Joomla Categories and Articles and Menus Primer Tutorial

Joomla Categories and Articles and Menus Primer Tutorial

The Joomla CMS is used extensively around the world for Apache hosted PHP/MySql eCommerce and blogging websites.

At the heart of a Joomla website are the relationships among …

• Categories
• Articles
• Menus

… in the order of readiness the content editor should consider before publishing content.

We at RJM Programming have a Joomla website called “All Things Three” we’re developing over time at …


http://www.rjmprogramming.com.au/myfavourites3/


… that will, by (Joomla) definition, have a backend (as administrator “admin” user, by default, where you’ll live maintaining the website) at …


http://www.rjmprogramming.com.au/myfavourites3/administrator/


… where each of these “concepts” has a “manager” … the URLs for the “All Things Three” administrator webpages being, respectively …

• Categories:
http://www.rjmprogramming.com.au/myfavourites3/administrator/index.php?option=com_categories&extension=com_content

• Articles:
http://www.rjmprogramming.com.au/myfavourites3/administrator/index.php?option=com_content

• Menus:
http://www.rjmprogramming.com.au/myfavourites3/administrator/index.php?option=com_menus


And so (amongst many many other things, but fundamentally), Joomla links Menus to Articles, and Articles should be Categorized.

Know from experience that that is more involved than WordPress, as you’d expect it to be, as WordPress is a CMS predominantly for blogging, whereas Joomla can be as well, as well as being readily adaptable to eCommerce. We, at RJM Programming have a VirtueMart Joomla eCommerce test data website you can view at this VirtueMart link, and which we last talked about here at this blog with VirtueMart for PHP 5.4 eCommerce Reinstall Tutorial.

And so, as time goes on, we’ll tell you more about Joomla.

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