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Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide Second Edition

By : Eric Tiggeler
Book Image

Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide Second Edition

By: Eric Tiggeler

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Time for action – creating a category and subcategories


We've seen that the CORBA site could do with some extra content containers. We've already outlined what categories are needed on paper, so, let's add the first new category, About CORBA:

  1. Navigate to Content | Category Manager | Add New Category.

  2. In the Category Manager: Add A New Articles Category screen, fill out the Title field. In this example, type About CORBA:

  3. Leave the other values unchanged and click on Save & Close. You're taken to the Category Manager screen. The About CORBA category is now shown in the Category Manager list.

According to our site map, the next few categories we need are nested: one main category (Bad Art) containing two subcategories (Facts and Reviews). We will add them as follows:

  1. In the Category Manager screen, click on New.

  2. In the Category Manager: Add A New Articles Category screen, fill out the Title field with the name Bad Art.

  3. Click on Save & New. This button makes it easier to create a series of...