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Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide Second Edition

By : Eric Tiggeler
Book Image

Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide Second Edition

By: Eric Tiggeler

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Time for action – adding a menu module


The template we've downloaded, Ice Future, comes with a couple of free modules. You don't really need them in order to be able to use the template. However, they can add useful functionality to your site. Especially the IceMegaMenu module has many advantages in comparison to the Joomla menu module, and it renders a menu that blends in nicely with the template design. Let's add this module.

  1. Navigate to Extensions | Extension Manager and click on the Upload Package File button. Then, click on Browse to navigate to the downloaded menu module, that is, the mod_icemegamenu_v.3.0.2.zip file. Install this module.

  2. Next, select the plg_icemegamenu0.zip plugin and install this plugin too.

  3. Enable the plugin. Go to Extensions | Plug-in Manager and locate the IceMegaMenu plugin. Click on the red cross in the Status column. It will change into a check mark, which means that the plugin is now active.

  4. Now, we can also enable the menu module and change its settings. Navigate...