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  • Having a page not appear in a menu

    Posted 16 years 7 months ago
    • There are some pages on my Joomla 1.5 site (a variation of Hivemind) that I do not want to appear in a menu. If I remove them from the menu, though, the URL rewrites itself into a non-SEF one. How do I keep the SEF-friendly name without having it appear in a menu?

      Example: www2.userful.com/company/news-a-events/media-kit/media-releases -- I don't want future media releases to be listed on the side menu or it will soon be 3 feet long.

      I don't want to install JoomSEF at this point in case it rewrites all my URLs. Are there any other options?

      Many thanks.
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    Re: Having a page not appear in a menu

    Posted 16 years 7 months ago
    • You need to have a workaround as the minute you take off the item from the menu, like you say, the URL changes.

      While I've not tested this, I reckon it will work; create a new menu system that you don't actually use. This way you'll still get the nice URL's and you can create a module for it that you turn on only when you need to get the nice URL's ..

      Like I said, I've not tested it ... but, it might work.
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    Re: Having a page not appear in a menu

    Posted 16 years 7 months ago
    • You read my mind...been meaning to post this and was just at the J! mothership seconds ago still looking for a solution...

      For just a basic page based on a single article, however, there must be a way to link to that article without having it as a menu item, right? ...the whole sec-cat-article thing is so counterintuitive when compared to DNN, where we simply created a new page...totally blank slate...and add modules to the page, rather than be forced to cresate menu items. So for some of these type of functions, I am still struggling to find workarounds. ;)
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    Re: Having a page not appear in a menu

    Posted 16 years 7 months ago
    • I use hidden menus.

      I create a Section or Category, publish articles to them, and create a Menu for them.

      When I make a Menu for the Section or Category, I leave it un-published.

      All the content I want to hide gets published to that Section or Category.

      (They can be linked later through Modules or Articles)

      Discusses here for creating a hidden Login page.

      www.rockettheme.com/forum/index.php?t=42359&rb_v=viewtopic
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