3.1 Module Demo
3.2 Module Configuration
Note:We used the images of module’s installation on Joomla 3.x to illustrate
After installing, go to Extension -> Module Manager and find SJ Mega K2 News to configure.
SJ Mega K2 News module is configured in 5 main groups of parameters as following:
- General Options
- Source Options
- Item Options
- Image Options
- Advanced Options
Let’s look at the parameters in detail:
General Options
- Link Target – Allow to set target for links:
- New Window
- Same Window
- Popup Window
- #Column – Allow to set the number of column for each screen resolution.
Source Options
- Source – Allow to choose one of two
- Retrieve items from category.
- Select specific items.
- If you choose : Retrieve items from category, you need to fill params below:
- Category filter – : allow to select one or all category in component.
- Select one or more categories – Choose the category which you want to show in this module.
- Child Category Articles – Allow to choose children categories OR not.
- Item count – Allow to select the number of items to display. Set “0” to display all items.
- Item Ordering – Allow to sort order by Title Alphabetical, ect.
- Featured item – Allow to show/hide or show only featured item.
- If you choose : Select specific items, you need to fill params below:
- Add item – Add item – Allow to choose items from item list in K2 component.
- Drag and drop to re-oder item – Allow to drag and drop to re-oder item.
Item Options
- Display Title – Allow to display title of item OR not.
- Title Maxlength – The maxlength of item’s title. Set “0” to show full title.
- Display Description – Allow to display description of item OR not.
- Description Maxlength – The max length of item’s description can be showed.
- Display Count Comments – Allow to show/hide count comments of item.
- Tags Display – Allow to show/hide item’s tags OR not.
- Display Readmore Link – Allow to display link for readmore OR not.
- Read More Text – Allow to insert the text for readmore link.
- Display View All Link – Allow to display view all link OR not.
- View All Text – Allow to insert the text for view all link.
- Display More – Allow to display more items OR not.
Image Options
- Get images from K2 Image.
- K2 Image – Allow get image from K2 component or Not..
- K2 Image Size – Allow to choose image size in combobox.
- Images from Inline Introtext
- Inline Introtext – Allow to show/hide image of item.
- Images from Inline Fulltext
- Inline Fulltext – Allow to show/hide image of item.
- Get images from extend folder
- Extend Folder – Allow to show/hide Extend Folder.
- Extend Folder – Set path to external image folder used by option above.
- Order to Get – Order to Get image.
- Resize Mode – Allow to choose the mode of image resizing.
- Keep Transparency – Allow to keep transparency of image OR not.
- Width – Allow to set width of image.
- Height – Allow to set height of image.
- Width, Height for Class One Item
- Width – Allow to set width of image for class one item.
- Height – Allow to set height of image for class one item.
- Background – Allow to set the color of image background.
- Place holder Path (or Url) -The path or URL of Default Image.
Advanced Options
- Module Class Suffix – Allow you to choose another CSS class that suits your template.
- Alternative Layout – Set custom layout for this module
- Pre-text – The content to show at the top of module.
- Post-text – The content to show at the end of module.
- Caching
- Use Global – Turn on caching
- No Caching – Turn off caching
- Cache Times – The time to cache
- Module Tag – Allow to select the HTML Tag for module.
- Bootstrap Size – Allow to set the number of columns that module will use.
- Header Tag – Allow to select the HTML Tag for module header/title.
- Header Class – Support the CSS Class for module header/title.
- Module Style – Select module style.
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