Mini Frontpage can't get my articles to open on a new page

I'm using mini frontpage on a joomla 2.5 website that I'm creating.
I use a category blog where in the display options I've set to display 0 articles in that way I only get my thumbnails created with Minifrontpage.
The only behaviour I have is when you click on an article displayed by MiniFrontpage my article opens under my MiniFrontpage list, I would want that article to open on an empty page.
When you have a few things that are shown by Minifrontpage this wouldn't be a problem but when you have for example 20 then you would have to scroll down a lot to see the article.
I'm not sure if it's a setting of MiniFrontpage of in Joomla since I'm relatively new to Joomla 2.5.
Thanks for the help!

The issue is when you assign MiniFP in a menu item with category blog layout-type page on which those articles belong to then all articles pulled out by MiniFP would go to that menu item page based on menu item ID. That's how Joomla works.
So the trick is to create a new 'dummy' menu item with a category blog layout type but point to a dummy 'category' (you need to create one) and assign MiniFP to that menu item. That way all articles from a specific category will go to another (menu item) page which now has the exact category of the article and without MiniFP shown up.

Hope that clear enough

Hi Erwin, thank you for the help and the quick answer!

I just tried the above solution and it works!
Still I have a question though.

I had a menu iten named "A" category blog layout pointing to a category named "A".
Now when I created a menu item named "dummy" category blog layout pointing to a category named "dummy" and in the MFP module I assigned MFP to show up only in the menu named "dummy" all worked well.

So I thought that if I changed my menu item named "A" to point to the category named "dummy" and changed MFP to point to the menu named "A", I would have the same results. But this didn't work.

Does this mean that the name of my menu item may not be the same as the name of my category?

Does this mean that the name of my menu item may not be the same as the name of my category?

you've got the answer then

Hi,

Unfortunately the aforesaid workaround is not working for me.
The only difference is that I have a main category of articles and three subcategories:
- Main Category
-- Category 1
-- Category 2
-- Category 3
I gave a shot and moved them as first level categories but the issue persists.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Hi Marialena

Have you created menu items for those categories yet? If you haven't, create them first. Those menu items for your categories not need to be displayed on any of your menu module. We just need the categories menu item id so everytime you click link on MiniFrontpage, those links will have a menu item id that point to their respective category blog page - not item id of a page where you publish MiniFP on.

Hope that clear enough....just create menu items for your article categories....