RokNewsPager is an article previewer and rotator. It displays content articles, in a summarised form and, using mootools based javascript transition, rotates through a series of pages displaying articles in a contracted list format.

RokNewsPager allows you to display a large number of news items and links in a small compact area via its paging functionality and includes a multitude of configuration options and parameters to customize how your news is displayed.

RokModule needs to be installed if you are using this module within Joomla 1.5.x

Module Features

• Javascript Transitions: using the power of mootools, the module fades between lists of your content articles
• Previews: set the number of characters you wish to display from your articles
• Section Control: choose all articles, or those from particular sections or categories
• Auto Update: select whether the module auto-updates using AJAX
• K2 Support: Fully compatible with the powerful content constructive component K2.

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Module Configuration

Options available at Admin → Extensions → Module Manager → RokNewsPager Module:

Other

• Load built-in StyleSheet: Disable if you wish to override the standalone style by custom template styling.
• Theme Style: Light and Dark.
• Content Type: Joomla Core Content or K2 Content (Requires K2 to be installed).
• Module Class Suffix: Add a custom class for individual styling

Joomla Core Content

• Joomla Section: Section to load tabbed content from.
• Joomla Category: Category to load tabbed content from.
• Joomla Frontpage Items: Determine whether frontpage content is loaded.

Content Parameters

• Count: Insert a numerical value of the number of articles you wish to appear.
• Enable Accordion Effect: Enable the accordion module, versus standard list style.
• Enable Paging: Display several pages if articles exceed count value.
• Max Pages: Determine the maximum number of pages
• Show Title: Control whether to show the article title inside the previewed content.
• Show Thumbnails: Control whether to show the article image inside the preview content.
• Width of thumbnail (px): Set the pixel width of any thumbnails.
• Use Thumbnail as link: Determine whether the image becomes a link to the full article.
• Show Thumbnail Overlay: Control whether the thumb overlay appears.
• Overlay File: Load which file appears as the overlay over the thumbnails.
• Show Item Ratings: Control whether to display article rating.
• Show Readmore Link: Determine whether to show a Read More inside the preview content.
• Read More Text: Insert the text that you wish to appear on the Read More.
• Item Ordering: Control tab ordering — Default, Oldest First, Most Recent First, Title Alphabetical, Title Reverse-Alphabetical & Order.
• Show Preview Text: Control whether the preview text is shown.
• Allowed HTML tags: Insert all HTML tags, separate by a comma, which you wish to remain intact in the snippet.
• Preview Length: Input a numerical value which equates to how many characters you wish for the module to show.
• Show Comment Count: Determine whether to show the number of comments for the article.
• Show Author: Control whether to show the article author.
• Show Published Date: Control whether to show the article publishing date.
• Auto Update: Determine whether articles load automatically.
• Auto Update Delay (ms): Set delay for automatic loading in milliseconds.

RokStories is a great module to display your articles and accompanying images as a featured item. The module itself is facilitated by Mootools to transition between images and articles seamlessly. Perfect for showcasing featured articles or image on your site.

Module Features

• Content Transition: The module transitions through content items, whether they are full text, a single image or combination of both.
• Article Controls: Advanced selectors for content, choose from categories, sections and authors and control the order.
• Customisable Opacity: Thumbnails can be set from transparent to opaque
• Navigation Interactions: Parameters to set whether to change news by clicking or hovering over the thumbnails
• K2 Support: Fully compatible with the powerful content constructive component K2.
• Standalone Styling: Inbuilt theme allows the module to be used on any site.

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Module Configuration

Options available at Admin → Extensions → Module Manager → RokStories Module:

Other

• Module Class Suffix: Add a custom class for individual styling
• Load built-in StyleSheet: The module has inbuilt module styling so set this to Yes if you wish for it to work standalone. As we override this file from the template, you still need to set this to Yes for the styling to work.
• Layout Type: RokStories is built with 8 layout type: Default, Showcase, Compat Showcase, Compat Showcase with Numbers, Masked Showcase, Scroller, Scroller Showcase & Showcase Tabs.
• Content Type: Joomla Core Content or K2 Content (Requires K2 to be installed).

Joomla Core Content

• Joomla Section: Section to load tabbed content from.
• Joomla Category: Category to load tabbed content from.
• Joomla Frontpage Items: Determine whether frontpage content is loaded.

K2 Content

• K2 Category Filter: If you selected K2 Content as your content type, then this option allows you control whether to load your content from all K2 Categories or make a selection from a list.
• K2 Filter Items by Category: If you chose Select as your K2 Category Filter option, then this setting will become active in which you can select the categories you wish to load the module content from.
• K2 Featured Items: Select between Show or Hide depending on whether you wish for the Feature Items in K2 to appear in RokStories.
• Item Image Size: Specific the image size you wish to use from the K2 component. Either, XSmall, Small, Medium, Large or XLarge.

Content Parameters

• Max Number of Articles: Set a limiting value for the number of articles to publish in.
• Item Ordering: Control tab ordering — Default, Oldest First, Most Recent First, Title Alphabetical, Title Reverse-Alphabetical & Order.
• Allowed HTML Tags: The module automatically strips out all HTML tags and leaves just the content and the first image. This is to prevent the module from being distorted by incompatible HTML code. However, this option allows you to specify specific HTML tabs that will not be stripped, ideal if you still wish to add some diversity to your content. Simply insert the text of the tag, minus the < > elements, separated by commas such as a,i,br which will not strip all links, all italic text and line breaks.
• Content Position: Either Left or Right for the position of the text, the images will be placed on the opposite side. Also, there is an option for None if you wish to use RokStories as a slideshow, best with the Showcase layout type enabled.
• Show Title: Show or Hide the title being displayed from the content item.
• Show Date: Control whether the creation date of the content item appears in RokStories.
• Show Article: Set to Hide if you wish to display just the image and no text.
• Show Link: Select whether to show the Read More button or to hide it.
• Readon Style: Choose between Legacy and Standard. Use standard for newer templates.
• Width of thumbnail (px): Set, in pixels, the width of the thumbnails, only applicable to the Default layout type.
• Width of thumbnail display (px): Set, in pixels, the width of the large image, only applicable to the Default layout type.
• Author: This option allows you to select articles from a particular author.
• First Article: Control which content item appears first in RokStories, set the number of the article (its order number from the article manager).
• Thumb Opacity: Set the opacity of thumbnails, between 0 and 1. Only applicable to the Default layout type.
• Fixed Height: Sets Rokstories in a fixed height to avoid loading jumps if not wanted.
• Navigation Interaction: Choose between Click or Mouseover as the trigger to transition the content items.
• Autoplay: Enable this option for RokStories to automatically rotate through its articles.
• Autoplay Delay (ms): Set the number of milliseconds (1000 milliseconds = 1 second) for each article to appear before it rotates to the next article.

Additional Showcase Layout Content Parameters

• Show Label Title: Show or Hide the caption on top of the main image display.
• Show Arrows: Show Arrows on RokStories Image when in Layout2 mode.
• Show Circles: Show Circles on RokStories when in Layout6 mode.
• Arrows Placement: Whether to show the arrows 'inside' or 'outside' the image-container.
• Show Previews on Arrows: Select whether to show preview of the next image when hovering over the arrows..
• Fixed Previews: Choose whether to have the previews in a fixed position or not.
• Linked Titles: Whether to link the titles to the article.
• Linked Labels: Control whether the label / captions link to the full content item.
• Linked Images: Whether to link the images to the article.
• Show Image Mask: Whether to show the Image Mask for Layout 'Masked Layout'.
• Description Animation: Type of animation for the descriptions. Works only on Masked Showcase.
• Images Animation: Type of animation for the images. Works only on Masked Showcase.
• Scroller Duration (ms): Duration of the scroller animation.
• Transition Effect: The effect to be used for the transition.
• Show Controls: Show Controls of layout 6.

RokTwittie is a module that integrates Twitter into your Joomla site. Display tweets of any username, or even by search terms, as well as your profile information and various other elements from Twitter itself. RokTwittie is the perfect compliment to any Social site, or Business site that uses Twitter.

Module Features

• Real Time Tweets: Tweets update live from Twitter
• Search: Use the inbuilt search to scan for usernames or keywords
• Profile information: Show your profile details, such as name, avatar and bio
• Fast Loading: Written from the ground up for greater performance
• Highly configurable: Options to control every aspect of RokTwittie
• Twitter Authentication: Choose between Anonymous and App Authentication
• Retweet Support: http://support.twitter.com/forums/10711/entries/77606-what-is-retweet-rt
• Caching: Use of Joomla Cache for greater stability
• Friendly Errors: If Twitter is down, or CURL is not installed, RokTwittie will fail gracefully

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Module Configuration

Options available at Admin → Extensions → Module Manager → RokTwittie Module:

Twitter Options

• Use OAuth: Set this to yes when using RokTwittie on a live site.
• Authenticate: Sign in with Twitter with your username and password to authorize RokTwittie.
• Module Class Suffix: Add a custom class for individual styling
• Load Built-in CSS: Choose whether to load the standalone styling or to load the CSS from the template. You should disable this option only if you wish to use your own styling which you have already created.
• Output Caching: As the name suggests, if this is enabled, the module will enable caching in order to save on performance and prevent the 100 Twitter API limit being met.
• Timeout on connect (secs): The number of seconds to wait while trying to connect to Twitter. User 0 to wait indefinitely.
• Timeout on response (secs) The maximum number of seconds to allow cURL functions to execute.
• Cache Time: If caching is enable, set, in minutes, the time you wish before it is cleared and new data is called.
• Usernames, separated by comma: You can insert your username or multiple usernames (separated by a comma) here and the module will load them.
• Inactive user opacity: This sets the opacity of the inactive user tab, if you have multiple users set to show in RokTwittie.

General Options

• Show default avatars: When enabled, your profile picture from Twitter will appear in the module, alongside your other profile information.
• Show default avatars: Choose between a light and dark style, depending on the background of the module.
• Include ReTweets: Determines whether retweets are shown.
• Enable username statuses: This option controls whether the statuses from each username appears in the module.
• Open links in new window: A self explanatory parameter, basically, all links in RokTwittie can be set to either open in a new window (will default to a new tab in certain browsers) or load in the page you are viewing.
• Show RSS feed link: This parameter controls whether the RSS feed link for your profile appears in the module, it is accompanied by the RSS feed icon.
• Show Follow Updates Link: Set to show if you wish to show the updates link.
• Show the Bio Description: Set to show if you wish to show your Twitter Bio in the module.
• Show the URL: If you have a website address in your profile, this option allows you to show it.
• Show the location: Again, if this is set in your twitter profile, you can set it to appear.
• Show user updates count: Show the number of updates of the user.
• Show user followers count: Show the number of those who are following the user.
• Show user following count: Show the number of those who the user is following.
• Show following icons: Set to show if you wish to show the icons/avatars of the users who are following the user.
• Icon Count: If icons are enabled, this option controls the number that are actually displayed.
• Show View all after Icons: When enabled, an additional link will be placed below the icons to view all of the following twitter users.

Tweet Options

• Enable usernames tweets: This parameter allows you to show the tweets from the user set above.
• Show usernames avatar: Set to show if you wish to show the avatar next to each tweet.
• Size in pixel of the avatar: If you set the username avatars to show, this controls the size in pixels.
• Tweet count: This sets the number of tweets to show if enabled.
• Open links in new window: A self explanatory parameter, basically, all links in RokTwittie can be set to either open in a new window (will default to a new tab in certain browsers) or load in the page you are viewing.
• Show tweets sources: When enabled, the sources of each tweet will be shown.
• Show username as preopened text: If set to show, the username of the tweeter will appear before each tweet.

Search Options

• Enable search tweets: This parameter allows you to show the tweets from the search option.
• Search string: Enter the value you wish to search for in Twitter.
• Show search avatar: Set to show if you wish to show the avatar next to each search tweet.
• Size in pixel of the avatar: If you set the search avatars to show, this controls the size in pixels.
• Tweet count: This sets the number of tweets to show if enabled.
• Open links in new window: A self explanatory parameter, basically, all links in RokTwittie can be set to either open in a new window (will default to a new tab in certain browsers) or load in the page you are viewing.
• Show tweets sources: When enabled, the sources of each tweet will be shown.
• Show username as preopened text: If set to show, the username of the tweeter will appear before each tweet.

RokGallery is a ground-up revolutionary gallery extension, developed to be hugely flexible, customizable and thus extendable far into the future.

Description

The system itself is built on a custom tag-based architecture with the ability to have multiple tag-based galleries. RokGallery uses design and concepts that have been traditionally reserved for platform-native applications and are for the first time making their way into a web environment. For example, you will not have to resize images, or make thumbs before using them in RokGallery, just upload the raw image and use the RokGallery slice editor to resize and crop the images. This non-destructive editing method allows you to create and edit your image size, cropped view, etc, at any point without having to reupload or recreate your image in external photo editing software.

Other features include an all-new multi-file image upload mechanism that incorporates the latest HTML5 drag-and-drop upload functionality, but can also fall back to Flash if your browser doesn’t yet support this feature. Compound filtering can be used to isolate specific images you are looking for and a sophisticated Jobs Manager handles processes like image resizing in the background so you can get on with your work without having to wait for time-consuming image computations to complete.

Access the RokGallery Component at Admin → Components → RokGallery

This section is an introduction to the general interface of RokGallery, specific instructions on the functions, such as filtering, will be explained below.

#3/4 Filters

The filters have a range of variables such as gallery, file type, published etc... to allow you to sort your images for management in an efficient and simple manner. Statistics for the filters appear at #4.

Photo Upload

RokGallery uses a HTMl5 file uploader, or Flash for unsupported browsers.

• Go to Admin → Components → RokGallery
• Click the Upload button
• Either Drag and Drop the files, or click Browse and find
• Click Upload
• Monitor progress
• Click Close once completed

Gallery View and Jobs

All photos will appear at Admin → Components → RokGallery. RokGallery has support for multiple image selection, either by drag and highlight with the cursor, or via individual selection with the Shift Key and click.

Jobs Manager

The Jobs Manager provides you a log of operations undergoing or undergone in RokGallery. You can view:

• Import status, with time stamps
• Slice status, with time stamps
• Clear all Jobs
• Delete individual Jobs via the trash icon
• Refresh individuals Jobs via the reload icon

Galleries Manager

RokGallery is a tagged based gallery component, therefore, Galleries are controlled by tags and not specific photos in albums. Subsequently, you can easily have one master photo in multiple albums with ease.

A single image can appear in numerous galleries based on its tag, and also can be different sizes based on the gallery settings, without editing the original image.

• Dropdown: To create a new Gallery, select Create New, or the name of another Gallery to edit it
• Name: Set the name of the Gallery
• Tags: Set the tags that are associated with the gallery (separate via a comma)
• Images: Set the maximum height and width of the full image
• Thumbnails Size: Set the height and width of the thumbnails
• Background Color: Set the background color for the thumbnail surround
• Aspect Ratio: Check if you wish to keep the dimensions of the image intact, or cropped.

Remember to Publish a Gallery after clicking Save. If you make any changes to a Gallery, whether in the Galleries Manager, or in the Image Slice Editor, you will need to re-Save in the Galleries Manager for the changes to take place on the site.

Image Editor

RokGallery has a very advanced image editor, akin to a native application. The various parts will be discussed below.

After selecting the edit button, you will be able to edit the META data of the image, the image itself, plus delete or publish the image.

• Title: The name of the image file to be displayed on the frontend gallery
• Slug: The individual identifier for an image (we recommend not to change)
• Description: The description of the image file shown on the frontend gallery
• Tags: Add the tags that you wish to associate with the image
• Slicing: Edit the image
• Publish:Show or Hide an image for specific tags/galleries.

In the Slice Editor, you can edit the META data and the actual image. You can crop the image, similar to that of an native application, with a set or variable marquee, in addition to Zoom controls. Edits in the Slice Editor are on a per gallery/tag basis.

The original image that was uploaded is maintained, as a new image is created after applying the crop. This can be reverted at any time from the Slice Editor.

Additionally, you can also Share the slice via the Share button, or Delete the image via the Delete button, from the Image Editor:

Multi-Tagging

Tagging is at the core of RokGallery, and with its multi-selection ability, you can easily manage tags across multiple images with great ease. Simply highlight several images and click Tags. Here, you can add, remove, or change any common tags applied to your selection.

If you wanted to quickly move several images to another gallery, simply change their tag.

Filtering

A system based on tagging needs an advanced search facility, so RokGallery employs a simple but powerful filtering mechanism:

Filters are not singular and can be applied cumulatively: