menu manager

How to Make First Featured Article Title Not Clickable in Joomla 3.0

by Elaine April 22, 2013

Joomla 3.0 Tutorial on how to make certain article titles in your Featured Article list non-clickable.  You can easily perform this by first editing the Article Options in your menu item and then at the article level Article Options.   In my example, my menu item ‘Home’ displays all my featured articles.  Then I want [...]

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Joomla 3.0 Tutorial – How to Create a Menu Link to a URL

by Elaine February 18, 2013

Joomla 3.0 Tutorial on how to create a menu link to an external URL.  This is very easy and you can accomplish this by creating a new menu item and selecting the ‘External URL’ menu item type in the Menu Manager.  Make sure that you created a module for this menu so that you can [...]

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Joomla 3.0 Tutorial – How to Link an Article to Joomla Menu

by Elaine February 13, 2013

Joomla 3.0 Tutorial on How to link an Articles to Joomla Menu.  I currently have a Joomla Menu item created from the Weblinks component.  It lists all my links that I added in the Weblinks Component.  I also have an article called ’6th Cmsmind’ and in here I want to link directly to the weblinks [...]

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Joomla 2.5.8 Tutorial – How to Add Prev and Next Links to Articles

by Elaine January 28, 2013

Joomla 2.5.8 Tutorial on how to add ‘Next’ and ‘Previous’ links to navigate between Joomla Articles.  You can choose to show or hide this feature.  It is beneficial to add these navigation links to your Joomla Articles so once people reached the bottom of your article they have somewhere to go.   They can choose [...]

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Joomla 2.5.8 Tutorial – How to Add Pagination to Category Blog

by Elaine January 28, 2013

Joomla 2.5.8 Tutorial on How to add pagination details to the bottom of a Category Blog.   There are different types of Pagination options in Joomla.  You can choose to display Pagination which includes links to different page numbers and a ‘Start’, ‘Prev’, ‘Next’, ‘End’ links and also Pagination Results which displays which page you [...]

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Joomla 2.5 – How to Assign Articles to Multiple Categories

by Elaine January 25, 2013

Joomla 2.5 Tutorial – Assign Articles to Multiple Categories.   Currrently in Joomla 2.5 you cannot assign articles to multiple categories.  One article belongs to one category.  I also want to create a category blog that includes articles from different categories and that’s also impossible.  I recommend to download a free Joomla 2.5 Component called Multicategories [...]

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Joomla 3.0 – How to Set Menu Item to Show Articles in Category Blog

by Elaine January 18, 2013

Joomla 3.0 Tutorial – Set a Menu Item to Show Category Blog Instead of featured articles By default the Home Menu Item displays ‘featured articles’.  It is very simple to modify the ‘Home’ Menu Item to show articles from a category in a blog style format.  These are simple steps and easily change the menu [...]

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Joomla 3.0 Tutorial – How to Hide the Main Menu Title

by Elaine January 17, 2013

Joomla 3.0 Tutorial – Hide Default Main Menu Title Once you assigned your Main Menu and Default Home Main Menu Item, you might see the heading of your default main menu at the top of your page.  For example, I named mine default Home Main menu item – “Home”, so I see the word “Home” [...]

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Joomla 3.0 Tutorial – How to Add Images to Menus

by Elaine December 18, 2012

In Joomla 3.0 you can add images to your menus.  I will show you how to add images to your Menu items in the Menu Manager.  I will create a new menu listing called ‘Fruit Top’ and under that menu I will create child menu items – Apples and Pears.  One menu item I will [...]

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