Joomla 2.5 – template overrides not working for menu items
If you encounter problems with this Joomla bug #29482 there is a simple workaround.
Edit components/com_content/views/VIEW_NAME/LAYOUT_NAME.xml
and in the <metadata />
section put this:
```xml
After that, it is necessary to recreate the menu position, so that changes in the .xml file are applied by Joomla.