Hi there!

Thanks for reaching out.

You can create your custom header based on one of existing and make all that you want by editing header.php. Update will not affect your changes here. You will find related documentation here:

https://www.joomshaper.com/documentation/helix-framework/custom-header

Best Regards

That's great - many thanks for this info that's really helpful for headers.

Any ideas regarding items in the /html folder as often we need to make changes and tweaks to page layouts etc here. It would be great to figure out a way to do this without them being overridden or having to create backup files to re-instate when an update happens.

Hello Pavel,

I am dealing with an override challenge on my project, and I beleive the link above points me to the right direction. The problem is that I am not a devloper, I am just de designer with basic PHP knowledge. :-)

What I am trying to do — acttually my developer is — is to create an override for the following view and layout:

option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog

We crated the override on the default HTML folder

/templates/shaper_helixultimate/html/com_content/category/blog-news.php

And applyed the blog-news layout to the News category, but it just doesn't work on the front end of the site. To make sure I understood the process, is this waht I shoud do:

1. Create the folder:

templates/shaper_helixultimate/overrides/com_content/category

2. Make a copy and rename the original blog.php inside that folder and make all the edits.

I need to rename because I'll have more than one overrides created, one for each category on the site.

Is this how I should proceed, or to achieve what I need the process would be different.

I hope I could express myself correctly.

UPDATE

I found how to create a blog layout override, informing that I must create a new menu item, what I did. But now that brings to another question:

No matter what I do, I can't make the layout of the page respect the configurations I set in the menu. For instance, on the Blog Layout options I have set

/# Intro Articles - 3

/# Columns - 3

But on the front of the site, it show only one column.

Any clues on this?

Thanks in advance,

Diego

Hi Diego.

In general, your question relates to Joomla but not Joomshaper products. The best place for such questions is forum.joomla.org.

I believe that the reason may be in improperly done override or in the content of one of the articles there is a garbage code or not closed tag, or in some other mistake. Without access to your site and research - this is not possible to determine.

Advice. Use an override only if there is no CSS solution. Usually CSS allows you to solve 95% tasks.

You can use these class fields to make unique layout via CSS.

Draw schematically the layout that you need and I can see if an override is required for this.

I am not an employee of support, so provide your drawing publicly.

Hi Diego.

I assume that this does not work in Helix due to the existing override of the category blog from the box. Cassiopea does not have this override, so it works there.

You need to create a new menu item with your unique type, but not Category Blog type. Read Joomla docs.

For example: News Custom menu item type.

This type of menu item should appear here and should refer to your custom layout php files set

Another moment. Just renaming the files is not enough, you need to change their "names" (templates load) inside the code.

And in other similar places. All your files in the set should be connected in the code with each other

If you have done all this that way, I no longer have ideas how to help you without access to the site.

P.S. I think you should create a new topic.

Nevertheless, draw your layout there, schematically. The last time I did an override of the category blog three years ago. And only because there was no idea how to do it through CSS. Looking back, I found CSS a solution for that case. Override was not required.

Hi Pavel.

My guess is the same as yours, that the alternae layout isn't working because of Helix's existing override of the category blog.

I believe I renamed all the files accordingly. This is what I have:

• aw-news.php
• aw-news.xml
• aw-news_children.php
• aw-news_item.php
• aw-news_links.php

For my basic standard content areas, like this one that isjust for news, I supose CSS would be enough, but I need to trim the introductory text at 200 charcaters maximum, maybe through some custom JavaScript.

But for some other content catgories I need to show custom field on the blog view and, for this I believe I need the overrider, correct? Or is there any other way to achieve this.

For instance, I have a category that is a repository of PDF newsletters. On the category view I want to have a table listing all published issues of the newsletter showing the following information:

Stadard Fields

• Title
• Intro Text
• Date Published

Custom Fields

• Issue Number
• PDF Link

And I have a few other content categories similar to this one.

Thanks a lot! Diego

Hi Diego.

but I need to trim the introductory text at 200 charcaters maximum, maybe through some custom JavaScript

You can use JS, but not necessarily. CSS would be enough if you are not attached to the number of characters, but attached to the size of the intro text block or to the number of intro text lines. What, in my opinion, looks stiffly better than the number of characters.

But for some other content catgories I need to show custom field on the blog view and, for this I believe I need the overrider, correct? Or is there any other way to achieve this.

Select the necessary categories to display custom fields in each custom field settings. Or if you need the custom fields in all categories, but you will display them only in separate ones, then again CSS will be enough.