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Joomla! 1.5 Cookbook

By : Tom Canavan
Book Image

Joomla! 1.5 Cookbook

By: Tom Canavan

Overview of this book

If you are a Joomla! site owner, you must already be aware of how this robust, easy to use, open source content management system can help you build a great looking site instantly. You must also be aware of the many problems that it can throw up from time to time. Find the solutions to all your basic and advanced Joomla! queries, so you don't have to wait for someone on the forums to help you out every time.The Joomla! 1.5 Cookbook will provide you with quick and direct solutions to the most common and uncommon problems faced by you, the Joomla! site owner, sidestepping all the theoretical fuss.Joomla! is the insanely popular, award winning content management system which helps you build professional looking websites, even if you don't have any HTML programming experience or design skills.Although, sometimes you might trip over some common pitfalls which would slow the progress of your website down. This book will help you find a direct and quick way through these common problems which can be easily avoided with a few tips and tricks. It starts of with solutions the most common queries that you might face during the installation and setup for Joomla! 1.5 moving on swiftly to guide you through Joomla! templates, modules, security, managing your users and much more. So the next time when things go wrong with your Joomla! site and you are wondering, for example, how to work with your site's database; just pick up this book and quickly find your way through this.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Joomla! 1.5 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface
Index

Setting up categories


In the hierarchy of content, Sections are first and they contain categories. Categories contain articles. In this recipe, we will follow up on sections and learn how to set up a category.

Getting ready

We can really get granular in terms of content management with categories. What you will need is one or more categories that you will file your articles in. You'll need to have the section that this category belongs in already created.

We will be adding categories to our Section Product News-Widget World.

If you are not the Joomla! Administrator, go ahead, log in, and let's get started.

How to do it...

  1. Choose Content | Category Manager.

  2. The following screenshot shows the full screen of Category Manager. Let's look at each section in detail.

  3. The left-most part of the screen, labeled as Title, is the categories we have set up. These, by the way, are installed by Joomla! when you install your sample data. Once you create one you'll see it in your version of this screen.

  4. Moving right...