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...major menu control for Joomla!

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version 2.5.0
Licence: GNU/GPL

GNU/GPL

CustoMenu is an extremely powerful menu module. It gives you full control over the display of your menu. You my use one of your menu's or be completely independent of the Joomla! menu structure by selecting items from different menu's.

If you use CustoMenu, please post a rating and a review at the Joomla! Extensions Directory.

Description

CustoMenu is an extremely powerful menu module. It gives you full control over the display of your menu. You can use one of your menus or be completely independent of the Joomla! menu structure by selecting items from different menu's. You get a bunch of Advanced Parameters to your disposal.

Advanced Parameters include:

Override item names and/or links.
Active state when child item is opened.
Active state when any other defined set of menu items is opened.
Full control over layouts and styles
Turn your menu into a image only menu

Fully stylable

CustoMenu comes with a number of different layouts. You can change these and add your own. So you have full controll over the HTML structure of your menu.
Also the stylesheets can be turned to your hand. This means you have full control over the display properties through the use of CSS. You can use the CSS file that comes with the package, and change that to your likings or add your own.

1-Level

This menu is a 1-level menu. So if you are looking for a menu with pull downs or trees, look further. But for many sites a 1-level (main) menu is just what is desired.

So the menu you see at the top of this website is NOT a CustoMenu. CustoMenu does NOT support sub menus!!!
(The menu I am currently using in this website is the Lightweight DropDown Menu. But I advise the Superfish Dropdown Menu.)

Output Extra CSS

This feature gives you the ability to include extra CSS files related to the active menu item. This means that you can have different backgrounds, color schemes or whatever per menu item.

(version(s) for Joomla! 1.0 has less features and support)

Demo

Active Internal link External link

Updating

Version 2.2.0 is different to versions 2.1.6 and before.
If you are going to update, some settings will be lost.
Also, the styles will be different, so you will probably need to adjust your stylesheet.
Make sure you backup your stylesheets and images before updating.

Please uninstall the old CustoMenu plugin. The new version has no plugin, it is no longer needed.

Installing

The package installs/updates all necessary extensions, like components, module and plugins. (If the package contains plugins, they will be published after install, so you won't have to do that by hand.)

The package makes use of a special installer. This checks to see if it needs to install the extension(s) or update them. So you can just run this package through the Joomla installer without having to uninstall the older version.

You might experience problems during install for certain setups. In that case you can install the extension(s) manually. Please read the INSTALL.txt in the package...

If you run into any problems, please report this on the forum or let me know via the contact form.

Need more help?

If you need more help, please take a look in the forum.
If you can't find your answer there, please post your question. I am very willing to help!

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Changelog

  + = Added    ! = Removed    ^ = Changed    # = Fixed
 
19-Jan-2010 : v2.5.0
  + Added Commercial License Code support
  ^ Moved elements to seperate global plugin (also used by other extensions)
  ^ Made settings react a little faster (toggling options)
 
10-Nov-2009 : v2.4.0
  # Fixed issue with settings not being visible in IE (due to toggler)
 
04-Nov-2009 : v2.3.5
  ^ Changed settings toggler (lighter)
  # Fixed issue settings not being visible in JoomFish 
28-Oct-2009 : v2.3.4
  ^ Changed file encoding to UTF-8
  # Fixed issue with toggling of settings
 
06-Oct-2009 : v2.3.3
  ^ Changed update notification
  # Fixed issue with active on other items option not working
  # Fixed issue with toggler script in admin sometimes being run twice
  # Fixed little typo in language file
 
23-Sept-2009 : v2.3.2
  ^ Changed the display of the module settings
  # Fixed issue with custom items not working
 
21-Sept-2009 : v2.3.1
  # Fixed issue with links of normal menu not rendering correctly
  # Fixed issue with alias links and separators
 
17-Sept-2009 : v2.3.0
  ^ Changed the display of the module settings
  ^ Changed different administrator elements
  ^ Changed installation procedure (automatic installer/updater)
  # Fixed issue with links to new window not working
 
24-Nov-2008 : v2.2.3
  + Added extra menu class suffix field (classname will use this instead of stylesheet name)
 
17-Nov-2008 : v2.2.2
  # Fixed issue with active on child items not working correctly
  + Added global php variable with ative ids list (to be able to use in other extensions)
 
10-Nov-2008 : v2.2.1
  # Fixed issue with corrupted xml file in zip package
 
07-Nov-2008 : v2.2.0
  ^ Totally recoded for more stability
  ^ Changed Admin parameters (order, names and slides)
  ! Removed plugin, no longer needed
  + Added update notification
  + Added module class suffix field
  + Added extra menu items (from 12 to 20)
  + Added support for different layouts
  + Added option to show unpublished menu items
  + Added option to show menu items that do not pass access level
  + Added option to overrule access level
  + Added extra class name feature for menu items
  + Added extra stylesheet feature for menu items
  ! Removed Modal features (still possible through class name and plugin Modalizer)
  ^ Changed Hide text feature (now, hides text, and doesn't remove it)
  ^ Changed stylesheets/images: now uses spite images
  # Fixed issue with Itemid being added on external links
 
11-June-2008 : v2.1.6
  # Fixed issue with links not working properly in 'Menu' mode
  # Fixed issue with MoodalBox not loading
  + Added extra styling options
  + Added full language support
 
14-Apr-2008 : v2.1.5
  # Fixed issue with template not being recognised on first load
  # Fixed issue with (hopefully) the last undefined variables
 
11-Apr-2008 : v2.1.4
  # Fixed issue with more undefined variable
  ^ Changed the PayPal link in the Help file
  # Fixed display of Module Parameter titles
  # Fixed issue with MoodalBox Window not working correctly
 
31-Mar-2008 : v2.1.3
  # Fixed issue with undefined variable
  + Added support for MoodalBox (with captions)
 
05-Mar-2008 : v2.1.2
  ^ Changed some stuff to make the plugin redundant
 
04-Mar-2008 : v2.1.1
  # Fixed baseurl issue with websites not running in root folder
 
03-Mar-2008 : v2.1.0
  ^ Rewritten for Joomla! 1.5
  + Added support for Joomla's own menu structure
  + Added: Active on child ids
  + Added: Active on custom defined ids
  + Added: Extra CSS support (per item)
  + Added: Use of core Modal Windows
  + No core hack needed (unlike the Joomla 1.0 versions)

Commercial License

is completely free and you DON'T need a Commercial License Code to use it.

However, if you use the extensions on websites you make for / sell to your customer, I would appreciate it if you purchase a License Code.
The License Code will remove the license message from the extensions administrator screens.

Note: If you don't want to pay for the License Code and want to continue to use the extension for free, please do. You will just have to ignore the license message in the administrator.

Note: If you have donated before and feel you should get some reduction on the price, please contact me about it... we'll sort it out :)

more information...

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Really no difference?

Here you can see the difference between the use of the extensions without and with Commercial License Code.

	WITHOUT Commercial License Code	WITH Commercial License Code
Full version download	YES	YES
Full functionality	YES	YES
Message in administrator
Encrypted	NO	NO
Free updates	YES	YES
Free support	YES	YES
Free RSS news subscription	YES	YES
Free holiday to Barbados	NO	NO

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