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Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide Second Edition

You're reading from  Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide Second Edition

Product type Book
Published in Jul 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783981502
Pages 476 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Eric Tiggeler Eric Tiggeler
Profile icon Eric Tiggeler

Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. A New and Easy Way to Build Websites 2. Getting Joomla! Up and Running 3. First Steps – Getting to Know Joomla! 4. Web Building Basics – Creating a Site in an Hour 5. Small Sites, Big Sites – Organizing Your Content Effectively 6. Creating Killer Content – Adding and Editing Articles 7. Welcoming Your Visitors – Creating Attractive Home Pages and Overview Pages 8. Helping Your Visitors Find What They Want – Managing Menus 9. Opening Up the Site – Enabling Users to Log in and Contribute 10. Getting the Most out of Your Site – Extending Joomla! 11. Creating an Attractive Design – Working with Templates 12. Attracting Search Engine Traffic – SEO Tips and Techniques Keeping the Site Secure Creating a Multilingual Site Pop Quiz Answers Index

Time for action – showing the most recent items first


The visitors of the CORBA site will probably expect to see the most recently added items on the top of the page. Let's set the Layout options to organize things accordingly.

  1. Navigate to Menus | Main Menu and click on the Home link to edit the settings.

  2. Under the Layout tab, you'll find several ordering options for featured articles. Make sure Category Order is set to No Order in order to avoid specific category order settings overruling the article settings you choose. In the Article Order drop-down list, choose Most recent first as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. In Date for ordering, select Created. When ordering your articles by date, you'll probably want to display the creation date for every article. Navigate to the Options panel of the menu link and make sure Show Create Date is set to Show.

  4. Click on Save and click on View Site. Now, the most recent items are shown first on the home page, as shown in the following screenshot:

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