Comments for How to Change What Displays on the Home Page at http://www.howtojoomla.net , comment 1 to 14 out of 14 comments http://www.howtojoomla.net Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:16:53 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/19/8/#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 10:06:04 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/19/8/#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 09:58:34 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/19/8/#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/content/view/19/8/#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 21:50:17 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/19/8/#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 14:26:51 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/19/8/#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 08:02:00 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/19/8/#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 08:48:43 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/19/8/#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 07:56:21 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/19/8/#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 08:23:30 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/19/8/#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 04:31:48 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/19/8/#comment-231 Hi Ron, Unfortunately, that is not a feature that is available in Joomla. The only way to do that would be to make the public page the home page and somehow put an automatic re-direct to the registered-only page conditional on whether or not the user is logged in. You could use the code in your template from [url=http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/7/2/]"Making module positions viewable only by unregistered visitors"[/url] to add the re-direct code when the user is logged in. Good luck! Cory - Cory Mon, 12 Mar 2007 08:29:27 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/19/8/#comment-230 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? - Ron Mon, 12 Mar 2007 05:27:38 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/19/8/#comment-24 [quote]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![/quote] 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. - Cory Sat, 30 Sep 2006 08:08:06 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/19/8/#comment-19 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! - BTOS Sat, 30 Sep 2006 06:35:02 +0100