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Joomla Custom Category Blog

I'm working in my own template using Joomla 3.3 and I've created a custom category blog in my template

mytemplate\html\com_content\category

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what I need is to have multiple custom category blog in my template. and I can select from menu manger the type of category blog template.

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How to accomplish this??

Solution

  • I've solved this issue by a workaround.

    In mytemplate\html\com_content\category/blog.php

    I've added some conditional statements like;

    if($this->pageclass_sufx=='x')

    echo $this->loadTemplate('item');//which is acts as blog_item.php elseif($this->pageclass_sufx=='y') echo $this->loadTemplate('custom');//which is acts as blog_custom.php that I'vecreated

    And in menu manager for the category item I add page class suffex 'x' or 'y'