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You can have a blog that allows you to make regular postings and have them all appear on a single page, categories and the "Syndicate" module to create an RSS feed, sections, using articles. It really is not that difficult to do. Or perhaps you want to add one to your own Joomla site, many times a client will ask you to add a blog to their Joomla website.

You can access the administrator area of your Joomla installation and are familiar with it, you already have a current version of Joomla already installed and second, first. But first I must make a couple of assumptions, i will show you how to add a blog.

Go to the "Section" pop-up and choose the Blog section you previously created and click save, while still in the Category Manager. Again go to the "Content" menu but this time choose "Category Manager" and click on "New" and give the category a name like "My Blog", next. Let's call it "Blogs" and then click save, now go to the "Content" menu and choose "Section Manager" and create a new section. The first thing to do is to log on to the Joomla administrator area.

Choose which one using the "Category" pop-up, if there is more then one blogger. The "Category" pop-up will default to it, if there is only one blogger. Under "Section" choose the section you created earlier which was "Blogs". Click on "New" and give the blog entry a unique name in the "Title" box. Go to the "Content" menu and this time choose "Article Manager", again. Let's create our first blog entry, now that we have the section and category set up.

And make sure to change "Author Name" and "Created Date and Time" to "Show" and then click Save, again on the right side of the page go to "Parameters (Advanced)", next. Now enter some blog copy and on the right side of the page go to "Parameters (Article)" and enter whatever name you want to show the public in the "Author Alias" box.

The rest of the parameters can be left as default and changed at a later time if you desire. Type in whatever you want the public to see as the link to your blog and then go to "Parameters (Basic)" on the right and choose your blog category, in the Title area. Click on "New" on the upper right and then choose "Articles" under "Internal Link" and on the next page click on "Category Blog Layout". Go to the "Menus" menu and choose Main Menu. Now we have to create a menu item for the blog so that it can be found.

Click save. Again you can leave all other parameters as default and make changes later. Print and/or email, pdf, choose which icons to show in your blog, under "Parameters (Component)", next.

Click on "Select Menu Item(s) from the List" and choose the Blog Menu link created above, in "Show Title" click "No" and then choose what position you would like the RSS feed to appear in under "Position" and then under "Menu Assignment" near the bottom left of the page. Click on "New" on the upper right and then click on "Syndicate" and in the Title field a give it title such as: "RSS Feed for Blog" this is for you to locate it easily in the Module Manager. Go to the "Extensions" menu and choose "Module Manager", to do so. Now let's create an RSS feed so that people can subscribe to your Blog feed.

Click save. I usually use RSS, under "Format" choose either RSS 2.0 or Atom 1.0, finally. Type in what ever text you want to have next to your RSS icon, in the "Text" box, go to "Module Parameters", on the right, now.

Now you can create new blog entries over and over again by repeating the steps above for new articles. You are done!