Missing further CjBlog documentation…
Missing further CjBlog documentation...
Hello,
I am trying out CjBlog on a local Joomla! 3.1.5 installation, using standard protostar site template.
I am not very happy with the documentation, as it is mostly guesswork to get anything working:
1) First of all, the following is not true: " By default CjBlog installer creates a menu "CjBlog" with all the required menu items "
Therefore I created a menu BlogsHiddenMenu, in which I put the items mentioned in this documentation:
"Here are the list of menu items and their functions ( Name (alias) - functionality).
Categories (categories) - Displays the categories table.
Articles (articles) - Displays articles listings including latest, trending and popular articles listings.
Bloggers (bloggers) - Displays the list of bloggers - latest and popular
Badges (badges) - Displays all available badges by component
Points (points) - Displays user points - should be set to registered user access level, not public
Blog (blog) - Forms the urls for user blogs
Form (form) - Displays front-end article submission form"
-- as item types are not defined, I tried the following:
Categories item type=CjBlog >CjBlog Categories Layout
Articles item type=CjBlog > CjBlog Articles Layout
Bloggers item type= CjBlog >CjBlog Users Layout
Badges item type=CjBlog >Badges Layout
Points item type= CjBlog User Layout -- not sure???
Blog item type=CjBlog > Blog Layout -- not sure???
Form item type=CjBlog > CjBlog Article Form Layout
-- to get it going, I added in my Main menu (named Accueil), an item with title Blogs,
with item type=CjBlog > CjBlog Users Layout , so it is equivalent to Bloggers above
-- as I could not get hold of Profile item otherwise, I added a submenu to Blogs:
Blogs>Profile, of item type=CjBlog User Profile Layout (I must be missing something here!).
2) There are a number of problems with this result:
2.1) the CjBlog's implicit horizontal menu (with items Categories, Bloggers, Tags, Discovery>, Account> ) does
not mesh correctly with default protostar menus, as can be seen from this captured image
(attachment=problem_CjBlog_menu.JPG)
2.2) The Bloggers display lacks links to blogger profiles (same attachment)
2.3) in the Account>My Blog display, there is a Profile link, that does not work: see
attachment=problem_userProfileLinks.JPG
2.4) the Account>My profile link does not work, see attachment=problem_Account-menu-item-My Profile.jpg
I also compared with the example site http://www.boddunan.com/bloggers.html (are there by the way any other example sites?), and obviously I got a number of things missing and/or wrong.
I wish some standard procedure should be outlined to get everything working correctly.
Also, there should be a way to parameterize the CjBlog's implicit horizontal menu, to make it mesh correctly
with such standard templates as is protostar.
I am trying out CjBlog on a local Joomla! 3.1.5 installation, using standard protostar site template.
I am not very happy with the documentation, as it is mostly guesswork to get anything working:
1) First of all, the following is not true: " By default CjBlog installer creates a menu "CjBlog" with all the required menu items "
Therefore I created a menu BlogsHiddenMenu, in which I put the items mentioned in this documentation:
"Here are the list of menu items and their functions ( Name (alias) - functionality).
Categories (categories) - Displays the categories table.
Articles (articles) - Displays articles listings including latest, trending and popular articles listings.
Bloggers (bloggers) - Displays the list of bloggers - latest and popular
Badges (badges) - Displays all available badges by component
Points (points) - Displays user points - should be set to registered user access level, not public
Blog (blog) - Forms the urls for user blogs
Form (form) - Displays front-end article submission form"
-- as item types are not defined, I tried the following:
Categories item type=CjBlog >CjBlog Categories Layout
Articles item type=CjBlog > CjBlog Articles Layout
Bloggers item type= CjBlog >CjBlog Users Layout
Badges item type=CjBlog >Badges Layout
Points item type= CjBlog User Layout -- not sure???
Blog item type=CjBlog > Blog Layout -- not sure???
Form item type=CjBlog > CjBlog Article Form Layout
-- to get it going, I added in my Main menu (named Accueil), an item with title Blogs,
with item type=CjBlog > CjBlog Users Layout , so it is equivalent to Bloggers above
-- as I could not get hold of Profile item otherwise, I added a submenu to Blogs:
Blogs>Profile, of item type=CjBlog User Profile Layout (I must be missing something here!).
2) There are a number of problems with this result:
2.1) the CjBlog's implicit horizontal menu (with items Categories, Bloggers, Tags, Discovery>, Account> ) does
not mesh correctly with default protostar menus, as can be seen from this captured image
(attachment=problem_CjBlog_menu.JPG)
2.2) The Bloggers display lacks links to blogger profiles (same attachment)
2.3) in the Account>My Blog display, there is a Profile link, that does not work: see
attachment=problem_userProfileLinks.JPG
2.4) the Account>My profile link does not work, see attachment=problem_Account-menu-item-My Profile.jpg
I also compared with the example site http://www.boddunan.com/bloggers.html (are there by the way any other example sites?), and obviously I got a number of things missing and/or wrong.
I wish some standard procedure should be outlined to get everything working correctly.
Also, there should be a way to parameterize the CjBlog's implicit horizontal menu, to make it mesh correctly
with such standard templates as is protostar.
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