Sticky K 2.0 general menu issues

Matias

Thanks

I have the Menu up and running now.

Hi Matias:

Can these menu items be copied as submenu items or do they need to be first level menu items? This solution is quite unwieldy since it will mess up the design and aesthetics of existing menus on my site. Is there some way of creating a default option for future upgrades to simply allow the standard kunena tab menu to appear on the top of forum page? I believe many sites will prefer this.

Another idea. What if.. the Kunena menu is simply published somewhere as in a new drop down menu? Will doing this cause the kunena tab menus now appear at the top of the forum?

freedomcoach wrote: Can these menu items be copied as submenu items or do they need to be first level menu items?

Did you first try Mortti's suggestion?

freedomcoach wrote: Is there some way of creating a default option for future upgrades to simply allow the standard kunena tab menu to appear on the top of forum page?

For new installations of Kunena this is the standard approach. As soon as people start customising their own versions of a Kunena menu (without first reading Customised menus ) or fully appreciating Joomla's highly complicate menuing system, that's when problems arise.

freedomcoach wrote: What if the Kunena menu is simply published somewhere as in a new drop down menu? Will doing this cause the Kunena tab menus now appear at the top of the forum?

That's not going to re-instate the tabbed menu; however, if someone can demonstrate how a drop down menuing system might work, in a practical way, and help develop their ideas with the team, I'm all in favour of that. The simple fact is that the current Blue Eagle template incorporates a "tabbed" menu, and that's really all that I can say.

The main problem at this stage, Howard, is how you go about getting your Kunena menu re-instated. I may be able to work through the process with you, when you and I both have a spare hour or so. On the other hand, I'm part-way through writing The Kunena Menu and, no joking, I figure I have about another 16 hours without interruptions to complete it. The trouble is, of course, I never seem to be able to make time for documentation projects like these, because I am overwhelmed dealing with questions on the forum. :whistle:

After some experimenting, I came up with a workaround for getting the kunena menu back onto my forum.

I put my entire Forum menu on a new top (drop down) menu and on my main menu link, instead of directing it to the forum itself, it directs the user to the other (drop down) menu using the external link feature.

This is certainly a clutsy solution in my opinion but it does work okay for now. I'm hoping this can be made easier in subsequent releases.

If you want a drop-down menu then you have to do it yourself. If you want a standard Kunena tabbed menu, as you wrote:

Is there some way of creating a default option for future upgrades to simply allow the standard kunena tab menu to appear on the top of forum page?

this is already done for you with a standard installation of Kunena. As we have commented in the past, Howard, your particular instance of Kunena is very much tailored to your specific needs - needs that may not necessarily suit everyone. And that's really all that I have to say about that.

I'm pleased to hear that you got everything to work even though I would never, ever advise the use of External Link types of menu items as far as Kunena is concerned.

Whether or not these menu-related issued can be more easily resolved in future releases of Kunena depends entirely on whatever-the-heck the guys who develop Joomla will devilishly devise that will further confuse and confound us more! And that's about all I have to say about that, too! :whistle:

Hello, I uninstalled Kunena 1.7.2 and then installed Kunena 2.0. The problem is that when I load a forum page, main menu Kunena does not load properly (not visible). If I push the button "go" to load categories, then the menu is displayed.
I am using PHP 5.2.17, Joomla 2.5.6 and template for joomla - Afterburner from Rockettheme.
I publish 2 picture with this issue.

My site with forum is: group.bg/forums

Best regards,
Milko Milkov