Categories are content containers; they tell Joomla how to group things in the backend. Now, how do you get the content in these containers to show up on your website? You have already seen in Chapter 4, Web Building Basics – Creating a Site in an Hour, that one way to do this is by adding a menu link of the Category Blog type. In the previous chapter, you have already added menu links to the Lectures and Meetings categories in the same manner.

Let's start creating menu links that points to categories in some more detail. How do you go about creating a menu link to display the content of the new Activities main category (top-level category) and its subcategories?