Hi noletter

I'm looking for a way to display all articles on a kind of a second homepage (for article newspapers), like a frontpage for all articles with the navigation items at the bottom of the page
Ex : 1-2-3<<<......>>>878-878-879

I think that would be a nice feature! Do you think that could be achieved with this extension ???? Or anybody has a trick????
Thanks anyway for your wonderfull extensions! I hope I will go for Frontpage Plus someday

No, it is not possible through FrontPagPlus. That only shows articles with frontpage option on and with extra filters for cats/secs. So it is actually made to show less than the normal frontpage layout.

But to show all articles, you can just do this:

What you can do to control the settings, is make a dummy menuitem (in a new menu that you don't show on your site, for instance).
Make that a section blog for instance. And use that menuitem as the &Itemid=.

To make a menuitem show your page, you can use the 'external link' option to manually link to the url:

Hi,

Thanks a lot for your very fast reply

It sounds nice but the problem is that I want all articles from different sections & categories to show!

So if I create a dummy menuitem as a section blog, I can choose just one section, not all of them!

Do I miss something??? Am I stupid Or just french

Thanks

If you make a category blog for section 1, for instance, the link it generates would be something like:

However, if you make a link to this:

It will show all articles but WILL use the settings (lik number of intros/links/etc) of your menu item.

Thanks a lot, that's very nice from you to help me

I've tried your trick , and it works well (even with sh404) BUT (there is always a but), moving the dummy menu item ouside of the main_menu make the active buton of this main_menu disappear...

I guess there is no trick for this

Thanks anyway

Yeah, you are right. Didn't think of that.

You could just make an external link and use the Itemid of that link itself.
But that would mean you have no control over the settings (amount of intros/links/etc).

Another option - but kinda hacky - is to make your link as a normal section blog link. Enter the settings you want.
And then change the url in the database to:
index.php?option=com_content&view=section&layout=blog

But that will mean you can't save changes via the normal administrator. It will ask you to define a section when you want to save it.
So if you want to change settings after-wards, you would have to select a section and remove the id= from the link in the database again.

Anyway, if you don't plan to muck about with the menu often, that does work