Joomla! 3 Essential Training: 1 Working with Content

Find new and interesting ways to display your site content with Joomla!, the open-source CMS, and these tutorials from Jen Kramer.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Using the exercise files
• Using the challenges
• Planning your website
• Joomla Updates

1. Getting Started with Joomla!

• Using the jump-in files to restore the site from a backup
• A quick tour of the Joomla! interface
• Exploring responsive design and mobile compatibility in Joomla!
• Modifying Global Configuration
• Using the Media Manager
• Creating content in Joomla!

2. Working with Categories

• Creating and editing categories for your site
• Publishing, unpublishing, and trashing categories
• Designing and implementing category structure

3. Creating Articles and Basic Formatting

• Creating and editing individual articles
• Exploring the Featured Article setting
• Adding formatting options in TinyMCE and formatting an article
• Adding an external link
• Adding an internal link
• Adding article images
• Adding captions to article images
• Using Read More
• Publishing, unpublishing, and trashing articles
• Challenge: Creating and formatting articles
• Solution: Creating and formatting articles

4. Creating Basic Menus

• Understanding and configuring menus
• Linking an article to the menu
• Understanding parent and child menu items
• Reordering menu items
• Publishing, unpublishing, and trashing menu items
• Configuring horizontal main navigation and vertical secondary navigation

5. Advanced Article Formatting

• Dividing and formatting long articles, using page breaks and the Pagebreak plugin
• Using article-specific images and links
• Content versioning
• Tagging
• Customizing which HTML tags are permitted, by changing the text filters in Joomla! and in TinyMCE
• Adding a YouTube video to an article

6. Advanced Menu Options

• Configuring category blogs
• Advanced category-blog configuration
• Configuring category lists
• Advanced category-list configuration
• Creating a featured blog on the homepage
• Creating a new menu and displaying the menu in the footer
• Creating menu aliases
• Configuring a dropdown menu
• "Hidden" menus: Linking to an article that's not on a menu
• Challenge: Create a testimonials page with tags
• Solution: Create a testimonials page with tags

7. Setting Display Options

• Setting global configuration options for articles
• Setting menu options
• Comparing page headings, article titles, and browser page titles
• Configuring the back-end and front-end administrator screens and options
• Challenge: Turning off the homepage heading
• Solution: Turning off the homepage heading

8. Joomla 3.8.6 Updates

• Touring the updated Joomla interface
• Understanding Joomla collection of anonymous data
• Drag and drop images with TinyMCE
• Creating categories inside of articles
• Creating articles inside of the menu
• Creating new custom fields
• Creating custom field groups

Conclusion

• Goodbye and next steps