Is there any documentation on the Base3 settings used in the demo, particularly the home page zentools settings for the slideshow & grid features? I'm having a bit of trouble creating links to the articles used for these. Thanks!

Hi

Normally this type of question is resolved by creating menu links for articles individually or their category as a whole using a blog link

Cheers
Paul

If this is the problem - this article goes into more detail

www.joomlabamboo.com/blog/how-to-joomla/implementing-a-fix-for-menu-item-ids-in-joomla

OK I will look at the article. On the Grid/Content Type Settings/Joomla Content Source I am using articles. On the General Settings the Content Source is Content, Link Behavior External Links & then in the links box are the articles. It seems very tedious to try to match up these links with the correct articles & then every time a a new one is added it becomes a chore to get it right again. Does this make sense? Is there an easier way to do this?

External links are intended for special cases or links to pages you can't reference/connect to any other way

e.g. to hikashop, to external websites etc

The standard usage is to link to content via articles or categories - so it references the title of the article, its text content and picture or just of the latter

Using a category would mean as you add an article to that category its automatically added to the slideshow (upto the count limit)

When using external links you use the prefix commonly so as to control the link and the picture order to ensure the right page is loaded

so with external links it is a case of adding them one at a time

Cheers
Paul