Working with Articles and Categories

Working with Articles and Categories

In this article we cover how to create and edit website Categories and Articles.

An Article is some written information (text and images) to be displayed in your website.

A Category is a container for organising Articles.

Other kinds of content

Not all website content is presented by Categories and Articles.

Much of your website's content is displayed by various kinds of Module, including:

• Articles Module,
• Custom Module, and
• Menu Module.

Modules can be displayed in any website Position, including inside an Article when the Loadposition Command is used.

Prior to Joomla! 5.2 Articles could not be displayed anywhere except in the Main Body of the website.

From Joomla! 5.2 onwards Articles can be displayed outside the Main Body, in other words anywhere.

This is is possible when the Articles Module is used.

Read more: Articles Module.

Read more: Working with Modules.

Visibility

When you create a New Article it will only be visible in the Front End of your website when you:

• publish it,
• make it accessible to the Public, and
• create a Menu Link to it or a Link from within another Article.

You can also control the times when Articles are visible.

For example: set a Start and End date.

These settings are controlled via the Publishing tab when editing Articles.

Read more: How to create a Menu Link.

Read more: How to create a Link.

Accessibility

Using the Joomla! Accessibility Checker when editing Articles in your website will make your website more accessible to the widest possible audience.

Visitors will be more inclined to stay on your website for longer and even make repeat visits.

This should improve your website's performance in search engines.

Read more: Joomla! Accessibility Checker.

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Article Management.

Contents include:

How to create and edit Categories.
How to create and edit Articles.
Featured Articles.
Tabs and Sliders.
How to use Page Breaks.
How to use Read More.
How to reset Article Hits Counter.
How to archive an Article.
Article Options.