Digi Showcase - Digigreg

Digi Showcase 2.0.2

Display Joomla content arranged in a beautiful and dynamic showcase.

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Create a beautiful dynamic showcase with Joomla content and reduce the bounce rate on your website by showing to visitors the featured content.

You can create responsive grid with Joomla articles, a Joomla slideshow, a Joomla timeline, a Joomla tag cloud, a Joomla masonry layout. The choice is yours!

You can place the featured content in any module position available in your template to help users to find immediately what they are looking for.

With just few clicks, you can set up Digi Showcase to organize Joomla articles or other contents, styled in a professional way.

If Joomla articles are not enough, you can expand Digi Showcase with its Expansion Packs, to use other third-party components as data source.

Digi Showcase is simple and intuitive, has a responsive design, is visible on all devices and is compatible with touch devices.

With the new wizard, you can get the result you want with just one click. Choose how you want to set up the module and click on the desired configuration button. The module will be set up automatically without the need to move a finger and you can instantly see the new configuration in the frontend.

digi showcase wizard

A content filter is available in Digi Showcase, so the guests have the ability to filter which items to view with just one click.

In each mode, you have a lot of options for style and layout to set up the content displayed in the module.

You can choose whether to display the article intro image, the article image, or the first image of the articles content. Or you can let Digi Showcase to choose smartly which image to show.

In case you have not yet set the images in the articles, you will be able to see the behavior of the images in the module through the convenient placeholder function that will show a default image when the article doesn't have the image set.

Set the position of the title, description, category, read more button. Show the item creation date above or below the image. Set the background color of the articles, or if you want, set a background image or use the image of each article.

Use Joomla Articles, Joomla Categories, Joomla Tags or a Custom CSV as data sources to populate the module.

And if that is not enough, you can expand Digi Showcase by using its Expansion Packs plugins to load other data sources.

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These are the modes available to create showcases with the Joomla content:

Standard mode: arrange the content in a table responsive Joomla where you can vary rows and columns.
Carousel mode: useful for creating a slideshow with Joomla using the content of your choice.
Timeline mode: arrange the content in an animated and responsive Joomla timeline.
Tag Cloud Mode: arrange the content in a Joomla cloud tag that moves when the mouse hovers.
Masonry mode: arrange content in a masonry layout Joomla with defined or random dimensions.

Standard mode

Carousel mode

Vertical slideshow

Timeline mode

Tag Cloud mode

Masonry mode

Use custom text in CSV format as data source to show the content as you wish, properly formatted, in the module. A expressly created special window next to the text area, can help you to format the content correctly in CSV format, suggesting which data you have to enter.

digi showcase custom csv data source

The useful backup function allows you, with a single click, to save the current module settings in a file. You can load the settings in each saved file whenever you want. In this way you can always recover the old settings when you need them. You can then delete files that are no longer needed.

digi showcase backup

Standard mode
This is the standard mode, the default and the first created mode of Digi Showcase. By this mode, you can create a table with your items. You can set how many rows and how many columns you want to use to arrange your items. The total number of displayed items is obtained automatically by multiplying rown per...
Data source
By data source options, you can select what the module displays. The first and most important option to set, is Source, because by this, you can decide which data the module displays. Included in Digi Showcase, there are five data sources available. Data sources are expandable with Digi Showcase Expansion Packs....
Carousel mode
In carousel mode, you can create beautiful multi-columns carousels or slideshows with your items. The total number of displayed items is set by Item option. Instead you can set now many columns you want to display in your carousel at the same time by Columns option. By Item scrolling option you can set how many...
Wizard
Digi Showcase integrates a wizard to easily load the most common module configurations. By the wizard buttons, you can create lists, tables, slideshows, timelines, tag clouds, grids. Just choose what do you want to create and click on the proper button. Once you have clicked on the button, some parameters will be...
How to install
To install Digi Showcase, go to under Joomla! extensions manager, choose to upload a package file and select Digi Showcase package file (mod_digi_showcase.zip).
Timeline mode
In timeline mode, you can create beautiful vertical timelines with your items. The total number of displayed items is set by Item option. Items images are shown in the center circle of each element on the timeline. Anyway, if you want to show bigger images, you can switch on Image in content option, which shows the...
Tag Cloud mode
In tag cloud mode, you can create beautiful 3D tag clouds with your items. The total number of displayed items is set by Item option. In this mode your items are arranged in a 3D sphere. Items are automatically moved when the mouse cursor moves on the sphere. You can set the width and the height into which the...
Override
Digi Showcase can be easily overridden. To override the views, you can follow the normal Joomla process to override extensions: you can easily copy the view you want to override in your template html folder, creating there a folder called mod_digi_showcase. So the path will be...

2.0.2

Compatibility with VirtueMart Categories Expansion Pack
Helper file now handles highlighted items in Expansion Packs

2.0.1

Improved module views override system
Module helper file now can be overridden in module "override" folder
Filter buttons have now a CSS class from their target
Fixed a wrong Italian word in Italian language file
Fixed some wrong strings in module manifest file
Fixed an error which caused the intro text to not be displayed
The module is now compatible with PHP 7.3
Image processing file renamed
Added German translation (thanks to Holger)
Added Japanese translation (thanks to Kohji Asakawa)

2.0.0

New data sources such as tags and single articles
Custom CSV text can be used as data source
Data sources are expandable by Expansion Packs
Wizard to create the most common items arrangements
The module has been completely rewritten from scratches
Increased loading speed and general performances
New option to pick automatically first item image found
Now also full item image can be pick
Now a custom placeholder image can be chosen
HTML code can be removed or left into the items
Featured items can be shown or hidden
Filter for items is available in all modules mode
Overlay color and opacity can be changed
Updated carousel library
In carousel mode the vertical carousel can be swiped vertically
In timeline mode items border radius can be changed
In masonry mode items arrangement can be defined by pattern
In masonry mode items sizes can be chosen
New backend arrangement and design

1.6.0

New masonry grid mode to display your articles in a random or regular grid
Added the feature to crop items title to a certain character
Added "Random items ordering" ordering option
The option "Background overlay" is now called "Darken"
Removed a wrong backslash in helper file
Now by including "Root category", all categories are included
Removed jQuery library from the extension
Added a module id filter for CSS code generated in timeline mode

1.5.2

Corrected a little error in manifest description
Added a non-invasive advertising field

1.5.1

Now is possible to generate thumbnails also for intro images
Now is possible to select if to generate thumbnails or not
Removed the option to extend items background to the whole module width due a unsolvable problem
Fixed a bug which did not correctly display items background image
Improved jQuery compatibility without jQuery no conflict mode
Restored "Manual items ordering" ordering option
Fixed some PHP notices
Brand new code snippet to generate the update site without the need to connect to our server
Digigreg API updated and improved

1.5.0

New tag cloud mode to display your articles in a 3D tag cloud
Fixed a bug about the gradient overlay layer

1.4.3

Added "Manual articles ordering" ordering option

1.4.2

Changed field "Forced menu ID" to "Forced menu voice" to allow selecting menu voice (for articles link) from a dropdown list instead to enter its ID manually
Update server can be automatically reached by http protocol if https protocol is (temporarily) unavailable for whatever reason

1.4.1

Fixed an issue which sometimes caused the crash of the module if the server has not the class Simple XML installed

1.4.0

New awesome timeline mode to display your articles in a cronologic timeline
Added "Read more" default class and the switch to select default or custom class
Improved CSS add mode, now the code is addes in the head of the page
New lightweight and neutral placeholder image
Modification to mode selecting (default, carousel, timeline)
Data validation for module padding and items padding fields
Now you can override all three layouts (default, carousel, timeline) in your template becasue all layouts are now in module tmpl folder
Modified update system (please upgrade to this version manually and not through the Joomla Update System)
Please, make a backup of your module settings before to upgrade because we have made a lot of changes, and something can be differend after the upgrade

1.3.0

Welcome Bootstrap! Now Digi Showcase is made by Bootstrap classes
Added "Read more" link to articles text
Improved options in carousel mode
New placeholder image
Text alignment option for title, article text and date

1.2.1

URLs rewrite functions improved
Less database queries to get item IDs

1.2.0

New back end backup function to save and restore settings of the module
New URLs rewrite functions to improve the SEO of your website
Custom CSS fields in back end to set up custom styles of module and items
A lot of new images and backgrounds options to meet your style
Optional dark gradient overlay with mouse hover fade out effect

Tuesday, 12 June 2018

Fantastic. In addition to the pleasant effects and ease of use, as well as the speed of execution, what struck me most is the absolutely satisfactory, friendly and complete service, technical support: immediate and competent answers, which for a free extension leaves almost with open mouth. Functionality: Perfect and fast. Ease of use: Great ease of use. Support: It is what struck me most, absolutely satisfying, cordial and complete. Documentation: Valid, but not needed with a similar service. I used this to: Site of writing and culture nuovapoesia.com, for now, but I think I will also put it on other sites.

CristianoSias

						Monday, 14 May 2018
Nice showcase to display a timeline. Functionality: The module is easy to use with all its settings and layouts. Ease of use: The module is easy to use with all its settings and lay outs. Support: Support is very good and very quick! A little problem with a conflict between the module and advanced module manager was solved in an hour. Documentation: Not needed. I used this to: website.
						stof

Saturday, 05 May 2018

One of the only free sliders on Joomla to have Finger slide for mobile devices. Functionality: very nice functionality, lot of easy back end options for customizations. Ease of use: pretty easy to install and use. Support: excellent fast support even though they are providing a free module. I used this to: slider for a website.

anando.das gupta

						Tuesday, 13 March 2018
Very nice extension. Functionality: Works as announced in a minute, many nice options to use in differant ways, perfect integration under template Helium Gantry 5. Ease of use: all is clear, just need to choose options and save. Support: Been confused as there are no direct download link so i have posted on the forum and received the answer 5 minutes later... Documentation: options are talking for themselve, intuitive, don't need more... I used this to: to display articles carousel on home page.
						Adgenodux

Sunday, 03 December 2017

Veramente un buon lavoro. Functionality: Digi Showcase è un modulo per Joomla che permette di costruire e gestire gli articoli ordinandoli in una TImeline o in un carosello! Ottimo! Ease of use: Sì molto funzionale.

Gianluca

						Tuesday, 21 February 2017
It does its work! Functionality: It grab the content of articles and display it as the module promises. Ease of use: For me the setup was easy, a lot of options but well explained. Support: I ask in the previous version to all the  Read more  button after the text of articles and the developer add this feature in this version. Documentation: It's now a book but all is well explained. Also it's a free module, so for me is perfect. I used this to: I use it to display some articles in a food website in homepage.
						Martino Scotto

Wednesday, 25 May 2016

GREAT MODULE. Functionality: Missing a read more option but it can easily added in its default view. Ease of use: Nice & Simple. I used this to: Fetching articles from certain category to my front-page.

Gnme Li

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