Menuary Automatic Menu

MenuAry

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<h2 style='clear: both;'>Description</h2> 
<p>Generate menu items or entire menues based on categories and articles.</p> 
<p>If you create or update an article or a category (futher 'content element'), a corresponding  menu item is created or updated on the fly.</p> 
<p>If a content element has a language association, then generated menu items are also associated.</p> 
 
 
<h2 style='clear: both;'>Instructions</h2> 
<ul> 
<li>Install and enable the plugin</li> 
<li>Go to plugin options. You may have as many sets of plugin options as you need here.</li> 
<li>Open a set of options by clicking at it's name. You may have a set enabled or disabled. You may copy or remove a set. 
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</li> 
<li>Select where you want to have your menu items created - a separate menu or as children of an existing menu item.</li> 
<li>Select which categories you want to include, ordering.</li> 
<li>Select if you want to include articles and if you want to limit the number of articles to be included (e.g. if you want a menu to hame only latest 5 news as menu items). Select ordering.</li> 
<li>Select if you want the set to generate from scratch, update or do nothing on save of the plugin option. The No option may be used, when you have previously generated a menu and don't want to have any changes on save of the plugin. But the menu will still be updated if you create or edit articles or categories which apply to current setting.</li> 
<li>Save your settings and wait till the menus are (re)generated.</li> 
</ul> 
<p><b>Note!</b> Try to avoid editing menu items generated by MenuAry. You changes may be overridden when regenerating your menues (e.g. saving the plugin), or when updating articles. </p> 
<p>Watch this <a href='https://youtu.be/pEVp-VK9uKM'>youtube </a> video to get the idea.</p> 
 
<p>Enjoy!</p>

MenuAry

Include articles into the menu

Select whether or not to automatically create new menu items for articles

Include categories

Select all the categories you'd like to include in your Menuary menu. No categories selected means all categories

Regenerate your menu on plugin save

If you'd like to immediately regenerate the MenuAry menu with the new settings, set this as you need.<br /><br /> Use Graceful to only update menu items according to real state, add new menu items if needed, but never delete anything. Menu items manually created are never processed in any way by MenuAry

Menu name

System menu name to be used as target menu for the rule. Please do not use the same system menu name for different rules.<br /><br /> The menu name can be 21 characters maximum. If you are using translit, be sure the translit varian of the menu name is not more then 24 characters. <br /><br />If you have two menu names which have lenth more then 21 characters and differ only with last characters, then the internal menu name for such menus will be the same as it will use only first 21 characters and this will cause a trouble.

Menu #1

Menu name <b>%s</b> is used more then once. Please check group of rules named <b>%s</b> (order number <b>%s</b>). This group of rules will be disabled till the menu name is fixed. If you have just disabled the group of the rules, then ignore this message. <br/> Note! In some cases this may be a fake message, just save the settings again. 

Category link type

You may inherit global com_content settings or category settings, or force category links use blog or list layout

Force - delete and generate from scratch

<h1>Please enjoy this short break</h1> 
        <p>That's all we need for now! Your MenuAry menu is being regenerated to reflect your settings.</p> 
        <p>Once the menu is fully generated, it will then automatically begin to reflect changes made to your articles and categories!</p> 
        <p>Never manually create a menu item again!</p><p>All new articles and categories will automatically be included in the MenuAry menu, so long as the category is included in the menu settings.</p> 
        <p>Please leave this page open until the menu is fully regenerated. Thank you.</p> 
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This plugin is not correctly installed. Please uninstall and reinstall it!

Please, check! You have 2 or more similar menu names. Please use unique menu names.

Graceful - update, do not delete

Hide top category

Use this option carefull. It mainly has sense, when select one category and want to show only subcategories of a category. The the you select the top category and enable this option: the menu will include all subcategories but not the top category, the one selected. <br /> <br /> If you have previously generated a menu and later change the option it's needed to regenerate menu from scratch. Use an appropriate option for this.

Parent

Create/use a menu

An exsisting menu item

Select a menu item

Category ordering

Article ordering

Don't care (reduces CPU and memory usage)

Ordering ASC (as is)

Ordering DESC (reverse)

Title ASC

Title DESC

Created ASC

Created DESC

Modified ASC

Modified DESC

Publish up ASC

Publish up DESC

Publish down ASC

Publish down DESC

This menu item is automatically created by the MenuAry plugin. If you change it manually, this may be later overridden by the MenuAry plugin.

A menu item created

A menu item updated

A menu item deleted

Number or menu items state updated

Number of articles to use

If you want to limit articles added to the menu with e.g. 5 latest articles, you can enter here number 5 and select article ordering to 'Created DESC'. Zero disables this option.<br/> If the option is enabled the menu is regenerated when manipulating artiсles according to this group of rules. So saving, un/publishing, adding an article may take a bit longer then when the plugin doesn't care of creating menu items. If the option is enabled, the regenerate option below is treated as force to regenerate.

Menu is regenerated according to rule

Parameters initialization

done

Added

Updated

Use Ajax

Uses ajax when saving the plugin to regenerate your menus. Allows to avoid timeout interrupt on long operations

Debug

Steps per iteration

The number of operations to perform per ajax result load. May be needed to find a problematic place when adding many categories or articles.

Start processing group of rules

End processing group of rules

Start processing categories

End processing categories

Start processing articles

End processing articles

Prepareing categories data

Number of elements to be handled

Rebuilding menu tree

Skipped

Prepareing articles data

Menu (re)generation finished

Please do not leave this page till the menu (re)generation is finished

Please make sure the <a href='/administrator/index.php?option=com_plugins&view=plugins&filter_folder=ajax&filter_search=ary'>Ajax HelpAry</a> plugin is set up to allow MenuAry usage. Error: 

Exclude categories