The menu system is the most difficult for me to understand and I've made many websites professionally. This tutorial falls short of a complete explanation of purpose. I looked for the rest of the story. I'll try the other tutorials on menus but this one? Come on man!

This tutorial falls short of a complete explanation of purpose. I looked for the rest of the story. I'll try the other tutorials on menus but this one? Come on man!

I believe this tutorial explained what it said it would explain. The intent was not to be a comprehensive explanation of the menu system, but rather to explain a little-known feature (or fault, depending on how you look at it ) by which the menu system sets what displays on your home page.

If you have any specific questions about the menu system, I'd be glad to try and answer them.

Dear Cory,

I want to have a different homepage for public and the rest. I tried your suggestion by setting the first mainmenu entry (news) to registered followed by a public entry Welcome (which shows frontpage stuff). This doesn't work, because joomla still display the news page to the public user telling to log-in. I thaught joomla would skip the first entry completely because it is registered, but obvious it doesn;t. Do you have any suggestions?

Problem arises when you want to:
a) Put another menu item first so it becomes your real home page, and
b) You still need the menu item "home" to show top left as a navigational aid.

If you put the new item first, then its menu item appears first also (top left). Home is out of position, and navigation becomes confusing.

I have developers working on this project and they inform me that the nav menu across the top cannot have sub-menu dropdowns, is there anyone here who can confirm that what they are telling me is correct, or is it possible to have normal dropdowns? Any help is appreciated as I am lost at where to begin asking in these various forums and discussion sites. TIA

Thank you for the tip. I am trying to make my Virtuemart catalog my default home page. After following the steps on your site, I am defaulting to Virtuemart but it is the Store description rather than the URL associated with the Main Menu's first menu item (VirtueMart Catalog List). Any ideas?

This tips is nice. But on one of my project, i did this solution instead. (It's much more complex and require template hacking knowledge but it's a sure bet.)

The situation was I don't want the homepage to show crappy frontpage component with blog-like content. But remove all content from frontpage won't help; It showing "No contents to display" message instead.

So I made two copied of the similar template for that site.
-The first one is as it be, set default.
-The second one is the copy of the first one for "Homepage only".

In order to made it working, I did this.
1. Made a copy of the first template and rename its folder to templatename-home

2. Hack templateDetails.xml, change the templatename to templatename-home according to the new folder name

3. Hack index.php of the template to remove

4. Further hack the template_css.css file to share images from original source (the first template). This is not a must, but I did to save server's space and page loads.

5. Config site template in admin's panel. Select the new template then ASSIGN it to mainmenu | Home.

Wish this help somebody.

Hey this tip worked great for me! I'm still pretty lost but the fog is slowly beginning to lift. What I don't understand is the fact that I've set up sections and categories and then created some content and checked "show on frontpage" for several of them -- but nothing shows on the frontpage?? (if "home" is #1 in the menu manager). I suspect it has to do with the "modules" that are on the homepage of the Nova template I'm playing around with? I'm still trying to figure out how to get some navigation going... thanks for your wonderful site and all your good advice.

Well done, it is so easy to change it to front pages. Thanks a lot. Cheers,

Currently, the link to my front page, "Home," is http://www.recoveryforce.com/home. Is there any way to change that to simply link back to the site's root, "http://www.recoveryforce.com"? Right now, I have a redirect in my .htaccess file from /home to /

Hi,

Is there a way to display on the frontpage first an article and after that (on the same page) a newsfeed?

Noah

Thank you Cory ..... but what I actualy mean .... display them at the same time. First part of the frontpage an article and directly after that a newsfeed or a 2nd article.

Thanks!

Is it possible to create a default home page that does not have a corresponding main navigation item? I want the my front page info to only appear on a users first entry and on banner logo clicking, but not have a visible menu item for it. A frontpage with no Home menu item....

Hi Cory

When you get a free minute, would you please write a guide to configuring the Extended Menu module? I have it installed & published, but i can't find any easy-to-follow tutorials on how to set it up in Joomla.
I would say the drop-down menu has to be configurable to at least 2 levels.
Cheers,

Mark Weatherill.

Thanks! this was very useful for me!

I have experienced this problem before and the only way I managed to resolve it was by deleting the complete mainmenu section and re installing that whole section.

What happens is that the green arrows are missing when i create a new sub menu item. This then leads to a problem of reordering that item.

My website is growing all the time and this is becoming a headache to say the least!

Joomla 1.5 ver 1.9

This may be a joomla problem rather than a template one but does any one have an answer?

It is not a problem with browser etc. as i regularly clear all these.

Does any one else suffer with this?

Thanks you very very much ,

I had trouble from a prob. since last four days,
which has been solved very easily within 5 min.

relay i hearty thankful to you