Creating a simple menu in Joomla

Posted by admin on Oct 10, 2006 in Basics | Comments Off

The menu system in Joomla! fairly easy to use and does not have a standard assembly features flexible settings. But this is easily fixable using additional components that allow, for example, to create a menu with multi-layered system of menu items (submenu) represented as a tree, dynamic menus (all kinds of smooth and not very “fall-out”, “floating”, “occurrence”, “failure “and so forth) and so on. In this article I describe how to create a simple menu.

With the standard installation Joomla! along with sample content we already have some ready menyushek: main, top, other, user, while the latter is available only after a registered user to login.

To create a new menu should be:

  1. Log in to Joomla admin panel
  2. Select the menu item «Menu-> Menu Manager» in the dialog box click the «New»
  3. Then in the upload window fill just two fields:
    • «Menu Name» – menu id which is used within the code Joomla!, So I recommend choosing not repetitive and with no spaces.
    • «Module Title» – a title created a menu that will appear on the site.
  4. Click the button «Save» and the menu is ready.

Next we must add at least one menu item.

  1. To do this, click on the icon next to the ID the menu («test_menu» in our case), or go to the menu «Menu-> test_menu».
  2. Click the button «New» to start the wizard to create a new item
  3. At the first stage, we are asked to select the type of the menu item, that is, that property will be displayed if the menu is selected. Choice at first glance is quite large, although there is a warning that some types of menu items are repeated. They are repeated for convenience, since all are grouped by application. For example, «Link – Conent Item» stay together in groups «Content» and «Links». Next, we choose for simplicity «Link – Url» from «Links» and proceed to the second step of pressing the «Next».
  4. In the window that appears in the «Name» the title of the menu item that will be displayed on the site, and in the field «Link» indicate the direct Url to the page.
  5. Click on «Save» to save the menu item.

Now our menu is a published item. Menus to appear on the site need to “publish”. To do this in the admin panel go to the menu «Modules-> Site Modules», where the note «Test Menu» and press «Publish».

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