How to use the Category Manager 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 Category Manager

 

On this page, you can publish, unpublish, move, copy or delete categories or create a new one

3) To publish a category, select the checkbox

4) Then click Publish

 

5) To unpublish a category, select the box

6) And click Unpublish

 

Let's see how to move a category to a different section

 

7) Select the box next to the category you want to move

8) Click Move

 

9) Select a new section for this category

 

Scroll right

 

10) Click Save

 

11) To copy a category, select it

12) And click Copy

 

13) Choose the section the category will be copied to

 

Scroll right

 

14) Click Save

 

15) To delete a category, select the box

16) And click Delete

 

Now we'll edit the category we just copied

 

17) Select the category

Scroll right

 

18) Click Edit

 

19) Make any necessary changes

 

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

 

20) Click Save

 

 

Let's create a whole new category now

 

Scroll right

 

21) Click New

 

22) 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

 

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

 

23) Select the Section from the list

 

The Access Level allows you to set what users can access content in this section

 

Public allows anyone who visits your site to view the content. Registered allows only registered users access. Special allows only authors and higher

 

Scroll down

 

24) You can select an image that will be used for this section

 

You can upload your own images into the images/stories directory

 

The Image Position is used to place the image at the left or right of the page

25) Enter a Description for this section

 

Scroll up

 

26) Click Save

 

 

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