Sections - Categories - Articles
Joomla! can catergorize your data and display it in many ways.
You can create sections and under each section create categories and assign articles to categories.
If you only have a few pages, you may wish to leave them uncategorised, or just create one section with a few categories.
An example is a newspaper with sections for News, Arts, Sports and Business.
Sports may have categories such as Baseball, Basketball, Soccer and Hockey.
Each category may have several articles attached to it.
| Section 1 |
-> Category A |
-> Article 1 |
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-> Article 2 |
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-> Category B |
-> Article 3 |
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-> Article 4 |
Section 2
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-> Category C |
-> Article 5 |
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-> Article 6
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-> Category D |
-> Article 7
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-> Article 8
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Published
Most things in Joomla!, including articles, categories, sections and menus, may be published or unpublished. Unpublished things will not display in the public front end, nor will they be found with searches.
Articles can also have dates to start publishing and stop publishing.
Archived
Articles can also be Archived. They appear on the site only from a menu item with the type Archive.
Front Page
Articles can also be chosen to appear on the Front Page. Joomla! has a special way to handle multiple articles on the front page.
Displaying Content
Joomla! components may have multiple Views to display the content. These are seen when creating a menu item or editing a menu's type. The Content component can display articles in the following ways:
- Archive
- Article: as a single article or form for article submission
- Category: in a blog layout or list layout
- Section: in a blog layout or list layout
- Front Page: a blog layout for articles designated to appear on the Front Page
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