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Joomla! Categories are used to logically group content-type data.
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List of contacts shows an obsolete name
I want to remove a person from the contacts.
The contact appears in the frontend but not in the contacts component, so I can not remove or unpublish.
(I think someone maybe deleted a non-empty ...
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Joomla 4 Component SEF URL not working for detail page of the item when catid is added in the url
Below is the have written the code router file in the component
namespace Test\Component\Test\Site\Service;
// No direct access
defined('_JEXEC') or die;
use Joomla\CMS\Component\Router\...
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Joomla 4: Adding category parameter(s)
How do I get the solution for this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18975896/adding-category-parameters to work on Joomla 4?
My extension includes various categories, which I've named "[...
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Is it possible to create two category fields in the same table with different menu categories to each of them to add new category
For example, in my table #__shopping_details I want to add two category fields so I added
<field name="shopping_account" extension="com_shopping.shoppingdetails" type="...
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Get Category id onAfterRoute when using category dropdown
I have written a Joomla 4 plugin (trigger: onAfterRoute) that changes the layout of the article edit based on the category. This works when creating a new article with a pre-selected category, but ...
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How to register {my namespace]\Site\Service\Category?
My component is using Joomla Categories and I'm using the following code to fetch a category:
$component = Joomla\CMS\Factory::getApplication()->bootComponent('com_khub');
$category = $component-&...
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J4. Get children categories
In a custom template helper of com_content I need to get all children categories from specific category.
$categories = Joomla\CMS\Categories\Categories::getInstance('content');
$cat = $...
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Display only one Category and its sub-categories
I have created a custom filter.xml to search for specific documents.
Using Joomla's category system, I have also create 3 main categories. Courtrolls, Newsletter and communique.
In my filter form, I ...
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How to select a category in frontend when creating an article?
How to enable a frontend user to select a category when creating an article?
When the user attempts to create a new article, the 'Category' drop down, under Publishing, is disabled. Is there a way to ...
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Custom J4 Component - Multiple Models & Different Category "Groups"?
I have a Custom J4 Component that should have different types of contents. So called "items" and "packages". The items are done so far and using the default J4 categories via "...
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Joomla! 4.1.5 category ACL logic
I am struggling with the logic of an ACL setting in Joomla! 4.1.5. It concerns front-end editing, but I suspect it also applies to the back-end. It concerns the permissions of a category.
When I leave ...
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What is the correct way to insert the first category called "Uncategorized" in the categories table in the SQL file during installation of component?
I also need to know if the insert of the table #__content_types is correct and if there is something missing in the SQL installation code.
SET time_zone = "+00:00";
CREATE TABLE IF NOT ...
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How to set/change default article category in Joomla 3.10?
When I create a new article, there is a default category of "Uncategorised". Is there any way to set a different default article category instead of the native default "Uncategorised&...
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joomla4: test the category id
I have tried
if ($this->item->catid == 12){
return true;
}
OR with $article->catid
I put the mentioned code in a module https://joomhelper.com/dbpqnex
Another solution (maybe even more ...
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Create a category from frontend in Joomla 4
The registered user gets the "Author" access rights. Through the menu, you can make the button "Create material" and the Author, having entered the site, can create this material. ...
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Dynamic page filled with content depending on the previous page
I am kinda new as a developer and I want to achieve the following in Joomla. The idea is that I have a category->sub category->products. The category and subcategory will be added in joomla and ...
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"404 Component not found" when trying to set an image for a category
I'm experiencing a really weird error in the backend of my site - Whenever I try to set an image for a category or article, the modal that pops up just shows me the Joomla dashboard.
When I'm editing ...
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Want to show random item title from one appointed category
I have following codes:
<?php foreach ($list as $item) : ?>
<li<?php if ($id == $item->id && in_array($view, array('category', 'categories')) && $option == '...
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How to get category ID when creating new article in administration area
When creating a new article, how can I get the current selected category ID as shown in the category select field? I need to pass the value to a PHP variable.
There is the javascript function ...
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How to get the category name by id in custom component view
I have a custom component where I have a category field in a view (backend). That gives me the category id in the front-end.
Now I want to know how I could fetch the category name from this catid. I ...
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How to disable all category pages?
I have a Joomla site and I would like to hide the category pages. Google is indexing some of them with a number before.
For example, I have a product category and the mydomain.com/2-products page is ...
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category links don't work
On my site there are 2 types of categories:
the first has link mysite.com/id-category and in this case I cannot see the content of the page (the div with id "t3-mainbody" is missing in the generated ...
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Joomla blank page after migration?
I have Joomla 3.3.1 version
After migrating the web site to another host (with IIS server) I had a problem with blank pages when I click on a menu
The home page is displayed well, the problem is just ...
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How to conditionally filter the presentation of category when creating a new category/article?
I am looking for a solution for the following requirements:
Display only the category of first level when creating new category.
Display only the category of second level when creating article in ...
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Confusion between links menu types and categories
I'm facing an issue with Joomla 3.9.16.
I have created many categories, with sub-categories ; here is my organisation :
I created corresponding menus and sub-menus to be able to put some modules ...
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Custom Category Field
Using Joomla 3.9, although Custom Fields is now available, I am opting to do this in a plugin instead for reasons.
I have created a plugin to hook into the Category view in admin, so that I can add a ...
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Remove 'There are no articles in this category.' Text
Joomla 3.9.14
I have a category with no articles, although the sub categories do contain articles.
- colours (no articles)
-- red (1 article)
-- blue (2 articles)
I have a menu type Category ...
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Only show joomla custom fields on certain category levels
Is it possible to only show a field on for example the 3rd level of categories? Now when I link a field to a top level categorie, the field is shown on all articles on all levels of categories, but is ...
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Joomla SEF url in CLI script
I am new to Joomla, I am writing a script under folder cli. I am calling helper file of admin component where I fetch category and return url of category.
The function in helper is fine and works ...
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Store category record using JTable instance from controller
I want to store a category record from controller by using JTable. My working code is-
$table = JTable::getInstance('Category');
$data = array('id' => 0, 'parent_id' = 1, 'path' => 'demo', '...
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How to add category name to url path for an article in Joomla 4?
How to display category name in the url path?
Say I have a category named cat1, and an article1 under this category.
I want to display website.wb/cat1/article1, but what I get is website.wb/article1. ...
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How to make Category Links noindex
Is there a way to make all my categories to be "noindex"? (Plugin or even better default joomla way)
Right now crawlers find the category URLs and thus create duplicate content on search engines.
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Suddenly URLs with "table/"
I'm running a simple site based on Joomla. The SEF URLs are defined by SH404SEF and look like https://[domain]/[category]/[sub category]/[article title alias].html.
In some cases there is a 1-to-1 ...
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Is it possible to insert a category list view inside an article?
I want to get a category list view inside an article (in this case, inside a tab in an article), but I want to see this category list view styled like when a menu item type shows a category list: a ...
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Manage Categories in Site part. Is possible?
I use the com_categories in my custom component based on the joomla Docs Adding Categories.
But I need to manage the categories in the site part. I was wondering if there is an easy way to do it, or ...
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Best practices sending mail
In order to develope my own subscription module, what is the best practice sending mail to a list of users: send only one mail with multiple bcc recipients or send one mail per recipient? In case of ...
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if article is part of category or any of it's children
I know I can get the category id and parent category id, but what I really want is a category and any child categories.
I'm making a group of articles and I want to do an override to add a class to ...
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I've missed something with how category layout override is working
I'm working on a students directory with the following structures:
Directory (parent category)
|_ 2017-2016 (child category)
|_ 2016-2015 (child category)
|_ 2015-2014 (child category)
…
In each ...
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Category Manager: How to show a list of a category AND ONLY its subcategory?
I have hundreds of categories on one Joomla site.
Using the Joomla administrator category manager, I'd like to find a way to list a category AND ONLY its children subcategories.
To be clear, I'd ...
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Has there been a better solution for showing modules only on article list page(but not article page)?
A typical scenario I believe every Joomla users have encountered is:
You have a module on the article list page(like Category Blog), but you don't want this module to also show on the article content ...
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Error on save of articles and categories
I'm getting this error when I try to save new category. However, the category is created after I refresh listing. Any ideas?
Call to undefined method Joomla\CMS\Application\AdministratorApplication::...
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Joomla set Template Alternative Layout via link, is it possible?
I came across an strange behavior and I am trying to find out if I can solve this by setting the layout to be used via the link to the category.
Here is what happened.
I have a template override for ...
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Category Blog Allows Viewing of all Categories
I have a Category Blog Menu Item where I have chosen all articles with category News to be displayed and layed out how I like. However, by creating just one Category Blog menu item on my site, now all ...
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How can I create a page that links to all articles with fake long titles?
I would like to have a page that lists all articles in a category by subcategory, and to have these articles listed by titles longer than Joomla's built-in maximum length.
In asking this question I ...
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Get ID for new Article or Category
I'm programming in a button to allow users to add a new category or article but I'm also tracking the IDs to create the custom webpage structure.
So when the user clicks the button I need to know the ...
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How to prevent category pages from being visited
Here is my problem, I made couple content categories, the structure is something like this:
pages (here I store all the pages, like about us, contacts, news, privacy policy, etc);
news (with ...
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How to get main parent category id from category/subcategory
I am getting one category id in code but it can be the id of either category or subcategory. And by the following code i am able to fetch the parent category chain.
$Jcategories = JCategories::...
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Joomla Category Rename Problem
We have a Joomla website, and I renamed a category (it was named "Active Clinical Trials" - and I changed that to just "Clinical Trials")
But - if you go to this link (open in a new tab please to ...
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how can i config Menu Type: Category Articles
I bought a theme for my joomla webpage "joomla 3.6.5". This template uses very handy feature: all articles belonging to a category displayed vertical in a row with an navigation button at the bottom ...
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How can I create a list of subcategories in a category showing 1 article for each subcategory?
I want to have a page listing each sub-category in a category but with each subcategory showing n number of caracters from the most recent article in each sub-category. The layout I am after is ...
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