Do I need an article on fp to make the homepage display?

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Do I need an article on fp to make the homepage display?

Post by joknight » Sat Apr 18, 2015 1:37 am

Do I need to link an article to the main page menu item? I would rather have no article on the homepage and just modules.
Am i missing something obvious here?
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Re: Do I need an article on fp to make the homepage display?

Post by jootempl » Sat Apr 18, 2015 1:53 am

Chose Main page type no need dislay article, for example: feature article, alias, external url....

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Re: Do I need an article on fp to make the homepage display?

Post by joknight » Sat Apr 18, 2015 2:00 am

Thanks for your help.

Changing the menu item type to : Alias or external url causes this error:

Warning

Save failed with the following error: The home menu item must be a component.

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Re: Do I need an article on fp to make the homepage display?

Post by jootempl » Sat Apr 18, 2015 12:55 pm

You should chose your home menu type: Feature Article.

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Re: Do I need an article on fp to make the homepage display?

Post by JoomIa-Shark » Sat Apr 18, 2015 1:34 pm

Set it to Featured Article but only if you haven't set any of your articles to 'Featured'!

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Re: Do I need an article on fp to make the homepage display?

Post by joknight » Mon Apr 20, 2015 8:19 pm

But I don't want any article to show...even featured

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Re: Do I need an article on fp to make the homepage display?

Post by slavelle » Tue Apr 21, 2015 1:58 am

The real purpose of making an article "featured" is to make it show on the home page, so as Joomla-Shark suggested, make your Home menu item show featured items and make sure that none of your articles are set as featured and you will not have anything on your home page expect the module positions that are so assigned.

You might have to hide the main component area on the Home page with CSS or in some other way within your template in order to not have the blank space that would usually be occupied by the featured articles.

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Re: Do I need an article on fp to make the homepage display?

Post by Per Yngve Berg » Tue Apr 21, 2015 6:05 am

1) Create a New Article. Embed the Modules into the article.
https://docs.joomla.org/How_do_you_put_ ... article%3F

2) Use a Menu item of type Single Article and select the newly created article.

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Re: Do I need an article on fp to make the homepage display?

Post by joknight » Tue Apr 21, 2015 3:02 pm

Slavelle, Yes, your explanation made sense to me. Thanks for the clarification. I'm pleased to finally understand how to do this.
Thanks Per Yngve Berg for your method. I have placed modules in the article on other sites, but just wanted no article this time.

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Re: Do I need an article on fp to make the homepage display?

Post by JoomIa-Shark » Tue Apr 21, 2015 8:24 pm

Also a lot of modern templates come with the following option: Hide Component from Home Page.

So check in your template settings, and if you have this setting, turn it on and no matter what your home page won't display any articles.
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Re: Do I need an article on fp to make the homepage display?

Post by joknight » Wed Apr 22, 2015 1:57 pm

Good to know - thanks Joomla Shark


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