Template Override For Helix Ultimate Category Blog With Subcategory Title As Headline Between Articles Topic is solved

[KEComm]

I am trying to create a category blog layout which looks like this:

Subcategory 1 Title

Subcategory 1 Article 1
Subcategory 1 Article 2
Subcategory 1 Article 3

Subcategory 2 Title

Subcategory 2 Article 1
...

I am unsure if this is an override of "article", "category", or "categories".
If I put an override in the templates/shaperhelixultimate/overrides/com_content/ folder, I cannot select it in the menu item layout options. I only find overrides from the folder /shaper_helixultimate/html/com_content/article

Can someone help me which file I need to edit to create that override and where to put it?

[Pavel-ww]

I am unsure if this is an override of "article", "category", or "categories".
If I put an override in the templates/shaperhelixultimate/overrides/com_content/ folder, I cannot select it in the menu item layout options. I only find overrides from the folder /shaper_helixultimate/html/com_content/article

/templates/shaperhelixultimate/overrides/ folder is intended only for layouts already overriden in Helix from the box. You should copy the files from /plugins/system/helixultimate/overrides/ for use in this folder.

But if you want to make a completely new blog category layout with your own name, you need to use the standard folder /templates/shaperhelixultimate/html/ and standart Joomla override means. Override all com_content layouts related to the blog category, change the names of their files, create a new type of menu item and add data to XML file.

The choice of your own blog layout is not carried out through the choice of the layout in the settings, but is carried out through the choice of the menu item type. Read Joomla's documentation about override of the blog category.

Summarizing:
You can override the default category blog layout using /templates/shaperhelixultimate/overrides/ folder.

Or you can create your own category blog layout with an unique name following the instructions from Joomla documentation. Then it is not related to Helix

[KEComm]

I still need an answer for the question: Do I need to create an override for "category" or "categories?"

[Pavel-ww]

I still need an answer for the question: Do I need to create an override for "category" or "categories?"

Hi.

I thought your problem is that you do not know how to make overrides in Helix. But it turns out that you do not know how to make an overrides in general. Since the obvious answer for who have skills is - Blog Category and all its template php files, layout php files, creating new your own menu item type.

Therefore, I believe that you cannot cope with this at all, since you will have to write all the functionality from scratch, and not just change something.

If you have no skills for this, use modules instead of creating an override, as the user has done here viewtopic.php?f=808&t=1008497

And in my opinion - it will be, in any case, the best option for your case

[The Wizl]

It´s a legit question. The structure of joomla and coding the changes has nothing to do with each other. The answer from Pavel-ww is not ok. And the structure can be problematic. Ive tried everything and for me the debugging shows that even if i change the layout for a category in categories menu item dont give a [censored] about that. And layout option from the menu item: Category Blog doesnt show up at all with overrides... so far. Still trying to solve that.

[Pavel-ww]

And layout option from the menu item: Category Blog doesnt show up at all with overrides... so far. Still trying to solve that.

Hi. If you are talking about a completely new blog category layout, that's right - this should not be displayed in the layout selection field. Choosing your own blog layout = choosing your own type of menu item that you should have created.