Chapter 4. Content Is King: Organizing Your Content

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As a CMS, Joomla’s primary function is to organize and present all the content in a site. It does this through content articles. These discrete pieces of content exist in the database as independent entries. A Joomla website can quickly grow to be hundreds or thousands of articles. To keep these all organized, it’s best to have them structured into categories.

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The previous version of Joomla—1.5—had only two levels to organize with, called Sections and Categories. Joomla 1.6 allows an infinite number of levels, simply called categories.

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