Time for action – creating a news category
Your client, CORBA, wants to publish a range of articles on the current club activities on their site; that's what they're all about. How can we categorize these articles the Joomla way? Let's first add a category as a container for these news articles.
Navigate to Content | Category Manager. Click on the New button. (Alternatively, you can click on the Add New Category fly-out menu item under Content | Category Manager.)
The Category Manager: Add A New Articles Category screen opens. In the Title field, type in
News, as shown in the following screenshot. Don't worry about the other fields; you can leave them empty for now.
Click on Save & Close. A message is displayed (Category successfully saved) and you're taken to the Category Manager screen. You'll see the results; apart from Uncategorised, there's one other category now, News, as shown in the following screenshot:
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