Customize Menu Item Types in Joomla with Randy Carey

The architecture of Joomla allows us to quickly create our own types of menu items. When one creates a menu item, our custom page types can be listed alongside those provided my Joomla core and third-party extensions. This can be helpful when we want to create new layouts of page content or to inject custom parameters that can be accessed within the layout files. I will show you how to create these, and we will look at some examples that illustrate scenarios that benefit from a custom menu item type - a feature which eludes attention but is quite valuable within one's toolbox.