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This short tutorial will explain all the settings when creating a new article in Joomla

Now you should have an article open in front of you, lets go over all the settings and what they accomplish.

1.Title The name of the article. (settings for show title below)

2. Alias The CMS system name for the article and part of the link or URL for the page. leave this blank and Joomla will fill it in for you.  The default alias is the Title in lower case with hyphens instead of spaces between words.  If you do enter the Alias yourself,  it must not contain capital letters or blank spaces (use a hyphen instead).

3. Section

• Select “Uncategorized”  this is for articles you want to display in an article layout as static content (article as a web page) see: How to create a new website page with menu link in joomla
• or Select a category you have already set up

4. Published This option is one of the ways Joomla allows whether or not the article is visible to your site’s visitors.  If you don’t want website visitors to see the article right now, check the “No” button for “Published”.

5. Front Page allows you to control the content on the home page of your site.  If you want the article to appear on the front page of your site, then click the “Yes” button for “Front Page”.

6. Category This is a sub-category of  Section. For “Category” you can choose a pre-set up category for this article form the drop-down list.  If you chose “Uncategorized” for the Section, then the Category will automatically be “Uncategorized”. See: setting up catagorys & sections in joomla.

Lets move on now to the settings down the right hand side of your window.

1.  This top-most box is self explanitory

2. Author Here you can select your user name from the list of registered users with group permissions that allow article editing & publishing.

3. Author Alias If you want to override your username or create a name for this article only, type it here.

4. Access Level Select from the drop down list:

• “Public” So all your website visitors can see the published article
• “Registered” So only registered members can view your article
• “Special” A registered user with Access Level of author and higher. You can set your registered users access levels in the “User Manager” You can also allow people who register on your website to be placed in a group with higher access than the “registered” group. See: How to set up registered user access in joomla

5. Start Publishing If you select the publish button for your article settings, here you can cause the article to actually appear on a certain date.

6. End publishing Here you can select when an articles publishing ends. Set a date and on that day the article will auto-unpublish

Now lets move down to the “Parameters Advanced” tab (Click on box to see options)

You will notice that all the dropdown menu boxes are defaulted to “Use Global”, all these options can be globally set for all articles from within your Article Manager :

“Parameters Advanced” Settings Explained

“Parameters Advanced” Settings

1.Show Title Shows the title of the article at the top of the article (this might change on some templates)

2.Title Linkable This will allow links to your specific article by making the Article Title a hyperlink

3.Intro This will hide or Show an Article’s Intro Text When the “Read more…” link is inserted. Intro Text is the part of the Article before a “Read more…” break. If this parameter is “Show”, when your website visitor clicks the “Read more…’” link, the entire article will display, including the Intro Text. If this parameter is ‘Hide’, when your website visitor clicks the ‘Read more…’ link, only the part of the Article after the ‘Read more…’ link will display.

4. Section Name Whether or not the Section Name will show

5. Section Title Linkable Whether or not the Title of the Section will be a Link to the Section page

6. Category Title Whether or not the Category Title will show

7. Category Title Linkable Whether or not the Title of the Category will be a link to the Category page

8. Article Rating Allow website visitors to rate your article & show the results

9. Author Name Whether or not to show the Author Name

10. Created Date and Time Whether or not to show the date and time the Article was created

11.  Modified Date and Time Whether or not to show the date and time the Article was last modified or edited

12.

• PDF Icon Whether or not to display a button to allow the Article to be shown in a new window, in PDF format. This will allow your visitor to view, print, or save the Article as a PDF
• Print Icon Whether or not to display a button to allow for easy printing of your article
• E-mail Icon Whether or not to display a button to allow a link to the Article to be e-mailed

13. Content Language Multi lingual support for your articles (needs to be set up & configured)

14. Key Reference This is the reference that is used to pull the correct help information either from help files saved locally or on an online site like help.joomla.org

When you click the help button in top right hand corner anywhere in Admin there is a reference attached to that button so it can pull the right help for that page (context sensitive help)

15. Alternative Read More Optional text to display next to the “Read more…”link. If no entry is made, the Article Title is used

The last settings box is the most important one if you would like people to be able to find your website with a search engine like “google search” Find keywords related to your article, photos & content. Describe in summary your article in approx 25 words

Its that easy!

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