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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 News archive


Let's create an archive for some old news pages on the CORBA site. This can be done by performing the following steps:

  1. Navigate to Content | Article Manager. In the Select Category filter box, select News to see only the articles in that category.

  2. Select the articles to be archived. In the following example, we've selected Bad Photography Exhibition.

  3. Click on the Archive button in the toolbar.

  4. A message appears to confirm that the article has been archived. The article disappears from the article list. To see archived contents, select Archived in the Select Status drop-down list, as shown in the following screenshot:

    You've created a (tiny) news archive now, but there's no way for the visitor to see its contents. Let's create a link now.

  5. Navigate to Menus | Main Menu | Add New Menu Item. As the Menu Item Type for this link, select Articles | Archived Articles.

  6. Enter Title for the hyperlink as News Archive. Adjust any other settings you want and click on...