I just went to the url and got the "down for maintenance" message. You will want to email joomla51 your login credentials.

I opened up the website now. So it should be viewable for outsiders now . Thanks for taking a look.

I'm very new to Joomla! and this is all a learning experience for me. How familiar are you with basic Joomla! ? It took me a few hours of studying the way Joomla! works to understand the mechanisms because it is so much different from working in Dreamweaver, Expression Web, etc. But once the concepts are grasped, it responds well and these templates do work perfectly. When I make an error, though, it can cause issues. My first error was writing articles and not immediately making menus to attach them to. I find now that I have random articles that are not assigned, not showing, and no real way of knowing they aren't attached. Live and learn - category creation, article, then menu made immediately so I don't forget! That's just one example of my stumbling around.

I bought Clarity, also, and it worked fine on my demo site.

I tried your hornav items and page errors have come up. Have you written the articles? Have you gone to these menu items in "menus"/ main menu and selected "articles/single article" and attached an article to the menu? When you do that, then the menu will display your article on a page it builds. I apologize if you are doing all that. That was just my first thought about what might be going wrong.

Well I am new to Joomla 3. But for what I can see it works just fine. However a featured article should show up on the first page. However it doesn't. Modules don't show up either (yes I add them to the correct position in the template and show all pages :P).

So there is something I am missing in 3. Or something else. It might be a SQL database error? At least that's what I am thinking at the moment. If by tomorow I don't have an answer here I'll reinstall and see what's up. IF I find out the issue by myself I Will of course post it here for refference .

Featured articles are fairly complex, to start with. A featured article shows up only when you select a menu item that is an article type and select "featured articles" and assign a category (or the default is ALL categories after you have written the articles and given them "featured" status. You can change the home page menu item to a featured article type menu.

If you create a menu and don't attach an article, you will get a page error on your frontend.

So, the steps are: create a category. Write an article or several and select them as "featured" (with a star). Pick a category and assign it to the articles. Go to Menus, new, choose "articles" and within that, choose Featured article. Choose your options, but you probably want only one type of category to have these featured items. Make sure the articles you want as featured articles have been selected as featured or they won't show.

There are settings for how these featured articles are displayed - such as one across the top and two or three in columns underneath, or all in columns, how many columns, how many articles to show. So you could have dates for discontinuance of publication of one article and another behind it to replace it, I suppose. There are options for links to ones that don't display.

The easiest way to start, though, is to create a single article menu item, select one article for it (your only option) and then attach modules to it. After you get the hang of that, then the featured articles and blogs make more sense.

Hi Ryan

As Dawn correctly suggested you can send temporary administration access to your Joomla installation to info@joomla51.com and we will examine if there is any issue with your site.

Looking at your site HTML there does appear to be an issue regarding a large part of your site appearing within a <jdoc:include type="head"> tag. This is mostly likely caused by the use of a <jdoc:include type="head"> tag rather than a self closing <jdoc:include type="head" /> somewhere in your Joomla output? Have you made any changes to the templates index.php or installed an extension that may be causing this?

For our reference please paste a link to this post in your email.

Ciarán

I'll send an e-mail . For reference. I did not make any changes to the code. Articles and plugins work fine with other templates. So I am fairly sure it's the clarity template where there is something going wrong.

Thank you Ryan

In your templates slideshow_module.php near the base of your file try replacing the following...

<?php if ($this->countModules('breadcrumb')) { ?>

<div id="container_breadcrumb" class="container"><div class="wrapper960">

<?php require("php/layouts/breadcrumb.php"); ?>

</div></div>

<?php }?>

With....

<?php if ($this->countModules( 'breadcrumb' )) : ?>

<div id="breadcrumb" class="block_holder">

    <div class="module_margin">

        <jdoc:include type="modules" name="breadcrumb" style="mod_standard" />

    </div>

    <div class="clear"></div>

</div>

<?php endif; ?>

Ciarán

I have noticed that the Joomla (3.x) breadcrumbs module does not work properly in the template breadcumb position. That is to say, everything on the Home page, for example, disappears if the breeadcrumb module is published and is used in this position.
However, I placed the module in the top-1a position and it works fine.
I wonder what is up with this particular phenomenon?
Ron

Hi Ron

Have you tried the above fix mentioned in this post?

Ciarán

No, but I will and let you know the results.

Edit: Tried it and it worked just fine. Thanks for the push.