Joomla - Adding Articles

An article can be defined as a piece of content consisting of some written information that usually contains some text, pictures, and other types of content. For most of the Joomla sites, articles form the majority of the information presented on the site. Articles can be considered as the basic units of information in the content system and the bottom level in the content hierarchy.

Create/ Add a New Article

The following are the steps to understand how to create an article:

Step 1

Log in to your Joomla account, and click on the "Content - Articles - Add New Articles" from the Joomla Taskbar.

You can also access the same window by clicking on the "New Article" option from the left sidebar of the Joomla Control Panel.

Step 2

After following the above step, you will get the editor page, as shown below:

It is almost similar to the Word Processor and known as 'WYSIWYG Editor'. Use the given options and create an article consisting of an image, text, and other contents. Some of the important options present with the editor are:

Step 3

After creating an article, enter the information in other fields available under the 'Content' tab which are:

Step 4

The tabs include several options or settings for the article. Click on each tab to check the available options and modify them as per your requirements. Enter all the details as per your requirements. Check out the following image, which displays the article that we have created for an illustration purpose.

Step 5

After filling all the details, click on the 'Save' button to keep the changes.

Note: To display an article in the frontend of your Joomla website, you need to link it with the module.

The created article will look like the following image on the frontend of the website:

That is how you can create articles for your Joomla websites.