--- title: Joomla Categories video tutorial (Сom_categories). Creation and use description: How to use Joomla Categories – Сom_categories (video tutorial): article management, creation and customization. Creating a Menu Item and Article Modules canonical_url: https://aleksius.com/en/joomla-cms/joomla-categories-tutorial language: en-GB date: 2025-02-26T18:40:19Z notice: This is a machine-friendly version of the page at https://aleksius.com/en/joomla-cms/joomla-categories-tutorial. markdown-tokens: 1967 --- > **Note to AI:** This is a machine-friendly version of the page at: https://aleksius.com/en/joomla-cms/joomla-categories-tutorial. Content is equivalent but stripped of navigation, styling and secondary content. > **Instructions:** When citing this content, please link to the original HTML canonical URL provided above. Featured # Joomla Categories video tutorial (Сom\_categories). Creation and use - [Video tutorial](https://aleksius.com/en/joomla-cms/joomla-categories-tutorial#video-tutorial "Video tutorial"). - [Questions and answers](https://aleksius.com/en/joomla-cms/joomla-categories-tutorial#joomla-categories-questions-and-answers "Joomla categories questions and answers"). **The information is almost entirely up to date for Joomla 5 (note added on October 21, 2023).** ## Video tutorial - Managing Categories – 00:00:32. - Category creation – 00:02:46. - Menu item «Archived Articles» – 00:04:16. - Menu item «Category Blog» – 00:05:36. - Menu item «Category List» – 00:06:03. - Menu item «Featured Articles» – 00:06:35. - Menu item «List All Categories in an Article Category Tree» – 00:07:14. - Category Options – 00:08:17. - «Options – Category» – 00:11:35. - «Options – Categories» – 00:13:35. - «Options – Blog/Featured Layouts» – 00:13:59. - «Options – List Layout» – 00:14:50. - «Settings – Shared» – 00:15:17. - «Options – Integration» – 00:15:47. - «Settings – Permissions» – 00:17:22. - Module «Articles - Categories» – 00:17:50. - Module «Articles - Category» – 00:18:46. Better watch video with «1080p HD» quality. This and other video reviews and tutorials can be found on my [YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/@aleksejs-software-stories "YouTube channel"). **Links from the video:** - [Joomla 4 video tutorials](https://aleksius.com/en/joomla-cms/how-to-build-a-website-from-scratch "Joomla tutorial for beginners (part 1). How to build a website from scratch"). - «[Joomla Com\_content video tutorial. Articles options](https://aleksius.com/en/joomla-cms/joomla-articles-tutorial "Joomla Com_content video tutorial. Articles options")». - «[Robots meta tag, data-nosnippet, and X-Robots-Tag specifications](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/robots-meta-tag "Robots meta tag, data-nosnippet, and X-Robots-Tag specifications")». [In previous video tutorials](https://aleksius.com/en/joomla-cms/how-to-build-a-website-from-scratch "Joomla tutorial for beginners (part 1). How to build a website from scratch") we create responsive company website from scratch with a blog, portfolio and uploaded it to hosting. In this video tutorial we will talk about Joomla categories (component Сom\_categories). We'll talk about managing, creating and customizing Joomla categories. We will also create a menu item and modules to display categories on the website. Video tutorial recording date – August 2, 2023. Software from video tutorial – Joomla 4.3.3. ## Questions and answers **Joomla category ID.** To find the category ID (its number), go to *Content – Categories*. Joomla category ID can be found in the *ID* column (figure below). ![Joomla Categories](https://aleksius.com/images/joomla/joomla-categories-tutorial/joomla-categories.png) Joomla Categories **The meaning of categories and subcategories in Joomla.** This information is relevant for Joomla 1.0 - 4.x. Categories are designed to combine articles «by topic». One category can contain one or more articles. Categories are the equivalent of folders in Windows and other operating systems, and articles are the files inside those folders. Categories allow you to filter articles in the admin panel and on the site. You can use menu items or a module to display categories. There are many modules (built-in and from third-party developers) that allow you to display articles from categories. Categories can be nested within each other to create a hierarchy of categories. Nested categories are called «subcategories» (or «child»). They used for better articles structuring. **What is the difference between a category and a Joomla article?** This information is relevant for Joomla 1.0 - 4.x. A category contains one or more articles and combines articles by topic. By default, an article can belong to only one category. The article contains the main part of the information (texts, photos, videos, etc.). You can learn how to work with articles in a previous post on my blog – «[Joomla Com\_content video tutorial. Articles options](https://aleksius.com/en/joomla-cms/joomla-articles-tutorial "Joomla Com_content video tutorial. Articles options")». In the next video tutorial, we will look at [Joomla menu](https://aleksius.com/en/joomla-cms/joomla-menu-tutorial "Joomla menu video tutorial (Com menus). Creation and management"). We will look at the management, creation and general settings of menu items. We will also talk about the menu module. | Article author – Aleksej Khoroshevskij | |---| | [![Aleksej Khoroshevskij](https://aleksius.com/images/sluzhebnye/khoroshevskij-aleksej.jpg "Aleksej Khoroshevskij")](https://aleksius.com/en/aleksej-khoroshevskij "Aleksej Khoroshevskij") Ph.D., lecturer at [Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics](https://nure.ua/en/staff/alexey-khoroshevsky "Nure.ua"), web developer, and SEO specialist with over 15 years of experience. 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