Joomla Help Screens

Description¶

Categories are are used to organize Articles, Contacts and other components for ease of management and display. They can be organised into tree-like structures like file systems. For example, category Pets may be a parent to category Dogs, category Cats and category Goldfish. Categories can be nested to any level. All Articles must be assigned either to a parent Category or a child Category or to the default Category named Uncategorised.

The Articles: Edit Category page is used to create a new Category or to change the properties of an existing Category.

Common Elements¶

Some elements of this page are covered in separate Help articles:

• Toolbars.
• The Category Tab.
• The Options Tab.
• The Publishing Tab.
• The Associations Tab.
• The Permissions Tab.
• The Version History Popup.

How to Access¶

To add a new category, starting from the Administrator menu:

• Select Home Dashboard → Site panel → Categories + button. Or...
• Select Content → Categories + button. Or...
• Select Content → Categories. Then...
  • Select the New button in the Toolbar to create a new Category.

To edit an existing Category:

• Select Content → Categories. Then...
  • Select a Category title From the list of categories.

Screenshot¶

Form Fields¶

• Title The Title for this item. This may or may not display on the page, depending on the parameter values you choose.
• Alias The internal name of the item. Normally, you can leave this blank and Joomla will fill in a default value Title in lower case and with dashes instead of spaces.

Category Tab¶

Left Panel¶

• Description The description for the item. Category descriptions may be shown on web pages, depending on other parameter settings.

Workflow tab¶

• Workflow Select from the drop-down list.