On this dedicated documentation website we will try to answer both novice and advanced questions about the use of Form2Content. Before we start and especially if you are not yet familiar with F2C it is important to know a few things and read the getting started section.

Common mistakes / issues

Not running the latest versions of Joomla and F2C, not reading the documentation, thinking F2C can do everything for you ;) ..... and some other examples:

Blank screen after saving

This common issue occurs when there is a Smarty mistake in your F2C template. If you have php error reporting set to 'on' you will actually get a nice notice telling you what you did wrong ... if not, you get a blank screen. Please check your F2C templates for common mistakes like missing {/if} tags, no $ sign in the template parameters {$FIELDNAME} or using {} tags for your Joomla plugin code instead of {ldelim} and {rdelim} ....

Intro text shows in articles

This is actually a Joomla setting! You can set 'show intro' to hidden in the Joomla article manager settings (global). If you only want it for articles created with F2C you can override this setting automatically for every created article. Go to the content type configuration, second tab and set 'show intro' to hidden....

Front-end problems after upgrade

After upgrading it might be necessary to edit and save your F2C menu links. The reason is that new or updated menu settings need to be saved.