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Moving Joomla static content into categories |
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Friday, 13 August 2010 |
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Using Joomla 1.0.15
I created a lot of uncategorized static content before I realised that
it should be in categories and sections, and now I'd like to move these
content items into newly created categories - I need to organize things
a bit, the trouble is Joomla 1.0.nn does not allow you to move contant
from static into a category.
You can achieve this - but not easily. Joomla 1.0 was pretty poor by not
providing this functionality by default. Once you've created loads of
static content and you realise you want to categorise a chunk of it then
you're stuffed!
So, if you have static content already built then the only way I know of
doing it is to go into myPHPadmin and look up the table joscontent.
Find the articles that you wish to categorise and change the item secid
and catid to correspond to the content section/category IDs that you
want them to appear under. This appears to have no major ill-effects.
All your static content will appear in the section/category of your choice.
A way round this happening in the first place is, from the outset before
you create any content, create an entirely separate section and category
both called "static content" or similar. Then, when you want to create
any content that does not fit into an obvious category drop it in here
instead. The benefit is that all content dropped in this duplicate
"static content" category is actually dynamic, meaning that you can
move/copy it into any other section using standard joomla functionality.
Dynamic content also has other improvements over static content in that
you can give it a "read more" which you can't do for static content in
Joomla 1.0.15
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