1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:06,000 A few videos ago we put a piece of content in for the News & Information page of 2 00:00:06,001 --> 00:00:11,001 the Web site and that News & Information page looks like this right now. 3 00:00:11,002 --> 00:00:14,002 It just says this is the News & Information page. 4 00:00:14,003 --> 00:00:16,003 It's not terribly interesting. 5 00:00:16,004 --> 00:00:20,004 What I'd really like to do with this News & Information page is actually not 6 00:00:20,005 --> 00:00:22,005 display what I have here at all. 7 00:00:22,006 --> 00:00:28,006 What I'd prefer to do is, I would like to display a selected group of postings, 8 00:00:28,007 --> 00:00:32,007 maybe some from the Solar blog and some from press releases, but I don't want to 9 00:00:32,008 --> 00:00:37,008 display every single article from Solar blog and every single article from Press 10 00:00:37,009 --> 00:00:40,009 Releases on this top level News & Information page. 11 00:00:40,010 --> 00:00:45,010 I just want to feature the few things that are most current, most important, 12 00:00:45,011 --> 00:00:50,011 most sizzling hot kind of things. So what can I do to make that happen? 13 00:00:50,012 --> 00:00:55,012 Well, remember the featured article option within Joomla! 14 00:00:55,013 --> 00:01:00,013 We took one of the articles that we just put in to the Article Manager and we 15 00:01:00,014 --> 00:01:03,014 called it a featured article it showed up on the home page of the Web site. 16 00:01:03,015 --> 00:01:07,015 Well, those featured articles we can use here for the News & Information page 17 00:01:07,016 --> 00:01:12,016 and what we can say is, we would like featured articles from certain parts of 18 00:01:12,017 --> 00:01:17,017 the Solar blog and Press Releases to show up here on the News & Information page 19 00:01:17,018 --> 00:01:22,018 and not any featured articles from other categories like that uncategorized post 20 00:01:22,019 --> 00:01:24,019 that we had originally put up on the home page. 21 00:01:24,020 --> 00:01:27,020 So I am going to walk you through how to do that now. 22 00:01:27,021 --> 00:01:30,021 First of all, we're going to pop back here into the back end of Joomla! 23 00:01:30,022 --> 00:01:37,022 and I am going to go to Menus>Main Menu, and I am going to go down here to my 24 00:01:37,023 --> 00:01:38,023 News & Information page. 25 00:01:38,024 --> 00:01:42,024 Right now I have this set up as a link to a Single Article. 26 00:01:42,025 --> 00:01:47,025 If I just click on this link, I can change my Menu Item Type simply by clicking 27 00:01:47,026 --> 00:01:50,026 on the Select button here and choosing something different. 28 00:01:50,027 --> 00:01:55,027 So under Articles this time what I'd like to do is I'd like to do something with 29 00:01:55,028 --> 00:02:00,028 Featured Articles and as you see here it shows all the Feature Articles from one 30 00:02:00,029 --> 00:02:03,029 or multiple categories in a single- or multi-column layout. 31 00:02:03,030 --> 00:02:05,030 Now that's exactly what I want. 32 00:02:05,031 --> 00:02:09,031 So I am going to go ahead and choose that and my screen is going to 33 00:02:09,032 --> 00:02:10,032 reconfigure itself. 34 00:02:10,033 --> 00:02:15,033 And now what I can do is take a look at my Advanced Options and here in my 35 00:02:15,034 --> 00:02:20,034 Advanced Options I can choose exactly which categories I'd like to have 36 00:02:20,035 --> 00:02:23,035 displayed as part of these Featured Articles. 37 00:02:23,036 --> 00:02:30,036 So I'm going to click here in the box and I'm going to select Solar and I am 38 00:02:30,037 --> 00:02:35,037 going to select Press Releases and I'm going to deselect all categories, because 39 00:02:35,038 --> 00:02:40,038 I only want to show any featured articles that are located inside of Solar and 40 00:02:40,039 --> 00:02:43,039 located inside of Press Releases. 41 00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:48,040 Further down here on the page is the four boxes I discussed back in the category 42 00:02:48,041 --> 00:02:51,041 blog video where I talked about leading articles, introductory articles, 43 00:02:51,042 --> 00:02:56,042 columns, and links, and I am just going to type in my magic numbers here. 44 00:02:56,043 --> 00:03:04,043 0 for my leading articles, 20 intro articles, 1 column, and 0 links, and 45 00:03:04,044 --> 00:03:08,044 I explained why in that previous video why I chose those numbers. 46 00:03:08,045 --> 00:03:11,045 I am going to pretty much leave it just like this. 47 00:03:11,046 --> 00:03:18,046 So I'm going to go ahead and say Save & Close, and now if I come back here to 48 00:03:18,047 --> 00:03:23,047 the Web site what I am going to do is am going to click back to the Home page 49 00:03:23,048 --> 00:03:27,048 I and then I am going to go back to the News & Information page that will make 50 00:03:27,049 --> 00:03:30,049 sure that link is refreshed and right now on my News & Information page I have 51 00:03:30,050 --> 00:03:33,050 absolutely nothing. Why? 52 00:03:33,051 --> 00:03:37,051 Well, I haven't specified any of those articles to be featured on this page and 53 00:03:37,052 --> 00:03:40,052 that's why I don't have any posts at the moment. 54 00:03:40,053 --> 00:03:48,053 So I am going to go in back here to my Content>Article Manager and I am going to 55 00:03:48,054 --> 00:03:50,054 sort this all by Category. 56 00:03:50,055 --> 00:03:55,055 So let's just take a look at just the Solar category to start with and let's 57 00:03:55,056 --> 00:04:03,056 say that I'd like to feature the K-Eco Mini Panels and let's say I'd like to 58 00:04:03,057 --> 00:04:04,057 feature the farmers here. 59 00:04:04,058 --> 00:04:12,058 Then I am going to switch over to the Press Releases category and let's say 60 00:04:12,059 --> 00:04:15,059 I just want to feature here the Wind turbine farm in Bakersfield. 61 00:04:15,060 --> 00:04:20,060 So I have picked three articles here from my Solar blog category and from my 62 00:04:20,061 --> 00:04:25,061 Press Releases category and now if I go to my News & Information page and 63 00:04:25,062 --> 00:04:30,062 I refresh this, you'll see that I have these articles and they are posted here 64 00:04:30,063 --> 00:04:32,063 and just those three articles. 65 00:04:32,064 --> 00:04:37,064 So I have my two articles on Solar, my one article from Press Releases. 66 00:04:37,065 --> 00:04:41,065 In terms of the ordering here, I can change the way these are ordered on the 67 00:04:41,066 --> 00:04:49,066 Web site and the way that I do that is if I go back to Menus>Main Menu and I go 68 00:04:49,067 --> 00:04:55,067 back to News & Information and under the Advanced Options, a little bit further 69 00:04:55,068 --> 00:05:01,068 down here the Category Order is the first thing to take care of. 70 00:05:01,069 --> 00:05:07,069 So right now it's either in no particular order or it's an Alphabetical order 71 00:05:07,070 --> 00:05:10,070 or Reverse Alphabetical order or Category Manager Order. 72 00:05:10,071 --> 00:05:13,071 I'm actually going to set this to No Order that's because I don't want things 73 00:05:13,072 --> 00:05:17,072 sorted by category, but I could group things together by category in this page. 74 00:05:17,073 --> 00:05:21,073 So say list all the Solar blog entries first followed by all of the 75 00:05:21,074 --> 00:05:24,074 Press Release entries. I could do that. 76 00:05:24,075 --> 00:05:28,075 In this case, I have set it No Order and what that's going to mean is I am just 77 00:05:28,076 --> 00:05:32,076 going to be sorting by articles and the order that the articles appear. 78 00:05:32,077 --> 00:05:37,077 And perhaps, what I will do for Article Order as I'll say just Most recent first. 79 00:05:37,078 --> 00:05:41,078 Then that way the most recent item is at the top of the page regardless of 80 00:05:41,079 --> 00:05:44,079 what category it's in. That works quite well. 81 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:47,080 It's possible that these articles actually won't rearrange, but we'll see 82 00:05:47,081 --> 00:05:50,081 here in just a minute. We'll go ahead and say Save & Close. 83 00:05:50,082 --> 00:05:53,082 They are already in that order that would be why they would not rearrange. 84 00:05:53,083 --> 00:05:57,083 So I will hit Refresh and in fact these articles didn't rearrange. 85 00:05:57,084 --> 00:06:01,084 So what that indicates to me is I probably put in my press release articles 86 00:06:01,085 --> 00:06:06,085 first when I was entering all the content into the Content Management System 87 00:06:06,086 --> 00:06:09,086 and then I put in these Solar articles probably in that order. 88 00:06:09,087 --> 00:06:13,087 That's why these did not rearrange, but if you would like to maintain that order 89 00:06:13,088 --> 00:06:17,088 so that you have your most recent article at the top use those settings that 90 00:06:17,089 --> 00:06:20,089 I just showed you and that will make sure that the most recent article appears at 91 00:06:20,090 --> 00:06:22,090 the top of the page. 92 00:06:22,091 --> 00:06:26,091 The last thing that I need to add to this is I definitely need something at the 93 00:06:26,092 --> 00:06:29,092 top that says News & Information, because I'm missing that right now. 94 00:06:29,093 --> 00:06:35,093 So one more time I am going to hop back into the News & Information link and I'm 95 00:06:35,094 --> 00:06:40,094 going to go to Advanced options and if I just click on these words up here at 96 00:06:40,095 --> 00:06:44,095 the top called Layout Options, this will collapse the screen so that I can 97 00:06:44,096 --> 00:06:49,096 easily jump on down here to the Page Display Options and I'm going to say Show 98 00:06:49,097 --> 00:06:57,097 the Page Heading and that page heading will be News & Information. 99 00:06:57,098 --> 00:07:03,098 And I'll say Save & Close and now when I refresh this page, I have my title here 100 00:07:03,099 --> 00:07:04,099 of News & Information. 101 00:07:04,100 --> 00:07:08,000 So things are looking pretty good here on the news page. 102 00:07:08,001 --> 00:07:10,001 Let's see what's going on at the home page. 103 00:07:10,002 --> 00:07:17,002 So now here I am on the home page and those three or four articles that I chose 104 00:07:17,003 --> 00:07:22,003 as Featured Articles or the three that I chose as Featured Articles are now 105 00:07:22,004 --> 00:07:26,004 showing up here on the home page as well and I just really wanted to have on the 106 00:07:26,005 --> 00:07:30,005 home page just this little bit of text about the Harnessing wind and sun for a 107 00:07:30,006 --> 00:07:31,006 cleaner, energized planet. 108 00:07:31,007 --> 00:07:35,007 I don't want to have these other articles showing up on the home page. 109 00:07:35,008 --> 00:07:41,008 So first of all why did they show up here and then second of all how can I get rid of them. 110 00:07:41,009 --> 00:07:45,009 Well, why they showed up here is because the home page is by default a 111 00:07:45,010 --> 00:07:46,010 featured item blog. 112 00:07:46,011 --> 00:07:51,011 Exactly the same thing that we just set up for the News & Information page and 113 00:07:51,012 --> 00:07:55,012 the Featured Item blog by default is set up to show all of the featured items 114 00:07:55,013 --> 00:07:58,013 from all of the categories everywhere on the Web site. 115 00:07:58,014 --> 00:08:04,014 So this is showing our News & Information pages here or our Solar blog pages and 116 00:08:04,015 --> 00:08:10,015 our Press Release pages from underneath News & Information as well as this 117 00:08:10,016 --> 00:08:11,016 individual article in the home page. 118 00:08:11,017 --> 00:08:14,017 Now there's two ways that I could solve this problem. 119 00:08:14,018 --> 00:08:19,018 One, I could go into the link for the Home page and I could say the only 120 00:08:19,019 --> 00:08:23,019 category I want to have show up on the Home page is the Uncategorized category 121 00:08:23,020 --> 00:08:31,020 or I could change my menu item type for the home page from that featured blog to 122 00:08:31,021 --> 00:08:34,021 just linking to a single article. So which is best? 123 00:08:34,022 --> 00:08:37,022 Well, it depends. 124 00:08:37,023 --> 00:08:40,023 Do I anticipate ever needing to put any additional content on the homepage? 125 00:08:40,024 --> 00:08:42,024 Could I do it all through one article? 126 00:08:42,025 --> 00:08:46,025 Is there an advantage to having the abilities to add these additional 127 00:08:46,026 --> 00:08:47,026 articles to the home page? 128 00:08:47,027 --> 00:08:49,027 All of that is definitely debatable. 129 00:08:49,028 --> 00:08:54,028 But I think what I am going to do just to make things simple is I am going to 130 00:08:54,029 --> 00:08:58,029 switch my Home page menu Item Type to a Single Article so I'll just show this 131 00:08:58,030 --> 00:08:59,030 single article on the homepage. 132 00:08:59,031 --> 00:09:02,031 So I am going to go back to my back end of Joomla! 133 00:09:02,032 --> 00:09:05,032 and I am going to go to my Home page link. 134 00:09:05,033 --> 00:09:11,033 As I was saying here under Advanced Options this is currently showing all categories. 135 00:09:11,034 --> 00:09:15,034 I could just change this Select Categories to just show the Uncategorized 136 00:09:15,035 --> 00:09:19,035 category and then I would show my one link on the home page. 137 00:09:19,036 --> 00:09:21,036 That's one possible solution. 138 00:09:21,037 --> 00:09:24,037 The other possible solution is what I am going to do now. 139 00:09:24,038 --> 00:09:28,038 Under Details I'm going to click my Select button and I'm going to go to 140 00:09:28,039 --> 00:09:31,039 Articles and I am just going to pick a single article. 141 00:09:31,040 --> 00:09:32,040 That's really all I need. 142 00:09:32,041 --> 00:09:37,041 And my single article will be my home page article. 143 00:09:37,042 --> 00:09:42,042 So this Harnessing wind and sun for a cleaner planet, and I am just going to go 144 00:09:42,043 --> 00:09:43,043 ahead and say Save & Close. 145 00:09:43,044 --> 00:09:48,044 Now when I come back to the home page and I hit Refresh, I have my Single 146 00:09:48,045 --> 00:09:50,045 Article again right here on the home page. 147 00:09:50,046 --> 00:09:54,046 My News & Information page though still has those particular 148 00:09:54,047 --> 00:09:55,047 News & Information articles. 149 00:09:55,048 --> 00:10:02,048 So I have successfully used the featured article functionality to set up my 150 00:10:02,049 --> 00:10:06,049 News & Information page pulling featured articles only from two categories, 151 00:10:06,050 --> 00:10:11,050 the Solar blog and the Press Releases category, and I've managed to keep other featured 152 00:10:11,051 --> 00:10:13,051 articles out of that particular blog. 153 00:10:13,052 --> 00:10:17,052 I've also cleaned up the home page so that I am just showing one article on the 154 00:10:17,053 --> 00:10:19,053 home page of the Web site.