Help310:Components Content Categories

How to Access

Select Content → Category Manager from the drop-down menu on the back-end of your Joomla! installation. Or click on the "Category Manager" icon in the Control Panel.

Description

The Category Manager is where you can edit existing Categories and create new ones. Articles in Joomla! are organized into Sections and Categories. Categories are the second level of organization underneath Sections. Every Section contains one or more Categories. The special Section 'Uncategorized' has a special Category also called 'Uncategorized'. These are built into Joomla!.

Screenshot

Column Headers

Click on the column heading to sort the list by that column's value.

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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 content category.</translate>

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

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

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

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 Archived content categories can be moved back to the published or unpublished state by selecting "Archived" in the Select Status filter and changing the status of the content categories to Published or Unpublished as preferred.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

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• Check-in. Checks-in the selected content categories. Works with one or multiple content categories selected.</translate>

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by selecting 'Trashed' in the 'Select Status' filter and changing the status of the content categories to Published or Unpublished as preferred.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

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• Rebuild. Reconstructs and refreshes the relevant table. Normally, you do not need to rebuild this table. This function is provided in case the data in the table becomes corrupted.</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. Or you can select a combination of Section, Category, Author, and Published State. Chunk:Help screen column header 3.0 List Filter

Filter by Max Levels, Status, Access, Language In the upper right area, above the column headings, are 4 drop-down list boxes as shown below:File:Help30-Components-Content-Categories-filter-subscreen.png The selections may be combined. Only items matching all selections will display in the list.

• Select Max Levels. Use the drop-down list box to select the number of levels to display within the structure.

• 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 Access. Use the drop-down list box to select the desired Access. Only items with this level of Access will display.

• Select Language. Use the drop-down list box to select the desired Language. Only items in this Language will display.

Quick Tips

• Click on the Title of a Category to edit it.
• Click on the green check mark or the red X in the Published column to toggle between Published and Unpublished.
• Click on the Column Headers to sort the Categories by that column. Click a second time to sort descending (Z to A).

Related Information

• To add or edit Categories: Category Manager - New/Edit
• To create a page showing Articles for a Category in a Blog layout: Menu Item Manager - New/Edit - Category Blog Layout
• To create a page showing Articles for a Category in a List layout: Menu Item Manager - New/Edit - Category List Layout