Help310:Content Featured Articles

How to Access

Select Content → Featured Articles from the drop-down menu in the back-end of your Joomla! installation. You can also selct the "Featured Articles" tab in the Article Manager itself].

Description

The Featured Articles is the place where you control which Articles are displayed on the Front Page and in what order they are displayed. The Front Page is often the Home page of a web site, but it can be any page in the site. The Front Page is created using a Menu Item with the Front Page layout.

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Column Headers

In the table containing Featured Articles, these are the different columns shown below.

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• Date. The date this Article was created. This date is added automatically by Joomla!, but you may change it in the Publishing Options - Article section of the Content Article Manager Edit.

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Toolbar

At the top right you will see the toolbar:

The functions are:

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• New. Opens the editing screen to create a new article.</translate>

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• Edit. Opens the editing screen for the selected article. If more than one article is selected (where applicable), only the first article will be opened. The editing screen can also be opened by clicking on the Name of the article.</translate>

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• Publish. Makes the selected articles available to visitors to your website.</translate>

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• Unpublish. Makes the selected articles unavailable to visitors to your website.</translate>

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• Archive. Changes the status of the selected articles to indicate that they are archived. Archived articles can be moved back to the published or unpublished state by selecting "Archived" in the Select Status filter and changing the status of the articles to Published or Unpublished as preferred.</translate>

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• Check-in. Checks-in the selected articles. Works with one or multiple articles selected.</translate>
• Remove.. Removes one or more articles from featured status. Featured articles are shown in featured views. Removed articles may still be available on other pages.

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• Trash. Changes the status of the selected articles to indicate that they are trashed. Trashed articles can still be recovered by selecting 'Trashed' in the 'Select Status' filter and changing the status of the articles to Published or Unpublished as preferred. To permanently delete trashed articles, select 'Trashed' in the 'Select Status' filter, select the articles to be permanently deleted, then click the 'Empty Trash' toolbar icon.</translate>

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• Options. Opens the Options window where settings such as default parameters can be edited.</translate>

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• Help. Opens this help screen.</translate>

List Filters

Filter by Partial Title

You can filter the list of items either by entering in part of the title or the ID number. You can also select a combination of State, Access, and Language.

• Filter. In the upper left corner just above the column headings is a Filter field and two buttons, as shown below:
  
  If you have a large number of items on the list, you can use this filter to find the desired item(s) quickly. Enter either part of the title and press 'Go' to display the matching items. You can enter in whole words or part of a word. For example, "ooml" will match all titles with the word "Joomla!" in them. You can also search for a specific item id by entering "id:" followed by the id number. For example, "id:123" will find the item with an id of '123'.

Filter by Status, Access, Language

In the area in the upper right, above the column headings, there are 3 drop-down list boxes as shown below:

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The selections may be combined. Only items matching all selections will display in the list.

• Select Status. Use the drop-down list box to select the published state: Published, Unpublished, Trashed, or All. For Articles, you may also select Archived. Important: With the default setting of -Select Status-, the screen only shows Published and Unpublished items. If you have the filter set to -Select Status- and you change items to Trashed, the Trashed items will disappear from the screen. However, they have not been permanently deleted. To do that you need to:

1. Change the filter to Trashed. The Delete icon will now show in the toolbar.
2. Select the items you want to permanently delete.
3. Click on the Delete icon.

You can see all items, regardless of their published state, by selecting All for this filter. You can also re-publish Trashed items by selecting them and clicking on the Publish icon in the toolbar.

• Select Language. Use the drop-down list box to select the desired Language. Only items in this Language will display.
• -Select <Column Variable>- In each box is the default setting and reveals all items relating to the particular list.

Quick Tips

• Only the Articles that have already been added to the Front Page will display on this screen. Articles can be added to the Front Page in the Article Manager or when an Article is added or edited in Article Manager - New/Edit.
• You can control the number of columns, number of articles, and other features of the Front Page layout in the Menu Item Manager - New/Edit - Front Page Blog Layout.

Related Information

• To change the way Articles are displayed on the Front Page Layout: Menu Item Manager - New/Edit - Front Page Blog Layout
• To work with Articles: Article Manager
• To work with Categories: Category Manager
• To work with Sections: Section Manager
• To work with Users: User Manager