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Material Journal is a simple theme in the style of material design. It can be used as personal blog or
journal with several authors. It has a custom template to showcase special timeless elements/information.
- unlimited number color schemes that can be switched
- fully responsive, build on Aline.css (analog Bootstrap)
- Font Awesome Icons included
Extra features
All features are implemented and ready to work without any other configuration.
- custom RainLab.Blog (details in the documentation) - can work with the usual RainLab.Blog but it's less comfortable
- automatic addition of blog categories in the menu - for header and footer In one place (can be disabled in the theme settings)
- social networks management - for header and footer In one place
- RainLab.Blog integration - posts, post categories, post detail
- RainLab.StaticPage integration- you can create static pages
- Multiple styles of article list design - easy to manage
- Each article and category can have individual parameters - background(img or color), text-color, hide author, custom author, hide category, add custom class
- Each article can be linked to other articles
- Ajax pagination articles - button "+ More articles"
- Adding additional fields for the author
- Creating a block with events - you can specify the date, time and place and specify any link, notifying people about the event
- Full control of SEO tags
- Editing robots.txt from the admin panel
- Setting up 404 pages
- Search - blog posts
- Alerts, incorrect settings - below in the screenshot, you can see it (block event)
Preview

Screenshot

Installation via Command Line
php artisan theme:install ArtDark.MaterialJournal
Installation
At first go to the Backend > Settings > Front-end theme> Activate theme Then go to Backend > Settings > Front-end theme and click to Customize start filling out the parameters you need
First of all, I recommend installing a modified plugin RainLab.Blog for this theme this will only make it easier for you to work with the topic. But it's not necessary!
Example custom fields for plugin RainLub.Blog

Configuration
- theme variables: Backend > Settings > CMS > Front-end theme > Customize
- main menu: Backend >Pages > Menus > Main menu header-footer. (By default, blog categories are added to the menu if you do not need them to change the theme settings)
- social networks management: Backend >Pages > Menus > Social-icon-link. ( Click any of the previously filled click to Attributes > CSS Class - this class icon fontawesome 5)
- social networks share: Backend >Pages > Menus > social-icone-share (works similarly to the above)
- main-page: Backend > Pages > Pages > My journal ( its content depends on the snippets, about them below)
- footer-partner-logo: Backend > Settings > Front-end theme > Customize > Logo
( If you need the logos of your partners, then include the switch
Partners logoand click buttonAdd new partnerand fill in the fields) - seo tags post: Backend > Blog>
select post> SEO (If the fields are not filled, then title page = post title, description and keywords hide) - seo tags category: Backend > Settings > Front-end theme > Customize > SEO >
Add new custom seo categoryand fill in the fields - customization post: Backend > Settings > Front-end theme > Customize > Blog-post
Add new custom view postand fill in the fields (by default, the background of the post is the first downloaded image in the post) - customization category: Backend > Settings > Front-end theme > Customize > Blog-category
Add new custom view category blogand fill in the fields - event-block: Backend > Settings > Front-end theme > Customize > Event-block >
Add new eventand fill in the fields - main-block: This is a block that is divided into main article, two other articles and the last 6 articles. it is added via snippets the setting is here Backend > Settings > Front-end theme > Customize > Main block
Snippets
- Main article block:

- Column articles:

- Tiles articles:

- Event list:
Fields:
- Category url - enter slug categories exemple mjournal.petergof-edu.org/category/news - you wrote only
news. - Count article - enter count article is displayed in the block.
- Name block - enter name block will be displayed before the block.
- Category url - enter slug categories exemple mjournal.petergof-edu.org/category/news - you wrote only
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Admin Płeć Mądra
I I bought this plugin but I do not know how to install it. In the themes settings, I do not have this layout?
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Artem Dmitrenko author
Thank you for your purchase
- It is necessary to add a topic to the project;
- You need to connect the project to your site on OctoberCMS.
- You must click "Check for Updates" and update
- Go to the theme settings and change the theme.
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Lars Nygaard
This is a great theme! Everything works. Documentation could be better but great support, author replies very fast.
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Artem Dmitrenko author
Thank you, I have released an update! If you have any questions, please contact for me, also if there are any suggestions for improvement topics write darkrogua1992@yandex.ru
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Olim Kabilov
Great theme to start with, easy to use with lots of features.
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Artem Dmitrenko author
Thank you, write what you want to see more on darkrogua1992@yandex.ru
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| 1.0.6 |
Rename first block name, Fixed bug with adding svg icons, fixed a problem with the width of the logo, fixed download bug .iso file for favicon. Thanks Lars Nygaard Jan 22, 2019 |
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| 1.0.5 |
Removed the reference to the theme name when connecting styles Nov 29, 2018 |
| 1.0.4 |
Add support custom plugin RainLab Blog and or and minor edits of the layout Sep 21, 2018 |
| 1.0.3.1 |
Added a script for measuring the minimum height of content Sep 19, 2018 |
| 1.0.3 |
Add Russian translation edit the file `theme.yaml' - config/fields-en.yaml on config/fields-rus.yaml Sep 18, 2018 |
| 1.0.2 |
Create basic function theme Sep 18, 2018 |
| 1.0.1 |
Theme initialization Sep 18, 2018 |