Adding Dynamic Content to your Joomla Website - Make your Website Dance
- 1. Adding Dynamic Content to your Joomla Site... Make your Joomla Site Dance JoomlaDayBoston 2015 Laura Gordon, RytechSites.com
- 2. RytechSites.com JoomlaDayBoston 2015 - Laura Gordon About Me Laura Gordon, RytechSites.com Started working with Joomla 2006 Built sites for: Small Businesses, Non Profits, Libraries, e-commerce On Board for JoomlaNYC 2009 - 2013 Ran Joomla Day NYC 2009, 2011, 2012 Ran Joomla Camp 2010 - 2015 (next one 3/22/2015 in NYC) Founder of JoomlaUsersNJ.com (Users group for NJ) Trainer with OSTraining from 2010 - 2013 Online Training on Lynda.com
- 3. RytechSites.com JoomlaDayBoston 2015 - Laura Gordon Shall we dance?? Our Steps for today... Language Overrides - the simplest adjustment you can make! Articles in a Category Module - not just a list! Related Articles - linking articles together and how! News Flash - how can you use this in a new way? Category Blog - what you can do with the basics... Hide Intro Text - and why?? aidanews2 - auto thumbs, auto displays... tabs in content - get rid of those super long pages easy admin - make it EASY for your non techie to add content Put it all together with loadposition - LETs DANCE!
- 4. RytechSites.com JoomlaDayBoston 2015 - Laura Gordon Language Overrides By default what if you dont like the text that is used in your site (core joomla or with a component) Lets take, njcampfairs.com This sites purpose is to list camps that are categorized by the type of camp, etc.
- 5. RytechSites.com JoomlaDayBoston 2015 - Laura Gordon Language Overrides Click on a category that does not have any entries, the default text is: no record found...
- 6. RytechSites.com JoomlaDayBoston 2015 - Laura Gordon Language Overrides Go to: Extensions Language Manager Language Overrides 1. Enter the text you want to replace, then click search a. Value is the text that you see b. Constant is the constant name of the variable 2. Click on the search results
- 7. RytechSites.com JoomlaDayBoston 2015 - Laura Gordon Language Overrides Enter the Text, as you would prefer to see it on the website Hit SAVE, then that is what you will see!
- 8. RytechSites.com JoomlaDayBoston 2015 - Laura Gordon Articles in a Category - Module Each time a new article is added to the footwear trends Category, it will appear on the right side No reason to create a menu item for each article, this is a more dynamic way to list.
- 9. RytechSites.com JoomlaDayBoston 2015 - Laura Gordon Articles in a Category - Module Our Blog is a category blog, showing 1 article The Recent Posts, shows the articles in this category (the most recent blog posts)
- 10. RytechSites.com JoomlaDayBoston 2015 - Laura Gordon Articles in a Category - Module Online Help: https://help.joomla.org/proxy/index.php?option=com_help&keyref=Help34:Extensions_Module_Manager_Articles_Cat egory
- 11. RytechSites.com JoomlaDayBoston 2015 - Laura Gordon Related Articles This module displays other Articles that are related to the one currently being viewed. These relations are established by the Meta keywords. All the keywords of the current Article are searched against all the keywords of all other published Articles. 1. Set the Key Word on the PUBLISHING TAB under Meta KeyWords 2. Do this for all articles that pertain to boots.
- 12. RytechSites.com JoomlaDayBoston 2015 - Laura Gordon Related Articles Create the Module: Articles - Related Assign this to appear on any pages as needed. Check out the page, it will display all articles on the sidebar left that related to the article in the middle. All of these articles have boots in the key word. Let it Zip, has a keyword, boots...
- 13. RytechSites.com JoomlaDayBoston 2015 - Laura Gordon Articles - Newsflash Newsflash allows you to display the intro text from an article(s) from specified category or categories. Can specify the number of articles. Can specify order, random is good if you want the articles displayed randomly each time the page refreshes.
- 14. RytechSites.com JoomlaDayBoston 2015 - Laura Gordon Articles - Newsflash Examples to use newsflash: What they Say - Testimonials
- 15. RytechSites.com JoomlaDayBoston 2015 - Laura Gordon Category Blog - Menu Item Type The Category Blog can be used to display a single or multiple articles in a page you can define the following: Show featured articles (or not) Number of articles Display a leading article number of columns ordering of articles
- 16. RytechSites.com JoomlaDayBoston 2015 - Laura Gordon Category Blog - Menu Item Type Multiple Articles Single Article
- 17. RytechSites.com JoomlaDayBoston 2015 - Laura Gordon Hide Intro Text Sometimes there may be a teaser image to be used in readmore or category blog view...then when you view the entire page, that teaser is not shown. large image above the readmore line Define show intro text: HIDE (on article or menu level) On full page view you dont see the image
- 18. RytechSites.com JoomlaDayBoston 2015 - Laura Gordon aidanews2 Perhaps the best features of aidanews2, is that you can do the following: Define your own stylesheet The first image in each article can be generated as a THUMBNAIL, no more just clicking on the readmore, click the image! Select many different ordering options Select from multiple categories, featured, not featured, or both! Easily define what is displayed, image, title, category, intro / teaser text Its free!
- 19. RytechSites.com JoomlaDayBoston 2015 - Laura Gordon aidanews2 Sample backend of Aidanews2:
- 20. RytechSites.com JoomlaDayBoston 2015 - Laura Gordon aidanews2 Sample frontend views of aidanews2:
- 21. RytechSites.com JoomlaDayBoston 2015 - Laura Gordon Tabs - End the LONG PAGE! There are several free plugins that allow you to put tabs within your article. NoNumber created a very easy to use Tabs Plugin https://www.nonumber.nl/extensions/tabs Once the plugin is installed (and activated) the format is: {tab tab title 1} text tesxt {tab tab title2} text text {/tabs} The Pro Version has a few more features, and styles with the tabs for only 10 Euros.
- 22. RytechSites.com JoomlaDayBoston 2015 - Laura Gordon Tabs - End the LONG PAGE! There are several free plugins that allow you to put tabs within your article. NoNumber created a very easy to use Tabs Plugin https://www.nonumber.nl/extensions/tabs Once the plugin is installed (and activated) the format is: {tab tab title 1} text tesxt {tab tab title2} text text {/tabs} The Pro Version has a few more features, and styles with the tabs for only 10 Euros.
- 23. RytechSites.com JoomlaDayBoston 2015 - Laura Gordon Tabs Sample front end views of tabs:
- 24. RytechSites.com JoomlaDayBoston 2015 - Laura Gordon Easy Admin - for your Non-Techie For an employee that is administrator shy, or considers themself a non- techie. The best way to teach joomla, is by editing content from the front end FIRST! This way they get used to how easy it is to edit an article or module. Confidence is the first step to a happy Joomla Developer! 1. create a user menu 2. Create 1 menu item as PUBLIC - Admin (this is a login type) 3. Create 1 menu item to ADD BLOG ENTRY (as default category). 4. This menu item should have SPECIAL ACCESS ONLY
- 25. RytechSites.com JoomlaDayBoston 2015 - Laura Gordon Easy Admin - for your Non Techie Once logged in, this special menu item will now display. On the publishing tab, the CATEGORY will already be set, and can not be changed. Now it is simple for this Admin to add a new article to this category, which can now display in (aidanews2, articles list, newsflash, category blog view)
- 26. RytechSites.com JoomlaDayBoston 2015 - Laura Gordon Easy Admin - for the Non Techie Joomla 3.4 introduced EASY Editing for modules...once logged in here are some samples (I have JCE Editor installed as the default editor)
- 27. RytechSites.com JoomlaDayBoston 2015 - Laura Gordon Put it all together - loadposition Lets Dance! Before we discuss the plugin loadposition, (which has existed since Joomla 1.0), lets figure out what positions in a template do... header top-a sidebar-a inner-top menu main content area All of the positions on this template can be specified in a module. Any module set to appear in a specific position will get loaded there, as long as it is also defined to appear on that page. Having a side menu appear in the sidebar-a position on all pages, means that module will appear in that location on all pages...
- 28. RytechSites.com JoomlaDayBoston 2015 - Laura Gordon When defining the module, you can TYPE in ANY position What if you want to include in your ARTICLE, other articles that may relate to it put in the position: mod_boots Put it all together - loadposition Lets Dance! mod_boots In the article, use: {loadposition POSITION} As long as this module is set to appear on this page, it will appear within the article See the articles listed now INSIDE of this article!!!
- 29. TAKE A BOW!!! YOU JUST MADE YOUR SITE DANCE! RytechSites.com Laura Gordon JoomlaDayBoston 2015