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[sakoman Friend sakomanJoin date: January 2007Posts: 21Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 4 Thanked: 2 times in 1 posts]

#182103

I’ve set up an “Articles” menu item on my main menu with a Menu Item Type of Category Blog.

If I click on the “Articles” menu item I see the summaries of the articles as exected, and the “Articles” item on the main menu is highlighted as expected.

If I click on “Read more..” for any of the articles I am taken to the full text of the article, but the menu highlight has changed to Home and the user1-4 blocks are displayed since Joomla thinks this is the Home page.

How can I get Joomla to stay on the “Articles” menu item after a “Read more…” click?

Steve

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#472452

Hi Steve,

Please ensure that you assign articles (or category that these articles belong to) to that menu item and do NOT assign any module to this menu item.

[sakoman Friend sakomanJoin date: January 2007Posts: 21Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 4 Thanked: 2 times in 1 posts]

#472533

<em>@Saguaros 345586 wrote:</em><blockquote>Hi Steve,

Please ensure that you assign articles (or category that these articles belong to) to that menu item and do NOT assign any module to this menu item.</blockquote>

Not quite sure what you mean!

The articles are assigned category “articles”, and the menu item “Articles” has a type “Category blog” and is assigned Category “articles”. As far as I can tell there are no modules assigned to the “Articles” menu item.

Perhaps I am just not parsing your answer properly!

You can view the behavior at:

http://www2.sakoman.com

Steve

[Scott Lavelle Friend Scott LavelleJoin date: November 2010Posts: 266Downloads:16Uploads:5 Thanks: 6 Thanked: 64 times in 27 posts]

#472538

You need to create a layout (or use one you already have) and associate that layout/style with the menu in question. You can even create a menu item in a menu that is not displayed anywhere that points to the right category, then have the layout point to that menu item. This layout would not contain whatever you don’t want displayed from the home page – in your case, leave out slideshow, user2, user3, user 5, and user 6 from this layout and your content will just roll up to the top where you want it.

Does that make sense?

Scott Lavelle - Technical Resource Solutions, LLC
Certified Joomla Administrator

[sakoman Friend sakomanJoin date: January 2007Posts: 21Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 4 Thanked: 2 times in 1 posts]

#472541

<em>@slavelle 345695 wrote:</em><blockquote>You need to create a layout (or use one you already have) and associate that layout/style with the menu in question. You can even create a menu item in a menu that is not displayed anywhere that points to the right category, then have the layout point to that menu item. This layout would not contain whatever you don’t want displayed from the home page – in your case, leave out slideshow, user2, user3, user 5, and user 6 from this layout and your content will just roll up to the top where you want it.

Does that make sense?</blockquote>

It makes sense, but it seems a bit of an extreme measure when the demo Mendozite site handles this properly (the Explore menu is set up like my Article menu)

I’ve compared my category setup, menu setup, and article setup with the demo site and can’t see any difference.

So I am baffled why the demo site works as expected and my site doesn’t.

Steve

[Scott Lavelle Friend Scott LavelleJoin date: November 2010Posts: 266Downloads:16Uploads:5 Thanks: 6 Thanked: 64 times in 27 posts]

#472552

I don’t really know about working with this particular template, since I create all of my site from the t3 blank template and none of the prebuilt templates. I have looked at a few of the templates and when installed, there are certainly things done to their layout, custom code, etc that makes it a little harder to tell exactly what’s what, where when I build with the default template, I know exactly what everything is because it starts from nothing and I add what I need.

That said, you don’t NEED to create an extra set of menu itmes – that was just a suggestion for the exception cases. If you have a menu item that point to a category blog type for the category your articles are in and you have a layout that is used for the pages that are not the home page (leaving out extra sliders, etc), you should get the effect you are looking for.

Does that help?

Scott Lavelle - Technical Resource Solutions, LLC
Certified Joomla Administrator

[sakoman Friend sakomanJoin date: January 2007Posts: 21Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 4 Thanked: 2 times in 1 posts]

#472562

I resolved the issue.

In searching for what might be different between my site and the demo site I tried disabling the sh404SEF component since the demo site didn’t use that.

Bingo! All worked as expected.

Thanks to all those that gave suggestions on how to resolve this.

Steve

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#472603

That’s greate and thanks for sharing solutions.

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