How to manage articles in Joomla Print

This tutorial assumes you are already logged in to your Joomla admin panel

Articles are organized into sections and categories in Joomla. Sections are the top level of organization followed by categories, which are ordered by the section they belong to

1) Click Content

 

2) Then Article Manager

 

On this page, you can archive, unarchive, publish, unpublish, move, copy, edit or delete articles or create a new one

3) To unarchive an article, select the checkbox

4) And click Unarchive

 

5) To archive an article, select the box

6) And click Archive

 

Archived articles are retained on the site as unpublished and cannot be published to other pages until they are unarchived

7) To publish an article, select it

8) And click Publish

 

9) To unpublish, select the article

10) And click Unpublish

 

Articles that appear on the front page are marked with a green checkmark

11) To make an article show up on the front page, click the red X

 

Articles can be moved or copied to different categories. Let's move an article first

 

12) Select the article

13) And click Move

 

14) Select the new category for this article

Scroll right

 

15) Click Save

 

Now let's see how to copy an article

 

16) Select the article you wish to copy

17) And click Copy

 

18) Choose the category this article should be copied to

 

Scroll right

 

19) Click Save

 

 

Let's delete our old article

 

20) Select it

21) Click Trash

 

Now we'll edit the copied article

 

22) Click the checkbox

23) Then click Edit

 

24) Make any necessary changes

 

These options will be covered in more detail in the next step

25) Click Save

 

Now we'll create an entirely new article

 

Scroll right

 

26) Click New

 

27) Enter a Title

 

 

The Alias is an internal name that Joomla uses in the URL if SEF is enabled

 

Entering an alias is optional; and, if left blank, Joomla will create a default one by automatically converting the title to lowercase and replacing any spaces with a hyphen

 

However, you may manually enter an alias, if desired

 

28) Choose the section this article should belong to

29) If there is more than one category under the section you chose, you will need to select that too

 

By default, Published is set to yes. If you don't want to publish this article just yet, you will need to change it to no

30) Select whether this article should appear on the front page

31) Type your article content here

32) Click Save

 

That's it! You now know how to use the Article Manager in Joomla