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March.21.2013
First of all, make sure you always download the newest version. When you buy the module, you already have the last version.
The following documentation is applied for packages from version 1.0 of
SJ K2 Slideshow,
SJ VM SlideShow and
SJ Content SlideShow module.
Refer guide for packages of Joomla! 1.5
here
REQUIREMENTS
1. Joomla! v1.7.x, Joomla! 2.5.x and Joomla! 3.x latest stable versions are highly recommended.
INSTALLATION
1. Prepare your module package (zip file; please UNZIP first if it is indicated in the file name)
2. All steps are in administrator of Joomla!:
- In your Administrator page, go to Extensions -> Extension Manager
In this page, click Browse, select module package.
- Then click Upload & Install
- Please wait for module being installed, usually within several seconds
- Now go to Extensions -> Module Manager, click Select Type box and choose the module you have installed
- Then click the module listed below to configure it as SETTINGS part hereafter
SETTINGS
Let's examine all the detail settings of SJ Content Slideshow - Responsive Joomla! v2.5.x package
1. This module with sample layout is below:
2. The parameters are divided up into the following areas:
- Basic Options
- Source Options
- Items Options
- Effect Options
- Advanced Options
BASIC OPTIONS
- Module Class Suffix - Allow you to choose another CSS class that suits your template. Please refer more here
- Select A Theme - Allow you to choose one of 4 themes available
SOURCE OPTIONS
- Category - Choose the category which you want to show in this module
- Include Subcategories - Choose content in subcategories OR not
- Sort Order By - Allow to choose the criterion for order:
- Recently Added
- Most Vews
- Recently Modified
- Title
- Ordering
- Random
- Source Filter - Allow to filter article with:
- All article
- None Featured
- Only Featured
- Item Count - Allow to set number of articles which you want to show in module
ITEMS OPTIONS
- Show Title - Show/hide the title of article
- Link For Title - Enable/Disable link forTitle of article
- Title Max Characs - Allow to set the number of characters in title. Choosing -1 if you want to show full title.
- Link For Image - Enable/Disable link for image
- Image Width - Allow you to set the width of the image
- Image Height - Allow you to set the height of the image
- Image Background - Allow to set the color of image background
- Image Resize Mode - Allow you to choose the mode of image resizing
- None
- Center
- Fill
- Fit
- Strech
- Show description - Show/hide article description
- Description Max Chars - Limit number of charaters in the article description
- Keep HTML - Strip html tag in description or keep them
- Show Read More - Show/hide Read More
- Read More Text - Allow you to alter the text for Read more...
- Open Link - The opening window for links:
EFFECT OPTIONS
- Article Start - Allow you set article which you want to show at the first time
- Auto Play - Allow you to set autoplay for slideshow
- Stop when Hover - Allow you to stop slide when being hovered OR not
- Slideshow Speed - The time to move to next article
- Time speed - The time to run effect
- Slideshow Effect - Support 2 effects: None and Cover
ADVANCED OPTIONS
- Include Jquery - Allow to include jQuery lib OR not
- Custom URL - Custom url of Article
- 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