Menus and Cassiopeia Positions -April 2025 EDITTING

Introduction

The same Cassiopeia template is used in Joomla 4 and 5

The Cassiopeia positions are shown opposite.

First please note that if nothing is allocated to a position then in effect that 'position' does not appear. That is it takes no space on the screen.

Generally the various positions are occupied with Modules.  The only exception is the 'main area' which is where articles, jD categories and Downloads, and similar appear.

Note the location of position 'menu'.

This enables a horizontal menu set of menu items.  Actually in terms of the template positions, a menu is just a specialised Module.  Menus are not confined to appearing in the menu position. 
Usually I select the side-bar-right position for the menus

Many positions are shown opposite.


This example is for a multi language site. There are 4 'front end' languages: Arabic; German; French and English.

Note the misspelt Main Menu En as 'Mani Menu EN'.

The lowest set of frontend positions in Cassiopeia are shown opposite.


This includes positions:

     bottom-a, bottom-b, footer and debug.

Changing Menu Position

In Content from the admin menu select 'Site Modules' as indicated opposite

Set the Search Field to Main Menu.

This will show a view such as opposite. 

Note that the Position is 'position 7'.

Use the Position pulldown as shown in the first image on the right.

Then select your target position for the Menu Module, which in this example is Sidebar-right.

The Main Menu will now appear in the 'sidebar-right' position.

ColinM December 2022, modified July 2023