By Brian Anderson on Saturday, 22 February 2014
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Hi,

I was wondering if I could get some advice on changing the format of the blog listings.

I am setting up a sports blog site, with categories NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, etc. , and I want it to look as closer to the attachment as possible. Maybe a little different.

An example is: http://sportsholla.com/nfl which I'm getting really close using News Show Pro, but for some reason, it's not creating 2 columns for the links below the main article. Another problem with NSP is that when you click on an article, it changes the nfl to the easblog menu alias like this: http://sportsholla.com/articles/cowboys-win-coin-flip-will-pick-16th-in-draft

What I want it to show is http://sportsholla.com/nfl/cowboys-win-coin-flip-will-pick-16th-in-draft (or whatever category the article is posted in.)

The category "NHL" is using the default category layout, and when you go to http://sportsholla.com/nhl and click on the article, it works perfectly like this http://sportsholla.com/nhl/buccaneers-reveal-new-helmet-logo-for-next-season which is what I want it to do for all categories, but it doesn't work with NSP. Is there any way to fix this, or better yet, modify the default layout for every category, so it looks like the attachment? This would be best, so I wouldn't have to do this for every category. There will be alot and it will be alot of work.

Also, I disabled the component through the template for the category NFL, but I still want it to display the Category header. Is it possible to display it in a custom module, or some other way to do it, like have it not display the blog listings, only the category header, then NSP module?

Thank you for any ideas or suggestions.

Brian Anderson
Hello Brian,

To be honest, I am not too sure why News Show Pro isn't displaying it in 2 columns but it's best that you contact the author of the module. However, from what I can see from the styling, you could probably fix it so that it runs in 2 columns using css. You can apply the css codes below to enforce 2 columns


.nspList
{
width: 100% !important;
}

.nspList li
{
display: inline-block;
width: 45%;
border: 0 !important;
}


However, again it's best to contact News Show Pro developers as the solution that I posted above might not be the best solution. As for the URL structure, I believe the module is actually retrieving the Itemid from EasyBlog rather than per-category view. I could apply some php hacks to the module so that it will respect the category if you want but I would need the back end and FTP access to the site
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