Card Content & Images

What appears on each card is configured on the Card Content tab. Visual polish (ratio, hover, lightbox) is on Card Appearance.

Images

• Show Image: Turn card images on or off.
• Image Source:
  • Intro, then full image
  • Intro image only
  • Full image only
  • Custom field only (media or URL custom field)
  • Custom field, then intro/full fallback
• Image Custom Field: Field ID, name, or title when using a custom image source.
• Fallback Image: Module-level image when an article has none.
• Article image URLs are normalised to site-root paths (Joomla #joomlaImage:// suffixes are stripped, and relative paths such as images/logo.png become /images/logo.png so they keep working after Ajax on multilingual URLs like /en/...).
• Image Ratio, Image Fit (Cover or Contain), and Enable Image Lightbox are under Card Appearance.

If your template only exposes a Featured Image control, check whether that value is stored as the article intro/full image or in a custom field, then set Image Source accordingly.

Intro Text

• Show Intro Text: Show or hide the intro on cards.
• Intro Text Format: Plain text (default, tags stripped) or Safe HTML (sanitised markup such as paragraphs, links, lists, spans, classes, and inline styles).
• Strip Content Plugin Syntax: On by default. Removes codes such as {loadmoduleid 186} and similar content plugin tags from card intros without running those plugins.
• Intro Text Limit: Character limit. Use 0 to keep the full intro.
• Use Fulltext When Intro Is Empty: Fall back to full article text when intro is blank.

Meta & Actions

• Category, date, modified date, date format, author, tags, hits, reading time, featured badge, and display custom fields.
• Read more link (label and target), share buttons, and title heading level (H2–H5).