JExtBOX Article History Documentation

General Information

Description

This module shows collapsed and animated expandable list of articles by years and months.

Specifications

1. Category selection (multiple categories)
2. Year limit (custom limit or unlimited)
3. Collapsed and animated expandable list
4. Group by year and month or year only
5. Expand current year or current year and month
6. Length of title (0 for unlimited)
7. Order by created date (ascending or descending)
8. State selection (published only, archived only or both)
9. Skip checked out articles (yes or no)
10. Check access level (hide or show unauthorized links)
11. Uses jQuery library from Joomla 3
12. Multilingual ready
13. Conflict proof CSS class names and external CSS
14. Supports advanced parameters of modules

Changelog

1.0.0. Initial release.

2.0.0. 16 April 2014. Joomla 2.5 support has been ended. Group, expand, length parameters has been added. One bug has been removed. DOM and JS has been improved.

2.1.0. 10 April 2017. Joomla Update System support support. Module internal name was changed.

2.1.1. 23 May 2017. A bug at CSS file name was fixed.

Screenshots

Instruction and Note

Customization: CSS file saved in "modules/mod_jextbox_article_history/css/style.css" path. You can see CSS class name and DOM structure of this module from below example code.

<div class="jextbox-article-history">
  <p class="jextbox-article-history-heading"><a href="#">2014 (1)</a></p>
  <div class="jextbox-article-history-content jextbox-article-history-content-expand">
    <ul>
      <li>
        <a href="link-to-article" title="Long Title">Title (shortened) ..</a>
      </li>
    </ul>
  </div>
  <p class="jextbox-article-history-heading"><a href="#">2013 (1)</a></p>
  <div class="jextbox-article-history-content">
    <ul>
      <li>
        <a href="link-to-article" title="Short Title">Short Title</a>
      </li>
    </ul>
  </div>
</div>

Configuration:

Front-End: