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title: "Joomla 2.5 Menu Items – Featured Articles"
description: "Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12/31/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life here. In our latest few..."
url: https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/edu/joomla/joomla-2-5/create-featured-articles-menu-item/
date: 2012-05-22
modified: 2021-11-19
author: "Brad Markle"
categories: ["Joomla", "Joomla 2.5"]
tags: ["Joomla v2.5"]
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lang: en
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# Joomla 2.5 Menu Items – Featured Articles

Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12/31/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life [here](https://docs.joomla.org/Joomla!_CMS_versions).

In our latest few tutorials, we’ve shown you [how to feature an article on your Joomla 2.5 front page](/support/edu/joomla/joomla-2-5/setup-featured-articles/), how to [change the order of those articles](/support/edu/joomla/joomla-2-5/front-page-featured-article-order/), and [how to adjust the featured article front page settings](/support/edu/joomla/joomla-2-5/front-page-featured-article-order/). What we never actually covered was how to create a featured articles page in the first place! When you install Joomla 2.5, the front page is by default a featured articles type of page. You can however create as many featured articles pages as you’d like. For example, for each category of articles you have, you can create a featured articles landing page.

**To create a featured articles menu item in Joomla 2.5:**

1. [Log into your Joomla 2.5 admin](/support/edu/joomla/joomla-3/how-to-log-in-to-administrative-dashboard/)
2. In the top menu, hover over **Menus**, then hover over the menu you want to add to, and then click **Add New Menu Item**.
3. Next to **Menu Item Type**, click **Select**. From the list of possible menu item types, click **Featured Articles**.[![click-featured-articles](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/edu_joomla25_create-featured-article-menu-item_click-featured-articles.gif)](/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/edu_joomla25_create-featured-article-menu-item_click-featured-articles.gif)
4. Next to **Menu Title**, enter a name for your new menu item
5. In the right hand column, [adjust the settings under **Layout Options**](/support/edu/joomla/joomla-2-5/front-page-featured-article-settings/). Be sure to select all categories and sub categories that you want to show featured articles for under **Select Categories**.[![choose-all-applicable-categories](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/edu_joomla25_create-featured-article-menu-item_choose-all-applicable-categories.gif)](/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/edu_joomla25_create-featured-article-menu-item_choose-all-applicable-categories.gif)
6. Click **Save** in the top right menu. Congratulations, you have just added a new **featured articles menu item in Joomla 2.5**![![new-featured-articles-page-created](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/edu_joomla25_create-featured-article-menu-item_new-featured-articles-page-created.gif)](/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/edu_joomla25_create-featured-article-menu-item_new-featured-articles-page-created.gif)