Difference between revisions of "Creating Required Joomla Menu Items"

Revision as of 18:25, 15 August 2010

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 Joomla Core SEF

If you create Joomla Section menu items, the urls will look like this:

• http://example.com/section-menu-alias/id-category-alias/id-article-titlealias

If you create Joomla Category menu items, the urls will look like this:

• http://example.com/category-menu-alias/id-article-titlealias

If you decide to create both Joomla Section and Category menu items, the urls will look like this:

• http://example.com/section-menu-alias/category-menu-alias/id-article-titlealias

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. If you want to display Section and Category menu items on your site, create JReviews Section/Category menu items.

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:

• next, start creating menu items

• make sure you enter unique Title/Alias for each menu item, because duplicates will cause SEF issues

Relation between Modules and those Joomla Section/Category menu items

• Joomla Section/Category menu items are important because URLs of listing pages will have their ItemIDs
• That means that if you want to display certain modules on listing detail pages, you must assign modules to those Joomla menu items