Yt Portfolio

First of all, make sure you always download the latest version. If you just bought the extension, you already have the latest versions for components in Joomla! v1.5.x like these:

  • Yt Content Portfolio – Supports for Content component
  • Yt VirtueMart Portfolio – Supports for VirtueMart component
  • Yt K2 Portfolio – Support for K2 component
  • Yt Sobi2 Portfolio – Support for Sobi2 component

Please make sure that you install these components.
The following documentation applies to the module version 1.0 and later.

INSTALLATION

  • In Administrator page, go to Extensions -> Install/Uninstall
  • In this page, click on Browse.. button, choose our module and then click Upload File & Install
  • Go to Extensions -> Module Manager, find Yt Portfolio Module and then edit it
  • In the editing page, choose a position, change parameters to your ideas

REQUIREMENTS

  • Joomla! v1.5.x and Joomla! v1.6.x latest stable versions are highly recommended.

SETTINGS

The parameters are divided into the following areas:

  • General Settings
  • Title and Link Options
  • Image and color Options
  • Theme and other Options
  • Advanced Parameters

Let’s examine all the settings in detail:

General settings

  • Module Class Suffix: please refer here
  • Width of Module: Allows you to add a width for the module.
  • Height of Module: Allows you to add a height for the module.
  • Width of article list: Allows you to add width for part of article list.
  • Using ajax: Yes/No
  • Select option: support 2 options Category or Section, you can choose one option, the result will show into Select Categories or Sections option.
  • Select Categories or Sections: Here you can choose categories or sections from Content, K2, Vm or Sobi2 component for the module.
  • Category number: Amount of category which you want to show in module.
  • Category number scrolled: Amount of category which you want to scroll in module.
  • Total Articles: Allow you to limit the number of article in each category.
  • For frontpage article: Here there are three options:
    • Hide Frontpage articles: The module will show articles which are not the frontpage article
    • Show Frontpage articles only: The module will only show articles which are the frontpage article
    • Include frontpage articles: The module will show all articles in categories or sections.
  • Sort By Frield and Sort Order By
    • Recently Added
    • Recently Modified
    • Ordering
    • Most Popular (follow hits)
    • Least Popular (follow hits)
    • Random

Title and link options

  • Max length of article title: The number of characters of article title (for article in the list)
  • Link for article title: Yes/No
  • Count of character of brief description:
    • Count characters: If you choose this option, the brief description will be limited by amount of characters show in “Max length of bripf description” param
    • Use entire description text: If you choose this option, the brief description will be show entire description text.
  • HTML tags of brief description:
    • Keeping HTML tags: the module will keep html tags in description
    • Removing HTML tags: the module will remove all html tags before cutting
  • Max length of brief description: The number of characters of brief description.
  • Show read more link: Yes/No
  • Read more text: Allow you to change text of read more.

Image and color options

  • Show image of article: Allow you to show/hide image of article in description.
  • Link for image of article: Yes/No
  • Thumnail width of article: width of thumnail in description
  • Thumnail height of article: height of thumnail in description
  • Thumnail mode for article: thumnail mode for article
  • Thumnail width of category or section: width of thumnail of category or section
  • Thumnail height of category or section: height of thumnail of category or section
  • Thumnail mode for category or section: thumnail mode for category or section
  • Color of article title: Allow you to change color or article title
  • Color of article title when actived: Allow you to change color of article title when actived
  • Color of description of article: Allow you change color of description of article
  • Background of module: Allow you to change background of module
  • Color of border: Here you change color of border
  • Color of scroll bar: Here you change color of scroll bar
  • Color of scroll drag: Here you change color of scroll drag
  • Color of read more: Allow you change color of read more

Theme and other options

  • Select a theme: we support three themes for your module
  • Open Link:
    • Scroll bar
    • New window
    • Same Window
    • Pop up
  • Auto play: Yes/No
  • Select an effect: Allow you to change effect on module. Here we support 25 effects.
  • Slideshow speed: time to show one slide
  • Timer speed: time to change slide
  • Customer URL: You can overwrite link on article which you want. We only support article IDs Type. Syntax:
    • ID1:URL1
    • ID2:URL2
    • …
  • Intro text: Here you can edit text on intro
  • Footer text: Here you can edit text on footer

Advanced parameters

  • Caching:
    • Do not use Cache: Turn off caching
    • Use Cache: Turn on caching
  • Include jQuery Library: enable/disable jquery library. If the template is loading a jquery library, you can turn off jquery of the module to do your site loading faster
  • Cache Times: the time to cache