User's Manual

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Section Manager
How to Access
Click on the Section Manager icon in the Control Panel or click on 'Section Manager' in the 'Content' menu
in the back-end of your Joomla! installation.
Description
Articles in Joomla! are organized into Sections and Categories. Sections are the top-level of organization
and Categories go under Sections. The Section Manager is the place where you can edit existing Sections
and create new ones. For example, a web site might have the following organization:
· People
o Volunteers, Staff, Board Members
· Projects
o Major Projects, Small Projects
· Events
o Local Events, National Events
In this example, 'People', 'Projects', and 'Events' would be the Sections. The sub-topics under each Section
(for example, 'Volunteers', 'Staff', and 'Board Members') would be the Categories for each Section. When an
Article is added, it would be assigned a Section (for example 'People') and a Category (for example, 'Board
Members').
You can have an many or as few Sections and Categories as you need. Joomla! has a built-in Section and
Category called 'Uncategorized'. This allows you to create Articles without creating or assigning any
Section or Category. You just assign the Article to the 'Uncategorized' Section.
Sections are used for two reasons. The first reason is for organizing Articles on your web pages. The Section
Blog Layout and Section Layout allow you to display multiple Articles on a page for a given Section. So, in
the example above, you could have a page for 'People' that shows Articles related to this Section. A second
reason to use Sections is to help manage your Articles in the back-end Article Manager. If you have a large
number of Articles, you can filter by Section so you only see the Articles from one Section.
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