RokNewsPager is an article previewer and rotator. It displays content articles, in a summarised form and, using mootools based javascript transition, rotates through a series of pages displaying articles in a contracted list format.

RokNewsPager allows you to display a large number of news items and links in a small compact area via its paging functionality and includes a multitude of configuration options and parameters to customize how your news is displayed.

RokModule needs to be installed if you are using this module within Joomla 1.5.x

• Javascript Transitions: using the power of mootools, the module fades between lists of your content articles
• Previews: set the number of characters you wish to display from your articles
• Section Control: choose all articles, or those from particular sections or categories
• Auto Update: select whether the module auto-updates using AJAX
• K2 Support: Fully compatible with the powerful content constructive component K2.

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Options available at Admin → Extensions → Module Manager → RokNewsPager Module:

Other

• Load built-in StyleSheet: Disable if you wish to override the standalone style by custom template styling.
• Theme Style: Light and Dark.
• Content Type: Joomla Core Content or K2 Content (Requires K2 to be installed).
• Module Class Suffix: Add a custom class for individual styling

Joomla Core Content

• Joomla Section: Section to load tabbed content from.
• Joomla Category: Category to load tabbed content from.
• Joomla Frontpage Items: Determine whether frontpage content is loaded.

Content Parameters

• Count: Insert a numerical value of the number of articles you wish to appear.
• Enable Accordion Effect: Enable the accordion module, versus standard list style.
• Enable Paging: Display several pages if articles exceed count value.
• Max Pages: Determine the maximum number of pages
• Show Title: Control whether to show the article title inside the previewed content.
• Show Thumbnails: Control whether to show the article image inside the preview content.
• Width of thumbnail (px): Set the pixel width of any thumbnails.
• Use Thumbnail as link: Determine whether the image becomes a link to the full article.
• Show Thumbnail Overlay: Control whether the thumb overlay appears.
• Overlay File: Load which file appears as the overlay over the thumbnails.
• Show Item Ratings: Control whether to display article rating.
• Show Readmore Link: Determine whether to show a Read More inside the preview content.
• Read More Text: Insert the text that you wish to appear on the Read More.
• Item Ordering: Control tab ordering — Default, Oldest First, Most Recent First, Title Alphabetical, Title Reverse-Alphabetical & Order.
• Show Preview Text: Control whether the preview text is shown.
• Allowed HTML tags: Insert all HTML tags, separate by a comma, which you wish to remain intact in the snippet.
• Preview Length: Input a numerical value which equates to how many characters you wish for the module to show.
• Show Comment Count: Determine whether to show the number of comments for the article.
• Show Author: Control whether to show the article author.
• Show Published Date: Control whether to show the article publishing date.
• Auto Update: Determine whether articles load automatically.
• Auto Update Delay (ms): Set delay for automatic loading in milliseconds.

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RokGallery is a ground-up revolutionary gallery extension, developed to be hugely flexible, customizable and thus extendable far into the future.

The system itself is built on a custom tag-based architecture with the ability to have multiple tag-based galleries. RokGallery uses design and concepts that have been traditionally reserved for platform-native applications and are for the first time making their way into a web environment. For example, you will not have to resize images, or make thumbs before using them in RokGallery, just upload the raw image and use the RokGallery slice editor to resize and crop the images. This non-destructive editing method allows you to create and edit your image size, cropped view, etc, at any point without having to reupload or recreate your image in external photo editing software.

Other features include an all-new multi-file image upload mechanism that incorporates the latest HTML5 drag-and-drop upload functionality, but can also fall back to Flash if your browser doesn’t yet support this feature. Compound filtering can be used to isolate specific images you are looking for and a sophisticated Jobs Manager handles processes like image resizing in the background so you can get on with your work without having to wait for time-consuming image computations to complete.

Access the RokGallery Component at Admin → Components → RokGallery

This section is an introduction to the general interface of RokGallery, specific instructions on the functions, such as filtering, will be explained below.

#3/4 Filters

The filters have a range of variables such as gallery, file type, published etc... to allow you to sort your images for management in an efficient and simple manner. Statistics for the filters appear at #4.

RokGallery uses a HTMl5 file uploader, or Flash for unsupported browsers.

• Go to Admin → Components → RokGallery
• Click the Upload button
• Either Drag and Drop the files, or click Browse and find
• Click Upload
• Monitor progress
• Click Close once completed

All photos will appear at Admin → Components → RokGallery. RokGallery has support for multiple image selection, either by drag and highlight with the cursor, or via individual selection with the Shift Key and click.

Jobs Manager

The Jobs Manager provides you a log of operations undergoing or undergone in RokGallery. You can view:

• Import status, with time stamps
• Slice status, with time stamps
• Clear all Jobs
• Delete individual Jobs via the trash icon
• Refresh individuals Jobs via the reload icon

RokGallery is a tagged based gallery component, therefore, Galleries are controlled by tags and not specific photos in albums. Subsequently, you can easily have one master photo in multiple albums with ease.

A single image can appear in numerous galleries based on its tag, and also can be different sizes based on the gallery settings, without editing the original image.

• Dropdown: To create a new Gallery, select Create New, or the name of another Gallery to edit it
• Name: Set the name of the Gallery
• Tags: Set the tags that are associated with the gallery (separate via a comma)
• Images: Set the maximum height and width of the full image
• Thumbnails Size: Set the height and width of the thumbnails
• Background Color: Set the background color for the thumbnail surround
• Aspect Ratio: Check if you wish to keep the dimensions of the image intact, or cropped.

Remember to Publish a Gallery after clicking Save. If you make any changes to a Gallery, whether in the Galleries Manager, or in the Image Slice Editor, you will need to re-Save in the Galleries Manager for the changes to take place on the site.

RokGallery has a very advanced image editor, akin to a native application. The various parts will be discussed below.

After selecting the edit button, you will be able to edit the META data of the image, the image itself, plus delete or publish the image.

• Title: The name of the image file to be displayed on the frontend gallery
• Slug: The individual identifier for an image (we recommend not to change)
• Description: The description of the image file shown on the frontend gallery
• Tags: Add the tags that you wish to associate with the image
• Slicing: Edit the image
• Publish:Show or Hide an image for specific tags/galleries.

In the Slice Editor, you can edit the META data and the actual image. You can crop the image, similar to that of an native application, with a set or variable marquee, in addition to Zoom controls. Edits in the Slice Editor are on a per gallery/tag basis.

The original image that was uploaded is maintained, as a new image is created after applying the crop. This can be reverted at any time from the Slice Editor.

Additionally, you can also Share the slice via the Share button, or Delete the image via the Delete button, from the Image Editor:

Tagging is at the core of RokGallery, and with its multi-selection ability, you can easily manage tags across multiple images with great ease. Simply highlight several images and click Tags. Here, you can add, remove, or change any common tags applied to your selection.

If you wanted to quickly move several images to another gallery, simply change their tag.

A system based on tagging needs an advanced search facility, so RokGallery employs a simple but powerful filtering mechanism:

Filters are not singular and can be applied cumulatively:

Access the Style Control settings from Admin → Extensions → Template Manager → rt_camber_j15 → Settings.

Simple configure the options, then save and Gantry will automatically load the modified preset to your site.

Color Chooser Settings

A Color Chooser template uses CSS color values, combined with transparent overlay images, to determine its color and style. Therefore, you can change the entire color scheme via the Gantry Administrator. The available options are outlined below:

• Background: Background, Overlay (Light/Dark), Pattern, Text, Link & Accent
• Top: Background, Overlay (Light/Dark), Width (Full/Wrapper), Text, Link & Accent
• Body: Background, Overlay (Light/Dark), Width (Full/Wrapper), Text, Link & Accent
• Footer: Background, Overlay (Light/Dark), Width (Full/Wrapper), Text, Link & Accent

Other Style Settings

• Load Transition: On - Off; Enable or disable the page loading transition animation effects
• Fixed Header: On - Off; Enable or Disable a fixed floating header section.
• Read More Style: Button and Link; Set the read more link styling for the template
• Web Fonts: On - Off, Google Font Directory; WebFonts allow you to use 3rd party WebFonts from providers such as Google. You must SHOW then APPLY before the new fonts will show up in the Font Family dropdown.
• Font Settings: Select a font family from the available options and also choose a default font size
  • Font Family: Camber, Geneva, Optima, Helvetica, Trebuchet, Lucida, Georgia, Palatino, or Various Google Fonts (dropdown)
  • Font Size: Default, Extra Large, Large, Small, Extra Small (dropdown)

 

With Gantry, the ability to assign a certain style to an individual page has never been easier and/or more efficient. Just follow these simple steps:

• Go to Extensions → Template Manager → rt_camber_j15
• Select the Menu Items tab - located in the right column of the page in the orange box
• Choose a menu item you wish to assign a different style to
• Select your preset of choice from the Presets → Style Presets parameter area
• Configure the Settings area to your personal preferences
• Save

Gantry Framework: Per Menu Item Controls