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Front Page Manager
How to Access
Select Content --> Front Page Manager from the drop-down menu in the back-end of your Joomla!
installation. You can also click on the "Front Page Manager" icon in the Control Panel.
Description
The Front Page Manager is the place where you control which Articles are displayed on the Front Page and
in what order they are displayed. The Front Page is often the Home page of a web site, but it can be any
page in the site. The Front Page is created using a Menu Item with the Front Page layout.
Screenshot
Column Headers
Click on the column heading to sort the list by that column's value.
· #. An indexing number automatically assigned by Joomla! for ease of reference.
· Checkbox. Check this box to select one or more items. To select all items, check the box in the
column heading. After one or more boxes are checked, click a toolbar button to take an action on the
selected item or items. Many toolbar actions, such as Publish and Unpublish, can work with multiple
items. Others, such as Edit, only work on one item at a time. If multiple items are checked and you
press Edit, the first item will be opened for editing.
· Title. The name of the item. For a Menu Item, the Title will display in the Menu. For an Article,
Section, or Category, the Title may optionally be displayed on the web page. This entry is required.
You can open the item for editing by clicking on the Title.
· Published. The Article's Published status. The possible values are shown under the main window, as
shown below: