Joomla Article Manager Help and Documentation

Joomla’s Content Management System has a complex backend that allows administrators to manage their content more effectively. The Article Manager is an integral part of the Joomla backend since it manages all the Articles displayed on the site. It also hosts the Content Manager, Category Manager, and Featured Articles Manager. The Article Manager options is also where you can globally change article display options. See below all my tips on how to use the Joomla Article Manager.

Joomla 3.1.1 Tutorial – How to Make Featured Article Sticky

by Elaine May 21, 2013

Joomla 3.1.1 Tutorial – Easily make featured articles sticky in Joomla 3.1.1. You can edit the numbering in the ordering in the featured articles section to make articles always stay at the top. You can just change the ordering number to a negative number and the proceeding number automatically changes to order accordingly. See my [...]

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Joomla 3.1.1 Tutorial – Hide Article Tags in Article

by Elaine May 17, 2013

Joomla 3.1.1 Tutorial – You can choose to hide or show the Article Tags in the Articles. Currently my articles are defaulted to display my Article Tags. You can easily change the setting in the Article Manager Options or in the Article itself to change the viewing option individually. If you change it at the [...]

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Joomla 3.1.1 Articles can Add Article Tags like WordPress

by Elaine May 17, 2013

After upgrading to Joomla 3.1.1, I’m starting to notice some New Features. One observation I’ve made is that in the articles, you can add tags. It’s similar to Wordpress where you can add tags as well to your posts. When you view the article from the frontend you can see the tags as well. In [...]

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Joomla 3.0 Tutorial – How to Reorder Featured Articles

by Elaine April 22, 2013

I just noticed Joomla 3.0 has a new way to order featured articles. It’s a slightly easier way and definitely easier to understand. This new way to order articles is only available for featured articles and not for the rest of the articles in the Content Manager. This is the only place where you cannot [...]

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Joomla 3.0 Tutorial – How to Remove Category Name From Article

by Elaine February 14, 2013

Joomla 3.0 Tutorial on how to remove the category name from articles you see on your Joomla website. You can remove the category name article details from all the articles or just one article. I will show you how to remove the category name article detail from all articles on your site. Below is [...]

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Joomla 3.0 Tutorial – How to Link an Article to Joomla Menu

by Elaine February 13, 2013

Joomla 3.0 Tutorial on How to link an Articles to Joomla Menu. I currently have a Joomla Menu item created from the Weblinks component. It lists all my links that I added in the Weblinks Component. I also have an article called ’6th Cmsmind’ and in here I want to link directly to the weblinks [...]

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Joomla 3.0 Tutorial – How to Link to an Article in Joomla

by Elaine February 12, 2013

Joomla 3.0 Tutorial on how to link to an article already created in your Joomla website. You want to reference an existing article you already created and also add a link to it. You can easily link to an article in your Article Manager. Below is a screenshot of an article I created that [...]

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Joomla 3.0 Error – Another Article From This Category Has The Same Alias

by Elaine February 12, 2013

Joomla 3.0 Tutorial – When I saved an article I got this error message: Save failed with the following error: Another article from this category has the same alias What does this mean? It means that you created an article with the same alias in the same category already in your Joomla 3.0 website. Or [...]

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Joomla 3.0 – How to Unpublish an Article

by Elaine February 12, 2013

Joomla 3.0 Tutorial on how to unpublish an article from your site. Unpublishing an article accomplishes 2 things. 1. It will not allow users to view this article on your website in page or menu selection, 2. It will allow you to keep your article in your site until you want visitors to view your [...]

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Joomla 2.5.8 Tutorial – How to Add Prev and Next Links to Articles

by Elaine January 28, 2013

Joomla 2.5.8 Tutorial on how to add ‘Next’ and ‘Previous’ links to navigate between Joomla Articles. You can choose to show or hide this feature. It is beneficial to add these navigation links to your Joomla Articles so once people reached the bottom of your article they have somewhere to go. They can choose [...]

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