Hello Jeanette,

Thank you for reaching out to us.

In Joomla, when you create a Category Blog menu item (Articles → Category → Blog), the layout and structure—such as Leading Articles, Intro Articles, and Columns—are controlled by Joomla’s menu item settings, not by the template itself.

To change the blog display, please follow these steps:

1. Go to Menus → Your Menu → Edit the Category Blog menu item
2. Open the Blog Layout tab
3. Adjust the following options as needed: • # Leading Articles • # Intro Articles • # Columns • # Links
4. Save the menu item and refresh the page

Please note that Helix Ultimate applies styling to Joomla’s core blog layout, but it does not override Joomla’s blog structure logic. Any structural changes (number of articles, columns, etc.) must be done via the menu item configuration.

If you want a completely custom blog design, you can: • Use SP Page Builder to create a custom blog layout: Check this documentation: https://www.joomshaper.com/documentation/sp-page-builder/articles • Or create a template override for the category blog layout Check this:

1. https://www.joomshaper.com/documentation/helix-framework/template-views-override

If you are not a developer, we will suggest to hire a developer to implement this feature.

Best regards,

Hi and thanks for getting back to me.

I have made many menus before but as mentioned i am not able to change anything regarding the layout when i use this template.

I have just created a new category blog menu item. In the blog layout i have 0 leading articles and 6 intro articles, 3 columns

I refresh the page and it still shows only 2 columns and 3 articles (i have more). It also displays the same layout as on the frontpage. Also it dont shows the articles according to the selected category.

Honestly, i have done this so many times before and now i dont understand a s.. of whats happening (excuse my french) I dont get what i am doing wrong or whats going on.

Please have a look. Here is the menu https://vatnamo.no/nrf/index.php/testing-blog

Could you please share temporary administrator access to your Joomla backend? You can provide the credentials securely in the hidden content section. Also, please take a full backup of your site before we make any changes.

Once I have access, I’ll investigate further and see what’s causing the issue. Let me know once you’ve shared the details!

Best regards,

Thank you, i appreciate your help. Check the hidden content.

I can see that you have created a Dynamic Content Article Index page using SP Page Builder. Because of this, SP Page Builder is overriding Joomla’s default Category Blog layout.

That is why you are not seeing the expected behavior when creating a Category Blog menu item—the layout and settings from Joomla are being overrided by the SP Page Builder article index page layout design.

Thanks

Hi, No i have not created a dynamic content article index page using page builder. I have created 4 articles in joomla (not using pagebuilder). I have created a menu item using Article, category blog

You must have checked something else. Please see the menu Testing blog and also check the 4 articles called test 1 test 2 and so on.

Hello,

If you have created an Article Index page using Dynamic Content, it will override your default blog layout.

However, you can still create a new blog page using normal SP Page Builder pages, Follow these steps:

1. Create new page
2. Add the Collections addon to the page.
3. Set the source to your Articles.
4. Customize the design of your new blog page according to your needs.
5. Now, In menu create new menu and select this sp page for this menu.

For design, you may check this documentation (Just follow design and setup inner addon part): https://www.joomshaper.com/documentation/sp-page-builder/creating-an-article-index-page

This way, you can have a separate, fully customizable blog layout without affecting your existing Dynamic Content Article index page.

Thanks,

Hi again Ziaul,

Seems there is a lot of issues with this way of presenting a blog:

1. If i create a blog like explained and i have an news article without an image, the presentation of the news looks bad. Even though there are no image, the presentation presents like there is an image and the text are placed below the "image that are not there". (sorry my explanation, but hope you understand)
2. When i add a hyperlink in the text, a detail page opens instead of opening the hyperlink.
3. Even if there are only an introtext and no full text the display shows "read more".

I find it quite hopless that if you have a blog presentation on the frontpage (like this template) that this totally interferes with the rest of the joomla system meaning you cannot use normal article blog presentation.

Please let me know how to fix this. Hope you can do this a bit quick cause i need to present the project design to my client in two days.

Hello Jeanette,

You can use the normal Joomla blog layout. To do this, you need to remove your current article index page.

If you keep using it, the Justice template layout will override the default Joomla blog layout. This is normal behavior.

Please let me know if you need any further help.

Thanks.

I am taking a backup of your site and will test it on my local environment.

Please allow us some time to check this.

Thanks.

Please, check now: https://vatnamo.no/nrf/nytt Issues was in this menu settings, It would be Accross.

Thanks

Ahhh, thank you. That was easy.