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Red Zambala
Red Zambala

Reputation: 11

How to create a second frontpage in Joomla?

How to create a second (or more) front page in Joomla? (Joomla 3.1.5 here)?!

My dream website would be a website with several Homepages, but I haven't figured yet how to make it.... What I mean: for example if you have website on sports - you want a Homepage for: Hockey, Football and Basketball
- each with all 18 (or so) template positions, full page of Modules, etc....Exactly like it is on actual Front Page, but each on different topic....

How to do this?!

and how to get over 'question quality standarts' - everything is described above;

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1668

Answers (3)

Daniel Böttner
Daniel Böttner

Reputation: 112

'Riccardo Zorn' did answer this question pretty well.

What you basically wan't to do is to create a website with kind of a following structure.

site:

  • 1: category 1 (sport x)
  • 2: category 2 (sport y)
    • 2.1: subcategory to 2(sport y ~ men)
    • 2.2: subcategory to 2(sport y ~ women) ...

While each category would be a seperate menu as well as very likely a different template. It is up to you to filter for the templates and menues which modules are shown there. But you will have one basic entry point for the website.

No offense but what you want to do is basically default in joomla since at least version 1.6

Upvotes: 1

Sbpro
Sbpro

Reputation: 988

Unless you have a total different requirements that what you have described, one way to achieve what you are after for in Joomla 3, is to create several featured articles menu-items with the category settings you want, and also configure your template to work the way you want, with the module positions and the module assignments.

There are also other custom content components, you may want to try, like k2, that offers a variety of options when creating blog layout pages.
And to add to Daniel Bottner's comment that under conditions, this was also possible even with J1.5.

similar simple example in J1.5: example-page1 example-page2

Upvotes: 1

Riccardo Zorn
Riccardo Zorn

Reputation: 5615

You need to create menu items, assign them to different templates, assign the modules et voilà.

Create the new featured menu items and filter them by category, assuming one is Hockey, Golf etc.

Featured menu item

Then in the template manager, install your new template or create a new style for one of the templates based on your requirements, and assign the newly created menu item.

Template manager-assign menu items

If you're looking for a howto, you might want to start from Joomla.org or google.

It's not a matter of quality, but of context. This is a developers site, not a Joomla usage forum.

Upvotes: 1

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