html text. Never had an issue with any embedding and even J!4 displays correct. Will check with the author of JCE and ask what is standard. Otherwise they have to solve the bug. - Last Edit: 3 years 2 months ago by Joombler.
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Well, that's the reason, up to you if you implement my suggestion or not. Personally I hate wysiwyg editors as they always mess something up. Just google the term "jce editor add leading slash on image urls" and you will see that this is not an uncommon problem with JCE.
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