So I tried to remove the latest news module. But it just kept on displaying on my home-page. How can i make it go away? I tried to clear cache, that did not work, also if I change the Menu Item Type of the home-page from featured articles to something else, the latest news module disappears then. How can I make it disappear without changing the Menu Item Type?
I tried to unpublished it but it wont go away, also there is no code for the module in the index.php.
NerdyFuture link to my website the pictures next to the top news should be removed
go to extensions> module manager> unpublish your module. then go to your front-end view and use CTRL+F5 for refreshing your site.
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I have a Joomla (2.5.4) site which uses menus. Recently I went to add a menu item to an existing menu. When I click on the "Select/Change" button the resulting window shows up, but the list of articles is blank. This also happens when trying to modify an existing item. I not even sure where to start looking on this one. What could be causing this window to not retrieve the list of articles?
The site owner agreed to upgrade to the latest version of Joomla and the issue was resolved, which is good news. The bad news is I still do not know what caused the issue in the first place or what part of the upgrade fixed it.
OK, I'm new to Joomla. Making updates for someone still using 1.5, plan to get them upgraded to v3...
I need to add a new article and menu item. I've figured out where to do that in the backend, but my menu item isn't showing up in the navigation. I went to menu manager, where I added the new link to a menu called mymenu. I see the actual module in the template is titled myleftmenu, and I have the menu item selected there with the others from mymenu that appear throughout the site.
I've researched this and see maybe there were some bugs in 1.5, even some weird conflict with php 5.3, but none of this makes sense. I don't have spaces or special characters in the menu alias (or wherever that had been an issue for some people). I'm really stumped here because this really makes no sense. I don't seem to have anywhere else to look in the backend to update or change this, so what's the issue?
I would check:
1- check if you are placing your mymenu in the right module position. To do that put that /index.php?tp=1 at the end of your url (eg: www.web.com/index.php?tp=1) it will give you the position.
2- check if your menu is published (you need to click on "published")
3- if you are trying to make a drop down menu : know that it is not supporter by native joomla so you need to download module such as this one.
4- maybe your menu works but is not display because of overflow:hidden
I tried to modify other menu items in the backend and nothing was updating. I finally went searching for a php file that could have been hand-coded and modified and found that in my modules directory. Not being familiar with Joomla, and not sure if this menu had even been set up correctly, I then had to figure out how to get the right blog and item ID numbers for the hyperlink. Ugh! I feel like someone went about building this in a way that just made it more difficult for everyone who has to update the site in the future. Now I'm really wondering what a version upgrade is going to do to this!
I want to create About us, Privacy policy and terms of service page using the joomla's abck-end and i created articles for the same and crate new menu items in the jomsocial menu toolbar for the same. The menu items appears fine in the front end. Everything fine till now.
The problem is when i click on the menu item for article/content page, it moves out of com_community folder and moves to com_content page and it leaves the current design of site. My site navigation for jomsocial disappears. Content appears in default joomla's template not in jomsocial's template.
Any ideas ?? Thanks in advance.....
You need to go back double check everything.
You need to ensure you have the proper menus associated with the proper templates.
Check that joomsocail template is legitimately setup on all pages. And there is nothing over ruling or over riding it
I have my shop showing this URL when a user checks out.
index.php?page=checkout.index&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=65&redirected=1&Itemid=65
for all the steps it does not show the checkoout_stage as i would expect below in the URL hence it ends up using the home template with the layout distorted
What i expect instead:
index.php?page=checkout.index&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=65&redirected=1&Itemid=65&checkout_stage=1
index.php?page=checkout.index&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=65&redirected=1&Itemid=65&checkout_stage=2
index.php?page=checkout.index&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=65&redirected=1&Itemid=65&checkout_stage=3
index.php?page=checkout.index&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=65&redirected=1&Itemid=65&checkout_stage=4
One common mistake that will give you this type of problem is not having a menu item for Virtuemat or the VM module published somewhere. You have to have a menu item for VM, even if its in a hidden menu, same with the VM module. Even if you put it in a hidden position you still have to have one and it needs to be published.
If that doesn't do it, we need a lot more information before we can help.
In Joomla 1.5, I created an article. Before publishing it, I want to send a preview URL to my colleagues (they are not registered to Joomla).
I'm looking for something like adding task=preview to the URL and it would show the article.
It would be enough if the article would be normally published but would not be displayed on the main page in the latest news. I tried to set "Front Page" to "No" but without success.
How can I solve the problem?
Joomla! 1.5 doesn't have a feature like this and from the way it's built I'm not sure it's possible without modifying the core com_content files. You could try a search of the Joomla! Extension Directory to see if someone has implemented what you're after.
In the meantime if the article is turning up on the websites front page even when you've set it not to - then the front page must be using a Section/Category Blog page style rather than a Joomla Frontpage page. In this case you could find out which category is set to show on the menu item being used for the front page and then temporarily change your article to another that doesn't appear there.
Once you've got it in another Category you should be able to get a link to the article by doing a search from the front end (assuming you don't want to create a menu link).
try creating a new category called Preview and since that wouldn't have been assigned to any pages yet, it should not appear. If you have trouble finding the article then, you could temporarily publish it either on the home page or somewhere in the menu. Then when you have found and copied the url, you can remove the article from the home page or menu or wherever you temporarily have it appear.
If you should ever want several 'preview' articles appearing on one page, create a new menu item, assign it to the Preview category you made, and in System Parameters, click on Show Title: 'No' so it doesn't appear in the menu. I don't know about what shows up in Google for example so if it's sensitive data I can't say it won't show in search engines, it probably will.
It probably appears on the Front Page because as you say it's part of the 'latest news' module. You could also try removing it from the module feed, but a new category is what I'd do.
Paul
I just selected Section: "Uncategorised" and the article went out from the latest news. Hope it's not accessible any other way in the current setup (there is no search function hopefully). It's not a cleanest solution, but it seems to work.