Comments for How to Change What Displays on the Home Page at http://www.howtojoomla.net , comment 1 to 24 out of 20 comments http://www.howtojoomla.net Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:42:16 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.howtojoomla.net/2006092519/how-tos/menu-management/how-to-change-what-displays-on-the-home-page#comment-1678 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 - sunil Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:31:49 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/2006092519/how-tos/menu-management/how-to-change-what-displays-on-the-home-page#comment-1317 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? - David Tue, 03 Feb 2009 05:32:05 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/2006092519/how-tos/menu-management/how-to-change-what-displays-on-the-home-page#comment-1213 Thanks! this was very useful for me! ;D - fedemika Thu, 11 Dec 2008 08:51:18 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/2006092519/how-tos/menu-management/how-to-change-what-displays-on-the-home-page#comment-1192 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. - mark weatherill Wed, 03 Dec 2008 09:11:46 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/2006092519/how-tos/menu-management/how-to-change-what-displays-on-the-home-page#comment-1188 Hi Adam... this is possible. It's easy to do in Joomla 1.5. Just create a menu called "Hidden Menu" that you will never display on your site. Then, move your home page menu item to that menu. In Joomla 1.0, it's not quite as easy because the home page has to be the first menu item in the menu called "mainmenu". One way to do it would be to only have the home page menu item in the main menu and then use a different menu as your actual main menu, and never display the "mainmenu" menu on the site. Let me know if that makes sense. - Cory Webb Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:37:53 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/2006092519/how-tos/menu-management/how-to-change-what-displays-on-the-home-page#comment-1187 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.... - Adam Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:27:03 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/2006092519/how-tos/menu-management/how-to-change-what-displays-on-the-home-page#comment-1172 Technically, yes that's possible. The closest existing component that I know of that might do something like that is the magazine component from JXtended.com. - Cory Webb Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:15:34 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/2006092519/how-tos/menu-management/how-to-change-what-displays-on-the-home-page#comment-1171 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! - Noah Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:13:19 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/2006092519/how-tos/menu-management/how-to-change-what-displays-on-the-home-page#comment-1170 Hi Noah... Yes, there is a way. You would have to use a module for one or the other. - Cory Webb Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:45:22 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/2006092519/how-tos/menu-management/how-to-change-what-displays-on-the-home-page#comment-1169 Hi, Is there a way to display on the frontpage first an article and after that (on the same page) a newsfeed? Noah - Noah Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:42:42 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/2006092519/how-tos/menu-management/how-to-change-what-displays-on-the-home-page#comment-965 Hi Luke... It should automatically do that for you. I'm not sure why yours is showing /home. You could try installing sh404SEF for Joomla! 1.5 and see if that fixes it for you. - Cory Wed, 13 Aug 2008 09:06:04 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/2006092519/how-tos/menu-management/how-to-change-what-displays-on-the-home-page#comment-964 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 / - Luke Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:58:34 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/2006092519/how-tos/menu-management/how-to-change-what-displays-on-the-home-page#comment-657 Well done, it is so easy to change it to front pages. Thanks a lot. Cheers, - steven Mon, 24 Dec 2007 02:11:04 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/2006092519/how-tos/menu-management/how-to-change-what-displays-on-the-home-page#comment-567 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. - May May Sat, 27 Oct 2007 20:50:17 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/2006092519/how-tos/menu-management/how-to-change-what-displays-on-the-home-page#comment-418 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 [i]templatename[/i]-home 2. Hack [i]templateDetails.xml[/i], change the [i]templatename[/i] to [i]templatename-home[/i] according to the new folder name 3. Hack [i]index.php[/i] of the template to remove [i][/i] 4. Further hack the [i]template_css.css[/i] 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 [i]mainmenu | Home[/i]. Wish this help somebody. - Wam Sat, 28 Jul 2007 13:26:51 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/2006092519/how-tos/menu-management/how-to-change-what-displays-on-the-home-page#comment-396 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? - Kevin Sun, 08 Jul 2007 07:02:00 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/2006092519/how-tos/menu-management/how-to-change-what-displays-on-the-home-page#comment-316 Hi Larry, What your developers are saying is not true. You cannot create drop-downs with the menu module that comes with Joomla!, but you can with the [url=http://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,163/Itemid,35/]Extended Menus[/url] module. It helps if your developers understand Javascript and CSS in order to make the drop-downs work. Cory - Cory Wed, 02 May 2007 07:48:43 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/2006092519/how-tos/menu-management/how-to-change-what-displays-on-the-home-page#comment-314 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 - Larry S. Wed, 02 May 2007 06:56:21 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/2006092519/how-tos/menu-management/how-to-change-what-displays-on-the-home-page#comment-299 Hi pintobuck, You could try re-naming the first menu item to "Home". That way, it displays the word "Home" in the menu, but it points to whatever the menu item is. Cory - Cory Thu, 26 Apr 2007 07:23:30 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/2006092519/how-tos/menu-management/how-to-change-what-displays-on-the-home-page#comment-298 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. - pintobuck Thu, 26 Apr 2007 03:31:48 +0100