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
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Versions and OS |
For this tutorial, we will be using:
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Prerequisites |
To follow this tutorial, ensure that Joomla 3.4.1 is installed in your system. |
Switch to the browser | Let's open Joomla administrative panel first.
So go to the browser and type http://localhost/joomla/administrator |
Enter your User Name and password and click on Log in button. | |
Type username as admin and password as admin123 | I will enter my username as admin and password as admin123. |
Click on Log in | Click on Log In. |
We are now on the Joomla Control Panel. | |
We can see the Control Panel menu on the left-hand side of the screen. | |
Let's go to the Article Manager page. | |
There are 2 ways to reach the Article Manager page. | |
Point to Article Manager icon but don't click. | Click on Article Manager menu in the Joomla Control Panel. |
Click on Content in top menu >> Click on Article Manager | Or click on Content in the top menu and then click on Article Manager |
Point to the toolbar on the top right. | Notice there are some buttons on the toolbar.
You can use these to create, modify and delete articles. You can also archive, publish and unpublish them. |
Let us now learn how to create an article. | |
There are 2 ways to create an article in Joomla, from the Article Manager page. | |
Point to the New button but do not click it. | Click on the New button on the toolbar of the Article Manager page or |
Click on the Add New Article in the submenu but do not click it. | Or click on Content in the top menu, then Article Manager and then the sub-menu Add New Article. |
Click on New icon | I will click on the New button in the toolbar on the top left. |
Article Creation Page | We are now on the new article creation page. |
Point to the toolbar on the top right. | This page has few buttons on the toolbar. |
Highlight Title, Category and Article Text | Values for a few fields are to be provided in the panel below the page title.
Title and Categoryare the mandatory fields while creating an article. |
Point to the black asterix. | These are indicated by the all too familiar black asterix. |
Title : Sodium | Let's create an article now.
Type Sodium as the title of the article. |
We will put some text into the text box: Article Text.
You can put any text of your choice here. | |
Click on Gedit editor in the launcher bar.
Copy the text by doing Ctrl+C >> Go to the browser >> Paste the text by doing Ctrl+V |
I will copy the text that I have in my Gedit text editor and paste it in the Article text. |
Click on the Category drop-down. | Next, select the category field on the right-hand side of the screen. |
Default value of the field is Uncategorised.
Let's leave it as it is. | |
Highlight Featured | There is a field called Featured, which is a toggle button, with options Yes and No. |
A featured article is one which will be displayed on the homepage of a website. | |
Select Yes in the Featured menu | I will select Yes in the Featured menu. |
Point to the top toolbar
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Let's now save and close the article.
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Click on Save & Close
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There are various save options here.
Out of the given options, I will click on Save & Close.
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Let's open our webpage and see the article we have created. | |
Click on Digital India | On the top right on the administrative panel, there is a link Digital India. Click on it. |
This is the site name that we gave for the website, during installation of Joomla. | |
Point to the article on the homepage. | We are now on our homepage and you can see the article Sodium that we created on the homepage. |
Let's close the browser window and go back to the administrative panel. | |
Now let us learn to edit an existing article.
We will edit the article that we have just created. | |
Go to the admin panel.
Click on Sodium |
Look for the article in the Article Manager and click on its title.
So we will click on the article Sodium. |
Type: Sodium is one of the essential minerals required by our body in the Article Text above the text already written there. | It opens the page with the title: Article Manager: Edit Article.
Sodium is one of the essential minerals required by our body. |
This time let us choose another option to save the changes in the article. | |
Click on Save in the top right toolbar. | Click on Save in the toolbar.
It will save the article and load the page with Edit Article. Which indicates that, the article is still open for editing. |
Let's go to the website and verify our changes. | |
Click on Digital India. | Click on Digital India link on the top right of the page. |
Scroll down and highlight the modification. | Scroll down to see that the article is edited. |
Switch to the admin panel. | Close the browser window and go back to the administrative panel. |
Point to Save as Copy. | To make a copy an existing article, there is an option Save as Copy in the toolbar.
Let us try it. |
Click on Save as Copy. | Click on Save as Copy button.
This creates a new article, which is a copy of our original one, Sodium. |
Highlight the Title text | Note that the system has generated a new title, Sodium (2), for the copied article. |
Let us give the copied article a title of our choice. | |
Type Benefits of Sodium in the Title text.
Click on Save & Close in the top right toolbar. |
In the Title textbox, type Benefits of Sodium.
Now select the status as Published and then click on the Save & Close option in the toolbar. |
Point to the title Benefits of Sodium. | We are back to the Article Manager page.
See here; we have got a new article named Benefits of Sodium in our list. |
Go to the webpage and verify that we have 2 articles on the homepage. | |
Click on Digital India | Click on the Digital India link on the top right. |
Scroll down to see 2 articles: Sodium and Benefits of Sodium. | |
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Assignment:
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Here is a small assignment for you.
Pause this tutorial and do it.
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Now go back to the administrative panel.
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Switch to the browser | We will now see how to delete an article in Joomla. |
Select the article Sodium. | Since we have two articles, Benefits of Sodium and Sodium, let us delete one of them.
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Click Trash. | In the toolbar, click on the button: Trash |
Scroll down to show that article Sodium does not exist in the list. | In the Article Manager verify that the article Sodium is no longer in the list.
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Go to the webpage and verify again if the article is present. | |
Click on Digital India | Click on Digital India on the top right. |
Scroll down to see the article. | See that we have only 1 article here - Benefits of Sodium. |
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(Summary) |
Let us recap.
In this tutorial, we learnt about
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Switch to Slide 8: | Here are 2 small assignments for you.
Create two new articles as instructed below. |
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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) |
Spoken Tutorial Project is supported by NMEICT, MHRD, Government of India. |
This script has been contributed by Priyanka and this is Ashwini Patil, from IIT Bombay. Thank you for joining. |