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Posting an article to the front page is done by making it "Featured" isn't it. I wish they had an option like modules to specify an articles location but it's tied to the menu or Feature.
Not sure if this will help Mary but any time I want the URL address to anything I'm working on I just go to Preview site while I'm on that page. The page displays and your address bar gives you the address.
Les

Hi Mary - think I CAN help with this one (notwithstanding the colour of my socks!)

Remember the order you need to follow - C A M - ie Category, Article, Menu.

OK - Categories
Looking at your site you've got loads of modules pointing to different sections - have you set all these as Categories in Category Manager? So, first step, set yourself some categories that mirror the main sections of your site. This way you can assign articles to them later.

Articles
Bash away to your heart's content - or copy and paste them from other sources. Articles, though, just sit in the database if you don't tell them what they are and where they go. That's done with Menus. (Incidentally I don't think Les' tip about using Preview will work, if he means using the View Site button - the article won't be there if you haven't set it a place in a menu.)

Menus
So - up to the drop down 'Menus', choose which menu you want the article to appear under, then click on 'Add New Menu Item'. OK - top left, first box 'Menu Item Type' click 'Select' - for Read More to work, you cannot use Single Article; you MUST choose Category Blog (don't ask me why, I don't make the rules!).

If you don't want any of this to appear on the website, you can also create a 'Hidden Menu'. Just create the menu and the module - just don't publish it. This way you can link all those articles to the hidden menu, have them appear from links or the Read More button and not have the menu appear anywhere on the site.

So your random article generator - all the articles are under the heading 'Homosexuality and the Bible'. Create a category called 'Homosexuality and the Bible'. Set all related articles as category blogs in the 'Homosexuality and the Bible' category. If you then set the category in, say, your top menu, using the existing link H and the B (excuse shorthand) and create a sub-link called, say, 'All Articles' clicking on that will take you to a page listing all those articles. Clicking on Read More in the random module, will take you direct to the article concerned. Use a hidden menu if you want to keep the category page with the complete list hidden.

Hope that helps - remember C A M - that's the key.

Ian

Mary

Stumbled on this whilst looking for something else: -

http://www.buildajoomlawebsite.com/blog/tutorial/joomla-hidden-menus

Ian

Dear Ian,

Thank you so much for writing such a detailed explanation. One thing that I didn't know was the the Read More doesn't work for Single Article. That's kind of HUGE, isn't it!

I really think I've got the CAM thing down. For example if you go to my website at http://christiangays.com/cms/ and go to the menu across the top to H & B -> Clobber Verse Articles -> Adam, Eve & Steve, you see the whole article as I want it to appear. All is well. The problem is linking the Read More from the intro text of the article on the Spider Random Article on the Home page to this page.

I tried changing this page from Single Article to Category Blog and it then just listed a couple of the articles instead of showing this page so now I'm really confused, but I haven't checked the link you sent yet. Perhaps I'll figure out something from that.

Thank you so much for all your help!!!!!