The next link I need to make on this Web site is a link to the Press Releases and
what I'd like to do is, because there are typically a lot of Press Releases and
because you can tell a lot from a Press Release from the title,
they tend to be a little bit dryer they're like product announcements and that
kind of thing, I am going to take a different approach to this.
What I would like to do is I'd like to have a Web page that displays a list of
just the titles of my Press Release and that will keep my page short and people
will be able to scan through those Press Releases really, really quickly to
find information that they need.
This is called a Category List and I am going to go ahead and configure one of those now.
To do this I am going to go to the Menus>Main Menu, and I am going to add
another new Menu Item to the Web site so once again I am going to click the New
button and I am going to select the Menu Item Type.
I'm still working with Articles.
So I am still going to look into Articles here.
What I am going to look for now is the Category List.
A list of Articles in the category.
So I am going to go ahead and click on that and then it's going to ask me which
category I would like to use.
Well, that will be the Press Releases category.
My Menu Title will be Press Releases and then of course where would I like this located?
Well, I'd like this located down under News & Info.
So I am going to go ahead and select that from the list and I am going to ahead
and say Save & Close.
Now when I go to the front end of the Web site and I click on News & Info,
underneath I have my two links, one for Solar blog, the other for Press Releases.
When I click on Press Releases, you'll see that I have a list of all of these
particular articles.
Right now I happened to be logged into the Web site.
I actually logged into the Web site a really long time ago.
It was way back when I was showing you the Global Configuration and I showed you
how you can hide the whole site behind and log in and because I'm logged into
the Web site here, which you can tell by looking at this Login form, I have these
little icons over here on the side that say edit.
That's because I have the credentials to edit these articles from the front end
of the Web site, right here inside of Joomla!.
So what I'd like to do is to get rid of all of that.
What I need to do is make sure I've logged out.
So I am going to click this Logout button here.
You may not even be logged into the site, and if you're not logged in and you
have a Login form that looks like this, you might not have ever seen those edit
icons over there on the side.
Now what you see here on the Press Releases page is just a list of these Titles.
Notice that they also tell you that they are Written by Super User, which you
probably really don't care about and then over here on the side you have an
indication of how many hits each one of these Articles has gotten.
You have a dropdown here on the top so you can configure how many of these
things you're seeing in a time.
But you know we are missing a lot on this page.
We are missing the words Press Release, we are missing a little bit introductory text,
and we probably want to clean up the look of this a little bit, which I'll
show you how to do all that in the next video.
If you click on any of these though, you will go into a page that will show
you the Press Release, along with the picture and you can just go on through,
and you can click on those and see all of your Press Releases are there and available.
But this page itself definitely needs a little bit of clean up, which I'll cover
in Advanced category list configuration in the next video.