Hi, I am developing a site using the Venture template with Joomla 3x.

I have a Zentools grid published to the abovecontent position on the home page. It is set to pull articles from a category.

One of the articles from that category has an embedded YouTube iframe.

In the module on the home page, the embed code is visible but not the video. When you click the "More" link, the full article opens and the video is there and plays fine.

Is there some way to have the video show up in the module on the home page?

Any help is appreciated.

Joanne

Hi Joanne,

Is this zentools v1 or zentools v2?

Cheers
Paul

I downloaded the template a few days ago and installed it via Quickstart package.

In the Extensions Manager it looks like Zentools 1.13.4

Joanne

I also tried to use Modules Anywhere to put a module with the video into the article but it won't play in the grid.

Joanne

Hi Joanne

With the video I've added it to the module by inserting the frame in the intro text

I've added it by using the text in the drag and drop panel and adding iframe to the allowed tags in the text options

Is this an option?

Cheers
Paul

I guess I don't understand.

I created a new zen tools module, id 506.

I dragged title and text into the layout.

I added <iframe> to the allowed tags in text options, then I tried adding the YouTube embed code to the box - suffix added to truncated text.

Is this correct? If so, the "suffix added" box does not keep my code after saving.

And when adding the module to my article with Modules Anywhere nothing shows up.

You mentioned zen tools 2. Should I upgrade to that?

Joanne

Your last post gave me an idea. I added <iframe> to the zen tools grid module that calls the articles and enabled the 'render plugin' option and the video now displays and plays on the home page!

I can't seem to line it up with the other two articles, however. Here is a link:

37.60.247.206/~jlawma76/index.php

Maybe you can help me figure out what custom css to add?

Thanks for all your help.

Joanne

I figured it out! I found the css to modify.

It only took me two hours -- duh -- but I did it.

Joanne

ah

I viewed this and forgot to post

I had

#zentools497 iframe {
border: 1px solid #ddd;
background: #fff !important;
-webkit-box-sizing: border-box;
-moz-box-sizing: border-box;
box-sizing: border-box;
padding: 4px;
box-shadow: 4px 4px 0px rgba(0,0,0,0.07000000000000001);
max-width: 100%;
box-sizing: border-box;
}

#zentools497 .zentools.grid .zenimage {
margin-bottom: 16px;
}

Had a slight accident walking my dog and left the window open without posting

Not sure if this helps now but thought I'd post

Cheers
Paul

Thanks!

Hope you and your dog are ok!

Joanne

No problem

badly bruised hand - typing one handed

Dog is fine - saw another dog and pulled me into a metal post

Cheers
Paul