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This is a 'hands-on' tutorial which shows how to create a new article. When a new article is 'published' it can continue to be edited and worked on - see the hands-on tutorials about editing in this Manual.

Introduction

• This is aimed at everyone who is new to Joomla! no matter what your experience.
• You need at least 'Author' permissions on the site.
• Look at How to edit an Article for how to edit text and use the editing screens.

In addition:-

If you are using an existing site, you also need to be told where the new Article will be located. That is to say which Section and Category will it be assigned to. This depends on the organisation of the Web site.

About Sections and Categories: briefly.

Starting a new article

You can easily start a new article for yourself although exactly how you do this depends on how the website is set up.

1. Many sites have a USER MENU with several options about things users might want to do. (It is not always called a USER MENU - it depends on the site!). One of the common options is to Create and Article. If this option is available - use it.

screen shot of the user menu

Find the USER MENU

Click on Create an article

2. Sometimes there is a a small icon that looks like a sheet of paper at the bottom of many of the list pages. (This icon does not appear on the on pages with just one article - it does appear on pages where there is a list of articles.)

Click on the New Article icon ( image new)

screen shot of the icon

The editing screen (called Submit an Article) is loaded. This is the same editor as used for editing Articles, except that it has no content and no title. Nor does it have any of the options set in the Publisher part of the screen.

Type in a title in the title box

Type in some text - or copy text from another document

Look at the other part of the Submit an Article screen - scroll down below the editing window.

screen shot of the Editing section

This is an important part of Submit an Article because it is here that vasrious options are set - including the location of the Article and an option to publish it.

If you have publisher permissions, type a few lines and then go to the Publisher part of the editor before you Save it. You will then need to find it in the right menu for further editing. If you are an author - you will need to get it published before you can do more editing to it - so it is worth typing quite a bit of content at this stage before adding the details in the Publisher part of the editor. When it is saved, you will not be able to return to editing until it has been published. You will then need to look for it in the right menu.

Get the article in the right menu

Note that you can do this before you have added all the text - but see above for the difference between publishers and authors.

screen shot of the Publishing section

Sections and Categories

There is a Publishing section below the editing screen. Here you must:-

• Choose a Section for the article -
• Choose a Category -
• Choose Yes to make sure it is Published
• Choose the right Access level (Registered means that it can be seen by people who have logged in but do not have any write access.)

If the article is going to be displayed in one of the pages that lists content - getting the Section and Category correct means that it will display in the right place without further effort on your part.

Other choices in the Publish part of the editor

Whether access to the Article will be restricted

Save the article

If you are a publisher - you should now find the article in the place you expect!

What next?

Different for publishers and authors

Back to editing

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--Lorna Scammell 17:40, 11 December 2010 (UTC)