Beginner's Guide

They are using the category World News and under this category there are additional categories like
Politics, World, War, Disasters and more. Sometimes two levels are sufficient like in this example; sometimes
you may need more. In Joomla 1.5 it was not possible to have more than two levels. With Joomla 2.5 you
can have as many levels as you want. Joomla no longer has sections - only categories.
In the Category Manager (Administration → Content → Category Manager), you can manage your category
tree and filter up to 10 levels (Figure 2).
Figure 2: Category Manager
Like an article, a category consists of a title, a description and many other attributes and options. It
can have an additonal image that can be used in different layouts. The image can be selected in the basic
settings. A category can also contain images in the description (Figure 3).
Joomla! 2.5 - Beginner’s Guide
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