You do not have to worry if you delete the article intuitively. The article is not deleted directly, but it moves into the Trash Manager. In Trash Manager, you can restore it. To access this, click Content > Article Trash menu.

Picture 3.63 Trash Manager for article

If you delete the article in the Trash Manager, then the article will be lost permanently. We cannot restore it again.

Front Page Manager is the page that is used to manage the front page when the website is called. You can establish the articles which want to publish in the front page. Beside that, you can also establish the appearance order. You just only move the article position by clicking the green arrow up and down.

You can also unpublish the article that you have been chose for the front page. To unpublish an article, click icon in the Published colomn.

Picture 3.62 Front Page Manager

In section, there is one or more category. The articles are entered into one of the categories. Category manages in the Category Manager page. You can access this page through Content > Category Manager. In this page, you can make, modify, copy, and delete category.

If we want to delete a category, such as in section, Joomla! will examine whether there is an article in category or not. If there is, the category will be not deleted.

Picture 3.61 Category Manager

As already told before that the highest article groupings are section. You can manage the section in Section Manager. You can access it throught Content > Section Manager. Look at the picture 3.60.

Picture 3.60 Section Manager

In this Section Manager page, you can make, modify, and delete section. If you delete section which there is a category in it, the category will lose its “mother.” Because of the category must have a section, Joomla! is not allowed you to delete section which there is a category in it.

Beneath are the steps in making new article in Joomla!:

1. Open Article Manager through Content > Article Manager.
2. Click the New icon in the upper toolbar.
3. You will get the form to write the article. Here are the items in the form:

-Title: Type the title from the article which will you made.
- Alias: The text that you are written in this field will be publicated in url if you choose to optimize the URL for search engine.
- Section: Choose section from the available list.
- Category: Choose one category from the available category list. This category list depends from the section that you have been chose.
- Published: Confirmation whether you want to publish this article or not.
- Front Page: Does the article is published in the front page or not.

Picture 3.51 The form of the making new article

Next, type the article text in the textarea:
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Article Manager is the management center of all of your articles in Joomla! You can access it through Content > Article Manager. From that page, you can see the whole article complete with section, category, author, etc. You can also do the sort action based on section, category, author, date, etc (according to the colomn in that page).

Picture 3.50 Article Manager page

Content Menu contains of everything that is related with the content management in Joomla! The content that is with the HTML format text is also called as article in Joomla! The content structure in Joomla! can be described such as the following:

Picture 3.49 The organizing article structure in Joomla!

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Adding New Menu

In this subsub chapter, we will try to make new menu. By knowing the making of the new menu, you can make your own menu according to your needs. Here are the steps in making new menu:
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