Question

I have been tasked with adding a single link to a Joomla v1.5 site. For sake of brevity I won’t include the backstory. Long story short … this Joomla site is being replaced in the near future with Drupal. For the time being I need to add some content to the Joomla version.

I have a menu that consists of a series of <li> items that are hyper links to other pages. I can view the HTML source using FireBug so I can see that the Joomla template code is generating.

The Joomla template code is …

<jdoc:include type="modules" name="menu5" />

it creates the following HTML

<li><a href="/index.php?option=com_dmenu&id=35&mid=6">Link #1 Text</a></li>
<li><a href="/index.php?option=com_dmenu&id=36&mid=7">Link #2 Text</a></li>
<li><a href="/index.php?option=com_dmenu&id=37&mid=7">Link #3 Text</a></li>
<li><a href="/index.php?option=com_dmenu&id=38&mid=7">Link #4 Text</a></li>

I can view the module named menu5 via the Joomla interface but I cannot see any way to edit the content it generates. I can change meta data regarding the menu (Title, Position, Order, Access Level, etc ..), but nothing about changing the content the menu generates. All I want to do is to insert another link in this list. I could modify the template and hardcode it except it needs to be inserted in the middle of the list.

Any Joomla gurus out there that could tell me where to modify the content this module generates?

Answer 1

It sounds like it’s a Joomla! Menu module (in the Module Manager you can check the type column and see if its a menu type).

If it is a menu, you will need to use the Menu menu to select the right menu and then add a menu item to it. (Sorry for all the menus, it’s a self referential subject).

Typically the menu module will have the same/similar name as the Menu it displays.