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27Mar2023

Tip: fixing an un-responsive layout in Latest News Enhanced for Joomla

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First published November 13, 2020
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Depending on the theme you have selected in Latest News Enhanced and when images are shown and large, you may encounter a rather annoying behavior: while resizing the container down (or when checking your pages on mobile) the text shrinks to an unreadable state. There is a simple solution to fix that.

Shrunk text in Latest News Enhanced

27Mar2023

Add a zoom effect to the slideshow smooth transitions

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First published March 20, 2019
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The Truly Responsive Slides extension has smooth transitions out-of-the-box when switching between slides. It is possible to add even more emphasis on those transitions by adding a zoom effect. This is what this short tutorial will demonstrate.

27Mar2023

Troubleshoot: title/picture/link disappears after a mouse over

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First published May 25, 2021
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You may find yourself in a situation where, while testing the set up of a Simplify Your Web extension (for instance), every single time you mouse over a title, an image or a link, that element disappears. What is happening here?

27Mar2023

Troubleshoot missing styles and scripts (access permissions errors)

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First published October 13, 2015
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Any Simplify Your Web extension that has an output display

After installing any of the Simplify Your Web extensions (or after moving the site to a different server with different settings), some users may experience issues with the extension's HTML output. No matter the setup, the output does not look anything like any of the demos or screenshots that the user has seen...

Feelings of disappointment occur (it should work from the start, right?). What is really happening?

This tutorial will help you diagnose the issue (or confirm it) and guide you to help you fix it.

27Mar2023

Adding third party custom field support to Trombinoscope Contacts Pro

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First published August 13, 2020
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In this tutorial, I will be showing you how you can add and use a third party custom field to better handle contact phone numbers. Trombinoscope Contacts Pro supports all standard custom fields out-of-the box and since version 4.2 you can also specify which third party fields you want to make available in your designs.

27Mar2023

Add your own information types in Latest News Enhanced Pro

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First published January 13, 2017
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It is possible to add custom information for each individual item in Latest News Enhanced Pro, on top of the detailed information you can already show.

In order to do that, we can take advantage of 2 of the hooks (events) available in the extension.

First, we need to be able to add the field type in the list of fields available for output and second, we need to set how the output will present itself for each item.

With this tutorial, you will be able to add:

  • a field type that can render an article or K2 item title,
  • a field type that outputs a link,
  • a field type that outputs the meta description of an article or K2 item, if available,
  • a field type that can query a database table for getting a specific value,
  • the Gravatar of the author (version for LNEP v4.6+ only).
  • New the length of a YouTube video when the head type is a YouTube video (version for LNEP v4.9+ only).

27Mar2023

Add your own information types in Article Details Profiles

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First published May 30, 2020
5768 hits - No rating

It is possible to add custom information for each individual article in Article Details Profiles, on top of the detailed information you can already show.

In order to do that, we can take advantage of 2 events that are available in the extension.

First, we need to be able to add the field type in the list of fields available for output and second, we need to set how the output will present itself for each article.

With this tutorial, you will be able to add:

  • a field type that outputs a link.

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This set of articles have been created in order to increase people's awareness about the Simplify Your Web products.
It is aiming to show how those products can be used and point out not-so-well-known functionality.