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I just showed you how to create some new categories in Joomla!

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and I showed you how to edit them, but I didn't show you how to delete them yet.

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So let's hop back into our Category Manager which you can get to over here from

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the Control Panel under Quick Icons, if you're not already in there and let's go

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ahead and create a new category here just to show you how to delete them.

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So I am going to create a category called Delete Me and say Save & Close.

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So there is my category here and to get rid of this category what I am going to

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need to do put a checkmark by this and I click on the trashcan icon up top that

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will send it to the Trash.

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But just like your Macintosh or your windows environment, all you have done so

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far is actually put that particular category in the Trash.

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So the category still exists and that can potentially cause trouble especially

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if you decide later to go create another category called Delete Me, you might

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get an error about an alias for that already existing.

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If you really truly want your category to be deleted entirely that it doesn't

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exist in your Joomla! site

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anymore anywhere else, here's the second step you're going to have to do.

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So over here on the side, on the left side of the screen you will see that we

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have a number of filters that are available, one of which is Select Status.

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This is a way you can filter categories or articles by whether they're Published

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or Unpublished, Archived, Trashed and so forth.

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If I switch this to Trashed, this will show me the fact that I still have this

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category called Delete Me.

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It's just sitting here in the Trash.

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I could in fact restore this, if I click the Trash icon here, roll my mouse over,

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you will see that it says Publish Item, what this will do is toggle this

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to the Published state and you see here now I am looking at my Trashed Items

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and I don't see anything anymore, that's because there aren't any more trashed items.

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Over here under the Filters, see, so I need to switch this back to my Published

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items and there is that Delete Me category one more time. Alright.

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So now if I really want to get rid of this, I put a checkmark by it and send it

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to the Trash, so we know that it's now under the Trashed state, so now if I go

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to the Trashed state, there is the Delete Me category one more time.

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Now if I really, truly want to get rid of it altogether, what I am going to do is

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put a checkmark by this and then say Empty Trash.

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Now that item is gone, you see there is nothing left in the Trash and if

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I switch back to my Published categories, you will see truly that category has now

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gone, it no longer exists anywhere.

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So what's the best thing to do, to trash items or something else?

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My sense is it might be better just to unpublish things.

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If you need to get rid of something totally, if totally screwed up, it's

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totaling wrong, it totally fine to send things to the trash, but if your boss comes to

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you and says I don't want that thing displaying on the Web site anymore, rather

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than trashing it, because you know how bosses are, they may come back to you and

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change their mind later, you can always unpublish something.

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So if you want to unpublish something, all you need to do is, on the little green

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icon here where it says Status, you see if I roll my mouse over it, I get a

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tooltip that says Unpublished Item.

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If I unpublish this item, it actually disappears from my list of categories

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again because I'm showing only Published categories, but if I switch to my

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Unpublished categories, I still have a category called About, it's simply not

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available to show on the front end of the Web site.

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I can still get to it here from the back end of the Web site;

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it's very easy to re-establish it as available, simply by clicking on the icon

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again and publishing it.

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So here, if you have your filter here set to just Select Status, not to

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Published or Unpublished, this will show you both Published and Unpublished

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items all together in the same list or you can filter by Published and

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Unpublished items the same way I have just showed you with those filters.

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However, I do want the About category to be available to me because I'm about to


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go create some content for the About category.

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So I am going to go ahead and check that off and make this Published.

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The other way that you can publish and unpublish items is to put a checkmark

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next to things and use these buttons up here on the top for publishing and

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unpublishing or if you happen to be editing a particular item, you can also set

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the status down here in the dropdown so Published, Unpublished, Archived or

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Trashed, that's also available to you.

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So remember that trashing something is actually a two-step process;

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you have to send it to the Trash and then you have the empty the trash to get

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rid of an item entirely and publishing in unpublishing are really probably the

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way you want to work with most of your content inside of Joomla!, it means that

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you have still got a copy of things available, if you ever need to republish it

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to the Web site, you can just click a button and restore it to its previous state

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whereas trashing of course, it's a far more permanent kind of thing and it's

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hard to get content back, like impossible, if you do get rid of something from

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your Web site and then it turns out you need it later.