Template for article and subpages

iamwonton · Joined: 28 Jun 2006 Posts: 10

I have been working on my magazine (http://www.silenttalkie.com) and have gotten the homepage template nearly complete (a few more css changes are needed).

When you click on "read more" or a menu item from the top, it takes you to an article page, which removes all of the other modules etc. Is there a way around this?

I'm pretty sure I found the problem, but was hoping I would hold onto the layout. My main joomla template is essentially <div class="container" id="container">
<?php mosMainBody(); ?></div> and it gets filled by the ijoomla template (complete with other modules and ijoomla tags etc). The article pages though, strip all of the other stuff away and only put the article.

Do I have to alter my template (which means losing the issue title and description) and put all of that around the mosMainBody or is there a trick around that?

Thanks

merav · Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 5:46 pm Post subject:

Can you post the exact URL with the problem please?

iamwonton · Joined: 28 Jun 2006 Posts: 10

http://silenttalkie.com/index.php is the main page.

when you click Read More (or a link at the top) it drops all the additional parts of the site.

thanks,

iamwonton

jenks · Joined: 03 Jul 2006 Posts: 2

that has to do with your template itself....

make sure all modules are set to show up on each page...

you can do this by going to your list of modules...

so Modules --> Site Modules
then on the right there is a menu items links section that will show you areas of your page...

i'm pretty sure this is where you setup where that module appears as sometimes you might want a module to show up on your main page but not show up on other pages...

iamwonton · Joined: 28 Jun 2006 Posts: 10

Thanks for the idea jenks, but that's not it.

All of the modules are in the right positions, but when an article is selected, all of the template (including module positions) is dropped. All of the ijoomla template is removed for the article page. Since ijoomla uses the same template for all magazine pages, I'd like a way to restrict or change what is removed from the subpage/article view.

If this isn't possible, I need to find a way to keep the info I want in the top area of the site. I might just have to use css to move that stuff around the page... just hoping for a more usable solution.

merav · Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 12:35 pm Post subject:

We will have a solution for this on the stabe release coming out in the next few weeks. Wink

iamwonton · Joined: 28 Jun 2006 Posts: 10

really!? that's fantastic!!! Any chance it'll be out by Feb 14? hehe...

thanks again for a great product.

iamwonton

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