Overview

The pages of your website have been organised into categories. The top level category is called a section and the subcategory is called categories. Therefore all your pages have already been organised into Section/Category. When creating new pages, you need to choose which Section/Category that they belong to.

1. Managing Sections and Categories

You can view the Section and Categories managers via the Content menu:

To add a new items simply click 'New' at the top right

2. Displaying all Pages in a Section

It is possible to automatically display all items in a particular section or all items in a particular category. This is really very useful because it means any newly created pages will automatically appear on your website, without having to create individual links to them.

Here's an example of what this can look like. See the page below which is displaying all items in a given category, the 'Educational Trips' category. As you can see the pages in that category are automatically arranged. If we were to add another two pages to that category, they would automatically appear on this page too.

3. How to create 'all items in category' page

In order to create one of these special pages which automatically shows everything in the same section or category, we need to create a special menu type.

Go to the mainmenu:

Click 'New' at the top right and then choose 'Blog – Content Section' or 'Blog – Content Category' depending on what you want to display. Then click 'Next' at the top right.

Fill in the details for your new page, making sure to specify how you would like items in this category to be displayed. You can do that by changing the settings in the right column. If you put your cursor over the parameter names, you will see a description of what that setting does. Eg 'Columns' determines how many columns will be used to display all items.

An example

The example in section 2 above shows the following settings:

Leading: 1

This will show the first item as an entire width

Intro: 10

This will show the next 10 items with intro text and a 'read more' button

Columns: 2

This will display all items in two columns

Links: 20

If there are more than 11 items in the category, the next 2o items will appear as plain links at the bottom of the page (rather than intro + 'read more').

Primary Order: Most recent first

This will make sure that the most recently created page appears right at the top of the page, and the other items are shown in date order too.

Category Order: No, order by Primary Order only

Secondary ordering criteria need only be used on very busy websites, with lots of new content.