Category Articles

This module displays a list of articles in a particular category.

Module Options

This module has the following options available:

• Alternative Title - Optional title to display in the module. Usually used when the main module title is not displayed.
• Layout - An alternative layout to display taken from either the built in layouts or extra layouts defined in the active template layout overrides folder.
• Category - Allows you to select the category from which to display articles.
• Include Sub-categories - Allows you to include articles from all of the sub-categories in the list.
• Publication - Allows you restrict the articles displayed to a particular category.
• Latest Issue - Allows you restrict the articles display to those in the latest issue of the selected publication.
• Limit - The number of items to display. Use zero to display all items.
• Order - The order in which to display the articles.

Advanced Options

• Article Icon - Display one of the predefined media types for each article.
• Show Summary - Show the article summary field.
• Show View All - Show a link to display a paginated list of all articles by this author.
• Date Format - The data format to use if one is displayed.
• Override Itemid - Each article link will be set with this Itemid rather than it being determined by the router. This is required on occasion to ensure links transfer to the correct menu-based page.
• List Class - An alternative class to use for the HTML list tag (UL or OL).
• List item Class - An alternative class to use for the HTML list item tag (LI).
• Module Class Suffix - A suffix for the module class (standard Joomla! feature).
• Caching - Enable or disable caching of this module (standard Joomla! feature).
• Cache Time - The maximum time to cache the module is caching is enabled.

For assistance with creating and maintaining Joomla modules, see the official Joomla documentation:

• http://docs.joomla.org/Screen.modules.15
• http://docs.joomla.org/Screen.modules.edit.15

Customization

This page may be customized using the Joomla layout override system.  You need to be able to create new files and edit them on your web hosting site using FTP or other tools that are available to you (contact your web host if you need more information).

All file paths are relative to the directory in which Joomla is installed.  When looking a files you need to create, it is assumed that you will create the necessary folders if they don't already exist in each case.  The directory default_template refers to the template that is set as the default for your site.  Please replace this name with the actual name of the template directory.

To create the layout override for this page, find the file:

/modules/mod_zine_category_articles/tmpl/default.php

Copy this to:

/templates/default_template/html/mod_zine_category_articles/default.php

Make the desired adjustments to the source code to the new file you created and then save it.  Your changes should be reflected when you refresh the appropriate page.

For more information on layout overrides, see http://www.theartofjoomla.com/topics/layout-overrides.html