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| How to Change What Displays on the Home Page |
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| Written by Cory | |
| Monday, 25 September 2006 | |
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By default, Joomla! displays the FrontPage component on the home page. The FrontPage component takes a list of content items that are published to the FrontPage and displays them in a blog layout. This will work for most sites, but some webmasters want the option to display something else on the home page. If you would like to change what is displayed on your home page, follow these steps: 
It really is that easy. Joomla! displays the first menu item in mainmenu as the home page. You can set anyting in your site as your home page using this method.
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BTOS: ...
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!
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September 30, 2006
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Cory: ... http://www.howtojoomla.net
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. 2 report abuse
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September 30, 2006
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Ron: ... http://home.famdewaard.nl/degrot
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? 3 report abuse
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March 12, 2007
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pintobuck: ... http://backgroundsearch.com
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. 5 report abuse
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April 26, 2007
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Larry S.: ... http://linux.innovativesoftwares.com/larry/index.php
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
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May 02, 2007
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Kevin: ... http://demo.rolwheels.com
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?
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July 08, 2007
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Wam: ... http://www.pic-soft.com
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. 10 report abuse
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July 28, 2007
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May May: ... http://teachsoap.com/SOAP/index.php
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.
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October 27, 2007
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steven: ... http://www.clic.com.my
Well done, it is so easy to change it to front pages. Thanks a lot. Cheers,
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December 24, 2007
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