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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 intro text


In the articles you created in earlier chapters, you saw it's good to add separate intro text to an article. Now you know why—if you don't, the article can only be displayed fully on overview pages such as the category overview you just saw. Let's fix things by adding some intro text to our new article.

  1. Navigate to Content | Article Manager and open the article that you just created (Just What are Ugly Paintings?) to edit it.

  2. In the text editor screen, add a new first line. In this example, we entered The characteristics of truly bad art.

  3. Place the cursor just after this first line to indicate that you want Joomla to split the article here. To create a Read more link to point to the full article, click on the Read more button at the bottom of the editor screen. A red dotted line appears:

  4. Click on the Options tab and set Show Intro Text to Hide. This means the intro text (the short teaser text we just created) will be hidden when the full article is shown...