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How to add Intro Text to Category pages?

Asked by Sean Carney 3 years ago Last activity 3 years ago

I am using the Gazette template and love the flexibility of the layouts. I am wondering though if there is a way to add some introtext to the image layouts.

Here is an example of and image layout:

https://test1.theraliv.org/jewish-life/holy-days-videos/

On this page in the main component area there is: Image, Title, An Empty line and the Date created.

I would to place some introtext in the space empty space. How might that be done. Do you have a way, or a recommendation?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/19NYZwqtrRJnkysipK2qwiCI9I1St_nPQ/view?usp=share_link

Thank you, Sean Carney

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Paul Frankowski Senior Staff
3 years ago · edited

Indeed my mistake, I thought about category intro, not article intro.

Fixed, but I had to edit that file:


templates/shaper_gazette/html/com_content/category/blog_item.php

to add missing introtext code.

Now It display intro text above read more red line! So you have to always put

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Paul Frankowski Senior Staff
3 years ago

Hi Sean,

I will check, thx for access.

Paul Frankowski Senior Staff
3 years ago

You forgot to enable showing category description in Menu item settings. That's all. Now you can edit category "Holy Days" description and edit & add more text inside.

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and my role ends here.

Sean Carney Asked this
3 years ago

Thank you for your reply. As always I appreciate your time.

You just showed me how to turn on the category description and image which is useful but not quite what I am trying to accomplish. If you look at the image that I included: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19NYZwqtrRJnkysipK2qwiCI9I1St_nPQ/view?usp=share_link

You will see an article at the top titled "First Jewish - Roman War"
In the image, I added in bold text the words "How to place introtext in this space?". I would like to display introtext for each of the articles.

Is this possible with any of the settings or does this require modifying some css?

Thank you very much again.

Sean

Sean Carney Asked this
3 years ago

Thank you very much. That is great. Is there any way that I can also trucate that text? Is that an option somehow built in? Or do we have to control our characters in the intro text?

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