What are Joomla 1.6 featured articles: After you publish articles on your Joomla 1.6 website they get saved in their Article Categories and never show up on the frontpage of your website. If you want articles to show up on your frontpage/homepage you have to make them ‘featured articles’. With your Joomla 1.6 website you… Continue reading Joomla 1.6 – What are Featured Articles?
If you are working with a new installation of Joomla 1.6, you must be wondering how to change the number of featured articles showing up on the frontpage. You have more than 10 featured articles published but only 4 of them show up on the front homepage of your Joomla 1.6 website. Do you want… Continue reading Joomla 1.6 – Add More Featured Articles on the Frontpage
A featured article in Joomla 1.6 is simply an article that you want to highlight and show on your frontpage. They are the first few articles that you want your visitors to see when they visit your Joomla 1.6 website. featured articles are managed in your featured articles Article Manager. Not all articles that you… Continue reading Joomla 1.6 – How to Make a Featured Article
Now that I found where the features articles are, how can I change the ordering of the articles showing up on the front page? This was easily done in Joomla 1.5. There were arrows where you could manually slide the articles up and down the page. You could also change the ordering by changing the… Continue reading Joomla 1.6 – Change Order of Featured Articles
The frontpage manager was a key ingredient in the design of a Joomla site because it managed what articles were shown on the front page. In Joomla 1.5, you were used to seeing the frontpage manager under ‘Content’,’Frontpage Manager’, but guess what, it’s not there anymore. Yes, I am stating the obvious. So, where did… Continue reading Joomla 1.6 – Where is the Frontpage Manager?