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Description

A Category Blog layout typically has one or two leading article tasters occupying the full width of the content area followed by more articles tasters in one, two or three columns and additional links to more Articles in the same category.

A Category Blog menu item leads to a page with that layout.

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To create a new Category Blog menu item:

• Select Menus → [name of the menu] from the Administrator menu (for example, Menus → Main Menu).

• • Then select the New button in the Toolbar.

• • Then select the Menu Item Type Select button

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• • Then in the modal dialog popup, select the Articles link and then select Category Blog from the list of Menu Item Types.

To edit an existing Category Blog Menu Item:

* Select its Title in the Menus: Items list.

Screenshot

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Form Fields

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Details Tab

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• Tags. Optionally restrict displayed articles to those having the selected Tags.

• Link. The link to be used for this page - set automatically.

• Target Window. Select from the drop-down list (Parent or ...).

• Template style. Choose a style from the drop-down list (Default or ...).

Category Tab

The Category Options control the way that category information is shown in the layout. The Category Blog Layout has the following Category Options, as shown below.

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• Show Subcategories Text. (Use Global/Hide/Show) If Show, the 'Subcategories' will show as a subheading on the page. The subheading is usually displayed inside the "H3" tag.

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Blog Layout Tab

Blog Layout Options control the appearance of the blog layout.

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• Blog Class (Leading Articles). The default layout/styling is 1 column, a top image and no box.

• Blog Class. This can be empty (default) or a combination of columns-x or masonry-x with image-left or image-right or image-bottom or image-alternate and boxed.

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*Featured Articles. (Use Global/Hide/Show/Only) Select to show, hide or only display featured articles.

Options Tab

The Category Blog Layout has the following Article Options, as shown below. These options determine how the articles will show in the blog layout.

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In addition to Yes/No or Hide/Show, these options allow the following settings.

• Use Global: Use the default value from Articles: Options.

• Use Article Settings: Use the value from the Article Edit. This setting allows you to have different options for different articles in the blog layout. For example, one article could show the author and other articles could hide the author.

The Article Options are as follows.

• Choose a Layout. Select from the drop-down list (Default or ...).

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• Position of Article Info. (Use Global/Use article settings/Above/Below/Split) Puts the article information block above or below the text or splits it into two separate blocks, one above and the other below.
• Article Info Title. (Use Global/Use article settings/Hide /Showe) Display the 'Article Info' title on top of the article information block.

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}} {{:Chunk4x:Help screen column header Show Parent Blog/

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}} {{:Chunk4x:Help screen column header Link Parent Blog/

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}} {{:Chunk4x:Help screen column header Show Associations/

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}} {{:Chunk4x:Help screen column header Show Author Blog/

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}} {{:Chunk4x:Help screen column header Link Author Blog/

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}} {{:Chunk4x:Help screen column header Show Create Date Blog/

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}} {{:Chunk4x:Help screen column header Show Modify Date Blog/

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}} {{:Chunk4x:Help screen column header Show Publish Date Blog/

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}} {{:Chunk4x:Help screen column header Show Navigation Blog/

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}} {{:Chunk4x:Help screen column header Show Voting Blog/

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}} {{:Chunk4x:Help screen column header Show Read More/

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}} {{:Chunk4x:Help screen column header Show Icons Blog/

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}} {{:Chunk4x:Help screen column header Show Print Icon Blog/

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}} {{:Chunk4x:Help screen column header Show Email Icon Blog/

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}} {{:Chunk4x:Help screen column header Show Hits Blog/

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}} {{:Chunk4x:Help screen column header Show Tags/

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Integration Tab

The Article Category Blog layout has the following Integration Options.

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These determine whether a news feed will be available for the page and what information it will show.

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Link Type Tab

See Menus: Edit/New Item for help on fields common to all Menu Item types including:

• Link Type Options

• Page Display Options

• Metadata Options

Module Assignments Tab

See Menus: Edit/New Item for help on fields for this Menu Item.

Toolbar

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Quick Tips

• The Category Blog layout replaces the Section Blog and Category Blog layouts from Joomla! version 1.5. To simulate a version 1.5 Section Blog, select 1 for the Subcategory Levels option to include one level of subcategories.

Related Information

• To create a new Category see Category: Add or Edit.

• To create a new menu see Menus.

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