{"id":20831,"date":"2016-03-24T03:01:51","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T17:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?p=20831"},"modified":"2016-03-24T17:47:23","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T07:47:23","slug":"joomla-categories-and-articles-and-menus-primer-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/joomla-categories-and-articles-and-menus-primer-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Joomla Categories and Articles and Menus Primer Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Joomla\/CategoriesArticlesMenus\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;border: 15px solid pink;\" alt=\"Joomla Categories and Articles and Menus Primer Tutorial\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Joomla\/CategoriesArticlesMenus\/Joomla_Article-20of.jpg\" id='igdj' onmouseover=\" this.src=this.src.replace('-16.j','-17.xj').replace('-17.j','-18.xj').replace('-18.j','-19.xj').replace('-19.j','-20.xj').replace('-20.j','-21.xj').replace('-21.j','-22.xj').replace('-22.j','-23.xj').replace('-23.j','-24.xj').replace('-24.j','-25.xj').replace('-25.j','-26.xj').replace('-26.j','-27.xj').replace('-27.j','-28.xj').replace('-28.j','-16.xj').replace('.xj','.j'); \" title=\"Joomla Categories and Articles and Menus Primer Tutorial\"  \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joomla Categories and Articles and Menus Primer Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The <a target=_blank title='Joomla CMS' href='http:\/\/joomla.org'>Joomla<\/a> <a target=_blank title='Content Management System information from Wikipedia ... thanks' href='https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Content_management_system'>CMS<\/a> is used extensively around the world for Apache hosted PHP\/MySql eCommerce and blogging websites.<\/p>\n<p>At the heart of a Joomla website are the relationships among &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Categories<\/li>\n<li>Articles<\/li>\n<li>Menus<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> &#8230; in the order of readiness the content editor should consider before publishing content.<\/p>\n<p>We at RJM Programming have a Joomla website called &#8220;All Things Three&#8221; we&#8217;re developing over time at &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><code><br \/>\n<a target=_blank title='All Things Three' href='http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/myfavourites3\/'>http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/myfavourites3\/<\/a><br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<p> &#8230; that will, by (Joomla) definition, have a backend (as administrator &#8220;admin&#8221; user, by default, where you&#8217;ll live maintaining the website) at &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><code><br \/>\n<a target=_blank title='All Things Three' href='http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/myfavourites3\/administrator\/'>http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/myfavourites3\/administrator\/<\/a><br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<p> &#8230; where each of these &#8220;concepts&#8221; has a &#8220;manager&#8221; &#8230; the URLs for the &#8220;All Things Three&#8221; administrator webpages being, respectively &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><code>Categories:<br \/>\n<a target=_blank title='All Things Three' href='http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/myfavourites3\/administrator\/index.php?option=com_categories&#038;extension=com_content'>http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/myfavourites3\/administrator\/index.php?option=com_categories&extension=com_content <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Joomla Categories and Articles and Menus Primer Tutorial\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Joomla\/CategoriesArticlesMenus\/Joomla_Article-18of.jpg\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<\/code><\/li>\n<li><code>Articles:<br \/>\n<a target=_blank title='All Things Three' href='http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/myfavourites3\/administrator\/index.php?option=com_content'>http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/myfavourites3\/administrator\/index.php?option=com_content <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Joomla Categories and Articles and Menus Primer Tutorial\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Joomla\/CategoriesArticlesMenus\/Joomla_Article-20of.jpg\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<\/code><\/li>\n<li><code>Menus:<br \/>\n<a target=_blank title='All Things Three' href='http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/myfavourites3\/administrator\/index.php?option=com_menus'>http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/myfavourites3\/administrator\/index.php?option=com_menus <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Joomla Categories and Articles and Menus Primer Tutorial\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Joomla\/CategoriesArticlesMenus\/Joomla_Article-22of.jpg\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<\/code><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And so (amongst many many other things, but fundamentally), Joomla links Menus to Articles, and Articles should be Categorized.<\/p>\n<p>Know from experience that that is more involved than WordPress, as you&#8217;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.  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