Article manager

1. List of Articles

This is the list of articles that have been written for your Joomla! system. People who have author permissions or higher can write articles. After they are written, they will appear here unpublished. It may be your responsibility to review and publish these articles.

2. Published Status

This shows a  if the article is published, and a  if it is not. When an article is published,  it can be seen or linked to. If it isn't published, no normal user can access it. Click on this icon to change an article's published status. If you see a  , it means the article is “Pending”. Someone specified a specific date when it should be published, and that date hasn't arrived yet.

3. Front Page Status

This shows a  if the article is being shown on the front page, and a  if it is not. This can also be changed by clicking on it.

4. Order

This will tell you what order the article is in in its category. More on this later.

5. Archival Buttons

These are the buttons you use to archive or unarchive content. Archiving content, in a. way, is similar to not publishing content. The difference with archiving is that no on can change it when it is archived: including your webmaster!. You will know if a document is archived, because the text will be gray and it will say “[Archived]” after it. The published and front page statuses will also show a  icon.  Archived content cannot be edited.

Note: Any administrator can unarchive content By archiving something, you cannot stop the webmaster from seeing something.  Archiving content simply stops anyone from modifying it, and alerts them that this is no longer needed.

6. Access Level

This shows which users can access the article. Marking it as “public” will allow anyone who comes to your site to see it. Marking it as “registered” will require the user to have an account before they can see it. Marking it as “special” will require users to be in charge of other people on your site. This includes anyone who can submit articles. See Appendix I for more information on what specific types of users can access.

7. Sections and Categories

Every article you create has a section and a category. Articles are contained within categories, and categories are contained within sections. Sections can have different categories within them as well. Take a look at this example chart showing the sections and categories of a car dealership site.

Articles are also ordered in relation to the other articles in the category. For example, look at the screenshot of the Article Manager above. You will notice that there are two articles that are first, and two articles that are sixth. This is because they are in different categories. To change the order of an article, just enter it in the “order” textbox. This will push the other articles in the category up or down, depending on where you move it.

Note: Some people don't want to have multiple sections and/or categories for their content. This is perfectly fine. You don't have to have more than one category and/or more thanone section.

8. Article Management Buttons

Use the “copy”, “edit” and “trash” buttons to manage your articles. Use the check boxes on the left of the screen to choose which articles to apply these actions to.

Note: If you accidentally delete an article you need, don't panic! Let your webmaster know, and he/she can recover it for you with the new “Article Trash” feature.

9. New Article

Click on the “New Article” button to create a new article.