View source for Creating Required Joomla Menu Items

Since JReviews uses Joomla's content system for Listings, it is necessary to create several core Joomla Menu items.

Joomla '''Section Blog/List Layout''' or '''Category Blog/List Layout''' menu items are required for listing pages to have the correct ItemIDs in URLs, to be able to properly assign modules to listing detail pages and to have better SEF URLs.

You need to create those menu items for all Joomla Sections that you use with JReviews, or for all Joomla Categories that you use with JReviews. You choice will have affect on how the listings SEF URLs will look if you use [[Using Joomla Core SEF|Joomla Core SEF]]<br />
If you create Joomla Section menu items, the urls will look like this:
*<span style="color: blue">http://example.com/section-menu-name/id-category-name/id-article-title</span>
If you create Joomla Category menu items, the urls will look like this:
*<span style="color: blue">http://example.com/category-menu-name/id-article-title</span>

If you decide to create both Joomla Section and Category menu items, the urls will look like this: *<span style="color: blue">http://example.com/section-menu-name/category-menu-name/id-article-title</span>

Those menu items don't need to be displayed on your site, so it is best to create a new "Hidden Menu" without a module


== Steps for creating Joomla Section or Category menu items ==

*in Joomla administration click on Menus => Menu Manager and to create a new menu click on '''New''' button
*on the next screen enter the '''Name''' and '''Title''' of the menu, but leave the Module Title empty, so that the module won't be created:
[[File:NewHiddenMenu.png]]
*next, start creating menu items


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