Joomla. How to work with Display News module

Display News Module for Joomla是一个灵活、直观和强大的解决方案，用于在您的Joomla网站上发布内容.

Installtion

If your template comes with this module, you can find it in the /sources/modules/ folder of your template package. On the net, the module can be downloaded at http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/news-display/articles-display/frontend-news/736
Open your Joomla your admin panel and go Extensions -> Extensions manager -> Install -> Upload Package File. 点击“浏览”并导航到的位置 DisplayNews.zip folder on your computer. Click on “Upload & Install” and wait till the module is successfully installed.
如果您可以将当前内容替换为实时演示示例数据，则可以继续执行 http://info.template-help.com/help/phpmyadmin-how-to-import-sample-data-dump-file.html
Otherwise, you will have to create the module manually. Go to the menu Extensions -> Module manager and click on New. Under Select a Module Type click DisplayNews.

Configuration

The Dismplay News Module 有多种选择，了解它们的最好方法是创建一个新的 module and play around with the options. 打开每个工具附带的文档文件 Joomla template 您需要在哪里找到列出所有模块的表. 的相应字段中复制并插入该流 module configuration page:

• Title;

E.g. Home articles

• Module Position;

e.g. user-6 etc

• Module Class Suffix (goes under Advanced Options -> Module Class Suffix) e.g. -home

其余选项的配置方式完全取决于您. 如果你把鼠标放在每个选项上，它会给你一个简短的描述，告诉你每个选项的作用. Lets’s take a quick overview at some of them:

Basic Options

• Count: enter 您希望在此中显示的许多项 module (0 for unlimited); E.g. 3
• Columns: set how many items to show per row; e.g.1 etc
• Order select the order for your articles. E.g. 订单，这意味着您的文章将按照订单栏输入的文章管理器;
• Layout select the style to display the content items; E.g. Flat
• Date type 允许您选择用于显示和过滤的日期类型，例如.g Creation  

Content Selection Options

• In Set category type choose ”only selected”;
• Set categories by selecting one or some categories, 您可以将显示的项目限制为特定类别中的项目. The category can be created in the Content -> Category manager ->Add New Category , 在哪里需要指定类别标题、别名、设置状态为 published, click Save and it will appear in the list.

• Set articles select the articles that you have under Content -> Article manager. Usually the same value as in Count;  

以下是文章内容的一个例子(建议在介绍文本之前放一张图片，并通过“阅读更多”按钮将介绍文本与其他内容分开):

Title Options

• Show Article Title allows you to show/hide the article title;
• Title Likeable makes the item title likeable;
• Title Tool Tip prefix;
• Filiter and Linit Title removes any html 介绍文本中的格式和特殊字符(出现在“ReadMore”之前). Here it can be limited by chars ir words;
• Length limit title 根据您在这里设置的值减少文章标题的长度.

Text Options

• Text 允许您选择显示内容的方式.g Intro Only
• Text Linkeable 允许您将介绍文本转换为指向该项目的可点击url
• Text Format allows you to remove any html formatting and special characters in the text
• Limit Text allows you to limit the text that is displayed
• Limit text length 允许您根据字符数限制文本，e.g 100

Image Options 允许您配置您在文章中使用的图像:to disable /enable them, make them clickable/unclickable (pointed to the full version iof the article); specify the number of images (如果需要显示所有图像，请留空). 

For instance, if the Show images is set to "Separately" you can set the module 只显示介绍图像标题及其标题，而不显示介绍本身或文本的完整版本.

注意，如果您需要激活可用的选项 Image Re-Sizing, a BK-Thumb image plugin for Joomla should be installed.

Category Options

• Category Name allows you to disable/enabe it
• Category Linkable 允许您将类别名称转换为链接
• Text more 显示的文本是否为完整的阅读更多链接 module
• Show more category auto 当设置为yes时，允许您创建指向所有类别项目列表的链接; 

Date/Author/Read More/Rating/Hits Options

• Date 允许您显示/隐藏文章的日期;
• Date/Time format 控制显示您的日期和时间的方式吧，欲了解更多信息请参考 http://php.net/manual/en/function.strftime.php

e.g. %a, %B %d

对于默认格式，只需将字段保留为空;

• Show Author or hide the author of the articles;
• Show Read More 允许您命名/禁用按钮和下一个选项 Text readmore 允许您指定此按钮的文本;
• Readmore tooltip prefix, please refer to http://docs.joomla.org/How_to_add_tooltips_to_your_Joomla!_website;
• Show Rating/Hits of the user or hide them;

Scroll Options 

• Scroll 允许您使您的内容项目滚动在右，左等方向;
• Specify the height of the scroll;
• the scroll speed;
• Scroll delay 以毫秒为单位显示/刷新滚动数据, the lower the number, the quicker the speed ;
• Make your scrolling items pause on mouse over;

Popup Window Options: t他的一组选项允许您启用/禁用 pop-up in this module, specify the url for the pop-up; the pop-up window height and width in pixels.

Item ID Options: The Itemid 是Joomla用来决定哪些模块和模板需要出现在页面上的. 该选项为您提供了一种将itemID分配给 module，以便在MainContent中显示其他模块  

Template Options 为您提供静态和动态过滤，以对其进行样式设置，并在 Static and Dynamic raw templates:

To see the 静态和动态模板命令的语法，鼠标移到它们上面.
for the 静态行模板(比较简单)可以使用
%s – if you need to add a section,
%c – category,
%d – date,
%a – author,
%t – title,
%h – hits,
%i – intro text,
%f – full text
%m – read more
Etc
In order to reset the default templates, 只需清除所有字段并保存更改, the next time you open it, the default ones will be there.

Integration Options 像准备内容插件应该启用准备插件支持，例如.g. if you use BK-Multithumb

Advanced Options 

• Module Class Suffix Apply a CSS suffix to the module
• Caching. Use Global/No Caching. Whether or not to cache the content of this Module. A setting of "Use Global" will use the Cache Settings from the Global Configuration screen.
• Cache Time. The length of time, in minutes, before the Module is re-cached.

Under Menu Assignment -> Menu Selection select the pages you want to the module to appear on. Make sure that the module status is set to Published and click Save.

下面有一些示例，说明内容项在其中的外观 module:

Support for the Display News Module is provided at http://joomla.rjews.net/forum.

请随时查看下面的详细视频教程:

Joomla. How to work with Display News module