MCP Plugin for Joomla - Menus

Menus 1.1.5 (latest release)

Tuesday, 29 September 2026 Buy a licence

Fixed

Creating or moving a menu item whose alias is already used no longer fails with a fatal "ApiRouter::build()" error.

Changed

create_menu_item picks a free alias (suffix -2, -3…) when the requested one is taken, and returns the alias actually used.

Menus 1.1.4

Wednesday, 23 September 2026

Fixed

get_menu_item_type_params no longer crashes with a fatal "Undefined constant LIBXML_RECOVER" on hosting whose libxml build does not define that constant; the XML parser flag is now guarded with a safe fallback.

Menus 1.1.3

Thursday, 10 September 2026

Changed

Release notes are now in English and shown in Joomla's Update view (changelog URL).

Menus 1.1.2

Sunday, 06 September 2026

Added

Language packs de-DE, es-ES, it-IT, nl-NL, pt-BR: translation of the plugin labels and its parameters.

Menus 1.1.1

Sunday, 06 September 2026

Fixed

update_menu_item destroyed the multilingual associations of the modified item (and of its whole group): the Joomla model ItemModel::save() purges #__associations when the associations field is absent. Existing associations are now re-read and passed back to the model on every change.

Added

Multilingual associations readable and editable: get_menu_item returns associations ({language: id}); create_menu_item and update_menu_item accept associations ({"fr-FR": 101} to link, {} to detach on update). Checks: specific languages (not *), existing targets of the given language.
create_menu_item and update_menu_item responses return the associations re-read from the database.

Menus 1.1.0

Sunday, 06 September 2026

Added

set_menu_item_home: sets (or removes) the "home page" flag on a menu item, per language. Joomla keeps only one home page per language: the previous one is automatically unset (returned in previous_home_id). Only a published component item can be the home page; the "All languages" (*) home page cannot be removed (choose another instead). State re-read from the database after the operation.
home argument (boolean) on create_menu_item and update_menu_item: creates/updates the item then sets it as its language's home page in a single operation.
Menu item parameters read and written: get_menu_item returns the params object (menu_show, page title, heading, CSS class, metadata, component display options…), note, template_style_id and browserNav; list_menu_items returns them with include_params=true. create_menu_item and update_menu_item accept params (key-by-key merge onto the existing one on update), note, template_style_id, browserNav, and return the params re-read from the database. Enables faithful duplication (e.g. reusing menu_show=0 from a hidden item).

Changed

Joomla ACL check on reads: list_menus, list_menu_items, get_menu_item and list_menu_item_types now require core.manage on com_menus (the right the backend requires to view menus), params and notes being administration data. Writes remain gated (core.create / core.edit / core.edit.state / core.delete on com_menus); set_menu_item_home requires core.edit.state (and core.edit via the Joomla model).

Menus 1.0.1

Thursday, 03 September 2026

Changed

Hardening: each write tool is guarded by the matching Joomla right on com_menus (core.create, core.edit, core.edit.state, core.delete) in addition to the MCP scope.

Menus 1.0.0

Tuesday, 01 September 2026

Changed

First stable release, distributed as a standalone plugin (Pro offer) via the sensomcp.com ARS.