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Joomla Extension Review – Filtered News Module
Filtered News is a Joomla Module that allows you to show article leads in a module position, and it has all of the configuration that is missing from the standard Joomla Module Newsflash and What’s New: multiple display layouts, configurable content elements, text character number limit, include image, and more.
More than once I have struggled with the limitations of the Joomla Newsflash and What’s New modules. Both of these extensions provide only a basic display of news items and are severely lacking in configuration settings. Necessity is the mother of invention, and lucky for you, it pushed the developers at JoomlaVargas to develop this great module that includes all the features of Newsflash and What’s New and a LOT more.
Below is an example of the Filtered News module in action. The box on the left using the news scroller layout. The news items change every x number of seconds. The box on the right uses the plain list layout.
This Joomla module is a great way to display fresh content and do it with style. The following is a list of its main features:
Free Installed and ran “out of the box” with no issues. Easy to configure Multiple display layouts. The slider and scroller layouts are especially nice Count: control the number of articles that display Order: order, random, most recent, most hits Only articles from last X days. Display articles from within the number of days you specify Image Resize. If the article has an image, you can choose to include it and re-size it too. No longer do you have to make sure that thumbnails are included in the intro text. Filtered News will resize and use the first image it finds in the article. What a GREAT time saver! Filter by section, category, author, recent days, keywords, front page Specify height, width, background color, border, padding Specify which article elements to include: image, title, text, author, date, category, section, readmore Limit the number of characters to show from text And more! There are too many configurations to describe
I highly recommend this module. It gets the job done and does everything you’d expect from a free Joomla News Module.
Inserting PDF Files Into Joomla Content
It is also difficult but sometimes is simple if we have understood the way to do it. The forum communities of web builder are forums you can share your problems and get the solution from other members. Also, you can get the update applications news, and many more. For you, who have problem in inserting Portable Document Format files into Joomla contents, here are some tips that may help you.PDF files are mostly used by people.
A PDF is not an ‘image’, but separate file type. However, it ‘contains’ images. Then, how to insert PDF files into Joomla contents? Some people make it simple and easier by exporting PDF files to other format, like html because it has smaller size. After that, you can insert them to Joomla. Also, you can upload PDF files to the directory in images using Media Manager which is commonly used, and then add a normal URL link and link them.
You must create the correct URL because this part sometimes makes us frustrating in Joomla. The correct URL creates correct link. However, you can check whether the link is right or not by opening up the homepage and entering image/foldername/pdf and see if Portable Document Format appears. Once the PDF appears, this is the right link. Moreover, since PDF contains pictures and documents, you can display it within wrapper. Create a wrapper and link to the PDF and use these extensions: “Jumi”, “Component Includer”, or “Sourcere”, that may help you. By following those tips your PDF files can be inserted in your Joomla.
You can try those steps. Make sure that your URL is correct and see the detail. It’s better to check it every step that you have done those steps correctly, so you don’t need to look for the part that make those steps do not work. Now, you can insert your PDF files in your Joomla with this Joomla PDF trick.
Learn How to Embed an iframe in Joomla
As a Joomla developer, you encounter many things that are not be easily answered, like “why can’t I get this iFrame to work on my site?” Or your client asks “how difficult will it be to place a page from one of my other sites within the Joomla site you are building for me?”
Being a seasoned professional as well as a resourceful person you of course will tell your client “That’s easy enough, I’ll get right on it.” Then comes the mad dash to figure out how to make your client happy. Well, it’s really not that difficult to embed an iFrame, and I will walk you through the steps, but first there are a few assumptions I have made about your skills set. The first is that you understand and know how to access the administrator area of your Joomla site. The second is that you understand what iFrames are and how they work.
The most likely cause of your inability to embed an iFrame in to your site is that you are coming up against a “blacklist” in Joomla. All versions of Joomla since version 1.5.8 have had a “blacklist” function that protects the site from accepting actions that can cause possible security problems. These actions can prevent embedded files from being posted without proper permissions. The first step in allowing iFrames is to set the site permissions so that you, as the Super Administrator, can embed files and protect your site from others who want to embed files.
To do this, go to the “Content Menu” and choose “Article Manager”, then Click on “Parameters” in the upper right corner. A new window will popup, you will want to scroll down to “Filtering Options”. Select all choices except “SuperAdministrator”, next hit save and close the window. The steps you have just completed will enable anyone logged in as a super administrator to embed ANY code in to the site. These actions also will prevent anybody else from embedding possibly malicious code with tags such as embed, body, and head. Please be advised that only articles created AFTER you make these changes will be allowed to have code embedded in to them.
If your articles continue to not accept the embed code, it may be due to using Tiny MCE, a page editor program that appears as a bar of editing tools at the top of your article body text box. Tiny MCE runs its own security against breaches due to embedding code and you will need to shut Tiny MCE off before you can embed anything.
To turn off Tiny MCE, go to the “Site Menu” and then “User Manager” and select “SuperAdministrator”, which most likely is only you. On the right, under “Parameters”, change the “User Editor” from “Tiny MCE” to “Editor – No Editor” and click Save. Next, you will want to return to the article you were working on, confirm there are no editor tools at the top of your body text box. If the tools are no longer there, you should now be able to paste the iFrame code into the article body text box with no problem.