The Official Joomla!™ Book

Appendix D. Managing Content in Joomla! 1.6

In Joomla! 1.6 all articles are organized into categories, and each article is assigned to a single category. Any category can contain articles as well as other categories. You can go as deep as you want in setting up subcategories, which is to say that you can have categories within categories within categories, as many levels as you wish. The category structure is commonly called the category tree.

Category Manager

The sample data in Joomla! 1.6 shows excellent examples of how categories work.

Using the Administrator Menu, click on Content and then click on Category Manager, as shown in Figure D.1. There you will see the category tree for the sample data articles. For example, the category Content ...