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September.20.2013
This guide is intended for
SJ Mega K2 Items II 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 when informed
here.
REQUIREMENTS
Joomla! v2.5.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 backend of Joomla!
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- In your Administrator page, go to Extensions -> Extension Manager
In this page, click Choose File, select module package.
- Then click Upload & Install
- Please wait for module being installed, usually within several seconds
SETTINGS
1. This module with sample layout is below:
2. Configuration
NOTE: We used the images of module's installtion on joomla 3.x to illustrate
After installing, go to
Extension -> Module Manager and find
SJ Mega K2 Items II to configure
SJ Mega K2 Items II module are configured in 7 groups of parameters following:
- Basic Options
- Source Options
- Item Options
- Category Options
- Image Options
- Advanced Options
Let's look at the parameters in detail:
BASIC OPTIONS
- Module Class Suffix - Allow you to choose another CSS class that suits your template
- Open Link - Allow to select open link in the Sample/New/ Popup window.
- Theme - Allow to select from 4 themes
- # Column - Allow to set the number of columns for devices which have different screen width
SOURCE OPTIONS
- Category filter - Allow to choose all or only selected categories
- Select one or more categories - Please select the category you want to show on module. This is applied for Category Filter = "select". You must to select categories having child category, if not you can't show data on module.
- Fetch items from children categories - Allow to get data from child categories or not
- Item ordering - Select the item ordering way
- Featured Items - Allow to show featured items or not
- Time Range - If item ordering is set "most popular", you can choose time range all time/ 1 week/ 2 weeks...
- Total items per category - Allow to set total of items per category can be shown
ITEM OPTIONS
- Display Title - Allow to show title OR not
- Title Maxlength - Allow to set the length of category title, set 0 for showing full title
- Ending character - Set ending charater of title when using the truncating the title
- Display Description - Allow to show category description OR not
- Description Maxlength - Allow to set the length of category description, set 0 for showing full description
- Ending character - Set ending charater when using the truncating the description
- Tags Display - Allow to display tags for each article OR not
- Display Hits - Allow to show article's hits OR not
- Display Comments - Allow to show the number of article's comments OR not
- Display Created Time - Allow to show the created date of article OR not
- Display Readmore Link - Allow to show readmore link OR not
- Read More Text - Set text for Readmore link
CATEGORY OPTIONS
- Title Max Chars - Allow to set the max length of title's category can be shown (choose 0 to show full title)
- Display List Subcategory - Allow to show sub category or not
- Subcategory Title Maxlength - Allow to set the max length of title's subcategory can be shown ( choose 0 to show full title)
IMAGE OPTIONS
Note: Image sources will be got in the item - Click HERE
Get Image From K2 Image
- K2 Image - Allow you to get image from K2 OR not
- K2 Image size - Set size for image
Get Image From Inline Introtext
- Inline Introtext - Allow you to get image from Introtext OR not
Get Image From Inline Fulltext
- Inline Fulltext - Allow to get image from Fulltext OR not
Get Image From Extend Folder
- Extend Folder - Allow to extend folder or not
- External Folder - Set path to external image folder used by option above
- Order to Get - Set order: image_intro...,external OR not
- Use Default Image - Allow you to use a placeholder image when entries' image is empty
- Placeholder Path or Url - Allow to set path to placeholder image
Image Options
- Resize Mode - Allow you to choose the mode of image resizing
- None
- Center
- Fill
- Fit
- Strech
- Output Format - Allow to set format for all output file:
- Default - if you want to keep original format
- GIF
- JPEG
- PNG
- Keep Transparency - Allow to keep images transparent, for PNG and GIF format
- Width - Allow you to set the width of the big image
- Height - Allow you to set the height of the big image
- Background - Allow to set the color of image background
ADVANCED OPTIONS
- Alternative Layout - Allow to use a different layout from the supplied module or overrides in the templates
- Include jQuery - Allow you to include jQuery from this module or another one
- 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
