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How to modify the appearance of the Category List page without having modifications done to the Joomla! Core Code
Since Joomla! 1.5 this feature has been made available.
Answer:
STEP 1
Via FTP copy the following file (default_items.php ) from your Joomla! 1.5 installation files to your local machine.
Path to default_items.php
ROOT_PATH/components/com_content/views/category/tmpl/default_items.php
NOTE: For FTP use your favorite FTP client eg. FileZilla
STEP 2
Open the file and edit it as you want the Category List page to look!
I wanted to remove the numbering and replace the numbers with Bullets. I openedthe file and replaced line 70 <?php echo $this->pagination->getRowOffset( $item->count ); ?> with <?php echo ‘& bull;’; ?> NB: no space between & and bull
STEP 3
Save the file
STEP 4
Again access your Joomla! site via FTP and locate your template directory and open it.
eg. ROOT_PATH/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/
STEP 5
Create an “html” folder within your template directory and within your html folderanother folder with name “com_content” and within com_content another folderwith name “category”
Now your folder structure should look like this: ROOT_PATH/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/html/com_content/category
STEP 6
Copy your edited default_items.php file to ROOT_PATH/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/html/com_content/category
STEP 7
Open your web page and your customized changes will show.
NOTE:
- Only Joomla! 1.5 supports this feature.
- If you select another template the default Joomla! core pages will show
- For more information on this feature visit: http://docs.joomla.org/Tutorial_talk:Template_overrides