Hi, welcome back, this is Muhammad Jalloh from JoomlaSultan.com.
Today I am going to show you how to create menu items in Joomla. Now, if you go to our homepage, you might as already have menu categories. We have the Main menu, this is the top menu here and this is the Resources menu, this is a Key Concepts menu. And then if you log in, you will find out that we have the User menu. All right, so that is the categories of menu that we have.
So let us go back to the Admin area and click on Menu Manager. Now, these are the categories of menu that we have which I have just showed you from the content. Now if you want to create a new menu item, let us import here under the main menu category.
Now, you click on this. This is main menu here so click on this graphic here. And now there are two ways you can do this. You can add and rename at the system menu and make it point to by the content section or category or you could create a fresh menu item by clicking on new.
So, first let us create a new list of name in the new menu item. Now we want this to point to a particular section of our website. Now remember that we are creating a recipe website, so we are going to just point to one of the sections of our website.
So, first we have to change the type of menu. Now this is going to be an internal link and we wanted to, under our records here, we wanted to point to a particular section of our website, to our section and layout.
Now, let us choice a section that we want this menu to point to. So click on this and let us call it Hispanic Recipes. So we are just going to type in the Hispanic Recipes section of content on our website.
So once all is done, come back here and if you want this, it is advisable to add it to this a little bit here so if you can tell on this category list and sections. Once you click on that particular menu it goes and then list the categories in that section also. And if you want to show sudden categories in that section that does not have any content in it, you could do that click on show.
If you do not want to show any content categories that does not have content, just click on hide, which is advisable. And then click on the parameters. Now, under the advance parameters here, it asks you the Ordering that you want. I prefer to make it alphabetical and then the ordering of Article Orders also make it alphabetical or something.
You could choose another option that you have here. So you have done already the categories under that section alphabetically and then already as it was on each category alphabetically also. And then you want to be able to create an RSS feed for that section. So you click on Yes and then the components parameter here, you have to fix that also.
If you want to show unauthorized links say no or show the link. The article title, say yes, is the title linkable, yes. Show some intro text. Under the section name, show them of the section, and make it linkable, show a category and make it linkable, okay.
If want to show your name also, you could choose that also. If you want to hide it, you could do that, it is all up to you. And then the time and date that a particular article was created; you can choose to hide it. Choose to hide it when you modify it also.
Navigation, you could show the navigation and then if you want to enable voting in an article, you can say yes. And you could be able to rate and vote an article under the section here.
And then, you have this icon show the PDA icon, that you could convert an article in your website, or the print icon, email icon, you know I know that once all of these is done, choose the system parameters and give and name it after the—this is going to appear in the title bar of your window when you open that section. So it is going to be Hispanic Recipes. This will be yours and it will be ranked in the search engines for that particular keyword. So once all is done, click on Save. Now as you can see the Joomla overview has nothing to place with Hispanic Recipes.
So, now we go back to our homepage and see if we were actually able to do this. So re
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