• Lesson Index:
• Overview
• Installing Joomla
• User Accounts
• Link Management
• Assigning Privileges
• Submitting news
• Media Manager
• Adding New Category
• Admin Messages
• News Feeds
• Syndicate News Feeds
• Update Contact Page
• Page Impressions
• Customizing Templates
• More Joomla Notes

Adding New Section

The difference betweeen Section and Category is that a section contain categories. News is a section, for example. Latest News is a category in that section. We are going to create a new section called Articles.

1. Go to Section Manager and click New.

2. Enter information and click save.

3. Your new section have been saved. Click again on the section to add it to a menu.

4. Add Articles to each menu you want by clicking on the Link to Menu button...

5. You got a new section on your site.

Adding Category

6. Now you can add categories to that section through the Category Manager...

7. And specify which section this category should be in...

8. After clicking save, you see your new category...

Adding Submit Link in the User Menu

9. Now you want your authors and front-end users to be able to click a menu and add new articles. Go to Menu -> usermenu and click New.

10. Choose the Submit Link and click Next.

11. Set the properties of your menu item and click Save.

12. Now you got your new menu item. Re-order as needed.

Next Lesson

Go to next lesson now to learn about Admin Messages.