Did you know you can assign different templates to different sections that are called on by your Joomla menu?
Let’s say you want your Joomla Blog categories to have a different Template then the rest of your website, how would you do this?
First you have to create a menu item that holds your section, or the categories like you did in Creating your Blog Menu
Now go to “Site” -> “Template manager” -> ” Site Templates” and there select the template you want to use.
Then click the “Assign” button in the upper right menu of the screen.
Now you can select the menu item(s) that should show the different layout.
After that, you should see something linke the screen below.
Go to the Frontpage of your website, and try the link yourself, look if it works…it does…!
If you want to reverse the process, simply push assign again and choose the top choice “None”.
So, where could you run into trouble and how to fix it…. for this to work, you should select two (or more) templates that have the same modules like ” left”, “right” end other positions you want to use, since you can only assign a module to one position.
If you have a template that works the wrong way, you could try to chance position calls in the index.php of the template (via the HTML editor in your template manager) .
For example, your want your menu to appear in “left”, but your new Blog template only has a ” right” column.
Go into the Blog template HTML and simply change “right” into “left” and see how that works out.
I know, it is so simple, you just don’t think about it this way…
