Can I order by name - minifrontpage

Hi,

I see that all order options are just by date, is there an option to order by name?

Did you mean alphabetical order? Unfortunately it's not possible at the moment

Another thing - It doesn't seem to be responsive. I get beautiful 3 columns on my desktop, but on my mobile it becomes a single column with a bloated thumbnail. Am I missing a setting?

Could you let me know the URL of your site so I can take a look?

Hi Vin1, thank you for your valuable feedback

I found the issue on mobile - in the default.php file, the following line appears:

It's a common responsive grid/column rules that means it will be 2 column wide in screen width > 48em (mostly tablet or phablet), 1 column wide in smartphone, and follow the column setting for devices width screen width > 75em (desktop, notebook). This rules generally will work most of cases, that's why I was asked for your website url that maybe have a different case.

For my site, i edited it manually so it will be 3 column wide for tablet/desktop and 2 column wide for mobile.

Did you edit the module's file directly? I wouldn't suggest you to as your modification will be overrided every time you install the new update. I'd suggest you to do template override instead. extensions.joomla.org/blog/item/override...mise-almost-anything

It will be awesome if you can add a setting for number of columns on mobile / responsive, as I think I might not be the only one wanting different number of columns based on user device.

Adding too much settings will make it less simple / intuitive to start for new user so I'll leave it as it is. Additionally it also will increase the xml codebase that will potentially adding unnecessary extra loading time for module's backend

Also, I dropped the h4 from the article link, as on mobily the text size was too large.

Minifrontpage will follow your template typography style, so it is likely following your template's h4 rule. This is the reason why CSS Adjustment tab exist. You can add css overriding there without touching the physical files.

I changed the orderering by title by going to the file MinifrontpageHelper.php and adding an option for 'a.title'.
Also it seems that the ordering can only be changed by editing the file. I didn't find a setting for it.

I haven't tested it so I can't comment about it but I'm glad it works for you.

Finally, it seems that the thumbnail that is generated is low quality. Not sure how to improve it.

To improve the thumbnail quality, simply increase the thumbnail size with the same ratio. Don't forget to delete all thumnail images under folder ../images/thumbnails/mod_minifrontpage after you have changed the setting, so it will generate the new ones.