Guide for web administrators

Structure and Layout

This page shows all available module positions as well as several articles of content.

The articles are displayed in the "category blog layout" whereby article text and graphics are displayed in a 'blog style'. The category blog layout allows for single column or two column layouts, or a mixture. You can have one or more 'leading' articles (like this one), which go across the page, with subsequent articles appearing in two columns.

If there is no left and/or right module, content will automatically fill across the page.

The alternative layout is 'category list' whereby only the article title is displayed in a flat list. An example of this is our media releases

More about articles sections and categories from

the official Joomla documentation

Order of articles

Generally throughout the ConservationSA website the articles appear in order of "newest first". Other choices are title or author alphabetical, or most hits.

Sometimes you may want one article, maybe an intro or overview, to remain at the top of the page, and have subsequent articles appear in date order.

Display parameters

There are many parameters that can be applied to individual articles and / or all articles in a section or category. These include layout, number of articles to display per page, sort order, whether to display the author, date created, print icon etc.

Sharing articles on facebook, twitter etc

Simply insert the following code in any article you wish to share. It doesn't matter where you put it, the share links will appear at the bottom of the article.

This is the code

and it produces this:

Creating new content - the sequence

First create a new content section (via Content > Section manager). Within that section, create one or more categories (via Content > Category manager). Then articles can be created (via Content > Article manager) and assigned to the appropriate category.

Embedding videos in content or modules

You can display a video from youtube or many other on-line sources by inserting a simple line of code into an article or module.

The format is always {name of videoprovider}ID of video {/name of videoprovider}