Kiolezo 1.0.3
Build drag and drop Joomla templates directly from your website.
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Kiolezo, Drag and drop Joomla template builder.
Build the template of your website directly from Joomla! by simply dragging rows, columns, module positions, images and many other elements.
Kiolezo is a component made to build Joomla template by drag and drop.
Created templates can be used directly by Kiolezo, through the template expressly created and installed together with the component, to keep the drag and drop edit feature, or can be exported in zip archive format and installed on any other Joomla! based website (minimum required version 3.6.5).
Advanced features keep easy
- Create your template only by drag and drop.
- Build the layout by draggind rows and columns.
- Create module positions by drag and drop.
- Drag images directly into the template.
- Enter and modify the text wherever you want.
- Insert icons in a simple way, Font Awesome is included.
- Choose from hundreds of fonts, Google Fonts is integrated.
- Comfortable keyboard shortcuts like computer applications.
- Export layouts and import them on other websites which use Kiolezo.
- Import layouts by file (drag and drop) or by URL.
- Export templates as zip archives and install them on other Joomla! websites.
- Build a template in few minutes without any knowledge of code.
- The only limit is your imagination.
This is the full version of Kiolezo, which allows you to use the product in all of its functions. This version allows you to import a layout as allows you to export layouts and templates.
All drag and drop elements, used to compose the Joomla template, are available in the component sidebar. Also the drag and drop style editor is available during the creation of templates.
If you want to try Kiolezo for free, download now the demo version to take a look of how it works.
System requirements
- To install the component, your Joomla! version should be at least 3.6.5.
- To export templates as zip archives, your server should have "ZipArchive" class installed. Otherwise the component will work, but you will not be able to export templates.
Is possible to view the preview if your template during the editing session, and use the template on the website where Kiolezo component is installed, or you can export the created template as zip archive, and install it on any Joomla! based website (minimum required version 3.6.5).
In addition to templates archived as zip, is possible to export also layouts editable by Kiolezo, this allows you to create a template on a website and then export and import it in another website, or share it with another person which uses Kiolezo.
Build easily also the style of your template, by using the drag and drop interface which allows you to create CSS files without to write code, not even a line. If you are and advanced user, Kiolezo provides an additional text area where you can write your own CSS code.
During the editing, you can use Joomla keyboard shortcuts as if you were inside an application. Save, cancel, repeat, erase, confirm, and many other commands are available through keyboard shortcuts.
For example
- The keys combination CTRL + S allows you to save the current layout.
- The keys combination CTRL + E allows you to save and close the current layout.
- The keys combination CTRL + Z allows you to undo last action.
- The keys combination CTRL + Y allows you to redo last action previously undone.
- The keys combination CTRL + B allows you to open or close the sidebar.
- The key ENTER lets you save settings within a popup.
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Add images, backgrounds and icons to the editor
Kiolezo uses a dedicated folder for images. You can find all default images in images/kiolezo/ folder. To add images to the component simply upload (via FTP or via Joomla Media manager) in that folder your custom images, and Kiolezo automatically will lists all your images in the drop down menu, inside the settings...
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Display a layout in the front end
To display a layout in the public front end, it should be saved and published. After you have created your first layout with Kiolezo, close the edit view, then go under templates, and then styles, in Joomla! admin menu. Here select Kiolezo template as default, or assign it to some pages. Open it and select from the...
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How to install
To install Kiolezo simply go to under Joomla! extensions manager, choose to upload a package file and select Kiolezo package file (pkg_kiolezo.zip). The package installs automatically Kiolezo component and Kiolezo template. In the component you can create layouts, import and export them and also export templates. You can...
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Errors handling
In layout editor, in some occasions, an element can become red with an error label. This can happen in cases listed below. When a row is in a level over the sixth. When more than an element is into an hyperlink. When something different than text, images or icons is into an hyperlink. When one filter is dragged into...
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How to add a module position
All Joomla templates need module positions to display modules. Is very easy to add a module position to your Joomla template by Kiolezo. The component is born to build Joomla templates by drag and drop, so we made simple to add a module position. No coding required! Find in the sidebar the module position element, then...
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Filter some parts of layout
Sometimes can happen that you need to view a part of your template only in homepag or only in other pages. Kioelzo has built-in filters to let you decide where to display the content or where to hide. A real scenario can be to display tabs or accordions on the front page of the website, hiding them in the other...
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How to update and possible update issues
Kiolezo uses Joomla! Update System to check the availability of an upgrade and to download it. Often the component has to check on our website the new link to download updates, so the update link should be regenerated. To do this, just open the option of the component, and it will be done automatically. Remember...
Is this component compatible with all Joomla! versions?
No, this component requires at least Joomla! 3.6.5.
Can I use templated made by Kiolezo on another Joomla based website?
Of course yes! You can export your templates as zip archive, and install wherever you want.
Is it hard to configure the component and the template?
No, is not hard. Is very easy, just install it on your Joomla!, then import or build a layout. After go to tempalte styles and select Kiolezo template as default if you want to display your drag and drop layout on the front end.
Which kind of templates Kiolezo can export?
You can export layouts (editable by Kiolezo, and importable in another website which use Kiolezo), or you can export a normal fully-functional Joomla! template.
How many templates can I create?
The answer is so simple, unlimited! You can create how many templates and layouts you want, from the simplest to the most complex one.
1.0.3
- Fixed a bug in style composer which sometimes could failed to save the data
- Fixed a bug in style composer which sometimes prevented to get images properly in exported templates and in Kiolezo template
- Grid elements now have the correct style also for "em" tag and not only for "i" tag in Kiolezo template
- Fixed the color of icons on mouse hover, in the sidebar of layout composer
- Fixed an issue which sometimes could caused templates to not be exported if no image was placed inside
- A lot of PHP notices and warning solved
1.0.2
- Some improvements to let Kiolezo be JED compliant
- If Kiolezo template is disabled, deleted or not installed, no errors appear
- In the case above there is a new message to explain that you need both, component and template to use your layouts
1.0.1
- Joomla! 3.7 full support
- Updated editor CSS to comply with Joomla! 3.7
- Some database improvements such as columns data type changes
- Fixed an issue which sometimes caused the crash of the component if the server has not the class Simple XML installed
- Update server can be automatically reached by http protocol if https protocol is (temporarily) unavailable for whatever reason
- Included images are now more lightweight and the package requires less space
- Grid elements come to the editor, now is very easy to build a grid in your template
- Now sticky rows have z-index settable value from the row settings panel
- Improved mobile menus and mobile navigation
- Now in mobile view, menus are opened by a dedicated button
- Updated some sub-layouts in template such as print and mailto buttons
- Updated print, mailto, error and offline template pages
- Updated Corporate demo layout
1.0.0
- First release