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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

Creating overview pages that show tagged articles


In Chapter 5, Small Sites, Big Sites – Organizing Your Content Effectively, you saw what content tags are and how they function in Joomla. You also saw how using tags allows the site's visitor to browse articles that share the same tag. When they click on the tag that's displayed with the individual article, they are automatically taken to a page that shows all items with that particular tag. Another way to display tagged items is by adding a menu link. By adding a menu link of Menu Item Type called List of Tagged Items, you can create a list of articles that share one or more specific tags—similar to the Category Blog Overview pages you saw earlier in this chapter.

Creating lists of tagged items is a powerful way to create pages that list specific selections of articles. Imagine a recipe site where you could display all dishes tagged as Vegetarian in one go, regardless of the category they are in. You could even create more specific selections...