Any turning off the Featured bullet? Topic is solved

[colin99]

The "Featured" bullet - banner tends to cover the featured article TOPIC title...

Is there any turning this off?

[AMurray]

You want to turn off the "Featured" flag?

Perhaps it's an 'admin only view' so you know its a featured article (in the front end) for admin or content editor level users.

Does that show up for normal viewers e.g. Guest, Public or Registered?

I'm thinking this is similar to when you're logged in the front end as a content creator or admin level user you might see both published, and unpublished articles, whereas a normal users would only see published articles.

There's nothing in https://docs.joomla.org/Managing_the_Featured_Items to suggest featured articles are tagged with the "featured" like your illustration. I can't find any specific J5 docs on this, every search I doe leads to the above link but that's showing J3 screenshots not J5.

[mtgg]

The featured badge is covering the article title because of a CSS rule that you're using. Try this instead:

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.featured-article-badge {
  position: unset !important;
}

[colin99]

That is perfect -- I am wading through hundreds of lines of CSS in my template...

Do I just drop this in somewhere -- as an override perhaps?

I cannot find featured-article-badge anywhere -- it has to be somewhere, yes?

[colin99]

Does that show up for normal viewers e.g. Guest, Public or Registered?

It shows up for everyone.

I'm wading through page after page of CSS in many different places w/o a hint of article-feature-badge mention.

[mtgg]

As a general principle, I would not recommend creating a template override. Others may have a different approach.

As a general principle, I don't wade through thousands of lines of CSS to try to discover where there's a CSS rule that does something I don't want. I certainly do not recommend editing any software (including CSS) supplied by a template developer. It is a better approach to create a "custom" CSS file that is called by the template; such "custom" CSS files are unlikely to be affected when there is an update/upgrade to either the template or to Joomla.

I don't know how Helix Ultimate templates work or how to create "custom" CSS files that those templates call. That is probably something you need to ask the Helix Ultimate template developers about.

When you figure out how to create a custom CSS file for your website(s) then you can create one and add any CSS rules you like. As far as standard Joomla is concerned (i.e. Cassiopeia), the technique is documented here: https://docs.joomla.org/J4.x:Cassiopeia ... Cassiopeia

[colin99]

As a general principle, I would not recommend creating a template override. Others may have a different approach.

Solution -


Create a custom.css file inside the css directory and add this css code inside the custom.css file for the initial solution.

template > your_template> css > custom.css

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span.badge.bg-danger.featured-article-badge {
    display: none;
}

Yay!

[smartymarty1234]

Many thanks for posting this solution to what must be the most useless "feature" in history

Martyn