MENU TYPES

MENU
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1 Internal Link
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2 External Link
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3 Separator
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4 Alias
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1 Internal Link

A Articles
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B Contacts
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C News Feeds
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D Polls
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E Search
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F Us er
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G Web Links
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H Wrapper
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1 Internal Link
A Articles
I Archive
Archived Article List
II Article
Article Layout
Article Submission Layout
III Category
Category Blog Layout
Category List Layout
IV Front Page
Front Page Blog Layout
V S ection
Section Blog Layout
Section Layout

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1 Internal Link
A Articles
I Archive
Archived Article Layout

This link displays all articles that have been archived. Visitors can search them by date.

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1 Internal Link
A Articles
II Article
Article Layout

This link displays a single Article.

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1 Internal Link
A Articles
II Article
Article Submission Layout

Here your visitors can submit their Article to your website.

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1 Internal Link
A Articles
III Category
Category Blog Layout

This shows all articles from the category you have chosen.

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1 Internal Link
A Articles
III Category
Category List Layout

This link lists all articles that belongs to a category.

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1 Internal Link
A Articles
IV Front Page
Front Page Blog Layout

This link shows the front page blog.

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1 Internal Link
A Articles
V S ection
Section Blog Layout

This link displays all articles that belongs to a Section.

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1 Internal Link
A Articles
V S ection
Section Layout

This link lists all categories that belongs to a specified section.

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1 Internal Link
B Contacts
I Category
Contact Category Layout
II Contact
Standard Contact Layout

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1 Internal Link
B Contacts
I Category
Category Contact Layout

This link lists all contacts that belongs to the specified category.

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1 Internal Link
B Contacts
II Contact
Standard Contact Layout

This link shows all information about a specific Contact. Visitors can send a message to him too.

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1 Internal Link
C News Feeds
I All Categories
Category List Layout
II Category
Category Layout
III Individual Feed
Single Feed Layout

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1 Internal Link
C News Feeds
II All Categories
Category List Layout

This link lists all News Feeds categories that exists.

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1 Internal Link
C News Feeds
II Category
Category Layout

This link lists all Feeds that belongs to the specified Category.

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1 Internal Link
C News Feeds
III Individual Feed
Single Feed Layout

This link shows a single News Feed.

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1 Internal Link
D Polls
I Poll
Poll Layout

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1 Internal Link
D Polls
I Poll
Poll Layout

This link shows the results of all the Polls.

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1 Internal Link
E Search
I S earch
Search

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1 Internal Link
E Search
I S earch
Search

This link displays the Search form and result. Your visitors can search the content of your website here.

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1 Internal Link
F Us er
I Login
Default Login Layout
II Register
Default Registration Layout
III Remind
Default Remind
IV Reset
Confirm Reset Layout (stage 2)
Default Reset Layout (stage 1)
V User
Default User Layout
User Form Layout

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1 Internal Link
F Us er
I Login
Default Login Layout

This page contains the login form to the registered users of your website.

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1 Internal Link
F Us er
II Register
Default Registration Layout

This is the registration form. Here your visitors can become users of your website.

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1 Internal Link
F Us er
III Login
Default Remind

This link shows the Remind Username page. Your users can type their e-mail to get their username.

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1 Internal Link
F Us er
IV Reset
Confirm Reset Layout

Here your users must enter the verification token, sent to the user's e-mail.

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1 Internal Link
F Us er
IV Reset
Default Reset Layout

Informing their e-mail, users can have access to the Reset Password process.

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1 Internal Link
F Us er
V User
Default User Layout
This link displays a welcome message when the user accesses the registered area. You can edit this
message in the WELCOME_DESC key of com_user.ini site language file.

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1 Internal Link
F Us er
V User
User Form Layout
Here users can change their details, choose a language and time zone. Users with publishing
permissions will be able to choose a text editor, while administrators can choose the Help Site.

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1 Internal Link
G Web Links
I All Categories
Web Link Category List Layout
II Category
Category List Layout
III Web Link
Web Link Submission Layout

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1 Internal Link
G Web Links
I All Categories
Web Link Category List Layout

This link lists all Web Link categories that exists.

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1 Internal Link
G Web Links
II Category
Category List Layout

This link shows all Web Links that belongs to a specified category.

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1 Internal Link
G Web Links
III Web Link
Web Link Submission Layout

Here your users can send Web Links to your page.

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1 Internal Link
H Wrapper
I Wrapper
Wrapper

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1 Internal Link
H Wrapper
I Wrapper
Wrapper

This link displays a IFrame with a external page. In this example, we choose the Joomla page.

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2 External Link

A External Link

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2 External Link
A External Link
I External Link

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2 External Link
A External Link
I External Link

This menu item links to another web site or web page. In the image, pay attention to the Status Bar.

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3 Separator

A Separator

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3 Separator
A Separator
I S eparator

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3 Separator
A Separator
I S eparator

This creates a Separator within the menu. This way, you can add temporary links or break up long
menus.

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4 Alias

A Alias

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4 Alias
A Alias
I Alias

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4 Alias
A Alias
I Alias

This menu type simply links to any existing menu item. In this case, we linked to the Joomla Page
Wrapper. This way, you prevent to creating several equal menu items.

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