News Show Pro GK5: Itemid of Home page added to URL

aman204

Can you add your admin and ftp details in edit fields in order for us to take closer look along with providing the module ID and direct site link where specific module is published

For reference, You can follow thread post (5 point) procedure.

Also, Kindly share your active membership details as GK NewsPro GK5 is a premium product and requires active JoomlArt's subscription to get support or updates.
Can you also please provide screenshot of similar area alike as posted here for reference
Obviously, You can show your details enabling us to validate and thereon, providing support 🙂

paul-sellis

Aman, I am really sorry for my late reply but I couldn't answer you earlier.

Well, for now the site is offline (it's on development) so I can't give access to it.
But I made further tests and pointed the problem:
- for Joomla Articles that belongs to a menu item, there's no problem.
- but if they are not linked to a menu there's the problem. For what I have seen they need to be linked as a Single Article Menu Item Type (if they belong to a Category List Menu Item Type, it doesn't work)

Let's say, in the json external-data I have 2 urls:
"url":"index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=164"
"url":"index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=171"

The first one is in a Menu as a Single Article Menu Item Type. The URL becomes on the fly:
https://www.my-site.com/category/my-article
It works great.

The second URL is part of a Category List Menu Item Type. The URL becomes on the fly:
https://www.www.my-site.com/component/content/article?id=171&Itemid=101
In that case the article is like embeded in the HomePage (where Itemid=101 is the HomePage)
:-(

I don't know if that kind of "bug" comes from your module code or from Joomla that would change the URL on the fly.
If you could you check that, it would be great!
;-)

aman204

paul-sellis Can you kindly share you active membership details as referred in earlier post

paul-sellis

Ah... you mean that there's no more free support for this free module?

aman204

paul-sellis you mean that there's no more free support for this free module?

You may kindly bear for sometime as I have asked the concerned team who will address your concern in more precise manner

design219

I'm having the same issue. The articles are displaying on the front page because of the addition of the front page's item ID. Weird. I've dug through every setting and can't find a place to add a menu ID to display results in. Looks like I need to find another module since no solution has been presented.

saguaros

design219
Hi,

Basically, in Joomla, an article should belong to a menu item, if that article is not assigned to any menu item on your site, it will show up within the page the the current module is showing on. You can create a menu item for that article or category that article belong to, it will work fine.

Regards

design219

saguaros

Yes, you are correct. However, I did have the module on a different menu item, yet it still went to the front page.

I solve my issue, although it still doesn't make sense. I was using a menu component called "Blank Page" that creates a page with no articles (since the module was all I wanted on the page). I changed the menu type to a blog category and hid the main content display via CSS. Now it's working as desired.

Hope this helps someone else.

edit: by the way, with a new / blog situation, it's not practical to create a menu item for every news article.

teitbite

design219 Hi. In that case I would recommend to create one main category for example "Blog" and use all the rest as subcactegories. Unfortunatelly this is how joomla works, so there is nothing to skip that. But having a parent category with a menu item present will resolve the issue You have.

design219

teitbite I do have one category "news" for these articles. I'm not sure what you mean by needing a parent category.

Thanks

teitbite

design219 Hi. If all other categories are subcategories of News, than You should just need one menu item of a category type for this News. Joomla should use this page to display all other articles.

design219

teitbite

Yes. That is why the display of articles in the "news" category from the "news" menu on the front page was weird. It shouldn't happen.

teitbite

design219 Ok. So is the problem fixed now? Sorry, but Your last post has made me thinking that we are still dealing with this problem. Can I see example of it?

design219

Yes. In my second post above I explained how I fixed the issue, but it doesn't make sense. I'm just trying to leave clues/steps/thoughts for anyone else who may encounter the issue. Thanks.