Menus

• Main menu is the top bar menu AND the pop-out side menu
  • disabled most options here for the time being
• services offers and project solutions are the in page menu items at the bottom
  • disabled completely for now
• point the home page to a WIP or production page, go to menus > main menu > Home. Then change the page in the home menu
• Pages are found in Components SP Page Builder
• Enabling or disabling a page in menus makes is globally browsable or not.
• moving menu locations can effect links. E.g. moving a sub-menu from having “pages” as its parent menu up to the main menu item root will mean any hard coded links in pages or modules will need to be updated from “/pages/my-page” to “/my-page”. Places like:
  • Revolution sliders
  • Articles
  • K2 items
  • Modules
• To make menus appear in the top bar “show menu title” needs to be set to yes in menus > main menu > menu item > Helix Megamenu Options

Modules

• About Mesoform Module set menu assignment to only home page because I could find how to have it on all pages except about us
• original template saved as at_hosting - original
• components Unite Revolution Slider for home page image slider
  • edit slides to update images and text - hid text, view more and feature layers
  • settings for  general slider settings
  • took out href=”index.php/pages/solutions” from buttons
  • deleted small text content
• unpublished extensions > modules > latest news from bottom2 position of page 
• about us page is in articles.  Changed system default options (although should probably change system defaults) for showing publisher, etc. Changed the helix blog options to status
• Home page slider is an add-on inside of SP Page which points to a module (extensions > modules > mod_unite_revolution2) called home-slider which points to the actual slided (Components > Unite Revolution Slider 2 > Home Slider (home-slider))

Install AT Template

• create blue-green databases and directories for software version
• create directory symlinks for dev and prod sites
• duplicate data from prod site

mysql user=username password=passwd -e 'DROP DATABASE test_db;'
mysql user=username password=passwd -e 'CREATE DATABASE test_db;'
mysqldump user=username password=passwd live_db | mysql user=username password=passwd test_db

 

• unzip joomla.zip and follow normal install
• unzip at_hosting.zip, then at_hosting_joomla_quickstart_package.zip in the dev site’s root directory
• chown -R wwwrun .
• open dev.mesoform.com/kickstart.php
• follow instructions http://agethemes.com/how-to-install-quickstart-package/
  • careful not to update live url field
• ensure content hasn’t been modified on prod site
• switch symlink from prod to dev
• modifying content comes in the zip file:///Users/name/Downloads/at_hosting_joomla/documentation.html

Blue-Green Upgrade

• copy any custom files and directories (like images/*) to the new development branch directory; then
• same process as above but
  • DB is *_blue to *_green
  • zip file still needs extracting
  • configuration.php needs updating to latest linked directory and correct DB name
  • cache dir may need clearing

Templates

• Found under Extensions > Templates > Styles
• Module positions in the general look and feel template are defined under the basic tab, where each has a drop-down for the name of the position which is defined in the Layouts tab. E.g. To place social symbols:
  • navigate to layouts tab, create a new column in the footer row, click settings cogs and set module position to “footer2”
  • navigate to the basic tab and under “Social Icons” section, set module position to “footer2”
• To modify the height of the about us section (extensions > modules > about us):
  • navigate to layouts tab, click row settings
  • adjust padding from 100px to 10px and save