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[theskunk100 Friend theskunk100Join date: April 2007Posts: 9Downloads:0Uploads:0]

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Hello everyone,

I’m having problems with joomla. Please visit my website for reference.

At the top menu you can see “Home”, “Magazine”, “FAQ’s” and “News”. Everything but Magazine works fine. Magazine is a Section, and when you rollover it you will see two of its Categories dropping down. My intention with all this is that if the user clicks on “Magazine”, a page displaying a brief description of it and a list of Categories wil be shown; on the other hand, if the user clicks on one of the Categories, a table will be displayed with all the content items along with a brief description of the Category.

1.) So far, Magazine is a Blog Content-Section (not what I want, I know) and it seems to be working fine. If someone can tell me how to turn it into what I want (to display a list of Categories), I’d be thankful.

2.) Now, my real problems are “Contents” and “Insider”. On the mainmenu manager I set them to be Blog Content-Category. If you go to them, you will see that one is one but the other isn’t one. What’s worse, if I choose another type for them, they will still be shown like that. And if I change the parameters anyways, they will still be shown as you see them right now. It’s like I’m making changes to something that’s not being accessed by the main template, so my changes are being ignored. I’ve tried deleting everything and adding back – no good. I’ve tried placing this elsewhere – no good. Can someone please help me?

3.) If you notice the “You Are Here” at the top of each page, you will see that it’s not working. It keeps saying “Home” regardless of the place the user is at.

Thank you very much.

[Michael Casha Friend Michael CashaJoin date: September 2014Posts: 2561Downloads:1Uploads:32 Thanks: 41 Thanked: 119 times in 1 posts]

#219391

<blockquote>1.) So far, Magazine is a Blog Content-Section (not what I want, I know) and it seems to be working fine. If someone can tell me how to turn it into what I want (to display a list of Categories), I’d be thankful.</blockquote>

If you create a blank static page with the links on that page and then link the Magazine link to it it should work as you need it.

<blockquote>2.) Now, my real problems are “Contents” and “Insider”. On the mainmenu manager I set them to be Blog Content-Category. If you go to them, you will see that one is one but the other isn’t one. What’s worse, if I choose another type for them, they will still be shown like that. And if I change the parameters anyways, they will still be shown as you see them right now. It’s like I’m making changes to something that’s not being accessed by the main template, so my changes are being ignored. I’ve tried deleting everything and adding back – no good. I’ve tried placing this elsewhere – no good. Can someone please help me?</blockquote>

I still have a suspicion it’s your SEF system again but I’m not sure. We’d need an admin login to better try it out.

<blockquote>3.) If you notice the “You Are Here” at the top of each page, you will see that it’s not working. It keeps saying “Home” regardless of the place the user is at.</blockquote>

I’m guessing that’s to do with your SEF system, where you have http://www.site.com/page/page links. It’s not recording the ItemID correctly.

[theskunk100 Friend theskunk100Join date: April 2007Posts: 9Downloads:0Uploads:0]

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Thank you MiCCAS

I kind of tried what you suggested, but I don’t really understand what you mean by ‘SEF’ Systems.

Nevertheless (just guessing), when creating again the menus and sub-menus, I gave different names to the things I was creating from the things they where referencing. So for example the Magazine section is now Prob-Mag instead of Magazine on the menu and so on. This still doesn’t work.

Once again, if you check Mag-Insider and Mag-Contentes, the first will be a Blog-Content and the second will be a table; eventhough I have them both as tables in my menu management page. And I still get the “You Are Here: Home” problem, which I want to fix.

I do have an admin login, so I would appreciate your advice concerning that.

Kind Regards.

[ShannonN Friend ShannonNJoin date: July 2006Posts: 1947Downloads:0Uploads:9 Thanks: 16 Thanked: 172 times in 49 posts]

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theskunk100;14639Thank you MiCCAS

I kind of tried what you suggested, but I don’t really understand what you mean by ‘SEF’ Systems.

Nevertheless (just guessing), when creating again the menus and sub-menus, I gave different names to the things I was creating from the things they where referencing. So for example the Magazine section is now Prob-Mag instead of Magazine on the menu and so on. This still doesn’t work.

Once again, if you check Mag-Insider and Mag-Contentes, the first will be a Blog-Content and the second will be a table; eventhough I have them both as tables in my menu management page. And I still get the “You Are Here: Home” problem, which I want to fix.

I do have an admin login, so I would appreciate your advice concerning that.

Kind Regards.

Definition of SEF

SEF = Search Engine Friendly

there is an option to turn SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) on in the admin global settings, or you may have installed an SEF plugin such as OpenSEF

Cheers ShannonN

[theskunk100 Friend theskunk100Join date: April 2007Posts: 9Downloads:0Uploads:0]

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Hello all,

I would like to mark this thread as solved, but I really don’t know how to. Please instruct me… :confused:

About the solution… I just had to reinstall Joomla. Then everything worked fine. Must have had been a weird bug.

Thank you very much.

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