Switching a site over to J2.5, and one of the default templates will work for an existing site with some tweeking. However, it doesn't seem to have the capability for a dropdown menu in position-1. Can you tell me what I can do to add a drop-down menu?

Thanks
Pat Witter

Hi Pat,

Give our "How to Use a Drop Down Menu in Joomla 2.5" tutorial:
www.ostraining.com/blog/joomla/how-to-us...n-menu-in-joomla-16/

or our "Creating a Mega Menu in Joomla" tutorial a try:
www.ostraining.com/blog/joomla/creating-a-mega-menu-in-joomla/

Hope this helps! Let us know if you have questions along the way.

Kind regards,
Nick

I had installed the menu, put it in positon-1 but it doesn't show up.
I must be missing a step.
192.220.72.203/

Also, how do I change the menu bar to reflect the site name?

Pat Witter

Hi Pat,

Which tutorial are you following and which extension are you using?

Kind regards,
Nick

Using the Maxi Menu, following your tutorial. It's not displaying correctly. It's displaying to the far right, not underneath it's parent menu item "Shows & Events".

Pat W.

Hi Pat,

Would you send me some login credentials to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. so I can take a quick look for you? Please include a link to this forum post in the email and then afterward reply to this forum post letting me know you sent the email so that I can check it.

Kind regards,
Nick

Login credentials sent to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .
Thanks
Pat Witter

Thanks Pat! I replied by email. The login information isn't working for me. Could you double check it?

Kind regards,
Nick

Double-checked it, and was able to login with your credentials. Please try again.

Pat W.

Hi Pat,

I double checked. They still don't work. I'm positive :)

Please see the email I sent you.

Kind regards,
Nick

Hi Pat,

Thank you, Pat! OK, now I was able to get in.

Looks like you're still using the regular default menu on your site. It's assigned to the "position-1" module position and is assigned to all pages. The Maxi Menu module on the other hand, although assigned to the "position-1" module position, it is assigned to no pages.

All that's left is that you need to disable the default menu module and assign the maxi-menu module to all pages.

Hope this helps! :)

Kind regards,
Nick

This helped. I thought I had done this, but apparently I hadn't. didn't think to go backand check it. Thanks for your help.

Pat W.

Hi Pat,

Nick's a great resource. Glad you guys got that sorted out.

Cheers,
ed

You have no idea how much I appreciate you "OSTopDogs". Thank you so much for your quick responses and fixes.

Pat Witter

This is the site that I am having problems, the new 2.5 site. Here is the url

192.220.72.203/

As you can see, the drop-down items are not showing up, but they are in the menu and in the module is configured the way you had it.

I'm misssing something for it not to show up.

Pat Witter

There could be a problem with the template. If you switch to another one temporarily will it show up?

If the menu items are enabled, and the viewing permissions are public, there's really no reason why they shouldn't show.

To trouble shoot, you'll need to experiment a bit to see if we can find out what is actually causing the problem. It's a process of elimination, so the first thing to eliminate is the settings. If all those check out, then test the template.

1. Click Rebuild at the top of the menu item manger and rebuild the menu.
2. Remove the menu items and put them back and rebuild again if that didn't work.
3. Go to Extenions > Extension Manager and check the Database and the Warnings for messages.
4. Use cpanel or phpmyadmin to fix the data base.
5. Go to your global configuration and turn error messages to maximum and see if you get an error.
6. Turn off all plugins but the core plugins to see if there is a plugin conflict.
7. Switch templates and see if it's working in another template.
8. Use Akeeba admin tools to reinstall Joomla.

These are all the things I would try first, if you've done all this and still not working, let us know.

Ed

Holy smoke, I've got some work to do. I changed up the beez20 template to reflect the colours - green and gold. Do you have any other suggestions for another template that I could easily change those colours to?

In the meantime, I will work on this. So, don't close this as solved until I report back, because I'm not as fast as you.

Thanks
Pat Witter

You're welcome, Pat! I'm glad to be of help! :)

If you need any help with the new issue, please resend the login info and post back in here.

Kind regards,
Nick

Well, it's been a couple of day since I started to do checks on my site. Did them all, one by one, and nothing seemed to work. Tearing my hair out. Finally, as a last resort, I copied the menu, and voila, that one worked! So, it has been "fixed", but don't know how that happened.

Thanks for the check list, I'll keep that in mind when something goes wrong, before I give up completely. And thanks for the support and help.

Pat Witter

Woohoo! Glad you got it sorted, Pat! We're very glad we could be of help! :)

Kind regards,
Nick