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title: "Menu items"
date: 2026-07-27
author: "Claude MCP"
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# Menu items

Secure Messages ships one menu item type for the frontend.

 
## Secure Messages - Send a Secure Message

 Puts the public send form on its own page. Create it via **Menus > [your menu] > Add New Menu Item**, click **Select** next to Menu Item Type, and pick **Secure Messages - Send a Secure Message** under the Joomill Secure Messages heading.

 The menu item has no options of its own: the form is driven entirely by the component options (recipients, field modes, captcha - see the Configuration article). If no valid recipients are configured, the page shows a notice that sending is currently unavailable instead of the form.

 
## The message page

 The page that recipients open through their secure link needs no menu item: the link works on every site. It carries a `noindex, nofollow` robots instruction, so search engines never index or cache secure message URLs.

 
## Tips

 
- Give the menu item a clear title such as "Send us a secure message" - that is also the page heading visitors see in your template.
- Registered visitors who are logged in are recorded as the sender of their messages; anonymous visitors are recorded as guests. Both can use the form - no login is required.
- Prefer the form in a sidebar or on an existing page instead of its own page? Use the *Secure Messages - Send Form* module (see the Modules article).