No date in Joomla Blog mode

The template does not show article creation date in blog mode. I have checked the article global setting, menu setting, and individual article settings making sure 'create date' is set to show.

While the actual article shows date on the top, no date is shown in the blog mode. This is very important for a news site.

Please note I am not using K2 articles; only Joomla articles.

Thanks for your help in resolving this issue.

No one from the Gavick team?

Hi

Please try to change the name of /html/com_content to /html/_com_content .
Let me know if date was displayed. If not than it's a matter of settings.

Just for info i can see dates just fine using quickinstall , default categories and articles.

If you have created new categories and a menu item, perhaps check menu item options ?

Teitbite, thank you for your response. Yes changing the name from /html/com_content to /html/_com_content resolved the proble. Now I can see the date in blog mode.

As an added bonus, it also resolved another one of my problem that I was about to post in this forum. For the life of me, I could not change the number of columns in blog mode. It was stuck at one column no matter what I typed in the number of columns setting.

By renaming the folder as above, it also resolved this issue. So a double thank to you Teitbite.

There is only one other issue that I would like to address is the font in the blog mode is SO big that if you set it up for anything other than a single column, the heading itself takes 4-5 lines and looks very ugly.

There is already a thread on it by me and some other person and if you could suggest some way to change the size of font in blog mode, or even change the font entirely for heading, I'd be a happy camper.

Thanks again.

Hi

Please show me an exact page where this header is.

Changing the name to _com_content means that You are using a standard joomla page now. The previous one was designed by us and this not necessarly has to use all standard joomla functionality.

Teitbite, the site is online now. (www.patnadaily.com). On localhost your suggestion worked fine. Should I do the same on the live site? I really don't understand what you meant above when you said:

"Changing the name to _com_content means that You are using a standard joomla page now. The previous one was designed by us and this not necessarly has to use all standard joomla functionality."

Thanks for your help.

Just to give you few heads up, this is how templates works with components and modules etc.

If you look into "templatesgk_twn2html" you will see folders which are copy version of some of the components and modules or few files which are in "joomla site rootcomponents" and "joomla site rootmodules"

For an example
when K2 is loading by default it looks first into
"templatesgk_twn2htmlcom_k2" for custom styles, if found, it loads this style. if not >
"componentscom_k2templatesdefault" it loads default k2 styling...

So when you rename /html/com_content > /html/_com_content, Component which is Com Content cannot find custom style therefore it loads default style which works.
So if default style works for you and you like it, you can do the same on your live website and delete the custom style if you like, if you want to use the custom style then you have to find the error or problematic code...
So by renaming the folder you found out the cause of error is custom style and now need to look deeper to find the error basically.

Thanks for the pointer, Norman. I had to revert /html/_com_content back to /html/com_content for font-size issued discussed here at 134-joomla-17/91820-upper-case-in-title.html#93087. Now I have lost the date in blog mode again. Would like to fix this problem/bug.

I know it's asking for too much but if you wish, I would send you the backend login for you to take a look at it.

Thanks again.

Hi

You can send FTP access to me. I'll try to copy the code showing date from the joomla files to ours code.

Sent you FTP info to your personal email. Thanks.

Hi

Sorry I didn't get anything, can You please try one more time ?

Hi, I am having the same issue as this, except my articles are in K2. Here is my website: http://bit.ly/xeol88 . teitbite, do you now have instructions that you can give the rest of us?

Hi

Ok. This is just wrong Mail, PM and now in the forum

The issue was reported to programmers. So it should be fixed already. Please try update the ttemplate. If this won't work, than let me know and I'll think of something.