Submitting News

You have learned how to create a new user and assign them privileges. We are going to show you how an user with Author privileges can submit news to the site for publication.

1. The user logs in from the home page of the site and clicks "Submit News" in the user menu. And start typing...

You can type the entire article into the Intro Text above or split up the article and type the rest below...

When the articles gets too long, you can insert a page break and Joomla will paginate the article with previous and next page links.

Inserting Images

2. What you are seeing above is the TinyMCE editor that comes by default with Joomla 1.0.12. A better editor that provides bettter support for inserting images is the JCE editor plugin as described in the Notes. First, we see how to insert images using the TinyMCE editor. Then we'll show you how to do it using the JCE editor.

If you are using the TinyMCE editor. You can add images to your articles by clicking the "insert image" button and it will add a {msoimage} markup to your article. You then assign images to the placeholder markup.

If you are using the JCE editor, then ...

Now you got your image in the story.

After clicking the link icon, enter the link URL and click insert...

The linkable image will have this blue link border. To get rid of the blue border, add ...

; border: 0px;

to the style property as shown. Make sure you include a semicolon before as well as after your style.

Now you got your linkable image in your story.

3. At the bottom of the story editor, you will see the publishing tab...

In the metadata tab enter value to be placed in the <meta> tags of the published page.

Click Save button to submit news for review before it goes to the live site. If you want the user to be able to submit stories directly to live site, you need to give the person Publisher status. The Publisher will have an extra State field in the Publishing tab that enables him/her to publish directly to live site...

Reviewing Content

An admin or publisher will review the content by clicking on the content item.

The publisher can edit and preview the article, and perform extra settings in the Parameter and Link to Menu tabs.

After hitting Save, the publisher can put the article on the front page, publish it, or trash it.

Retrieving from Trash

If an item get accidentally trashed, it can be retrieved by going to Site -> Trash Manager.

Every once in a while, you might want to permanently delete very old trashed items.

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