Hide title not working in joomla 3.2

Question

Ok all I want is hide the article title, no big deal, right?

So here is what I have:

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Answer 1

Why is it like this? So you can have the flexibility to change your display but also the simplicity to set your most commonly used settings in global configuration.

Global configuration sets the default display. You should set your globals to the most common settings that you will use in your site. Then you should only use individual article or menu settings when you want to override those settings. Really, most people never need to override becasue they want to have a consistent look and feel.

However, if you do want to have a mixture of settings the next step is to change individual items. For example on a given article you may have a date show even though by default you never show a date.

Still, what if sometimes you want to show the author but sometimes you don't? Do you have to copy the article completely to set new params? No, that would be ridiculous and a pain to maintain. In that case you create a menu item linking to that article. The menu link options can be used to override the options from the specific article. Again, you should really only be using this in special cases since you have already thoughtfully set your global and item level settings.

So the cascade is menu overrides item overrides global.

Joomla also gives you a lot of other options for this kind of thing such as you can even put an alternate layout. It could be (and is) a criticism that joomla goes too far in letting you customize everything so much and it creates an overwhelming UI, but on the other hand if you are used to it, it is very powerful.

Answer 2

You can 'control' the display of 'article titles' in three places

1 - Article Manager then 'options' button (top right). This will modify every article in your site, basically changes the default.

2 - Individual article, 'options' tab (center of page just above the editor). This will modify setting for this specific article AND it "overrides" the global article option setting.

3 - Menu item, 'options' tab (center of page just above the editor).This "overrides" the global article option settings and the article option setting.

Answer 3

Well I don't understand, but the title is coming from the Menu Item. So there is the article title which you can show / hide / throw into the streets / dowhatever and nothing happens. Then there is the 'Global Configuration' for the articles, when I set the title to 'Hide' there, it will hide the actual thing , but yeah, for all articles. Then there is the Menu Item manager which imho has no importance for the title displayed in the content. But okay, if you globally enable the article titles and then disable the menu item title for this menu item, it will actually hide the article title. You can still do whatever you want in the article options of the single article. Probably the same accounts for show hiding tags of the ARTICLE.

It is good I don't have a gun in my place, I would probably have blasted my brains onto the next wall. Time spent for this crap: over 1 hour.

If someone can reasonably explain why it is like that, I will certainly accept or upvote.

Answer 4

I'm using Joomla 3.3, and to make the títle "Home" dissapear on first page, I found the solution here by toskan: Go to Menu Manager, edit menu Home, and on tab "Page Display" remove "Show Page Heading"