Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Web: Joomla "Prev/Next" Navigation setting

We have the "Navigation" turned on in Joomla by default, which means at the bottom of the article, Joomla automatically provides <Prev> and <Prev> (or in Chinese <前一個> and <下一個>).  This is a very useful feature for the users to navigate to another article after reading the current one.  This is also useful to automatically provide internal links for search engine.
This is done by setting the Navigation in Article Manager->Parameters to Show, and by setting the Navigation in all the menu items to Use Global.

Question:

Sometime, this automatic navigation in Joomla does not make sense. For example, this page: http://sjccc.org/index.php/finance.html should point to earlier finance report instead of next community announcement.  What do you suggest?

Answer:
This "<Prev> and <Prev>" feature basically go to the prev/next article in a Category, so if you group all the financial articles into a category, then it would behave like what you'd like.

If you would like to turn this particular one off, since it's a menu item, you can select "Menus" on the top, and pick "團體". edit the article '財務 Finance', on the right rail, click "Parameters (Component)", and change "Show Navigation" from "Use Global" to "Hide", and Save.

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