Tired of changing article order on frontpage?

16 Comments

1. Hanji makes this comment

   2008-09-13 00:43:31

   It is nice to know. I have a question. I would like to have Japanese and English frontpage independently. Right now the system has only one frontpage feature. Even if I set up two frontpage, the article shows up at the same frontpage and a pathway navigation points to the initial frontpage.
   
   Using the default Joomla feature how can I make a bilingual frontpage and independent pathway 'Home' navigation?
   
   That is I would like to have two independent frontpage and pathway 'Home' navigation without Joomfish and other add-on.
   
   Has anyone tried that?

2. Chad Windnagle makes this comment

   2008-09-15 01:21:53

   Wow! This was actually one of my wish list ideas for joomla 1.6! Nice to know it is actually in 1.5!

3. peter.martin makes this comment

   2008-09-16 14:11:26

   @Chad Windnagle:
   Good to hear that one of your wish list ideas has been fulfilled. BTW: this feature was already present in the older Joomla! 1.0
   
   @Hanji:
   This is not really the right place for questions. You'd better post it in an appropriate board on the forum: http://forum.joomla.org/

4. guysmiley makes this comment

   2008-12-15 22:52:03

   This is great - and if you use Most Recent Ordering, just assign a Created Date of 2020 (or some other date in the distant future) to the article you want consistently displayed at the head of the list and it'll always show up first.
   
   Now, if only there were a way to restrict this introductory article from showing in the RSS feed...

5. Miguel Munoz makes this comment

   2009-02-16 12:01:52

   Thanks for your answer.
   
   

6. djsolin makes this comment

   2009-02-23 10:41:23

   This is not working for me. I've tried many times and I still can't get it to work. Hmmm... any ideas?

7. mmaren makes this comment

   2009-04-21 11:14:06

   I have tried in Explorer, Safari and FireFox, but it is not working for me either.

8. Harold Shinsato makes this comment

   2009-04-25 06:13:02

   It's so strange, none of these techniques work. It completely ignores the *explicit* ordering - which makes absolutely no sense. It ignores the -1 ordering too. It ignores the creation date. It ignores the publish date.
   
   I can't understand why anyone would actually desire a feature of blocking or ignoring the intuitive ordering as specified in the article manager.

9. Harold Shinsato makes this comment

   2009-04-25 06:42:13

   Ok, I figured it out. There are two places where the front page ordering is listed. The "Content" -> "Front Page" screen, and the "Content" -> "Article Manager". It seems the Article Manager ordering is not connected to the Front Page ordering, but if I use the Front Page, it does control the ordering and it all works. Perhaps a newbie issue, but it would be more intuitive if the ordering numbers were connected.

10. sahil makes this comment

    2009-06-27 17:44:24

    Thanks buddy!!
    I was looking for the same thing.
    and
    
    one more thing guys for changing the article layout in fromtpage, just go to frontpage manager and their u find a option of displaying no. of columns and much more ,jst adjust it according to your needs.

11. Sil makes this comment

    2009-06-30 03:03:20

    There is no way to save -1 in the front page manager, it just reverts back to 1, so that is not working. As you know by now, you MUST use the front page manager to order the articles on the front page and the article manager is useless for this.

12. steve makes this comment

    2009-07-07 14:40:48

    Nice one .. thanks for posting ....

13. Jerry makes this comment

    2009-07-13 18:39:04

    Does not work for me. Joomla 1.5.12

14. DavidG makes this comment

    2009-09-04 03:14:14

    You can override this by going to a menu item and changing "Primary Order" (under "Parameters (Advanced)") to "Order" as opposed to "Default" (I believe the default order is chronological).

15. Dan Bubis makes this comment

    2009-09-28 22:39:26

    How do you get it to accept any input? On both the Front Page Manager and Article Manager, I've never been able to type a number and have it accepted. Negative or positive. It would certainly be quicker to type in a number instead of using the up arrow.

16. Michellette makes this comment

    2009-10-07 13:31:47

    Doesn't work for me either. I can assign -1 to "Welcome" in both the Front Page Manager and the Article Manager. I can press to save the order. I can "clean up messy html". I can change creation date to 2020 -- but still I cannot control the order. The only way to do that (for me) is by having only one front page article. Using 1.5.12