Question

I’m just getting into Joomla. I’ve successfully overridden article pages by creating an html/com_content/article directory within my template and copied the necessary files from the /com_content directory.

I’ve read that this is also possible for the frontpage. It seems however I’m missing the frontpage directory from my /com_content directory. Is this still supported in Joomla 2.5. I don’t really want to have to use a different template for my frontpage, but it looks like this may be my only option.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers
Tom

Answer 1

The ‘front page’ is simply a collection of articles that you deem to be on the ‘frontpage’. I’m not sure what you mean when you say you’ve “overridden” article pages… are you referring to the template? You don’t have to do that for each article (if that’s what you’re implying you did).

I think perhaps you’re misunderstanding how the templating system of Joomla works with regards to the site if you’re overriding each article you create? There is no ‘frontpage’ directory because there is no real ‘frontpage’; the main template you assign with address the frontpage and all other pages on the site (every article) unless otherwise told not to.

So adjust your main template to adjust your frontpage. I think you’re using template overrides in the wrong way.