1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,000 On occasion as you add things to your Web site, you may want to delete or get 2 00:00:04,001 --> 00:00:10,001 rid of or temporarily unpublish one of your menu items and so I want to show 3 00:00:10,002 --> 00:00:11,002 you how you can do that. 4 00:00:11,003 --> 00:00:17,003 So I'm going to go to Menus>Main Menu and I am going to add a link to my 5 00:00:17,004 --> 00:00:21,004 Web site, and I am going to do that of course by clicking my New button. 6 00:00:21,005 --> 00:00:28,005 I can just go ahead and pick a Single Article, let's say as my Menu Item Type. 7 00:00:28,006 --> 00:00:29,006 And what article shall I pick? 8 00:00:29,007 --> 00:00:33,007 Well, let's pick that News and Information article that we are not really using anymore. 9 00:00:33,008 --> 00:00:40,008 And I am going to give this item a title of Delete Me!, because really 10 00:00:40,009 --> 00:00:45,009 that's all I am going to do with this particular page and I am going to say Save & Close. 11 00:00:45,010 --> 00:00:49,010 If I refresh the front end of my Web site, you'll see the Delete Me! 12 00:00:49,011 --> 00:00:53,011 link shows up in the Menu, if I click on it, I wind up with actually the 13 00:00:53,012 --> 00:00:56,012 News and Information page, but of course it says Delete Me! 14 00:00:56,013 --> 00:01:00,013 over here in the Menu Item, that's because remember our Menu Item and our 15 00:01:00,014 --> 00:01:03,014 Article Title can be completely different, they have absolutely nothing to do 16 00:01:03,015 --> 00:01:06,015 with each other, and here's a great example of that. 17 00:01:06,016 --> 00:01:12,016 There are several states to my Menu Items that I can change right here from my 18 00:01:12,017 --> 00:01:13,017 Menu Manager interface. 19 00:01:13,018 --> 00:01:18,018 So, I've currently got this item published and I know that because the status is 20 00:01:18,019 --> 00:01:23,019 the green checkmark indicating that this is a published link inside of my menu. 21 00:01:23,020 --> 00:01:28,020 I can unpublish my link simply by clicking on the green checkmark and that will 22 00:01:28,021 --> 00:01:32,021 change it to a red X and as you see, there's the red X. 23 00:01:32,022 --> 00:01:37,022 That will indicate that I still have this link, it still exists within my menu, 24 00:01:37,023 --> 00:01:41,023 but it is not displaying on the front end of the Web site. 25 00:01:41,024 --> 00:01:46,024 And in fact, if I come back here, and I just hit the Refresh button, I am on the Delete Me! page, 26 00:01:46,025 --> 00:01:50,025 it will now give me a 404 error, and in fact it looks like it's very 27 00:01:50,026 --> 00:01:54,026 helpfully given me a dump over here on the side, this is something output here 28 00:01:54,027 --> 00:01:57,027 from WAMP, that you're seeing here on the page. 29 00:01:57,028 --> 00:02:00,028 You may or may not see this if you're working with MAMP. 30 00:02:00,029 --> 00:02:04,029 But basically it's a 404 page, it couldn't find the page that I just had. 31 00:02:04,030 --> 00:02:08,030 If I hit my Back button and I go back to my home page, you'll see that the Delete Me! 32 00:02:08,031 --> 00:02:13,031 link is gone for my Main Menu and any one trying to access that URL, winds up 33 00:02:13,032 --> 00:02:16,032 getting a 404 error page. 34 00:02:16,033 --> 00:02:23,033 So, republishing that link by putting a checkmark on it, here we go, will 35 00:02:23,034 --> 00:02:27,034 republish the link here on the front end of the Web site and when I refresh 36 00:02:27,035 --> 00:02:30,035 the page, and I click on Delete Me!, my page is back again. 37 00:02:30,036 --> 00:02:36,036 Now I can also trash this particular Menu Item altogether, and by putting a 38 00:02:36,037 --> 00:02:40,037 checkmark next to this and clicking on the Trash button up here on the top, 39 00:02:40,038 --> 00:02:44,038 that will send this particular item directly to the Trash. 40 00:02:44,039 --> 00:02:49,039 So, I don't have it here, showing up in my Menu list at all anymore. 41 00:02:49,040 --> 00:02:54,040 If I go back to my homepage and I Refresh, I don't have the Delete Me! 42 00:02:54,041 --> 00:02:58,041 link listed over here on the side anymore either. 43 00:02:58,042 --> 00:03:02,042 But it is in the Trash, it's not completely deleted from your Joomla! 44 00:03:02,043 --> 00:03:05,043 Content Management System. How do you know that? 45 00:03:05,044 --> 00:03:09,044 Well, if you go over here to the left-hand side of the screen and switch your 46 00:03:09,045 --> 00:03:12,045 status to Trashed, you'll see that I have the Delete Me! 47 00:03:12,046 --> 00:03:15,046 link located here inside of the Trash. 48 00:03:15,047 --> 00:03:20,047 I can pull it out of the Trash, simply by clicking on the button here which 49 00:03:20,048 --> 00:03:25,048 indicates that this is currently unpublished, and of course it's in the Trash as well. 50 00:03:25,049 --> 00:03:28,049 If I click on this button, that will pull it out of the Trash. 51 00:03:28,050 --> 00:03:32,050 Right now I see nothing on my Menu Manager screen, because I filtered the 52 00:03:32,051 --> 00:03:34,051 results to show me only Trashed items. 53 00:03:34,052 --> 00:03:39,052 I need to switch this back to Published items in order to see my full menu again, 54 00:03:39,053 --> 00:03:41,053 and as you see here, Delete Me! 55 00:03:41,054 --> 00:03:45,054 is back right here inside of my Menu Structure. 56 00:03:45,055 --> 00:03:46,055 To get rid of Delete Me! entirely, 57 00:03:46,056 --> 00:03:51,056 you need to put a checkmark by it and send it to the Trash, switch to 58 00:03:51,057 --> 00:03:59,057 your Trashed and then put a checkmark by this and click Empty Trash, that will 59 00:03:59,058 --> 00:04:00,058 truly get rid of the link. 60 00:04:00,059 --> 00:04:06,059 You may occasionally find that as you create new links inside of Joomla!, 61 00:04:06,060 --> 00:04:12,060 let's say that you create an About link and you call that menu link About, then you 62 00:04:12,061 --> 00:04:15,061 decide you don't what it and you send it to the Trash, you don't completely 63 00:04:15,062 --> 00:04:19,062 empty the Trash, the menu link is sitting there in the Trash, and you create a 64 00:04:19,063 --> 00:04:21,063 new menu link called About also. 65 00:04:21,064 --> 00:04:25,064 What you may see as an error is something about an alias with this menu item 66 00:04:25,065 --> 00:04:29,065 already exists, you can't create another one and you are like, well, 67 00:04:29,066 --> 00:04:33,066 I am looking at my menu and I don't see anything called About, it might be that 68 00:04:33,067 --> 00:04:36,067 there's something called About that's located in your Trash. 69 00:04:36,068 --> 00:04:41,068 So, if you happen to see that error, what you might want to do is go empty your 70 00:04:41,069 --> 00:04:43,069 trash and get rid of whatever is there. 71 00:04:43,070 --> 00:04:47,070 That will allow you to create a menu item that's called more or less the same 72 00:04:47,071 --> 00:04:50,071 thing as the menu item that you just deleted from the Trash. 73 00:04:50,072 --> 00:04:55,072 So, that's a fairly common error you'll see in Joomla!, check your Trash, 74 00:04:55,073 --> 00:04:58,073 if you wind up with some sort of alias error.