I'm trying to order some articles from a category in joomla at this url:
http://www.dasphotonics.com/apps/joomla/en/products/electronic-intelligence-and-radar
After put the order at the administration panel, optical harmessing I have it on the fourth place but it appears at the 3rd place, why?.
Regards and thank you
The reason is that Joomla doesn't order the articles by the backend ordering by default.
There are two ways to change this.
Do this ordering Global
Set the ordering method in the Menu
The first one could be changed in the Article List->Options (Top Left Button)->Shared Options (Tab)->Article Order (Drop Down) - Change this to Ordering. This will change all Blog and Category views to this type of ordering.
The second option is in the Menuitem. On the right site you have a Slider called "Blog Layout" there is a Option "Article Order" change this to "Article Manager Order". This will change only this Blog or Category view to this type of ordering.
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This is difficult to explain but I'll do my best.
I have a site with a number of articles grouped into different menus, which allows me to present relevant content to the visitor depending on what they are interested in. Each article may be in a number of menus.
I have also categorised each article based on the menu that it is most relevant to. I have done this in order to create a landing page using the category list component.
The issue I have is that the urls in the category list output do not relate to the active menu, when the article is in a number of menus. When you click on the article it takes you to the different menu. This issue is fixed if I unpublish the article from all other menus. I understand this is because Single article menu id takes precedence over category menu id's.
I need a fix that selects the active menu id rather than the default.
Any help appreciated.
Joomla cannot do what you want to do by default. In short, you have multiple URLs for each article and you want Joomla to automatically know which context that article is displayed in in order to display the right URL. Joomla can't do this.
What you need to do is that you want to override the layout module for that category and create a code that will get the right URL based on the context you are in. Not a very easy thing to do but this is how it should be done.
Note that there are some extensions, such as flexicontent, that allow articles to be listed in multiple categories, and that will handle such URLs correctly depending on the context.
Have problem in adding new article in joomla the articles are getting added at the top instead of the bottom of existing article.
The sorting order of Joomla articles can be set in several different places, ranging from default settings to menu-specific settings, each one taking precedence over the previous setting.
The best way to make sure you have control over the way your articles are sorted is in your menu item editor. You should check several settings in the "Layout" tab (or "Blog Layout" if that's what you're using):
Category Order - I recommend using "No order", or else the articles will be sorted by category first.
Article Order - Use "Oldest first".
Date for Ordering - Created/modified/published. You probably want to use "Published" here. If you set this to "Modified", any article will be placed last when you save it.
Currently, the joomla front page consists of latest news and several articles and list, basiclly i want to change the layout of this to just one specific article.
Changing the home button properties on the menu page doesnt do the trick as thats not the same as the front page.
Go to the menu manager and find the default menu item. It is marked with a star. Edit that item. If it is using a frontpage/featured layout you can tell it exactly how many featured articles do display by changing the parameters. OR you can change the menu item o a single article or a category or whatever you want.
I'm trying to make a "Chapter selector" for my organization's website. I want to be able to select, say, the "Bay Area chapter" and have the site display articles and events for the Bay Area chapter (while keeping the chapter-independent parts of the site the same). How do I accomplish this?
I'd need a little more detail but here are some of the things to consider -
I am a fan of K2 for being able to nest categories, but you can at least categorize all of your Chapter information in to separate categories within a single section in the Joomla content manager.
For each Category you will need a menu item - Articles > Category > Category blog Layout
In the module manager you will need corresponding modules that display category related information. Be sure to associate the modules to the correct menu items in the module's Menu Assignment area.
I'd do the chapter selector as a menu. Create a menu to contain your chapters and then publish a module for that menu which allows you to pick your items with that chapter.
I'm having problems with a Joomla install (problem exists in both 1.5.13 and 1.5.15) that won't order articles in a category or section blog layout.
I've tried setting the sort order on the layout manually to all the different sort options but it has no effect.
Ordering on the front page works fine.
Any ideas?
You need to Enable Custom Ordering...
install-climber.blogspot.com/2011/09/set-custom-articles-order-parameter-or.html
In the options for the menu item (i.e. when you click the item name), look on the right hand side and click "Parameters (Advanced)".
You should set Category Order to "No, order by Primary Order only" and Primary Order to "Default" (or "Most recent first" if that doesn't work).
If a Category is tuned to be shown in several columns (f.e. 2), but only 1 column fits in template, the soring may be broken.