EasyLayouts 1.6.0

EasyLayouts works with your Joomla content, custom fields, contact forms, menus and modules and allows you to create beautifully formatted content layouts and custom contact forms using a simple drag and drop interface. Control the presentation of your Joomla custom fields with ease - custom fields are no longer limited to being displayed as a list after the title or the end of your article. Add a filter module to your site to filter your content items allowing you to filter based on custom field value, tags, categories etc. As a bonus EasyLayouts comes with some extra custom fields to extend the ones available in Joomla so you can use fields for related articles, youtube/vimeo videos, slideshows, file downloder. More custom fields are being added all the time. EasyLayouts is compatible with most site templates and allows you to create template overrides with no coding! You can think of EasyLayouts as a Page Builder for your content - use Joomla content, custom fields, modules and menus but control the presentation of your content with EasyLayouts, so you have the layout flexibility of a Page Builder whilst using Joomla core content and modules.

Customise Your Content Layouts​

• Create layouts for all your content views - single article, category blog, category list, featured articles. article modules.
• Full control over the placement of your custom fields in your articles, blogs and lists
• No coding necessary (template overrides with no PHP!).
• Create layouts that are category and language specific.
• Select custom field based columns in your category list view
• Blog/Featured article entries can be formatted based on their category
• Customise the layout of your intro items and list items in blog views differently if you want - again these can vary by category and language
• The dynamic Float Layout allows you to transform your blog views dynamically fetching new articles as you scroll down the page

Conditional Field Output​

• EasyLayouts 1.1.0 introduced conditional field display - so now you can choose to display your custom fields only if other custom fields satisfy special criteria you design

Create custom contact forms​

• With EasyLayouts you can now design custom contact forms using the core Joomla contact component and contact custom fields.
• No need to install a separate form designer - use core Joomla with beautiful forms designed using EasyLayouts
• Use the new conditional field output to create conditional form field questions e.g. "Any special dietary requirement?" would open a new input box if the visitor answers 'yes'

Extra Custom Fields to Enhance Your Site​

• Related Articles - this custom field allows you to link your articles together e.g. link recipes to chefs with 2 way linkage
• Video (YouTube/Vimeo) - incorporate youtube videos or vimeo videos as custom fields with in your articles
• Add slideshow to Joomla image list field - enhance the output of image list custom fields by presenting the image list as a slideshow
  • and more custom fields being added all the time
• The EasyLayouts ImageList custom fieldallows you to upload images to your image list/slide show when you create or edit and article - you can even make these uploads specific to the article being edited to avoid clashes between multiple images with the same name. This image list field remembers the order you upload images to reuse this when the slideshow is displayes
  • Make your articles into a download manager withe the EasyLayouts Download file custom field - upload a file when you create or edit your article and set its access level so that you can control who can download your file.

Filter your Menus and Modules​

Add powerful filtering of content to your site by filtering your menu items or by adding one or more filter modules
- Filter the list of articles to be displayed in your menu items - filter based on combinations of custom field values
- Add a filter module to filter the articles based on custom field values with sophisticated logic
- The filter module is controlled by the layout editor and allows you to choose which filters to include in the module and how the filter module is presented - no template overrides or coding needed
- The filter module that works with core Joomla menu item types - no need to use a separate component, filter your com_content menu items.
Allows you to create sophisticated websites where your content is filtered by custom field values.

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