#5 - Changing the default frontpage

Another easy to do but often asked question about Joomla is how to change the default homepage from the frontpage component to another page.

Joomla 1.0

The page which is displayed when you first hit a Joomla website is the first menu item in the main menu. Therefore, if you want to change the default frontpage, go to the main menu (Menu > mainmenu) and change the ordering of the menu items such that the page you want to display first is at the top of the list.

Joomla 1.5

In Joomla 1.5, this has become easier to handle. You just go to the main menu
where your homepage is, select the menu item, and mark it as default. You'll notice that the menu which is default is marked with a start next to it. You'll also notice that in the Menus module, there is an asterisk in the menu which contains the default frontpage.

The images above show the default icons which are used to set a menu item as the default frontpage.