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Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide Second Edition

You're reading from   Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide Second Edition Build, develop, and manage a fully functioning, professional looking, and feature-rich website with the Joomla! CMS

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783981502
Length 476 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. A New and Easy Way to Build Websites 2. Getting Joomla! Up and Running FREE CHAPTER 3. First Steps – Getting to Know Joomla! 4. Web Building Basics – Creating a Site in an Hour 5. Small Sites, Big Sites – Organizing Your Content Effectively 6. Creating Killer Content – Adding and Editing Articles 7. Welcoming Your Visitors – Creating Attractive Home Pages and Overview Pages 8. Helping Your Visitors Find What They Want – Managing Menus 9. Opening Up the Site – Enabling Users to Log in and Contribute 10. Getting the Most out of Your Site – Extending Joomla! 11. Creating an Attractive Design – Working with Templates 12. Attracting Search Engine Traffic – SEO Tips and Techniques A. Keeping the Site Secure B. Creating a Multilingual Site C. Pop Quiz Answers Index

Time for action – displaying Main Menu links in Top Menu

Let's set the Top menu module to show the Main Menu contents:

  1. Go to Extensions | Module Manager. Locate the menu module named Top and click on its name to edit it.
  2. Click on the Select Menu drop-down box to select Main Menu (instead of the current selection, Top):
    Time for action – displaying Main Menu links in Top Menu
  3. Make sure End Level is set to All and set Show Sub-menu Items to Yes. This way, the menu will display submenu links, not just the main level links. Save your changes.

Have a look at the frontend to see the output. As you can see, the Top menu now displays the contents of Main Menu. Hover your mouse over the News link to see whether the drop-down links are working—even if there's only one submenu link right now: the News Archive link.

Time for action – displaying Main Menu links in Top Menu

Have a go hero – cleaning up menus and menu links

At this moment, the site contains two menu modules displaying the same menu contents. Both the Top menu module and the menu module called This Site display the contents...

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