April.04.2013

Smart News Userguide

Written by Sarah

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Notes
1 Download
2 Template
3 Core Plugins
4 Other Extensions
- Install
- Configuration

The guide will help you install Smart News template and extensions included in this template step by step.
If you want to install the template exactly like our demo (same data), you should purchase and install the Quickstart Package.

Important Notes:
1. Download Template and Extensions
2. Smart News Template - Installation and Configuration
3. Imperative Plugins - Installation and Configuration
4. Other Extensions - Installation and Configuration

Important Notes

Requirement:

Joomla! 1.7 or 2.5
Some premium SJ Extensions (see part 3-Core Plugins and 4-Other Extensions)

1. Download Template and Extensions

1.1 Used for members of JTC - Joomla Template Club

STEP 1: Login at SmartAddons.com

STEP 2: Go to Download -> Free Joomla Templates or Joomla Templates Club

STEP 3: Under Free Joomla Templates, click Smart News to download

STEP 4: Under Smart News -> Download packages as you want

1.2 Used for single product purchased via e-cart

Receive Donwload-Info email -> Download packages as you want

2. Smart News -Installation and Configuration

2.1 Installation

Log in Administrator of Joomla! v2.5.x, go to Extensions -> Extension Manager
On this page, click Choose File button, select our template file you have downloaded then click Upload & Install
Set Smart News as default template

2.2 Configuration

The parameters of Smart News Template are divided into the following groups:

Global Settings
Main Body Column Settings
Layout Settings
Style Settings
Top Menu Settings
Content Component Settings
Advanced Options

GLOBAL SETTINGS

Generator tag - Generate tag for your template
Template Width Type - Allow to choose pixel or %
Template Width - Allow to set width
Hide Main Content Block - Allow to hide Content Component on Homepage
Direction - Choose direction of language: RTL/LTR
Logo Type - Choose your logo type: image OR text
Logo Text - Set text for Text type of logo
Slogan - Set your Website slogan here

MAIN BODY COLUMN SETTINGS

Main Body Width Type - Allow to choose pixel or %
Main Width - Allow to set width of main column
Left Width - Allow to set width of left column
Right Width - Allow to set width of right column

LAYOUT SETTINGS

Default Mode View - Allow to choose mobile or PC layout
Window Layout - Allow to choose layout used with PC
Mobile Layout - Allow to choose layout used with mobile
IPhone Layout - Allow to choose layout used with IPhone
Android Layout - Allow to choose layout used with Android
Handheld Layout - Allow to choose layout used with other mobiles
Overwrite Windows Layout - Used with window mode, when you want to use another layout for a menu. Syntax:
- Itemid1:Layout_Name1 | Itemid2:Layout_Name2 | ...
With:
- Itemid1, Itemid2...: Id of Menus. You can see these in Menu Item Manager
- Layout_Name1, Layout_Name2...: The name of layout. You can see these in templates/{this_template_name}/layouts folder. NOTE: remove .xml extension

STYLE SETTINGS

Default Style - Allow to choose a style from 6 available ones
Default Font Size - Allow to choose default font size
Default Font-Family - Allow to choose a font-family from 13 available ones. The default one is Arial
Google Font-Family - Allow to choose a google font-family used for html tags which are in Affected Selectors parameter below
Affected Selectors - Tag names will be applied with google font, comma seperated

TOP MENU SETTINGS

Default Type Menu - Allow to choose default menu type shown with template, this list is gotten from Menu Manager
Default Menu Style - We support 4 styles for Menus
- CSS Menu
- Moo Menu
- Mega Menu
- Dropline Menu
Use JS for Dropline Menu - Allow to use JS effect for Dropline Menu OR not
Javascript Effect - Allow to select which JS Effect used with Moo Menu and Mega Menu
Duration Effect - Set time before showing any submenus
Start Level - Set level of menu to start rendering the menu
End Level - Set level of menu to stop rendering the menu

CONTENT COMPONENT

Apply for Blog View - Allow to show the Content block at blog pages OR not
Apply for Frontpage view - Allow to show at Frontpage view OR not
Leading Images Width - Set width of images of Leading Articles
Leading Images Height - Set height of images of Leading Articles
Intro Images Width - Set width of images of Intro Articles
Intro Images Height - Set height of images of Intro Articles
Thumbnail Background Color - Set color background for thumbnail images
Thumbnail Mode - Set thumbnail mode:
- Fill
- Fit
- Stretch
- Center

ADVANCED OPTIONS

Show Cpanel - Allow you to show YT Framework Control panel OR not
Override Logo Image - Allow you to choose new image link
Enable jquery - Enable/disable jquery
Enable Google Analytics - Enable/disable Google Analytics
Enter your Google Analytics tracking ID - Copy and paste your Google Analytics tracking ID here
Optimize Merge File - Choose Yes to optimize all CSS and JS Files which are used in your website
Optimize CSS - Choose Yes to optimize only CSS files
Optimize CSS Exclude - CSS files which are not optimized, comma separated
Optimize JS - Choose Yes to optimize only JS files
Optimize JS Exclude - JS files which are not optimized, comma separated
Optimize Folder - A specific folder with Css/Js files need to be optimized
Optimize HTML - Choose Yes to optimize HTML also

3. Imperative Plugins-Installation and Configuration

You need to install: Yt Plugin, SJ Core and Yt Mega Popup plugin.
- Yt Plugin supports Yt Framework for adding extra parameters used with Mega Menu and to compress CSS/JS/HTML when optimizing code.
- While that, SJ Core is used for resizing images in Content Component and other extensions by us.

3.1 Installation

STEP 1: In Administrator on Joomla! v2.5.x, go to Extensions -> Extension Manager
On this page, click Choose File button, choose plugin file plg_content_sj_relatednews.zip (extracted from extensions zip file) from then click Upload & Install
STEP 2: Now, go to Enable SJ Core, Yt Plugin (for Yt Framework) and Yt Mega Popup in Extension/Plug-in Manager

3.2 Configuration of YT Plugin (for Yt Framework)

Yt Plugin supports Optimizing CSS/ JS/ HTML and support showing Mega Menus nicely. You can see how to optimize CSS/JS/HTML in Configuration part above and how to use YT Menu Params for styling any Menu Items by remarking an example:

SUPPORT OPTIMIZING CSS/JS/HTML AND STYLING MEGA MENUS

After installing Yt Plugin, go to Extension -> Plug-in Manager and choose to configure Yt Plugin:

TO YT PLUGIN

Configure Yt Pluginto show SJ Help with Report Bugs, Template Tutorials and YT Framework Tutorials

SHOWING SJ HELP

4. Other Extensions - Installation and Configuration
After creating data, you can install and configure extensions to have a Website as like as our pre-made demo.

4.1 Install

4.1.1 List of extensions used in Smart News demo

You can find a list of modules/plugins/components which are used in Smart News by clicking menu Features -> Extensions of demo Website

4.1.2 Installation

In Administrator on Joomla! v2.5.x, go to Extensions -> Extension Manager
On this page, click Choose File button, choose an extension file then click Upload & Install
Install the rest of extensions as step above

4.2 Configuration

After installing extensions which are included in the Smart News template, navigate into Extensions -> Module (or Plug-in) Manager then choose the module or plug-in you want to configure. The following example is choosing a module from Module Manager:

By this screenshot, you will see how module is placed in the default layout:

This guide will help you place essential menus (Mega Menu), modules (one example each type) and other blocks as homepage of demo Website:

4.2.1 Mega Menu - Features

Menu Item Type

Menu Item Type: Text Separator

Frontend - Back End

FRONTEND

BACK END - YT MENU PARAMS

BACK END - TREE OF MENUS

4.2.2 Mega Menu - Travel

Menu Item Type

Menu Item Type: Category Blog

Frontend - Back End

FRONTEND

BACK END - YT MENU PARAMS

BACK END - TREE OF MENUS

4.2.3 Mega Menu - Sport

Menu Item Type

Menu Item Type: Category Blog

Frontend - Back End

FRONTEND

BACK END - YT MENU PARAMS

BACK END - TREE OF MENUS

4.2.4 Mega Menu - Health

Menu Item Type

Menu Item Type: Category Blog

Frontend - Back End

FRONTEND

BACK END - YT MENU PARAMS

BACK END - TREE OF MENUS

4.2.5 Login Form

Module Positon

Position: header1
Suffix: blank

Frontend - Back End

FRONTEND - Login

BACK END

4.2.6 Search

Module Positon

Position: header2
Suffix: blank

Frontend - Back End

FRONTEND - Search
BACK END

4.2.7 SJ News Splash

Module Position - Module Suffix

Position: user 3
Suffix: blank

Frontend - Back End

FRONTEND - SJ News Splash
BACK END

4.2.8 SJ News Frontpage

Module Position - Module Suffix

Position: user 4
Suffix: blank

Frontend - Back End

FRONTEND - SJ News Frontpage
BACK END

4.2.9 SJ Module Tabs

Module Position - Module Suffix

Position: user 5
Suffix: blank

Frontend - Back End

FRONTEND - SJ Module Tabs
BACK END

4.2.10 SJ Basic News

Module Position - Module Suffix

Position: user 14
Suffix: heath

Frontend - Back End

FRONTEND - SJ Basic News
BACK END

4.2.11 SJ Article Slider

There are several positions (user 6 and user 10) that use SJ Article Slider module. Here we will configure an example. Let take "user 10" position, others will be the same.

Module Position - Module Suffix

Position: user 6
Suffix: blank

Frontend - Back End

FRONTEND - SJ Article Slider
BACK END

4.2.12 Breadcrumbs Modules

Module Position - Module Suffix

Position: breadcrumb
Suffix: blank

Frontend (demo layout above) - Back End

BACK END

4.2.13 SJ Content Accordion Module

Module Position - Module Suffix

Position: right (first)
Suffix: clear

Frontend - Back End

FRONTEND - SJ Conent Accordion
BACK END

4.2.14 SJ Mega News II

Module Position - Module Suffix

Position: mega-news-3c
Suffix: blank

Frontend - Back End

FRONTEND - SJ Mega News II
BACK END

4.2.15 SJ Content Simple Tabs Module

Module Position - Module Suffix

Position: other-module (ytmod-outline)
Suffix: Not Used

Frontend - Back End

FRONTEND - SJ Content Simple Tabs
BACK END

4.2.16 SJ Content Category Module

Module Position - Module Suffix

Position: user 11
Suffix: blank

Frontend - Back End

FRONTEND - SJ Content Category
BACK END

4.2.17 Custom HTML

Module Position - Module Suffix

Position: user 12
Suffix: blank

Frontend - Back End

FRONTEND - Follow us
BACK END

4.2.18 Footer

Now there are one Menu module placed in this position. You can try some other ones.

That's homepage. For other advanced and customized configurations, please submit ticket OR purchase our installation services.

Notes
1 Download
2 Template
3 Core Plugins
4 Other Extensions
- Install
- Configuration

Important Notes:
1. Download Template and Extensions
2. Smart News Template - Installation and Configuration
3. Imperative Plugins - Installation and Configuration
4. Other Extensions - Installation and Configuration

Important Notes

Requirement:

Joomla! 1.7 or 2.5
Some premium SJ Extensions (see part 3-Core Plugins and 4-Other Extensions)

1. Download Template and Extensions