Joomla Tutorials: How to Use and Manage Sections and Categories

With a fresh Joomla install on your server, there are a few content section and categories already available under the news section. The categories available News, Newsflashes and FAQ's.

If you would like to categorize the articles on your joomla web site into topics other than these, you will need to create new sections and categories. Sections are broken into categories.

The reasons for organizing your articles into different sections and categories is to make them easier to link to and for users to find your article on a specific topic on your Joomla web site.

For example. If you want a link in your menu to all of your articles on home buying, you would want a section and category for home buying that you can link to.

How to add content sections in a Joomla web site:

1) Log in to your administration area at www.yoursitename.com/administrator

2) Across the top row of menus go to "Content"

3) Choose "Section manager" from the drop down menu

4) Click the "new" button at the top right of the page.

5) Enter the title and information for your new section.

6) Click the disk icon to save.

How o add new content categories to your Joomla web site:

To create new categories for your Joomla web site, you will need to make sure you create the correct section first (unless the categories will go under the "news" section that is already present in a fresh Joomla install).

1) Log in to your administration area at www.yoursitename.com/administrator

2) Across the top row of menus go to "Content"

3) Choose "category manager" from the drop down menu

4) Click the "new" button at the top right of the page.

5) Enter the title and information for your new category.

6) Choose the correct section your category will fall under.

7) Click the disk icon to save.

How to change a category or section on a previously published article on your Joomla web site:

To move an article to a different category or section:

1) Log in to your administration area at www.yoursitename.com/administrator

2) Go to "Content" in the row of menus across the top of the page

3) Choose all content items

4) Click the title of the article you wish to move