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Frontpage only showing content from one category

Post by dattard » Fri Nov 21, 2014 8:17 am

Hi,

I've just migrated a website from Joomla 1.5 to Joomla 3 using SPUpgrade...all the content is fine and working, the only issue I seem to have is that the frontpage is only showing content from one category as opposed to it should be showing content from all the categories.

I've tried to debug the queries, and it seems like the query is returning content from a single category only, but for the life of me I cna't understand why it's doing that. I'm not sure if posting the query here will help, so I'm going to post it just in case.

Can you help?

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SELECT a.id, a.title, a.alias, a.introtext, a.fulltext, a.checked_out, a.checked_out_time, a.catid, a.created, a.created_by, a.created_by_alias, 
  CASE WHEN a.modified = '0000-00-00 00:00:00' THEN a.created ELSE a.modified END as modified, a.modified_by, uam.name as modified_by_name,
  CASE WHEN a.publish_up = '0000-00-00 00:00:00' THEN a.created ELSE a.publish_up END as publish_up,a.publish_down, a.images, a.urls, a.attribs, a.metadata, a.metakey, a.metadesc, a.access, a.hits, a.xreference, a.featured, a.language,  LENGTH(a.fulltext) AS readmore,
  CASE WHEN badcats.id is not null THEN 0 ELSE a.state END AS state,c.title AS category_title, c.path AS category_route, c.access AS category_access, c.alias AS category_alias,
  CASE WHEN a.created_by_alias > ' ' THEN a.created_by_alias ELSE ua.name END AS author,ua.email AS author_email,parent.title as parent_title, parent.id as parent_id, parent.path as parent_route, parent.alias as parent_alias,ROUND(v.rating_sum / v.rating_count, 0) AS rating, v.rating_count as rating_count,c.published, 
  CASE WHEN badcats.id is null THEN c.published ELSE 0 END AS parents_published

  FROM yk5bi_content AS a

  LEFT JOIN yk5bi_categories AS c 
  ON c.id = a.catid

  LEFT JOIN yk5bi_users AS ua 
  ON ua.id = a.created_by

  LEFT JOIN yk5bi_users AS uam 
  ON uam.id = a.modified_by

  LEFT JOIN yk5bi_categories as parent 
  ON parent.id = c.parent_id

  LEFT JOIN yk5bi_content_rating AS v 
  ON a.id = v.content_id

  LEFT 
  OUTER JOIN (SELECT cat.id as id 
  FROM yk5bi_categories AS cat JOIN yk5bi_categories AS parent 
  ON cat.lft BETWEEN parent.lft 
  AND parent.rgt 
  WHERE parent.extension = 'com_content' 
  AND parent.published != 1 
  GROUP BY cat.id ) AS badcats 
  ON badcats.id = c.id

  INNER JOIN yk5bi_content_frontpage AS fp 
  ON fp.content_id = a.id

  WHERE a.access IN (1,1) 
  AND c.access IN (1,1) 
  AND 
  CASE WHEN badcats.id is null THEN a.state ELSE 0 END = 1 
  AND (a.publish_up = '0000-00-00 00:00:00' OR a.publish_up <= '2014-11-21 08:04:25') 
  AND (a.publish_down = '0000-00-00 00:00:00' OR a.publish_down >= '2014-11-21 08:04:25')

  ORDER BY c.lft,   
  CASE WHEN a.publish_up = '0000-00-00 00:00:00' THEN a.created ELSE a.publish_up END  DESC ,  a.created DESC   
  LIMIT 0, 6
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Re: Frontpage only showing content from one category

Post by numinousmedia » Fri Nov 21, 2014 7:56 pm

Is your default home page menu item set to show a "Featured Article Layout"? If yes, what settings are currently running in this menu item?
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Re: Frontpage only showing content from one category

Post by dattard » Mon Nov 24, 2014 2:58 pm

Select categories is set as "All Categories" - see the attachment for all the settings
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Re: Frontpage only showing content from one category

Post by numinousmedia » Mon Nov 24, 2014 3:24 pm

And you can confirm that you have articles from multiple categories set to be featured? I know that's a super dumb question, but I have to ask it to eliminate other possibilities.
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Re: Frontpage only showing content from one category

Post by dattard » Mon Nov 24, 2014 3:31 pm

Yes I do have articles from multiple categories to be featured ;)
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Re: Frontpage only showing content from one category

Post by numinousmedia » Mon Nov 24, 2014 3:44 pm

How many articles have you featured?
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Re: Frontpage only showing content from one category

Post by dattard » Mon Nov 24, 2014 4:20 pm

Quite a few, I think it might be in the hundreds. Why would that make a difference?
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Re: Frontpage only showing content from one category

Post by numinousmedia » Mon Nov 24, 2014 4:32 pm

How many articles are showing on the frontpage? 6? And do you see any pagination below that?
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Re: Frontpage only showing content from one category

Post by dattard » Wed Nov 26, 2014 12:34 pm

Yes 6, and yes pagination shows from then onwards
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Re: Frontpage only showing content from one category

Post by dattard » Wed Nov 26, 2014 12:35 pm

And even the paginated items only shows from the specific category which is showing on the frontpage...
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Re: Frontpage only showing content from one category

Post by dattard » Wed Nov 26, 2014 12:43 pm

Ok, so I figured it out. There was a defined category order, so basically it was showing all of the posts of a specific category before actually going to the next category. Removed the category order, and now it's working as intended.
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Re: Frontpage only showing content from one category

Post by numinousmedia » Wed Nov 26, 2014 3:20 pm

Sorry for the delay in my response. That was what I was thinking too. I have run into this on my own sites, and it can be really frustrating. Glad you figured it out.
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Re: Frontpage only showing content from one category

Post by dattard » Thu Nov 27, 2014 7:25 am

Yeah, it was a bit of a b*tch to figure out - thanks for your help though.
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