{"id":3071,"date":"2014-01-17T15:56:01","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T15:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/2014\/01\/17\/menu-location\/"},"modified":"2023-06-07T16:11:05","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T20:11:05","slug":"menu-location","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/joomla\/joomla-3\/menu-location\/","title":{"rendered":"Menu Location settings in Joomla 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"in_this_tutorial\">\n<h2>Joomla Menu Location Settings:<\/h2>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-primary\" href=\"#available-options\" type=\"button\">Available Options<\/a> <a class=\"btn btn-primary\" href=\"#what-happens\" type=\"button\">What does this setting do?<\/a> <a class=\"btn btn-primary\" href=\"#how-to-change\" type=\"button\">How to change<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>When configuring menu items in Joomla 3, the <strong>Menu Location<\/strong> setting controls which menu the item belongs to. If you want to move a link to a different menu, you need to change the link\u2019s (aka menu item\u2019s) <em>Menu Location<\/em> setting.<\/p>\n<p>In this tutorial, we will help you understand the <em>Menu Location<\/em> setting by demonstrating what happens when you change this setting.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"available-options\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>What options appear as Menu Locations?<\/h2>\n<p>In our testing, we <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/joomla\/joomla-3\/manual-installation\/\">installed Joomla 3.2<\/a> with the testing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/joomla\/joomla-3\/joomla-sample-data-set\/\">sample data<\/a>. When we examine the <em>Single Article<\/em> menu item, we see the following <em>Menu Location<\/em> settings:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/support\/images\/stories\/edu\/joomla-3\/menu-item-options\/menu-location-options-are-main-menus.gif\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"std_ss\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 35px 15px 0px;\" src=\"\/support\/images\/stories\/edu\/joomla-3\/menu-item-options\/menu-location-options-are-main-menus.gif\" alt=\"menu location settings\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both;\"><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>All Front End Views<\/li>\n<li>About Joomla<\/li>\n<li>All Modules<\/li>\n<li>Australian Parks<\/li>\n<li>Fruit Shop<\/li>\n<li>Main Menu<\/li>\n<li>Top<\/li>\n<li>User Menu<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"clear: both;\">As you can see in the screenshot above, these menu items are the same as the menus that show under the <strong>Menus<\/strong> in the top navigation of your Joomla 3 dashboard.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"what-happens\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>What happens if I change the Menu Location Setting?<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"\/support\/images\/stories\/edu\/joomla-3\/menu-item-options\/changing-menu-item-location.gif\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"std_ss\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0px 0px 15px 15px;\" src=\"\/support\/images\/stories\/edu\/joomla-3\/menu-item-options\/changing-menu-item-location.gif\" alt=\"changing menu location\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both;\"><\/div>\n<p>By default, the <em>Single Article<\/em> menu item is assigned to the <strong>All Front End Views<\/strong> <em>Menu Location<\/em>. If we change the <em>menu location<\/em> to <strong>Main Menu<\/strong>, you can see in the screenshot that the <em>Single Article<\/em> menu item now shows in the <em>\u201cMain Menu\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"how-to-change\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"clear: both;\">How do I change a Menu Item\u2019s Menu Location?<\/h2>\n<p>To change a link\u2019s <em>menu location<\/em>:<\/p>\n<ol class=\"article_list\">\n<li><a href=\"\/support\/edu\/joomla\/how-to-log-in-to-administrative-dashboard\/\"><strong>Login<\/strong><\/a> to your Joomla admin dashboard<\/li>\n<li>In the top menu, click <strong>Menus<\/strong> and then click <strong>Menu Manager<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>In the left menu, click <strong>Menu Items<\/strong> (<em>located under \u201cMenus\u201d<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>Find your menu item and then click it<\/li>\n<li>Find the <strong>Menu Location<\/strong> setting towards the right of the page, change it, and then click <strong>Save<\/strong> in the top right of the page<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joomla Menu Location Settings: Available Options What does this setting do? How to change When configuring menu items in Joomla 3, the Menu Location setting controls which menu the item belongs to. If you want to move a link to a different menu, you need to change the link\u2019s (aka menu item\u2019s) Menu Location setting.<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/joomla\/joomla-3\/menu-location\/\"> Read More ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4403,94],"tags":[4404],"class_list":["post-3071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joomla","category-joomla-3","tag-joomla-v3"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Menu Location settings in Joomla 3 | InMotion Hosting<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In this tutorial, we&#039;ll explain what and how the &quot;Menu Location&quot; setting works for Joomla 3 menu items.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/joomla\/joomla-3\/menu-location\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Menu Location settings in Joomla 3 | InMotion Hosting\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In this tutorial, we&#039;ll explain what and how the &quot;Menu Location&quot; setting works for Joomla 3 menu items.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/joomla\/joomla-3\/menu-location\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"InMotion Hosting Support Center\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/inmotionhosting\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-01-17T15:56:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-06-07T20:11:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Brad Markle\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@InMotionHosting\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@InMotionHosting\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Brad Markle\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/joomla\/joomla-3\/menu-location\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/joomla\/joomla-3\/menu-location\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Brad Markle\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/#\/schema\/person\/5ae05d1210b0ef63c437ccedce2799bf\"},\"headline\":\"Menu Location settings in Joomla 3\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-01-17T15:56:01+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-06-07T20:11:05+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/joomla\/joomla-3\/menu-location\/\"},\"wordCount\":290,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"Joomla v3\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Joomla\",\"Joomla 3\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/joomla\/joomla-3\/menu-location\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/joomla\/joomla-3\/menu-location\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/joomla\/joomla-3\/menu-location\/\",\"name\":\"Menu Location settings in Joomla 3 | InMotion Hosting\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2014-01-17T15:56:01+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-06-07T20:11:05+00:00\",\"description\":\"In this tutorial, we'll explain what and how the \\\"Menu Location\\\" setting works for Joomla 3 menu items.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/joomla\/joomla-3\/menu-location\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/joomla\/joomla-3\/menu-location\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/joomla\/joomla-3\/menu-location\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Menu Location settings in Joomla 3\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/\",\"name\":\"InMotion Hosting Support Center\",\"description\":\"Web Hosting Support &amp; Tutorials\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/#organization\",\"name\":\"InMotion Hosting\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/inmotion-hosting-logo-yoast.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/inmotion-hosting-logo-yoast.jpg\",\"width\":696,\"height\":696,\"caption\":\"InMotion Hosting\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/inmotionhosting\/\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/InMotionHosting\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/#\/schema\/person\/5ae05d1210b0ef63c437ccedce2799bf\",\"name\":\"Brad Markle\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/author\/bradm\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Menu Location settings in Joomla 3 | InMotion Hosting","description":"In this tutorial, we'll explain what and how the \"Menu Location\" setting works for Joomla 3 menu items.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/joomla\/joomla-3\/menu-location\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Menu Location settings in Joomla 3 | InMotion Hosting","og_description":"In this tutorial, we'll explain what and how the \"Menu Location\" setting works for Joomla 3 menu items.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/joomla\/joomla-3\/menu-location\/","og_site_name":"InMotion Hosting Support Center","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/inmotionhosting\/","article_published_time":"2014-01-17T15:56:01+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-06-07T20:11:05+00:00","author":"Brad Markle","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@InMotionHosting","twitter_site":"@InMotionHosting","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Brad Markle","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/joomla\/joomla-3\/menu-location\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/joomla\/joomla-3\/menu-location\/"},"author":{"name":"Brad Markle","@id":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/#\/schema\/person\/5ae05d1210b0ef63c437ccedce2799bf"},"headline":"Menu Location settings in Joomla 3","datePublished":"2014-01-17T15:56:01+00:00","dateModified":"2023-06-07T20:11:05+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/joomla\/joomla-3\/menu-location\/"},"wordCount":290,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/#organization"},"keywords":["Joomla v3"],"articleSection":["Joomla","Joomla 3"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/joomla\/joomla-3\/menu-location\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/joomla\/joomla-3\/menu-location\/","url":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/joomla\/joomla-3\/menu-location\/","name":"Menu Location settings in Joomla 3 | InMotion Hosting","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/#website"},"datePublished":"2014-01-17T15:56:01+00:00","dateModified":"2023-06-07T20:11:05+00:00","description":"In this tutorial, we'll explain what and how the \"Menu Location\" setting works for Joomla 3 menu items.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/joomla\/joomla-3\/menu-location\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/joomla\/joomla-3\/menu-location\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/joomla\/joomla-3\/menu-location\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Menu Location settings in Joomla 3"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/","name":"InMotion Hosting Support Center","description":"Web Hosting Support &amp; Tutorials","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/#organization","name":"InMotion Hosting","url":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/inmotion-hosting-logo-yoast.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/inmotion-hosting-logo-yoast.jpg","width":696,"height":696,"caption":"InMotion Hosting"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/inmotionhosting\/","https:\/\/x.com\/InMotionHosting"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/#\/schema\/person\/5ae05d1210b0ef63c437ccedce2799bf","name":"Brad Markle","url":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/author\/bradm\/"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"primary_category":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3071"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104859,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3071\/revisions\/104859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}