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Override blog category location

All you need is just copying these files : .../components/com_content/views/category/tmpl/blog_children.php .../components/com_content/views/category/tmpl/blog_item.php .../components/com_content/...
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Category Blog - Layout if the intro image is set

If you mean the intro image that's used in intro_image layout, use the same check as in the layout: <?php $images = json_decode($this->item->images); ?> <?php if (!empty($images->...
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How to show list of articles filtered by category and custom field

You can filter on Custom Fields via multiple ways: filtering via JavaScript + CSS. This will load all articles, but can CSS hide (display:none) them using some JavaScript. The articles are still ...
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Hide full text or intro text from blog layout

The option to hide intro text means hide it in the full article. This is useful when you want to create an intro text for the category view that is different in the full view. One method to hide the ...
Pablo Arias's user avatar
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module to appear below category blog

The category blog is part of the component area in your template, but the module position is different than the component area, by default you can't load a module inside component area (blog layout) ...
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How to fix missing article separator (Joomla 3.4.8)?

From the link you provided it is obvious that in your template there IS NO article-separator HTML element. From the name of your template, 'favourite' I guess it is one of free templates from ...
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Link Collection Menu Item

I suggest creating modules for each of the non-article items you wish to include on the page and then insert the modules into an article. Category Blog Create an "Articles - Category" module and ...
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Link Collection Menu Item

I think there are a number of ways you could go about achieving such a page. Create an article and manually add everything yourself (Not very efficient). Use something like Nonumber's Articles ...
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Joomla page title is not article title for some articles

If there is a menu item pointing directly to an article, then the page title can be set at the menu item level. Additionally, there are some SEO tools (such as sh404SEF) that will allow you to set the ...
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Making $url from article.php available in Joomla Articles for custom readmore links

By default, PHP code is stripped from article content when saving. DirectPHP and similar extensions enable you to include PHP code in your articles without the code being stripped by your editor when ...
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Hide blog layout title when reading an article

Answer: I found it easiest to do a template override override this: html/com_content/article/default.php and I just commented out the page h1 <div class="item-page<?php echo $this->...
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How to fix missing article separator (Joomla 3.4.8)?

Then write the css by yourself. Normally this class should be integrated in all modern templates, maybe you do use an override for featured and category blog. More details would be needed, for e.g. a ...
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Get Category intro image in the index.php

Knowing a tiny bit about the joomla request-reponse lifecycle will help here. Joomla runs in the following order: 1. bootstrap the application 2. router 3. component (including your own layout ...
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{loadposition} Only in the first blog contribution

You might need to give a more specific example of what the module area is doing for the ideal suggestion. However, a few ideas that might point you in the right direction: Plugin Create a plugin ...
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Tagged items blog layout

This is now a core feature in Joomla 3.8, i.e. filtering articles category blog layout with tags.
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Cannot order articles in the correct order

If you have your articles arranged in sub-categories they will be ordered by category first then by date. If this is the case, in your menu item set Category order: No ordering, Article Order: Oldest ...
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Hide full text or intro text from blog layout

The show intro text is meant for the article view not the blog layout. With hide intro text you can have a special intro text for your article, that can be hidden when you go to read the full article ...
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Menu Item - Show only a few articles

You can use the featured articles system represented with a star in content manager and use a "Featured Articles" menu item type to show only the specific articles that you have marked. Then use a ...
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Backend article order not same as frontend order

I can't say for sure why is that happening, but I have a hunch... I bet you any money that your site went through few Joomla updates, and that at some point in time was on J! lower than 3.6.3. You ...
Mikan's user avatar
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Category blog - hide category (options) makes tags disappear

Using Protostar as Template and set in Menu "Show Category" to "Hide" and "Show Tags" to "Show" give what expected: No Category shown, Tags shown. No Matter if "Position of Article Info" is set to "...
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Joomla page title is not article title for some articles

I found the resolution for my case, it was simple, I just didn't notice. The articles that didn't display the Article title as the Page title, they didn't have the Itemid=XXX parameter on their URLs.
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How to set the title and intro text as hyperlinks to the full article in blog layout?

Important Note after KlintWeb comment: You certainly want to do any such changes inside a template override. Search in this site and also in the web about Joomla Template Overrides to find ...
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Remove Subcategories title and links from bottom of Category blog

Welcome to Stack Exchange. This is controlled in the menu item. You need to: Go into your administration section of Joomla! Click on Menus Go to the menu that you are using e.g. "main menu" ...
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How to show items only using AJAX "Load More" button instead of pagination in category blog

In your template folder (/joomla_root/templates/< template_name >/) create a file with a unique name, such as articlelist.php. In that file add this code <jdoc:include type="component" /> ...
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Hide tags in category blog layout

In short this is the hierarchy. Menu item layout can be overridden by Article options and the the Article Page itself has the final say so if you will.
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Show image from the article in blog layout

You can do the following in the overridden article layout file (e.g. templates/[your-template]/html/com_content/article/default.php): Search for images using a regular expression Use the first image ...
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Get Category intro image in the index.php

Firstly, the only code that should go into index.php is code that should appear on every page. What you want to do is on the category view, so your code should go in the category view override. It is ...
Seth Warburton's user avatar
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How do I sort articles by article order in Joomla 3?

One possible workaround is to use the Featured Articles feature. You can set your articles as featured from any kind of category and then use a Featured Articles menu item to display with your desired ...
FFrewin's user avatar
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How do I sort articles by article order in Joomla 3?

You need to go to the Administrator panel -> Menus -> Main Menu -> go to the tab Blog Layout and find there Article Order - Oldest first, or setup other settings would you like. Your admin link ...
Aleksander's user avatar
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Blog page showing Categories and their Articles in blocks?

There are various combinations of things that can create your desired layout. You could go with Template Overrides for blog category, or Featured Articles layout, but maybe an easier approach is to ...
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