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[troy Friend troyJoin date: September 2008Posts: 56Downloads:0Uploads:1 Thanks: 5 Thanked: 1 times in 1 posts]

#151289

I would like to differentiate the home page from sub ages with an alternate header.

What is the best method to set up a separate header for the home page header?

[toymaker Friend toymakerJoin date: April 2010Posts: 123Downloads:0Uploads:5 Thanks: 10 Thanked: 45 times in 32 posts]

#344570

Piece of cake!
BTW… testing this fix for you made me realize there’s a problem inside Seleni’s template configuration.
http://www.joomlart.com/forums/showthread.php?p=179798#post179798
so thx! 😉

The main page (frontpage) can be always referenced as being ItemId 1

So, because T3 has this wonderfull per/item id or per/component layout option, you can actually change layouts quite easily using your template config.

What you need to do is this…

Step 1: Go to your Layouts folder and duplicate your default.php layouts file (name your new copy default-front.php)
Step 2: Go to the blocks folder and duplicate your header.php file (name it header-front.php)
Step 3: Open your newly created header-front.php file and make all changes you’d like the front page to have or show.
Step 4: Open your new layout default-front.php and edit line 58 from this:

<?php $this->loadBlock('header') ?>
To this:

<?php $this->loadBlock('header-front') ?>
Step 5: go to your admin interface >> template config and where it says “Page Layouts Overwrite”, make a new entry on a new line like this

1=default-front

What we are doing here, is using T3 new layout overrides capabilities to change the layout of the front page.

Hope it helps!
Gabriel

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[troy Friend troyJoin date: September 2008Posts: 56Downloads:0Uploads:1 Thanks: 5 Thanked: 1 times in 1 posts]

#347026

That was easy!!! Thanks, toymaker

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