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The Front Page Manager controls the Content Items that are set to appear in the Front Page (Home Page) of the web site. Individual Content Items are identified for publication here in the Content Item itself where the Show on Front Page check box is checked. The Joomla front page is a component that generates intro text of selected Joomla content items (articles) in a desired layout.The "Front Page" parameter can be selected via a radio button at the top when editing an article on the administrator side.When the home or default menu item is the Articles>>Frontpage layout, all articles which have "Front Page" set to "yes" in their parameters will be arranged according to the settings in that menu item.
The layout parameters that can be chosen within that menu item are : leading, intro, columns, and links. Leading is the number of full width (one article across the page) intros to show first. Intro is the number of intro-text of articles to show below the leading articles. Intros will be arranged in the number of columns as defined in the next Column parameter. For example, if 2 is the number of columns there will be two intros next to each other, each taking up 50% of the width of the page. Links, finally, is the number of article titles to show that did not show up as intros on the page. If there are 8 total articles set to Front Page, and 3 intros chosen to show up, then the number of possible links would be 5. That number could be set lower using the "Links" parameter. |
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