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Joomla! 1.6 First Look

By : Eric Tiggeler
Book Image

Joomla! 1.6 First Look

By: Eric Tiggeler

Overview of this book

Release of the much awaited Joomla! 1.6 is just round the corner. There is a lot of hype and curiosity about the new features Joomla! 1.6 will provide and how it will affect existing users.Joomla! 1.6 First Look is a concise guide to the new features of Joomla! 1.6, targeted at existing Joomla! users and developers. If you want to see what's new in Joomla 1.6 and how it's going to affect you, this is the book for you. This book will give readers an insight into the new features of Joomla! 1.6, showing them what has changed, how the changes will affect them, and how to upgrade to Joomla! 1.6 from existing Joomla! versions. It begins with general changes in interface and basic articles, and then takes you through the changes in menus, control levels, templates, extensions, and SEO features. It explains the new features and how to use them, drawing attention to significant differences from how things used to behave. By the end of this book, you will be well-versed with the consequences these changes will bring to you as a Joomla! user or developer.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Joomla! 1.6 First Look
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Chapter 3. Organizing and Managing Content

Joomla! 1.6 makes creating, managing, and organizing content easier in many respects. One of the main improvements is that Joomla! now allows you to categorize articles any way you like. The rigid old section and category system has been replaced by a more powerful content categorization system, called "nested categories". But there are many more improvements in the backend, making it easier to create and organize articles.

In this chapter, you'll learn about the benefits of Joomla!'s new content management features. We'll cover the following topics:

  • Organizing content using nested categories

  • Adding category notes and category metadata

  • New ways to display category contents on the site

  • Creating and editing content: using the updated article editor

  • Archiving and un-archiving articles