Editor

 Article Editor

The Joomla article editor is TinyMCE editor but you can have no editor at all
or you can have a third party editor installed via a plug-in. I'm going to just quickly go over some of the details
about the editor area.





Title:
Enter your articles title.

Alias:
Title alias is used for "SEF" search engine friendly.
You can leave this blank and Joomla will fill it in or you can fill it in yourself.
It should consist of lowercase letters, and no blank spaces are allowed.
Use a hyphen (-) instead. The Alias will be used in the URL when SEF is activated.

Section:
Select a section to assign an article to.

Publish:
Publish the article once saved.

Front Page:
Add the article to the front page.
This will also make the article appear in the front page manager.

Category:
You will have a choice of categories assign to a section you have chosen.

Editor Plug-in's
Each editor may or may not have editor plug-in's but these three are shown By Joomla by default.
Editor plug-in's are manage via the plug-in manager.



Image button

The image button plug-in launches the media manager so you can choose an image to add to your article.
The settings are clear so I'm not going to go into then one by one.


Page break

The next plug-in is the page break plug-in and this is a special plug-in because it lets you
break up a long document and make a TOC or "table of contents "

When you click on the pagebreak button the above form pops up.
Where you can add a page title to TOC and the page etc.
There is a second field for an alias for SEF and TOC etc.

Code written to the editor comes out like this for each page title.
<hr title="Joomla Template Kit" alt="JTK 3" class="system-pagebreak" />
The parameters are title for field page title and the alt parameter for the SEF and TOC.


Read more
This plug-in adds a red line across the editor to show its location.
But what it does to the front end article is show intro or part of the article.
It works with your article Parameters - Advanced. 
Into Text setting and the read more link.
If the user clicks the read more link the full article is shown.

Article Parameter Settings

Parameters - Article


Author:
Who wrote the article and the owner of it.

Author Alias:
Change the name display in the article in the Front-end.

Access Level:
Sets who can view the article.
See Access Control List section

Created Date:
Self explains.

Start Publishing:
Time to start showing the article.

Finish Publishing:
Time to stop showing the article.

Parameters - Advanced

Show Article Title:
Show or hides article title.

Title Linkable:
Make article title linkable to see full article.

Show Intro Text:
Show or hide intro text to article.

Section Name:
Show or hide article assigned section name.

Section Title Linkable:
Make article title section title linkable to see full section.

Category Title:
Show or hide article assigned category title.

Category Title Linkable:
Make article title category title linkable to see full category.

Article Rating/Voting:
This setting enables a article voting system.

Author Name:
Prints outs article authors name under the article title.

Created Date and Time:
Prints outs article Date & Time name under the article authors name.

Modified Date and Time:
Shows last time Modified Date and Time under the article intro text.

PDF Icon:
Show or hide PDF icon.

Print Icon:
Show or hide Print icon.

E-mail Icon:
Show or hide E-mail  icon.

Content Language:
Language in which this Article is written. This is optional. If no language is selected, the default language for the site is assumed.

Key Reference:
Optional text key that an Article may be referenced by (for example, a help reference).

Alternative Read more:
Optional text to display next to the 'Read more...' link. If no entry is made, the Article Title is used.


The Metadata information
Shows in your sites meta tags when view.


Description:
Add in twenty words or less to the meta descriptions tags.

Keywords:
Add keywords for your articles and they should be comma separated.
 
Robots:
Add keywords for robots google yahoo etc.
It's Optional an setting.

Author:
Optional setting you can add the Author name in the meta tags.