Your suggestion does not work. What should I do now in order to get MetaTemplate Pro to use a particular template for internet explorer browsers?

Hi chr001,

there were three issues on your site:

1 - The MetaTemplate System plugin needs to be at, or close to the top of the list of System plugins. Normally the only thing that should be above it in the list is the sh404SEF or AceSEF plugin. By "above" in the list, I mean appearing first in the list (i.e. a smaller "order" number).

So on your site I've left the Component Access Permission plugin as first on the list, followed by AceSEF followed by MetaTemplate.

Now that this is in place, MetaTemplate can successfully get hold of the URL parameters, and determine which menu item is being displayed. That was the crux of the problem.

2 - In your MetaTemplate rule you were detecting both "Menu items" and also "Sections and categories". If you use more than one control in any MetaTemplate rule, then *all* conditions have to be satisfied in order for the rule to succeed. So it was looking for a combination of menu item and sections/categories, which may or may not have corresponded with one another.

To keep it simple, I changed it so to only detect menu items: the main "Health" menu item, and also the menu items from the other health menu. The selector box takes multiple selections if you hold down the ctrl key.

3 - The System Cache plugin doesn't play nicely with MetaTemplate, so I turned it off. Yes, this may cause a performance hit, unfortunately.
The problem is that the System Cache caches pages according to URL, irrespective of browser. Normally in Joomla this is fine, because 2 different people hitting the same URL would expect to see exactly the same content. However when you are doing browser detection, you can't assume that 2 people viewing the same URL should get the same content. So the only way to make this work is to turn off system caching.

As far as I can see, it's all working properly on your site now.

Best regards,
Stephen