Good Morning,

I'm having a problem with menu ID's and getting category blog layouts to display correctly.

I have a two menu system on my site, and in order for category blog sections to have the ultimate parent menu item displaying on my top menu, I have to use its menu id. However, this then breaks the blog layout settings I require for my categories.

Here's some links to what I mean.

CNBC Asia Shows
This link shows the category blog layout as I want it. The menu id for it is the one where I can set the blog layout. However it doesn't show the parent link in my main menu at the top of the page.

CNBC Asia Presenters
This link shows the parent link at the top of the page, using its menu id, however it breaks the blog layout that I want.

Is there either a workaround to this, or a way to edit Joomla's default category blog layout settings as I want the former link layout style across my site anyway.

Thanks
Kevin

Hello,
if I got the problem right (I am not quite sure what you mean by "parent link"), then the correct solution would be following.

1. you should have one global menu structure (not separate menus)
2. you should split them into multiple menus, by using modules, each showing different "levels" of menu
so that main meny shows level 1-1, submenu level 2-2
3. for the menu item in sublevel of main menu, you set the category blog section and it there is only one menu item ID, which is this one

Then, if SEF URL is stored correctly with this menu item id, you will get the layout you want. Furthermore, if you enable parent item highlighting in menu, it will have the "active" CSS class, so you can style it to be highlighted.