• Joomla! 2.5
• K2, VM and Kunena component (2 last are customized and downloadable)
• Some premium SJ Extensions (included, see part 3-Core Plugins and 4-Other Extensions)

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2.1 Installation

• Log in Administrator of Joomla! v2.5.x, go to Extensions -> Extension Manager
  On this page, click Choose File button, select our template file you have downloaded then click Upload & Install
  
  
  
• Set SJ Magazine as default template
  
  

2.2 Configuration

• Global Settings
• Main Body Column Settings
• Layout Settings
• Style Settings
• Top Menu Settings
• Content Component
• Advanced Options

GLOBAL SETTINGS

• Generator tag - Generate tag for your template
• Template Width Type - Allow to choose: pixel OR percentage for your width
• Template Width - Set width of your template
• Hide Main Content Block - Allow to hide Content Component on Homepage
• Direction - Choose direction of language: RTL/LTR
• Logo Type - Choose your logo type: image OR text
• Logo Text - Set text for Text type of logo
• Slogan - Set your Website slogan here

MAIN BODY COLUMN SETTINGS

• Main Body Width Type - Allow to choose between pixel OR percentage for your width
• Main Width - Set width of your Mainbody column
• Left Width - Set width of left column
• Right Width - Set width of right column

LAYOUT SETTINGS

• Default Mode View - Allow to set default layout: for Mobile OR for PC
• Window layout - Layout used when visitors are from PC
• Mobile layout - Layout used when visitors are from mobilephone
• Iphone layout - Layout used when visitors are from Iphone
• Android layout - Layout used when visitors are from Android
• Handheld layout - Layout used when visitors are from other handhelds
• Overwrite Layouts Windows - Used with window mode, when you want to use another layout for a menu. Syntax:
  • Itemid1:Layout_Name1 | Itemid2:Layout_Name2 | ...
  With:
  • Itemid1, Itemid2...: Id of Menus. You can see these in Menu Item Manager
  • Layout_Name1, Layout_Name2...: The name of layout. You can see these in templates/{this_template_name}/layouts folder. NOTE: remove .xml extension

STYLE SETTINGS

• Default Style - Allow to choose a style from 6 available ones
• Default Font Size - Allow to choose default font size
• Default Font-Family - Allow to choose a font-family from 13 available ones. The default one is Arial
• Google Font-Family - Allow to choose a google font-family used for html tags which are in Affected Selectors parameter below
• Affected Selectors - Tag names will be applied with google font, comma seperated

TOP MENU SETTINGS

• Default Type Menu - Allow to choose default menu type shown with template, this list is gotten from Menu Manager
• Default Menu Style - We support 4 styles for Menus
  
  • CSS Menu
  • Moo Menu
  • Mega Menu
  • Dropline Menu
• Use JS for Dropline Menu - Allow to use JS effect for Dropline Menu OR not
• Javascript Effect - Allow to select which JS Effect used with Moo Menu and Mega Menu
• Duration Effect - Set time before showing any submenus
• Start Level - Set level of menu to start rendering the menu
• End Level - Set level of menu to stop rendering the menu

CONTENT COMPONENT

• Apply for Blog View - Allow to show the Content block at blog pages OR not
• Apply for Frontpage view - Allow to show at Frontpage view OR not
• Leading Images Width - Set width of images of Leading Articles
• Leading Images Height - Set height of images of Leading Articles
• Intro Images Width - Set width of images of Intro Articles
• Intro Images Height - Set height of images of Intro Articles
• Thumbnail Background Color - Set color background for thumbnail images
• Thumbnail Mode - Set thumbnail mode:
  
  • Fill
  • Fit
  • Stretch
  • Center

ADVANCED OPTIONS

• Show Cpanel - Allow you to show YT Framework Control panel OR not
• Override logo image - Set logo image of Cpanel by inserting its link/path here
• Include LazyLoad plugin - Enable/disable LazyLoad
• Enable jquery - Enable/disable jquery
• Optimize Merge File - Choose Yes to optimize all CSS and JS Files which are used in your website
• Optimize CSS - Choose Yes to optimize only CSS files
• Optimize CSS Exclude - CSS files which are not optimized, comma separated
• Optimize JS - Choose Yes to optimize only JS files
• Optimize JS Exclude - JS files which are not optimized, comma separated
• Optimize Folder - A specific folder with Css/Js files need to be optimized
• Optimize HTML - Allow to use Optimize HTML feature
• Enable Google Analytics - Enable/disable Google Analytics
• Enter your Google Analytics tracking ID - Copy and paste your Google Analytics tracking ID here

3.1 Installation

• STEP 1: In Administrator on Joomla! v2.5.x, go to Extensions -> Extension Manager
  On this page, click Choose File button, choose those two plugin files then click Upload & Install
  
  
  
• STEP 2:Now, go to Enable SJ Core and Yt Plugin (for Yt Framework) in Extension/Plug-in Manager

3.2 Configuration of YT Plugin (for Yt Framework)

SUPPORT OPTIMIZING CSS/JS/HTML AND STYLING MEGA MENUS

TO YT PLUGIN

SHOWING SJ HELP

4.1 Install

4.1.1 List of extensions used in SJ Magazine demo

You can find a list of modules/plugins/components which are used in SJ Magazine by clicking menu Features -> Extensions of demo Website

4.2 Configuration

After installing extensions which are included in the SJ Magazine template, navigate into Extensions -> Module (or Plug-in) Manager then choose the module or plug-in you want to configure. The following example is choosing a module from Module Manager:

By this screenshot, you will see how module is placed in the default layout:

This guide will help you place essential menus (Mega Menu), modules (one example each type) and other blocks as homepage of demo Website:

4.2.1 Mega Menu - Features

Menu Item Type

Menu Item Type: Text Separator

Frontend - Backend

FRONTEND

BACKEND - YT MENU PARAMS

BACKEND - TREE OF MENUS

4.2.2 Mega Menu - Joomla!

Menu Item Type

Menu Item Type: Text Separator

Frontend - Backend

FRONTEND

BACKEND - YT MENU PARAMS

BACKEND - TREE OF MENUS

4.2.3 Mega Menu - K2

Menu Item Type

Menu Item Type: K2 - Categories

Frontend - Backend

FRONTEND

BACKEND - YT MENU PARAMS

BACKEND - TREE OF MENUS

4.2.4 Mega Menu - VirtueMart

Menu Item Type

Menu Item Type: Text Separator

Frontend - Backend

FRONTEND

BACKEND - YT MENU PARAMS

BACKEND - TREE OF MENUS

4.2.5 SJ K2 Splash

Module Position - Module Suffix

Position: top1
Suffix: Not Used

Frontend - Backend

FRONTEND

BACKEND

4.2.6 Login Module

Module Position - Module Suffix

Position: top2
Suffix: Not Used

Frontend - Backend

FRONTEND

BACKEND

4.2.7 Smart Search

Module Position - Module Suffix

Position: nav2
Suffix: Not used

Frontend - Backend

FRONTEND

BACKEND

4.2.8 Mega K2 News

Module Position - Module Suffix

Position: main_bottom
Suffix: clear

Frontend - Backend

FRONTEND

BACKEND

4.2.9 Quick Links Menu

There are some positions that used Menu Module. Here we will configure an example. Let take the left menu, other will be the same.

Module Position - Module Suffix

Position: left_top
Suffix: Not Used

Frontend - Backend

FRONTEND

BACKEND

4.2.10 K2 Tool Module

Module Position - Module Suffix

Position: left
Suffix: _menu

Frontend - Backend

FRONTEND

BACKEND

4.2.11 SJ K2 Categories Accordion

Module Position - Module Suffix

Position: left
Suffix: clear

Frontend - Backend

FRONTEND

BACKEND

4.2.12 Statistics Module

Module Position - Module Suffix

Position: left_bottom
Suffix: Not used

Frontend - Backend

FRONTEND

BACKEND

4.2.13 In Pictures - SJ Gallery Module

Module Position - Module Suffix

Position: right_top
Suffix: clear

Frontend - Backend

FRONTEND

BACKEND

4.2.14 Latest News - SJ K2 Slider

Module Position - Module Suffix

Position: content_bottom
Suffix: clear

Frontend - Backend

FRONTEND

BACKEND

4.2.15 Newsletter - Custom HTML

There are some positions that used Custom HTML modules in the same way. Here we will configure an example for custom HTML modules. Let take "Newsletter", other will be the same.

Module Position - Module Suffix

Position: user5
Suffix: line newsletter

Frontend - Backend

FRONTEND

BACKEND

4.2.16 SJ K2 Extra Slider

Module Position - Module Suffix

Position: user12
Suffix: clear

Frontend - Backend

FRONTEND

BACKEND