Create menu entries Joomla 2.5

Introduction

Joomla offers a powerful and flexible way to manage content on your website. A central feature is the creation of menu items to make posts easy to find and optimize navigation for visitors. In this guide you will learn how to create a menu item in Joomla 2.5 that refers directly to a post. This allows better structuring of your website and facilitates the management of your content.

1. Registration in the Joomla backend

Before you start creating a menu item, you must log in to the Joomla Administration Panel.

• Call up the URL of your website and hang ‘/administrator ==References== http://www.example.net/administrator.
• Enter your login details. You have either received them during the installation or received them from your administrator.

2. Go to Menu Management

After the successful registration you will find yourself in the Dashboard by Joomla.

• Click on Menusto get to the overview of the menus.

3. Select Menu

• In the menu overview you can see all the menus available.
• Select the menu to which you want to add a new entry.
• If you are unsure of the location of the menu on your website, you can ask the developer or try it yourself.

4. Create new menu item

• Click in the menu Newto create a new menu item.

5. Select menu item type

• Click on Selectto specify the type of menu item.
• If you want to create a single item as a menu item, select Individual contribution from the list.

6. Set entry for the menu item

• After the selection of “Single contribution” appears on the right side of the section “Required attitudes.
• Click on Selectionto choose the desired contribution.
• Now select the item from the list.

7. Menu Name and Save

• Enter the menu item Relevant namesIdeally, it should match the contribution title.
• Save the new menu item with “Save & Close”.