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You are here: HomeJoomla TemplatesTemplate User-GuidesYT News Template Userguide

YT News Template Userguide

April.11.2013

Contents
The guide will help you install YT News and extensions included in this template step by step.
If you want to install the template exactly like our demo (same data), you should purchase and install the Quickstart Package.
  • Important Notes
  • 1. Download Template and Extensions
  • 2. YT News Template - Installation and Configuration
  • 3. Imperative Plugins - Installation and Configuration
  • 4. Other Extensions - Installation and Configuration

Important Notes

Requirement:
  • Joomla! 2.5
  • Some premium SJ Extensions (see part 3-Core Plugins and 4-Other Extensions)

1. Download Template and Extensions

STEP 1: Login at SmartAddons.com

STEP 2: Go to Download -> Free Joomla Templates

STEP 3: Under Free Templates, click YT News to download

STEP 4: Under YT News -> Download packages as you want

2. YT News -Installation and Configuration

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 YT News as default template

2.2 Configuration

The parameters of YT News Template are divided into the following groups:
  • Global Settings
  • Main Body Column Settings
  • Layout Settings
  • Styles Settings
  • Top Menu Settings
  • Content Component
  • Advanced Options
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GLOBAL SETTINGS

  • Generator tag - Generate tag for your template
  • Template Width Type - Allow to choose pixel or %
  • Template Width - Allow to set width
  • 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
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MAIN BODY COLUMN SETTINGS

  • Main Body Width Type - Allow to choose pixel or %
  • Main Width - Allow to set width of main column
  • Left Width - Allow to set width of left column
  • Right Width - Allow to set width of right column
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LAYOUT SETTINGS

  • Default Mode View - Allow to choose mobile or PC layout
  • Window Layout - Allow to choose layout used with PC
  • Mobile Layout - Allow to choose layout used with mobile
  • IPhone Layout - Allow to choose layout used with IPhone
  • Android Layout - Allow to choose layout used with Android
  • Handheld Layout - Allow to choose layout used with other mobiles
  • Overwrite Windows Layout - 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
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STYLE SETTINGS

  • Default Style - Allow to choose a style from 4 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
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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
  • 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
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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
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ADVANCED OPTIONS

  • Show Cpanel - Allow you to show YT Framework Control panel OR not
  • Override Logo Image - Allow you to choose new image link
  • Enable jquery - Enable/disable jquery
  • Enable Google Analytics - Enable/disable Google Analytics
  • Enter your Google Analytics tracking ID - Copy and paste your Google Analytics tracking ID here
  • 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 - Choose Yes to optimize HTML also

3. Imperative Plugins-Installation and Configuration

You need to install: Yt Plugin, SJ Core and YT Extra Params plugin.
- Yt Plugin supports Yt Framework for adding extra parameters used with Mega Menu and to compress CSS/JS/HTML when optimizing code.
- While that, SJ Core is used for resizing images in Content Component and other extensions by us.
- Lastly, YT Extra Param help to set up Mega Menu.

3.1 Installation

  • Now you install YT Extra Params, Yt Plugin and SJ Core in turn
  • STEP 1: In Administrator on Joomla! v2.5.x, go to Extensions -> Extension Manager
    On this page, click Choose File button, choose plugin file (extracted from extensions zip file) from then click Upload & Install


  • STEP 2: Now, go to Enable Yt Plugin (for Yt Framework) and YT Extra Param in Extension/Plug-in Manager

3.2 Configuration of YT Plugin (for Yt Framework)

  • Yt Plugin supports Optimizing CSS/ JS/ HTML and support showing Mega Menus nicely. You can see how to optimize CSS/JS/HTML in Configuration part above and how to use YT Menu Params for styling any Menu Items by remarking an example:
    • SUPPORT OPTIMIZING CSS/JS/HTML AND STYLING MEGA MENUS
  • After installing Yt Plugin, go to Extension -> Plug-in Manager and choose to configure Yt Plugin:
    • TO YT PLUGIN

    4. Other Extensions - Installation and Configuration

    After creating data, you can install and configure extensions to have a Website as like as our pre-made demo.

    4.1 Install

    4.1.1 List of extensions used in YT News demo

    You can find a list of modules/plugins/components which are used in YT News

    4.1.2 Installation

    • In Administrator on Joomla! v2.5.x, go to Extensions -> Extension Manager
      On this page, click Choose File button, choose an extension file then click Upload & Install


    • Install the rest of extensions as step above

    4.2 Configuration
    After installing extensions which are included in the YT News 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 - Home

  • Menu Item Type
    • Menu Item Type: Featured Article
  • Frontend - Backend
    • FRONTEND
    BACKEND - YT MENU PARAMS
    BACKEND - TREE OF MENUS

    4.2.2 Mega Menu - Feature

  • Menu Item Type
    • Menu Item Type: External URL
  • Frontend - Backend
    • FRONTEND
    BACKEND - YT MENU PARAMS
    BACKEND - TREE OF MENUS

    4.2.3 Mega Menu - Sports

  • Menu Item Type
    • Menu Item Type: Category Blog
  • Frontend - Backend
    • FRONTEND
    BACKEND - YT MENU PARAMS
    BACKEND - TREE OF MENUS

    4.2.4 SJ News Splash

  • Module Position - Module Suffix
    • Position: top1
    Suffix: blank
  • Frontend (demo layout above) - Backend
    • BACKEND

    4.2.5 Login Module

  • Module Position - Module Suffix
    • Position: top2
    Suffix: blank
  • Frontend (demo layout above) - Backend
    • BACKEND

    4.2.6 Banners Moudule

  • Module Position - Module Suffix
    • Position: header2
    Suffix: clear
  • Frontend (demo layout above) - Backend
    • BACKEND

    4.2.7  Smart Search

  • Module Position - Module Suffix
    • Position: nav2
    Suffix: blank
  • Frontend (demo layout above) - Backend
    • BACKEND

    4.2.8 Breadcrumb

  • Module Position - Module Suffix
    • Position: breadcrumb
    Suffix: balnk
  • Frontend (demo layout above) - Backend
    • BACKEND

    4.2.9 Sj News Frontpage

  • Module Position - Module Suffix
    • Position: content-top
    Suffix: blank
  • Frontend (demo layout above) - Backend
    • BACKEND

    4.2.10 SJ Multi Video

  • Module Position - Module Suffix
    • Position: left-right-top
    Suffix: _video
  • Frontend (demo layout above) - Backend
    • BACKEND

    4.2.11 SJ News Content

  • Module Position - Module Suffix
    • Position: content-bottom
    Suffix: blank
  • Frontend (demo layout above) - Backend
    • BACKEND

    4.2.12 SJ Module Tabs

  • Module Position - Module Suffix
    • Position: left-right-top
    Suffix: blank
  • Frontend (demo layout above) - Backend
    • BACKEND

    4.2.13 SJ Basic News Module

  • Module Position - Module Suffix
    • Position: user14
    Suffix: blank
  • Frontend (demo layout above) - Backend
    • BACKEND

    4.2.14 Menu Module

    There are several positions that use Menu module. Here we will configure an example. Let take "Main Menu" at left position, others will be the same.

  • Module Position - Module Suffix
    • Position: left
    Suffix: blank
  • Frontend (demo layout above) - Backend
    • BACKEND

    4.2.15 SJ Hot Topic Module

  • Module Position - Module Suffix
    • Position: right
    Suffix: blank
  • Frontend (demo layout above) - Backend
    • BACKEND

    4.2.16 Who's Online Module

  • Module Position - Module Suffix
    • Position: right
    Suffix: blank
  • Frontend (demo layout above) - Backend
    • BACKEND

    4.2.17 Sponsored Ads - Custom HTML

  • Module Position - Module Suffix
    • Position: left-right-bottom
    Suffix: _blank
  • Frontend (demo layout above) - Backend
    • BACKEND

    That's homepage. For other advanced and customized configurations, please submit ticket OR purchase our installation services.

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