Joomla/C2/Creating-Articles-in-Joomla/English
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Creating Articles in Joomla |
Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial on Creating Articles in Joomla. |
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Learning Objectives:
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In this tutorial, we will learn about:
*Article Manager
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Versions and OS |
For this tutorial, we will be using:
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Prerequisites |
To follow this tutorial, you need to have:
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| Switch to the browser | Lets open our Joomla administrative panel first.
So lets go to the browser and type http://localhost/joomla/administrator |
| Enter your login id and password and press on Login button.
I will enter my login id as admin and password as admin123. We are on the Joomla control panel. | |
| Show Slide 5: Article Manager | We will now learn about the Article Manager.
Article Manager is a view in Joomla administrative panel. We can view the articles and manage them through the Article Manager. |
| Show Slide 6: Reaching the Article Manager | We can reach the article manager from the control panel by doing 2 actions:
a. Click on the Article Manager in the first row in the control panel or b. Click on the Content in the top menu and click on Article Manager. |
| Switch to the browser | Lets go to the administrative page again. |
| Lets understand the article manager a little bit.
In the article manager, you can see the that the column headers are all clickable. It means you can sort the articles using any of them. By default, articles are sorted by the title. | |
| Article manager has filters to make your search faster if there are many articles.
The search in the article manager works on the title or the alias of the article. There are other filters based on the category, access, status of the article, author and language of the articles. | |
| Status: This shows the published status of the article.
An article can have 4 possible status: *published - meaning it could be displayed on the front-end *unpublished – meaning it cannot be displayed *archived – meaning it is removed from the article manager by default and put in historical records or *trashed – meaning it has been deleted from the system. | |
| Featured: Featured articles are the ones which are displayed on the homepage of your website. | |
| Category: Shows the category to which the article belongs | |
| Ordering: Order in which to show the articles.
For example, if there are 3 featured articles, ordering would decide which article would be shown first. You can change the order by clicking on the header and then either manually changing the order number or by clicking the up and down arrow. You can save the new ordering by clicking on the Save order icon. | |
| Access: It shows the user group which has access to the article. | |
| Created by, Date, Hits and Language are obvious. | |
| ID: ID is the unique identification number for this item in Joomla. It is automatically assigned by system and cannot be changed. | |
| On the top right is the toolbar for taking action on the articles.
We see one new action is this, which is Check-In. When we open an article, the article is locked for other admins so they cannot open it for editing. We can close the article by Save, Save & Close, Save and New, Save as Copy or Close. If we forget to close the article by either going back in the browser navigation or by closing the browser window, it will remain locked, with a lock icon to the left of the title. The admin who opened the article will need to check-in in order to give access to other admins to open it. | |
| There is also an Options icon here. These are the global options for all articles. | |
| In case it is ON, we can turn it OFF by editing php.ini in the apache installation. | |
| We will now come to article creation. | |
| Show Slide 7: | There are three ways we can reach the article creation page in Joomla:
a. Click on the Add New Article icon in the Control Panel. b. Click on the New icon on the options at top in Article Manager. c. Click on Content in the top menu, then Article Manager and then the submenu Add New Article |
| Switch to the browser | Lets go to the administrative panel and try creating a new article. |
| I will click on the Add New Article in the Control Panel.
This will open a new article creation page. | |
| Article creation page has some fields to be filled up and some icons on the top right.
Title, Category and Article Text are compulsory fields, which mean you cannot create an article without entering values in these. Default value of category is Uncategorized. Lets create an article. | |
| We put the title as Sodium.
I have already created a category called Minerals and I chose the category here as Minerals. Lets put some sample text in the Article Text. I will copy some text that I have in my Gedit editor and paste it in the article text. | |
| The article can now be saved without entering any more fields.
On the top right, we can see the icon to save. The Save icon will only save the article, and load the page with Edit Article mentioned here. Save & Close will save the article and take you back to the article manager. Save & New will save the article and load another Add New Article page. Cancel icon would cancel article creation and go back to the article manager. | |
| If you want to edit an existing article, find that article in the article manager and click on the title of the article.
Clicking on the title of the article will open a page similar to the add new article page, with an added icon on the top right Save as Copy. You can make the required changes to edit the article and save it. | |
| If you click on Save as Copy, a new article, which is a copy of this article would be created.
This copied article will have a different title and alias than the original one. | |
| We will now see how to delete an article in Joomla.
Go to the article manager and look for the article that you want to delete. Click on the check box on the left of the article title. On the top right of the article manager, you can see the option to unpublish the article or trash it. If you are sure you will not need the article later, you can click on trash icon. This will remove the article from the system. Otherwise, unpublish the article. | |
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(Summary) |
Let us summarize.
In this tutorial, we learnt about:
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| Switch to Slide 9: | Let's come to the assignment now.
You need to create 3 articles. |
| For the first article, give the title as Vitamin A.
Select Uncategorized as the category. Copy the article text from the assignment sheet of this tutorial and paste it as Article Text. Click on Save and New icon. | |
| Switch to Slide 10: | For the second article, give the title as Sodium.
Select Uncategorized as the category. Copy the article text from the assignment sheet of this tutorial and paste it as Article Text. Click on Save and Close icon. |
| Switch to Slide 11: | For the third article, give the title as Iron.
Select Uncategorized as the category. Copy the article text from the assignment sheet of this tutorial and paste it as Article Text. Click on Cancel icon. |
| Switch to Slide 12: | How many articles do you see in the Article Manager now?
Why are there only 2 articles in your Article Manager? |
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(About Spoken Tutorial Project) |
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(About Spoken Tutorial Project) |
The Spoken Tutorial Project Team
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(Acknowledgement)
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Spoken Tutorial Project is supported by NMEICT, MHRD, Government of India. |
| This is Priyanka signing off. Thank you for joining. |
