I really love the power and flexibility of Joomla. (I know that I’m suppose to write Joomla with an exclamation point at the end, as that technically is the name for the project, but I just can’t do it.) The system is so powerful to begin with and so easily modified, I can’t imagine building a site today with out.

One simple hack I do to nearly every template I work with is to modify the call for the breadcrumb trail that one can use. That’s the so called “pathway” function within Joomla. Most of the time, you’ll find a line in a template that says:

mosPathway();

I change this to be:

if ($option!="com_frontpage") { mosPathway(); }

The results of this change is to simply hide the pathway on the home page. Why would the user need a breadcrumb on the home page? They are at the top of the tree and if that’s not already obvious, there are bigger problems with the information architecture and design.