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March.29.2013
This guide is intended for
SJ Accordion for Zoo - Joomla! Module
When you buy the module the first time, you will have the latest version. After the first release, we will update this module regularly, then please check newer versions in
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
1. This module with sample layout is below:
- Item Title: Title of item showing, configured under Item Options
- Item image: This is the first image in the description of Item
2. The parameters are divided up into the following areas:
- Basic Options
- Content Options
- Image Options
- Advanced Options
BASIC OPTIONS
- Module Class Suffix - Allow you to choose another CSS class that suits your template. Please refer more here
- Module Width - Allow you to change width of module. Unit is "px"
- Module Background - Allow to set color for module background
- Zoo Application - Allow to choose one of 2 applications available: Page Application OR Blog Application
- Zoo Category - Choose the source of category that is used with this module
- Include Subcategories - Choose category in subcategories OR not
- Sort Order By - Select a field which you would like Items to be ordered by:
- Recently add
- Recently modified
- Most Views
- Hits
- Title
- Random
- Source Filter - Allow to show items that meet some factors:
- All Articles
- None Frontpage
- Only Frontpage
- Source limit - Allow to set number of items which you want to show in the module
- First Displayed Item - Allow to choose item which can be showed first
- Effect - Support 2 effects for your sit:
CONTENT OPTIONS
- Item Title Max Chars - The max number of characters in item title which can be showed in the module.
- Title Color - Allow to set color for title of item
- Show Desc - Allow to show/hide description of item
- Description Max Characters - The max number of characters of item description which can be showed in the module.
- Description color - Allow to change color of item description.
- Keep HTML - The module will keep HTML code in description if you choose "Yes"
- Show Read more - Allow to show/hide Readmore
- Read more Text - You can change text for Readmore here
- Link Target - The opening window with link:
- Custom URL - This param allows you to customize the link of each item. If you do not want to go to the detail page of item, you can change the link to another.
IMAGE OPTIONS
- Show Image - Show/hide image
- Link for image - Enable/Disable link for image
- Image width/height - Allow you to set the width/height of the image
- Image background - Allow to set the background color of image
- Image mode - Allow you to choose the mode of image resizing
- None
- Center
- Fill
- Fit
- Stretch
ADVANCED OPTIONS
- Media Elements - Allow to set which elements of HTML which images can be fetched from
- Description Elements - Allow to set which elements of HTML which description can be fetched from
- 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
