How to manage contacts in Joomla Print

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

1) Click Components

 

2) Then Contacts

 

3) Then click Categories

 

Scroll right

 

4) Click New

 

5) Enter a Title

 

6) 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

 

7) Click Save

 

Now let's add a contact to the new category

 

8) Click Contacts

 

 

Scroll right

 

9) Click New

 

10) Type a name for the contact

11) Choose the Category

 

12) Select the User this contact should be linked to

 

Scroll down

 

13) Enter the position this contact holds in the website

14) Type the user's email address

15) Enter the street address, town, state, ZIP, and country

 

16) Enter the telephone number

 

 

Scroll up and right

 

17) Select which of the parameters should be shown

18) Click Advanced Parameters

 

This is where you can choose the icons for each field

19) Click Email Parameters

 

This allows you to set up an email form that will contact the user

 

Scroll up

 

20) Click Save

 

 

Now let's add the contact list to a menu so it will be displayed on the front-end

 

21) Click Menus

 

22) Select the menu you want to add the link to

 

Scroll right

 

23) Click New

 

24) Select Contacts

 

25) Then Contact Category Layout

 

26) Enter a Title

 

 

Scroll right

 

27) Select the category

28) Click Save

 

Let's go to our front-end

 

The menu link appears here

 

All the contact information that we entered is displayed on this page

 

Here is the email form

 

That's it! You now know how to manage contacts in Joomla