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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 a blog on your Joomla! site


Given that Joomla! is a content management system, it's perfect for managing a blog. In this recipe, we'll go through the steps of setting up a 'blog' on your Joomla! site.

How to do it...

I have added two articles to my website. These will form the basis of adding that content as a blog.

My first two blog articles are:

  • Day 1 at the Widget Factory

  • A tour of widget engineering

We can set up several different types of blogs on Joomla!, each has a connection back to the way that you have set up either section or category. Additional options include setting them in various layouts.

We'll look at each one, starting with the category blog.

  1. Log in.

  2. Menus | Main Menu.

    Note

    You can pick any Menu you wish - for simplicity I have chosen the Main Menu.

  3. Open the Main Menu and select New.

    You should see this:

  4. From here, open Articles and you'll see this:

  5. This is where you will select the type of blog you want. We're starting with the Category | Category Blog Layout.

  6. Select Category...