[#30151] - [4.0] Blog Layout - Columns Missing
- Closed
- 21 Jul 2020
- Medium
- Build: Joomla_4.0.0-beta3
- # 30151
New to "Issue Tracker" so not sure if this has been spotted (surely it has)
Steps to reproduce the issue
Trying to set Blog Layout Column number (either via menu of Article Global Options) there is no field for number of columns. But it does list in Help.
Expected result
Either via menu or Articles options, there is should be a field to select number of columns for Blog Layout.
Actual result
No field, but there is a spacer (page source)
System information (as much as possible)
PHP Version 7.3.20
Web Server LiteSpeed
Chrome and Opera
Additional comments
See screen Grab
joomla-cms-bot
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| Status | New | ⇒ | Closed |
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| Closed_By | ⇒ | SharkyKZ |
As I said it is very confusing
Looking at the Cassiopea css IN the PR, I see some stuff like
blog-items.columns-2
or
.blog-items.masonry-2
Are these classes to enter in the field?
Why can't we have a dropdown of the possible classes to use per template?
Is it only this?
Why can't we have a dropdown of the possible classes to use per template?
Because it should be possible to use any classes you want.
Is it only this?
Yes, this should work.
Yep works.
Should be able to set it globally (not just via menu each time).IMHO
No hint whatsoever of what to do...
Bye Bye non specialists...
@infograf768 ... that is what I am getting at. Needs to be easy and intuitive nowadays or you lose uptake as they look to other CMS.
One possible solution to be of help to users: the usable classes should be added BY the template provider in a way or another, including Cassiopea, so that we get a dropdown with classes possible per template present (with separations per template as we get for modules positions).
Possibility should be added indeed to enter a custom class.
This is why we have had a release blocker issue for this for a very long time. Sadly no one has really looked at anything to do with the front end of joomla
The frontend template has not had the TLC it deserves, thats why a working group was established last week to have a contemporary cassiopeia at release of J4.
Areas of attention
- design
- documentation
- backward compatibility
- functionality
- acessibility
- layouts & overwrites
- performance
- misc
The working group is looking for contributors, starting with a teamlead
Confirmed. Looking at it now.