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No Overrides: Four creative ways to modify your content using CSS grid

In this article I will show you how to modify the blog layout and the articles module in Cassiopeia (or any other template that is using the core views) without overrides, just by applying CSS grid layout.

In the Magazine we have a lot of articles about tweaking different elements in Cassiopeia: 

Joomla! 5 - The Articles Module

In Joomla 5.2, the Articles Module was introduced, a new module that should replace the existing modules (Articles - Archived, Articles - Category, Articles - Latest, Articles - Most Read and Articles - Newsflash). The Articles Module combines all parameters of the old modules, includes new ones and enables you to showcase your articles in different ways.

If you have followed my writings in the Magazine, you already know that I really like overrides. Overrides have helped me understand how Joomla works and they give me the possibility to change almost everything without breaking Joomla core. 

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Power to imagination! In Joomla 5.2, the brand new Articles Module was introduced, a super flexible module that enables you to showcase your articles. In this article, Viviana shows us how you can use this module to create an Advent Calendar. Get inspired and unleash your own creativity!

With Joomla's built-in powerhouse template, also known as Cassiopeia, you can do so much more than you’d think. In this tutorial we’ll create a slim and stylish header with just CSS!

A gorgeous banner for your category blog, easy to adjust and maintain by the content manager of the site - surely you must need an extension for that? Nope. Not in Joomla. You don’t even have to be Super Coder to achieve this! Read all about the power of custom fields to style your categories.

Do you have pages with a lot of content, or do you want to create a page where the visitor can decide for themselves which info they’d like to see (like an FAQ page)? An accordion is perfect for that. The visitor gets an overview of the topics, clicks on the interesting ones and the content gets revealed. And the good part is: you don’t need an extension for this, you can do it with a little tweaking - creating an override - of one of Joomla’s core views. Here’s how you do it!

A while ago someone asked in a Mattermost channel how to add an icon to the article titles in a blog layout. My first impulse was “with CSS of course!”. But the requirement was extended with “each article should have an individual icon”. That’s a nice challenge, and one that can be done with an override that makes adding icons easy for content managers.