How To Setup Joomla Blog - The Easy Way

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After you are finished with setting up your site on Joomla the next most important thing you will be eager to do is set up a blog on it. For this you will obviously be requiring a lot of organization work so as to what should be the blog name, where in the template should it be placed, who all will be able to post comment on your blog etc.

It is very important to define which category your blog will belong to. Depending on the category of the blog you will be prompted to create menus as well as menu links for navigation throughout your blog. Doing all of this is not at all that difficult and you can do it without investing much time or energy.

You will obviously be getting a lot of help and instructions about this from the template which you have decided as the site template in this regard. It might feel a bit difficult at first as it sometimes happens while using a third-party interface or CMS for that matter, but gradually you are more likely to become a master at it.

Your site template will obviously have a number of links not only to the tutorials but also too many forums where you are very likely to ...
... get the relevant instructions which will guide you through setting up the blog.

Now here are few of the guidelines which you need to follow in order to set up your blog on the Joomla 1.5 extension. It is very much more powerful than its ancestors and would let you set up a blog without much of a fuss…

Creating the blog section or category…. first of all go to the administration of your Joomla extension, and select menu option from there. In the section manager option give a suitable title like blog for example. Now go to the category manager from content and select on new as you did previously. After naming the blog be sure to choose the section named bogs which you had just created.

Setting up the blog Menu link of Joomla…. After performing the initial steps now you just need to click on new after going into article manager. But you should always remember to select the section named blog and the category of your blog with appropriate pop-ups.

You can set the parameters for your blog generally in any of the ways you prefer but it is always best to set the parameters up in the global preferences mode or most likely in the link intended point to the blog you set up.

Also you need to keep in mind that Joomla is menu driven and most of your pages won’t be accessible or reachable and would be without any navigation until you have a menu driven structure.

So setting up the Menu links for your blog is equally important you want to have an effective blog running. You can choose the layout of your blog also apart from parameters such a sate and time along with ways to show up your blogs chronologically.

RSS feed must be created for the Joomla blog…. Once you get started with your blog you it is very important for you to set up a RSS feed for your blog. Joomla comes with a nice module for RSS feeds that will help you create small buttons called RSS buttons that you can put anywhere throughout the site.

You can now get started with writing your blog with appropriate titles and read more buttons, besides you can also use a number of other useful modules like the calendars, blogrolls and a ping-o-matic module etc which will give it a fresh look. They will help it in going well with the user and keep the blog up and running.

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