Just Joomla!Extensions are not always necessary!

Sigrid Gramlinger

Sigrid Gramlinger

First Joomla! website in 2005/2006

JUG Vienna 01/2015

JoomlaDay Austria

Sessions on „Just Joomla!“ on JDDE and JDAT

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Just

Using only few extensions

Overrides, Overrides, Overrides,…

Be creative

• What is the client‘s focus?

• What is the structure – requirements?

• Where are similar functions?

• What are common use cases?

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Seminar calendar

• Seminar• Title of the Seminar

• Date and Time

• Trainer

• Description

• Image

• Search form

• Sorting

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• Joomla Content Article• Article title

• Created date

• Created by Alias

• Content/Description

• Full Article Image

• Author filter

• Table filter

Seminar calendar

• Category: „Seminars“

• Articles: 3 items

• Menu item: Type: Articles – Category list

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• Language overrides

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Seminar calendar

• Module: „Articles – Category“

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Seminar calendar

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Seminar calendar

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The Safe Way to Load Custom CSS in Protostar Template

https://extensions.joomla.org/blog/item/load-custom-css-in-protostar-the-default-

joomla-template

Seminar calendar

• Module „Articles - Related“

• Meta keywords in content articles

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• Another interesting seminar for you…

Seminar calendar – Meta Keywords

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First aid

Communication

General Management

management

health

management

communication

Seminar calendar

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More ideas for seminar calendar

• Link trainers in list of seminars

• Show trainer details in frontend

• Show seminars for each trainer

• Add seminars by trainers in FE

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Users vs. Contacts

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Joomla! Users

• Access rights

• User Groups

• Login for FE

• Register

• No FE list, only module

• Maintainance through user

• User Profile

Joomla! Contacts

• Content elements

• Categories

• No FE-login

• No FE create

• Different Lists

• Maintainance through BE

• Contact form

Users vs Contacts

Connection is possible

But no synchronisation

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Link to Trainers

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Link to Trainers

1. Auto-create trainer (=contact) with user

2. Activate link to trainers (=authors)

3. Show seminars (=articles) for each trainer

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Link to Trainers

Plugin –„User – Contact Creator“

enable

Auto-create contacts when creating users

• Option: „Automatically Publish the Contact“ YES

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Link toTrainersContent > Articles>> Options

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Link toTrainersComponents > Contacts>> Options

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User Plugins

Plugin – „User – Profiles“

enable

• Decide which fields to use,

• disable others or

• rename with language overrides, for example:„Address 2“ Company/Organisation

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Result

What we have now

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Trainer Login

Menu Type „Users“• Registration Form (Access: Guest)

• Login Form (Access: Guest)

• User Profile (Access : Registered)

• Logout (Access : Registered)

Module (nice to have)• User – Login

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Show when not logged in

Show whenlogged in

Create new seminars in FE

Menu Type „Create Article“• Access: Author

• Default Category: „Seminars“

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Easy editing seminars

• Template Override for FE edit form

• Session by Sander Potjer and Joomla Magazin Article:

• http://magazine.joomla.org/issues/issue-sept-2014/item/2293-creating-an-article-in-joomla-has-never-been-this-easy

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Custom Fields J3.7

• In version 3.7

• Custom Fields

• Images for trainers

• Member Site Digital Peak Blog

https://joomla.digital-peak.com/blog/204-member-site-with-joomla-core-and-dpfields-only

Another idea for events

• Instead of authors/contacts location

• Meta keywords (related articles) location

• Show events at the same location

• For each location one user and one contact (address!)

• Link from article

• Show articles per location (=author)

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Thank you!

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Questions and contact:Email: gramlinger@webgras:atTwitter: @sgramlinger