Advanced

The Advanced panel in the Gantry based template administration interface provides several options for configuring the menu options for the template. The following configuration options are available:

Gantry Cache

The Gantry Cache option allows you to enable/disable the built in Gantry cache system. The Gantry framework and associated template elements are quite complex and contain a lot of files and code. While these have been fine tuned and optimized for best performance, The Gantry cache provides an even greater boost to performance by caching all of the gantry functions and data.

Gantry Gzipper

The Gantry Gzipper option provides the ability to configure the built in Gantry Gzipper system. Gantry has a built-in compression and combination system that will ensure all Gantry CSS and JS files are combined and compressed to provide optimal performance. NOTE: This does not compress EVERY CSS and JS your site might use, only those used by Gantry itself. For a full system, please look at RokGZipper. From this option you can enable/disable the Gantry gzipper system, input the cache timeout, input the Expiration time and enable/disable the whitespace stripping feature.

Input Styling

The Input Styling option allows you to enable/disable template wide input styling. Input styling automatically changes the default radio buttons and checkboxes allowing for custom styling. With this option you can enable or disable the input button styling as well as specify 'exclusions' which will cause the input styling script to ignore inputs inside of the excluded classes and divs.

Feature Order

The Feature Order option allows you to use drag and drop reordering of the template features to create a custom order for the processing of the template features.

Positions

Each major module position row is represented in a Positions section allowing for the ability to force positions to show regardless of whether Joomla module content is displayed for them. This functionality allows for creating specific placements of modules with fixed sizes within a module row.

Display Component

The Display Component option allows you to enable/disable the output of the Joomla component on the frontpage. This is useful for sites and templates that want to make use of a frontpage that consists entirely of modules, with only subpages showing the Joomla component output. To find out more details on the Force Positions functionality, check out the section in the Customize documentation.

RTL Support

RTL means “right-to-left” and is a key component when trying to deliver a website in an RTL language such as Hebrew, Arabic, Urdu, etc. Gantry has built in RTL support which will automatically “flip” the content layouts and ordering to support RTL. This option allows you to enable/disable the built-in RTL support which is automatically detected and displayed based on the language file setting.

Build Title Spans

The Build Title Spans implements spans around the first word of module and content titles allowing for two tone color styling and other advanced customization with titles. This option allows you to enable/disable this behavior.

Module Overlays

The Module Overlays option allows you to enable/disable ?tp=1 support on the frontend for viewing module overlay displays. This option is best used for development only and it is advisable to disable this functionality on a live site.

Page Suffix

The Page Suffix option allows you to enable/disable page suffix classes being appended to the body tag. With this option enabled, any page suffix classes used for particular pages in joomla will have that suffix added to the body tag to allow for styling and customization on a page by page basis.

Menu-Less Pages

Certain pages in Joomla that are not explicitly under a menu item, will only show modules that are published in 'all positions'. You can select a menu item to use as a basis for displaying modules in these situations. The Menu-Less Pages option will allow you to enable/disable this behavior.