Joomla! Documentation™

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How to access

Click on the Article Manager icon in the Control Panel, or click on 'Article Manager' in the 'Content' menu on the back-end of your Joomla! installation.

Description

The Article Manager is the place on the back-end where you add and manage all of the articles for your web site.

Screenshot

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Column Headers

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Typical Usage

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Component Parameters

Click Parameters from the Toolbar in the Articles List View in the Administrator.

Show Unauthorized Links

No Yes

Show Article Title

No Yes

Title Linkable

No Yes

Show Intro Text

Hide Show

Section Name

Hide Show

Section Title Linkable

No Yes

Category Title

Hide Show

Category Title Linkable

No Yes

Author Name

Hide Show

Created Date and Time

Hide Show

Modified Date and Time

Hide Show

Show Navigation

Hide Show

Read more... Link

Hide Show

Article Rating/Voting

Hide Show

Icons

Hide Show

PDF Icon

Hide Show

Print Icon

Hide Show

E-mail Icon

Hide Show

Hits

Hide Show

For each feed item show

Intro Text Full Text

Filter Groups

This sets the user groups that you want filters applied to. Other groups will have no filtering done.

Filter Type

Black List (Default), White List, No HTML

Filter Tags

The extra tags to use in a Black List, or the only tags to use in a White List

Filter Attributes

The extra tag attributes to use in a Black List, or the only tag attributes to use in a White List

More on Filtering

Joomla! 1.5.2 brings new filtering options to give you more control over the HTML that your content providers submit. You can be as strict or as liberal as you require to suit your site needs. The filtering is opt-in and the default settings afford good protection against markup commonly associated with web site attacks.

You can define which user groups are to receive additional filtering, and then control the type and extent of that filtering.

Black Lists allow all tags an attributes except for those in the black list. The default black list includes the following tags:

'applet', 'body', 'bgsound', 'base', 'basefont', 'embed', 'frame', 'frameset', 'head', 'html', 'id', 'iframe', 'ilayer', 'layer', 'link', 'meta', 'name', 'object', 'script', 'style', 'title', 'xml'

They also only all tags except for those in the black list. The default black list includes the following attributes:

'action', 'background', 'codebase', 'dynsrc', 'lowsrc'

You can black list additional tags and attributes by adding to the Filter Tags and Filter Attributes fields, separating each tag or attribute name with a space or comma.

White Lists allow only the tags listed in the Filter Tags and Filter Attributes fields.

Finally, No HTML removes all HTML tags from the content when it is saved.

Please note that these settings work regardless of the editor that you are using. Even if you are using a WYSIWYG editor, the filtering settings may strip additional tags and attributes prior to saving information in the database.

Examples

To allow people in your Author group to only submit content with basic HTML tags, use the following settings:

• In the Filter Groups box, select Registered and Author.
• Select White List as the type
• Set the Filter Tags to: p, br, a, ul, ol, li
• Set the Filter Attributes to: href, target

Developers Notes

The filtering parameters in config.xml have the new parameter menu="hide". This hides the filters from the Menu Item's Component pane as you do not want cascading overrides to occur at the menu item level.

Quick Tips

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Points to Watch

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Dependencies

Dependencies Placeholder Describe other screens that rely on the presence of this function or that this function relies upon, in order to work correctly for example: a Category depends upon the presence of a Section (up) and it must be in place before a Categorised Article (down) can be created. If there are no Dependencies either up or down for the particular screen just state None but do include the section. Use paragraph format type and do not add extra white space. Ensure that you use the correct styles for inline emphasis and notices. It will probably be sufficient to just list these and provide links to the Help Screens relating to the dependency. Please remove this placeholder as soon as you start entering text here.

Version Changes

In Joomla! versions prior to 1.5, there were separate processes for creating a Static Content Item and normal Content Items. Both processes are now done just by adding Articles. Normal Content Items are now just called Articles, and Static Content Items are now called Uncategorized Articles.

To create a static content item, create a new Article in the same way as for normal content and assign it to the 'Uncategorized' Section and Category. You can then use the Menu Item Type called Article Layout to show the Article in a page.

Also, the way a 'Read more...' is created is new for version 1.5. When you are adding or editing an article, just press the 'Read more...' button located at the bottom of the screen, next to Image and Pagebreak buttons. This inserts a 'Read more...' break in the Article. The text before the break will display as the Intro Text, and the text after the break will display when the 'Read more...' link is pressed.