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The Featured Albums module for Exposé is a Joomla! extension which allows you to specify collections, albums and files (photos/videos) to be displayed in the module. This module allows the users to showcase specific media and has a rich feature set allowing the user to customize and control exactly the type of content to display.
Features
- Publish in any module position (module class suffix may be applied as necessary)
- Easily customize using pre-existing CSS tags
- Specify ItemID for the target of links/thumbnails
- Individually toggle display of collections, albums and files (photos/videos)
- Control display parameters for collections as follows:
- Toggle heading display
- Specify heading text
- Specify collection IDs (comma-seperated list)
- Toggle display of item title (link)
- Toggle display of item thumbnail
- Control display parameters for albums as follows:
- Toggle heading display
- Specify heading text
- Specify album by IDs (comma-seperated list)
- Toggle display of item title (link)
- Toggle display of item thumbnail
- Autostart slideshow at file #1 when link/thumbnail is selected
- Control display parameters for files (photos/videos) as follows:
- Toggle heading display
- Specify heading text
- Specify file IDs (comma-seperated list in the following format: album ID-file ID; see parameters screenshot below)
- Toggle display of item title (link)
- Toggle display of item thumbnail
- Autostart slideshow when link/thumbnail is selected
Screenshots
 Parameters  Demo |
Installation
- Register and login using the form above. Subscribe to the 'Extensions Club for Exposé' and download mod_featured_media_x.x.zip.
- Login to the administrative backend of your Joomla! site. Choose 'Installers > Modules' from the main menu.
- Click the 'Browse' button, locate the mod_featured_media_x.x.zip file.
- Click the "Upload File & Install' button. If all goes well, you'll see the "
Upload module - Success" screen. Click 'Continue' to complete the installation.
- Select 'Modules > Site Modules' from the main menu. Locate 'Expose Featuredd Media' in the list. Publish this module.
- Click the module name to customize the paramaters as required. In particular, set the ItemID to match the ItemID of your expose menu item.
Common Customization
Modify the display of your media links and thumbnails by adding the
following to your template_css.css file (modify as necessary).
In the demo screenshot, a 74x56 pixel PNG8 image (image_overlay.png) was used as a background for the thumbnails. Subscribers can download a Photoshop file in the Exposé downloads area which can be customized for any template as required.
h4.featured_collection_title, h4.featured_albums_title, h4.featured_files_title {
text-transform: uppercase;
font-weight: normal;
margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
padding: 0px 0px 5px 0px;
}
.featured_collection_list, .featured_album_list, .featured_file_list {
list-style: none;
}
li.featured_collection_item, li.featured_album_item, li.featured_file_item {
text-align: center;
margin: 0px 0px 0px -10px;
}
div.featured_collection_thumb, div.featured_album_thumb, div.featured_item_thumb {
text-align: left
line-height: 54px;
height: 54px;
padding: 10px 0px 3px 1px;
background: transparent url(../images/image_overlay.png) no-repeat 34px 6px;
}
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at the left as appropriate.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 01 January 2008 )
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