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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 tagged items overview page


On the example site, we tagged some articles by art genre. Let's create a page that lists all content labeled with the tag Abstract Art.

  1. Navigate to Menus | Main Menu and create a new menu item. Select Tagged Items as the Menu Item Type as shown in the following screenshot:

  2. In the Menu Title field, enter Abstract Art.

  3. In the Tag field, select the Abstract Art tag as shown in the following screenshot:

  4. Select Article as the Content Item type. It's also possible to tag other content items (such as categories); however, in this case we only want to tag and display articles.

  5. Under the Tag Options tab, set Tag Description to Show. This way, the tag description (entered for the individual tag via the Tags component) will be shown at the top of the tagged items page.

  6. To show more than just a list of titles of the tagged items, it's a good idea to also change a couple of options on the Item Options tab; set Item Image as Show and Item Description...