weird problem with category blog page
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- Etcetera Ellipsis
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At the site below, I have a "new releases" page set up in "category blog" layout. It pulls articles from the section "news/lead story." I have it set up to show the most recent article in its entirety, and the rest as links. If you click on the links to the older articles, though, they open up on a page that looks like the front page - with the modules I've placed in the "advert1" and "advert2" position - which are set to only show up on the home page. Why are those modules showing up when I click on the older articles? How can I get rid of them??
Click on the link at the bottom that says "Week of November 10th" to see what I mean:
ldvflix.com/new/index.php?option=com_con...blog&id=13&Itemid=28
Please help! I'm using Hyperion, if that's relevant, but I don't think this is necessarily a template issue.
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- Cero Code
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Well, I'd say that this a Joomla! bug sort of... but is not, so inorder to define what module to be show and that sort of stuff by article or category or section.
now in order to to have diferent modules by article or category or section you have to define a link...
simple, do the following...
Go to your Menu Manager and on the mainmenu ad more links...
1 for a section
1 for each category that a section may have
by doing this you will have more control over what modules to show per page...
please let us know if this solve your problem... - No Site for now..
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- I'm confused. I do have a link already in my main menu, called "new releases," that's linked to the section and category in question. But the older articles on that page, under that section & category, open up on a page that has extra modules on it. I specified that those modules only be attached to "home." I don't want to create any more links that are visible in the main menu, since I already have a link to the category in question that's visible - it seems odd to have another link to the same thing...? Or am I misunderstanding?
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ok...
Do you have a Link to that Section? not the category but the section it self?
if yes then you need another link to the category that is under that section...
Do you have a link to that Category but not to the section, then something is wrong with the link or the alias name.
What am I saying is that you need a link to that Category in order to have a different modules if any on that particular area of your site.
Now, the link to that category doesn't need to be visible you can create a new menu.
Go to your Menu Manager and create a new menu call it Cat Menu and for the module do the same, CatMenu
ad the links for the categories that you may have on that new menu that you have just created.
go to your Module Manager and look for your new Menu Module which we named CatMenu, all you have to do, is publish it on a position that is not visible on your site.
wait a second, you may are saying! WTF! a position that is not visible on the site? how? if all the position are visible on the site as soon a you publish something on that position...
Well, thats the easy part..
Go to the template folder that you may are using with an FTP program, download the templateDetails.xml file, and ad a new position
<position>catmenu</position>
save it, upload it...
go back to your site administrator and to your Module Manager look again for that module and publish it on that new position.
Now you have a position that is not visible in your template but it is visible to the frame work of Joomla!.
and thats how is done, that how I have many categories on different site that had the same problem as you have right now.
I hope this can help. - No Site for now..
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