Page 1
Looking at our Home page, we see that the Latest News component is showing the same list of items as is displayed on our Home page.
open full sized image
Page 2
What we'd like to do is create some new items of content which we'll call "News" and have only the most recent of these show up in the News component.
First, let's remove the items that are already displaying in the home page.
Select Modules - Site Modules from the Administrator pulldown.
open full sized image
Page 3
Here again is the Module Manager. Modules are basically little squares of content like menus or the Latest News list.
open full sized image
Page 6
Scrolling down, we find an entry for Frontpage items. By default it is "show".
open full sized image
Page 7
After saving our settings, we look at the home page again. The list is now empty.
open full sized image
Page 8
Our goal is to have a menu item called "News", and to have the latest news listed in the Latest News module. However, there is a bit of a problem. The standard Latest News module lists the most recent items from all sections, not just a section called "News". The only recent items that won't show are ones that are already on the home page.
We can solve this problem with a Joomla extension, and in a later tutorial we'll do just that. But for now, we'll just create some news items since we don't have any other published content that isn't on the home page.
Page 9
There already is a section called News as we can see from this pulldown.
open full sized image
Page 10
Here's the Content Items Manager for the News section. We'll click on New.
open full sized image
Page 11
Here's the Content Item page. We'll add a title, select a category, add some text, and click Save.
open full sized image
Page 12
Looking at our site, we see that our new content item appears under Latest News.
open full sized image
Page 13
Our News item is appearing under the Latest News entry. We would also like to have a menu entry that points to a list of all of our news items. We'll see how to do that in the next tutorial.