In my last video I cleaned up these articles, so that we don't have linked
titles anymore, we got rid of who the author was, we got rid of the publication
dates, a bunch of stuff went away.
And the pages are looking a lot better. But now that I have done all of that.
I am having second thoughts about this Solar blog page, because the Solar
blog page, what I'd really like to have happen here is, I think I'd like to
keep these linked titles, so that I can click on them to go to the full
version of the article.
And then there sees Read More links underneath, I don't really like the styling
of these buttons on this particular design.
And so I think I'd like to get rid of the Read More button all together.
And just have the article end there, and if people wanted to read the full
version of the article they could click on the title here and that would take
them to the full version of the page.
So what I need to do is I need to override my Global Settings.
So in my previous video I set Global Settings for all of my articles.
Now what I need to do is override those settings, just for the Solar blog.
So the articles that are going to be impacted by this change are all located
under a single menu item. Fortunately Joomla! offers a way
that I can change all of these articles under a single menu item,
and I can turn on those link titles again and I can get rid of those Read More buttons,
so to do that I am going to go into the backend of Joomla! and
I am going to go back to my Menu Manager.
So I am going to go to Menus>Main Menu and I am going to find my Solar blog item.
Go ahead and click on that, and then I am going to go to the Advanced Options.
And under the Advanced Options, if you go to the Article Options, located under here.
This will override these global settings, so all this Use Global stuff,
that's where that was set;
it was set in the Article Options, that's a global setting.
If we set things up here with a different value, it will override whatever
is set in the Global Article Options.
So what I'd like to do is have, Yes, let's have Linked Titles and what I'd like
to do is that Read More button, I'd like that to go away, so Show "Read More."
I'd like to say Hide.
And Show Title with Read More, we'll hide that as well, so now if I go ahead and say Save.
And I refresh my Solar page.
Now I have my titles here that are linked.
So I can click on these and go to the full text of my blog post, but I don't
have those Read More buttons anymore, and I just have them linked here on this page.
If I go someplace like the News & Info page, I still have Read More buttons here
and I do not have those linked titles.
So this might be another page that I wish to change or alternatively I could
leave it in this kind of layout.
It's sort of up to you as to what you'd like to do on a blog by blog basis, but
that is how we can set on override on the menu level to override our
Global Article Options that we configured.