If you want to setup a Blog, here is my first advice:
Setup a section like ” Blogging”,”articles” or something alike, then put in that section a categorie like ” Weblog” or “Blogging”.
Please do NOT use a categorie “Blog“… because some SEF components for Joomla take that as a replacement for ” Blogsection or Blogcategory!
And you do want to use a SEF Component, I will tell you later way.
If you are not so familiar with the Joomla content structure, take a look at Understanding the Joomla Content Structure
Now Lets take a look at the first Joomla menu choice if you want to add a new menu item.
The Blog Content category…
If you select this item you are given several options in the sidebar, lets go over them and see what they mean.
First you have the Option #leading:
This is set to one, which means the just one article is posted in the top section of the page.
Then there is the option #intro:
This shows the number of articles dat will be visible below the leading part, and is depended of the next value the Columns, so here they are split into two columns
Attention! The number of #leading and the number of #intro items are added together, so in this case you have a total of 5 articles on you blog page!
#links is the number of links to other articles in the category that will be shown below the other articles and these are shown as links, but with the text of the title as link.
Category en primary order are there to change the order of the articles if you wish to.
You can use the drop-down selections to take your pick for your favorite ordering.
For a real Blog you could set these to the default, that means the newest first.
Pagination is the way Joomla shows that there are more articles in this categorie and you can go through them bij going through the pages.
Below you can see how this works out in the layout of the Blog categorie page created by this menu choice:
As you can see, this standard layout is not always the most practicle…
If you like to have more articles on your Blog starting page, then you are better off going for 1 Column en a higher number of #leading articles.. so if you want to layout your one favorite page layout, experiment with these setting until you are satisfied with the results.
You will see, it’s fun to learn how to Blog with Joomla!
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