To create a new menu item for My Blog, proceed to the menu manager at the back end of your Joomla site.
Blog frontpage
- Select components from the menu listing
- Then, select My Blog from the components list
- Set the title of the menu item that you want
- Set the alias for the menu link. The alias is used in SEF URLs.
Bloggers
- Select External URL menu from the menu listing
- Then , set the URL to index.php?option=com_myblog&blogger=USERNAME . Replace USERNAME with the user from your site and it will then list blog entries from the specific user.
- Set the title of the menu item that you want.
Bloggers page (GENERIC)
- At times, when you do not know the user's name or if you only want to create a menu link which registered users can click and access their blogs, you could use this generic URL. Select External URL menu from the menu creation
- Then, set the URL to index.php?option=com_myblog&task=userblog
- Set the desired title of the menu item.
Dashboard
- Select External URL menu from the menu listing
- Then , set the URL to index.php?option=com_myblog&task=adminhome
- Set the title of the menu item that you want.
Category
- Select External URL menu from the menu listing
- Then , set the URL to index.php?option=com_myblog&task=tag&category=99 . Replace 99 with the proper category id which can be found in Joomla's category manager.
- Set the title of the menu item that you want.
Tag
- Select External URL menu from the menu listing
- Then , set the URL to index.php?option=com_myblog&task=tag&category=myblog . Replace myblog with the proper tag name.
- Set the title of the menu item that you want.