• 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

Link Management

Submitting Links

After a newly register user logs in, they have a user menu where they can submit new links.

For example...

After making edit, one should always either "Save" or "Cancel". If an user abandons or closed the browser without saving or cancelling, the content will be still "locked". To unlock this content so that it can be edited or published, the user should log back in and click "Check In My Items"

Any locked item can been seen by the Administrator from the Administrator Panel by going to Content -> All Content Item.

A Super Administrator can perform a "global check in" of all locked items by System -> Global Checkin. Note that after checkin, the item might still need to be published before it shows up on the live site.

Note that an email to Super Admin is sent to notify of all newly submitted content.

Logout

When a user has completed his/her task, he/she should click the Logout menu.

Publishing

Just because an "Author" has saved an item does not mean that the item will show up on the website. A publisher (or higher) must go into the Admin panel under Components -> Web Links -> Web Link Items and publish it by clicking as shown.

You can unpublish and delete items in similar fashion. You can click on the blue arrows to re-order the items.

The newly published link shows up on the website here...

But it is in the wrong category. So next we will learn how to manage categories next.

Creating New Link Category

In the admin panel, go to Components -> Web Links -> Web Link Categories and click New.

And enter new category.

Note that uploaded images will be stored in images/stories/

Your item will not show up on the website unless you have at least one item in it.

Moving Item to New Category

To move an item from one category to another, simply go back to the item and change category.

Adding to Menu

If you want your newly created category to show up in the main menu or the top menu, go back to the category, and click Link to Menu.

Now your category shows up in the menus...

Removing Menu Items

To remove an item from any of the menus, ...

Deleting Menu

To delete an unused menu, go to Menu -> Menu Manager, select menu and click Delete.

Next Lesson

Go to next lesson to learn about Assigning Privileges.