Important Kunena does not work as my site homepage or with my Joomla menus

Probably the biggest issue that Kunena needs to fix is the ability to have kunena as your site home page. And firstly, i have been using kunena since it was joomlaboard so please no need for quick responses that you can.

This just does not work, and the menus get all screwed up. If you just want to have a joomla site with kunena then this is impossible.

The kunena menu and its relationship to the main menu (and default showing on kunena pages), the ability to set kunena homepage as your site homepage menu item, and then also have a menu item called 'forum' so your site has links like domain.com/forum is a necessity

Matias and team can you please investigate and resolve as this is one of the fundamentals of being able to use kunena and joomla together and currently kunena does not work with joomla menus.

My ideal setup would be:

Main Menu:
Home = kunena home page (url is site.com)
Forum = show kunena home page / category list (so that url is site.com/forum)
- Categories (so that url is site.com/forum/categories)
- Latest Posts (so that url is site.com/forum/latest-posts)
- New Topic (so that url is site.com/forum/new-topic)
- No Replies (so that url is site.com/forum/no-replies)
Blog
Contact Us

When in forum the url of the categories to be:

Section 1 (eg Dogs, so url is either site.com/forum/dogs or site.com/forum/categories/dogs whichever works best)
- Category 1 (url is site.com/forum/dogs/category 1)
- Category 2
Section 2 (eg Cats, so url is site.com/forum/cats)
- Category 3
- Category 4 (url is site.com/forum/cats/category 4)
- Topic (eg Why are cats furry? so url is site.com/forum/cats/category 4/why-are-cats-furry

currently with current kunena this is not possible

it also really annoys me that the kunena menu is automatically linked to the main menu showing of the kunena home page. no way to turn it off if you have the kunena menu shown elsewhere on your site.

i would prefer if you brought back the kunena_menu module postion that you can publish the kunena menu in that position yourself!!

Thanks for your interest in this topic Sozzled, however i think you have missed the issue.

Yes, it is physically possible to create a menu to the kunena index page then assign that as the home page in the joomla main menu. This sets kunena as homepage for joomla, however if done it creates havoc for the rest of kunena. the home page links break the sef urls and start showing non-sef urls, menus go haywire and means you cannot set another menu item with kunena or have an alias to the kunena index menu item.

As mentioned, this is a known problem with Matias, and was just asking if this had been fixed in the upcoming K3.1 release as kunena is the main part of my site and i really would prefer to have it as my homepage, but after spending days trying over the last couple of years, it just wasnt possible and have the site keep functioning properly.

this would be one of my top wishlist items!

woonydanny wrote: Yes, it is physically possible to create a menu to the kunena index page then assign that as the home page in the joomla main menu. This sets kunena as homepage for joomla, however if done it creates havoc for the rest of Kunena.

I spent half an hour testing my demonstration site and I could not see what havoc was created.

woonydanny wrote: As mentioned, this is a known problem with Matias, and was just asking if this had been fixed in the upcoming K3.1...

I'm sorry but I just don't totally comprehend the problem or the extent to which you say that Matias is aware of it; I haven't been able to contact Matias for a couple of weeks and so I don't know what he knows about this. Perhaps you might be able to clue me in? You will notice that I split the other topic (in which you talk about K 3.1) so that we could focus on what is broken in K. 3.0 and what needs to be fixed in your opinion.

woonydanny wrote: ... the home page links break the sef urls and start showing non-sef urls, menus go haywire ...

I must confess that on my test site (a) I have properly implemented Joomla SEO with a properly working .htaccess file (as recommended by Joomla), (b) I am using J! 3.2.2, and (c) I do not have any other Joomla extensions installed (except for Kunena) nor do I have any other menu items. But, I do not have any SEF URL issues as far as Kunena is concerned,

Until, or unless, we know more about your website and more about this problem as far as K 3.0 is concerned, I don't know what more I can say. Your configuration report might offer us some further clues. I'm only saying that, in my case where I have defined Kunena forum as my site home page, I cannot see any "havoc". Would you like to try out my test site for yourself to show me where your issues arise? :dry:

I am unable to verify your claim that no-one can use the Kunena forum as their site home page (without creating "havoc" elsewhere). I do not know how discussion or speculation about what might be done in K 3.1 assists this topic; in other words, what, specifically, is broken in K 3.0. Wouldn't you agree? Perhaps other people who use Kunena forum as their site home page may like to contribute to this discussion also.

I have also moved this topic into our "support/defect" category I order to raise the priority of these serious concerns about Kunena as a dependable forum solution for Joomla users.

Ok i think the best way to replicate the issue is to setup this:

Main Menu:
Home = kunena home page (url is site.com)
Forum = show kunena home page / category list (so that url is site.com/forum)
- Categories (so that url is site.com/forum/categories)
- Latest Posts (so that url is site.com/forum/latest-posts)

You will find that you cannot have the home page point to kunena home page and also have a menu item called 'forum' pointing to kunena index (or even as an alias).

i want urls of my forum to be site.com/forum/etc but cant have this if home page is set to be kunena.