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I'm lost - Being right brained, I'm missing some left brain thing. Re: menus: I'm trying to get 7 (of 14) menu tabs on the home page, and ALL 14 menu selections in the footer. I'm challenged at figuring just how to set this up and can not find the solution. Please advise.
Do I start a new module or category or just work in the menu menu???? Totally lost in Tampa.
Do I start a new module or category or just work in the menu menu???? Totally lost in Tampa.
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So you have a main menu with 14 items. check
Now create a second menu called footer (or whatever) you can copy all 14 items from main menu into the footer menu. (Copy not move)
now you have two menus with 14 items. unpublish the 7 you don't need for the main menu, and leave all 14 published in the footer.
Now in your modules you will have two of them. One Menu module for the main menu for the 7.
And one Menu module for the footer with all 14 items. Hope this helps let us know how it goes.
If you have a url to share that may help when advice is needed.
I'm also in TampaGiovanni Yarabek likes this post.-
Thanks, THIS worked. Took me several attempts, but got it now. Thanks very much! -
Awesome. It's nice when a plan comes together.
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Just create an additional menu. Then you can work with two menus...one will be your main menu, and one will be your footer menu. Assign only the 7 items you want in the main menu to the main menu, then assign the 14 items to the footer menu.
You'll have to have two modules, one for each menu. For the footer menu, you can try placing that in the footer position, or whatever equivalent your template has.Build A Joomla Website writer and moderator, lover of CSS. Let's GO Hockey!!!!
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Okay Robert, what you say makes clear, lucid and perfect sense, however, it does not work that way on my end.
In the menus menu I have : Main Menu (which I can list all 14 or just 7)
If I choose just 7, the balance is no longer available to me, when I create the 2nd "footer menu"
So am I supposed to have main menu, with all options, yet not display and create a top menu and a footer menu?
I've tried this as well, and the previous attempts are still listed (as trashed) see attached screenshot. -
So, let's start more from the beginning then.
Are all of the 7 and 14 items you're speaking of actual Articles?
Are you creating Single Article menu items for each one?
Maybe some insight into what the menu items are will help figuring this out.Build A Joomla Website writer and moderator, lover of CSS. Let's GO Hockey!!!!
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Another possibility might be to make sub menus. If there are logical groups you might make 5 or 6 main menu items and then make the subs with the main items as parents. This puts all your options together in the top menu and when a user hovers over the main options the sub menus drop down.-
Thanks. I did figure out the sub-menu setting months ago. I'm suspecting somethingh is just not right, because its simply not working as it likely should or I goofed up at the very beginning, with the original menu ??? When I try to create a 2nd menu, I am not offered menu items. Maybe part of my template??? yootheme.com/balance
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I will be the first to admit, there are times when Joomla drives me crazy. There is not usually one way to do things. You can use Plug-in, components or modules to do almost the same thing and there is very little difference. I've found I like to create new Modules by Selecting the HTMl choice. I don't have to write code but it does give me the most flexibility and the module is easy to place on a page.
I use Artiseer Templates and I have also noticed I am sometimes limited in how many Menu items will display on the menu bar. I can add the items but only so many display. I may not have the menu bar tall enough for the wrap around.
Did you post your web address? Maybe looking at it could help.-
categories and modules and menues ... oh my! We're certainly not in Kansas anymore. seems like waaaaay too much redundancy, still trying to sort it all out, and in desperate need of a cheap sheet, step by step. Thanks for your comment!
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This is actually part of the Joomla core, and shouldn't have anything to do with what template you are using. The template will absolutely make a difference in what's show and how it's displayed, but you should still be able to create menus and menu items no matter what.
It does sound like something is not right. Creating multiple menus with the same or different menu items is standard practice. I wish I could guess at what's going wrong. It's hard for me to visualize what you're seeing when you try to create that second (footer) menu.
Do you have any other sites you can try this on? You don't even have to publish the menu in a module...just try to create it and see if it behaves the same way. Just a thought.Build A Joomla Website writer and moderator, lover of CSS. Let's GO Hockey!!!!
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