Blog based on CMS Joomla. Top 5 Joomla Blogging Extensions How to Make a Joomla Blog

Foreword

This article was written by JoomlaShine studio - one of the popular Joomla studios, known for its great templates and extensions. In one of their posts, they shared their blogging experience. It is worth noting that despite the article being written some time ago, all the data on extensions was updated before publication, and the tips for organizing a blog are as relevant as ever. No wonder this studio has gained great popularity around the world, and is also a sponsor of numerousth Joomla Day conferences in many countries.

P.S. some paragraphs have been edited and adapted for the convenience of the reader.

Many people want to create a Joomla blog. We know this because when we "surf" the Joomla community, such as the Joomla forum, we see questions like "How do I make a Joomla blog?" "What extensions should I use for a blog?" and much more.

We will be writing about:

What is a blog?
Good blog extensions
How we work with the blog and what extension we use

What is a blog?

The word "blog" is short for Weblog. In our opinion, there are 2 popular types of blogs - personal and business blogs. Personal blogs are used to share stories about your hobbies, daily life, etc., while a business blog is used to fill your site with fresh interesting information and improve your image in the eyes of your customers / target audience.

The blog should contain some of these important elements:

Good blog extensions

These extensions are designed for blogging purposes, so they will provide you with all the basic and essential blogging features. In addition, they support not only Joomla 3, but also Joomla 2.5. Cool, yeah?

Extension	Free / Commercial		pros	Minuses
	Commercial	4.96/5 - 275 users	Ease of use good support	Limited number of comment topics
	Commercial	4.95/5 - 19 users	Ease of use Light and clean layout	Not trackback functions
	Commercial	3.93/5 - 14 users	Ease of use Lots of features	Commenting system and media manager are not available
	Free	4.45/5 - 29 users	Automatically checks the update server when an article is saved	Doesn't work for server list
	Free	4.35/5 - 17 users	Allows users to create personal pages	Users cannot customize their pages

Note: The icon indicates that Easyblog is our solution of choice.

By the way, besides these professional Joomla blog extensions, you can consider using CCK (Content Creation Kit) extensions like K2, Zoo, etc. to create a blog.

How to blog with Easyblog?

Build Interface

Almost all the features for creating a blog are organized into a neat interface. After installing easyblog, there is no need to look for tools.

We have created areas such as Tag Cloud, Search, Categories and Featured Posts on our blog. Doing this with Easyblog is easier than ever. In addition, the admin panel of the component has a very convenient chart where you can track all the "activity" on the site. All possible settings are on the left side. There you can find everything from auto-posting to social networks to importing news feeds from other sites.

Easy blog control panel

Functions on our blog version Joomla 2.5

Create good content

Our main goal is to create good blog content, so we spend a lot of time and effort to create it. As you can see, all the information is in the blog with photos, videos and infographics.

You may ask: "what should we write about?" or "where do we find information for a blog?. The answer to this question is not very easy to give. We write about Joomla, we create tutorials for beginners. We choose topics for from our experience - we write about what we use, about what we need and what Joomla users need If there are specific topics that you would like to know about and we haven't written about it yet - let us know, we will be grateful and happy to help you.

Post Schedule

You should schedule posts to make sure your blog is updated frequently and you can take a look at the blog review.

We use in our work Google calendar to mark and schedule those blog posts that will be published in the next 2 weeks. This is a well-known practice, many Joomla studios and well-known developers have shared that they use this system.

Google Calendar

Communicate with your readers

Thanks to the commenting system, you can immediately receive feedback from readers. Do they like your blog or not? Was your post helpful to them? Was there any outdated information in it that did not suit readers? Or maybe they want you to write more about a certain topic? Etc. Without a commenting system, you will never know about it.

The comment system should be convenient for the people who read you. There should also be spam prevention features. We use easyblog's standard commenting system, but you can always review and choose any other commenting system. There are special extensions that allow you to leave comments through your social network account, for example, VKontakte. Similar extensions are also available for Facebook, Twitter and Google+.

Using an efficient commenting system

Promote your blog

There are many ways to help your readers keep track of your latest blog posts. Thanks to them, your blog will be useful to more people.

Joomlashine on Twitter

Promote with infographics: You can create and share infographics by creating special links for copying them to other sites, as well as offering them to partners (see great examples of infographics here Visula.ly or here Infographiclove)

Video promotion: create your own YouTube channel and post educational (or just interesting) videos there

Using Additional Extensions

In addition to Easyblog, we use some other useful extensions such as sh404SEF to manage URLs, social media modules, so that readers can contact us even more easily. Our news automatically appears in groups when we add them to the site, so that our subscribers always know that a new interesting article has come out.

We are also creating another module to show our social profiles.

Find us on Facebook

Conclusion

There are many tips and books about blogging in Joomla; this article only mentions a few of them. We hope you find them useful. If you have any questions or want us to tell you about something specific - suggest a post with a question

Hello, dear readers of the blog site. Today we will continue, which we have already raised several times before, and also learned. Today we will try to consider various options for displaying articles on site pages using various menu items.

The menu is one of the fundamental parts and usually acts as navigation elements. But in addition to navigation, they determine what exactly will be displayed on a dynamic page after clicking on a link to it. In fact, they determine what will be displayed on a particular page.

Why do you need and how to work with Joomla menu items

This is not easy to understand, especially for those users who have dealt with static sites, in which the role of the menu has been reduced to only providing navigation. In general, the issue of content organization and content output methods is one of the most difficult for beginner Joomla users.

At first, it is very difficult to grasp the whole relationship between the menu, its items, the content of web pages and the modules in which they are displayed. But let's talk about everything in order. Firstly, they, like in any other website, can be located both horizontally (most often in the upper part of the window, but it is also possible to create a lower one) and vertically (either in the left or right column of the template).

Remarkably, the navigation menu item in Joomla can lead to a page with a single article, as well as to a blog or a list of materials contained in a category or section. Moreover, the same publication can be accessed by different links from the menu.

For some link it will open alone on a web page, and for some it will be displayed as a list or as a blog of the category or section to which it belongs. Probably, you still do not quite understand what is at stake, but I hope that this understanding will come when you finish reading this guide.

So, you can see all this wealth in one place - in the menu manager. It will be possible to get to it from the admin panel by selecting “All Menu” - “Menu” from its top line. For each of them, you can create items that will form web pages with one or another.

Their appearance is set from the settings of these same menu items. This is very important to understand, because knowing where to look for certain settings will make your task much easier. , as well as setting up modules for them.

Once in the menu manager, you can click on the icon in the column next to the one you need, which will open a list of all the items that are already in it. Access to this page can also be obtained by simply selecting in the admin panel from its top line “All menus” - “Name of the one you need”:

As a result, a window with a list will open:

Create a menu item

At the top of it you will see buttons, among them there will be a “Create” button, by clicking on which a wizard for creating a new navigation element will open:

In this window, you will see a tree structure of the types of menu links that you can create in Joomla. This tree contains nested elements that will open after clicking on the selected parent branch. Everything is quite simple and clear.

It is used so that we can choose the view of the page that will be navigated to after clicking on the generated menu link. In other words, you will have to choose one of the page templates in Joomla. Different templates allow you to combine one or more articles based on the sections and categories they belong to.

Please note that there are quite a lot of options in the above tree and they are divided into types of components (this is), on the basis of which content will be displayed on the site. We are primarily interested in options that offer to create a Content component built into the engine by default, which is responsible for working with materials.

But in addition to the main component for working with articles, there are others that, in turn, will add their own options to this tree, allowing you to link to web pages with content generated by our Content.

But for now we will focus on the consideration of the withdrawal of materials, and everything else will be considered to the best of our ability. So, a menu element in Joomla can refer to three main types of pages: with a single article, an entire category, or a section.

In addition, a menu item can point to both a single component and a category of this component. For example, for you it will be possible to create a link leading both to a page with a list of all categories of the gallery you created, and to a page with content (photos) of a single one.

This mess might look like this:

At the same time, the following options were selected in the tree from those that were added after the installation of the Phoca Gallery component:

The main task when creating a site on Joomla is to properly organize the content (content, content). I mean the structure of sections and categories, both for articles and, for example, for the photo gallery component. Well, there are a lot of methods for displaying well-structured content.

True, it is often the variety of withdrawal methods that causes difficulties for novice users. But, I hope that at the end of reading this publication, the confusion introduced by the confusing system will slightly decrease, and clarity will appear at least on some issues.

If you want to achieve the most convenient navigation, then you should start with the correct formation of sections and categories and the distribution of existing articles between them. And to form already on this base an extensive system of menus and their elements for a convenient and understandable output for users will already be a matter of technology.

Menu elements that allow you to display articles on the site

To display content on the site that includes articles, you will need to add new items to the menu from the branch of the tree called "Materials". Quite logical, I suppose. By clicking on this branch of the tree, you will see a list of all the possible options that you can use to display materials on the web pages of your site:

There are not so many of them, but they will allow you to display article content in the most diverse form - from individual publications to the blog of an entire section on one page of the website.

Now we just have to understand what this or that option in this branch of the tree serves for, and then deal with their settings that allow you to display blogs or lists of articles in Joomla. With these settings, you can set the appearance and display order of materials. But first things first.

We will consider the option of displaying one single article at the end of the publication, and there is nothing complicated and requiring attention there. And now I want to elaborate on two main output patterns:

Blog template (category or section) - so called because the way articles are displayed in this case resembles standard blogs. In this case, the web page generated in Joomla, in general, will be a series of announcements (introductory parts) of articles that will end with a "More" link. All of them will either belong to one section or one category that you choose during setup.
A standard template for a section or category list, which is essentially the same thing. The web page generated in Joomla will be a table that will list either category titles from a particular section or article titles from a particular category.

Of course, the blog template has much more flexibility than the standard one, which displays page content in a table only as headings that are links to full articles.

The format of a category or section blog allows you to display not only the titles of articles, but also add a small announcement, which allows you to arouse additional interest among visitors to this page to continue reading and clicking on the “More” link.

At the same time, you can quite flexibly customize the appearance of the articles display. It will be possible to set how many announcements will be displayed in the entire width of the page, how many will be divided into columns, set the number of columns and determine the number of materials displayed at the bottom as links.

How to create a blog in Joomla based on category articles

Let's first try to create a menu element in Joomla based on a category (or section) blog template and look at all the settings that we can change. They will be almost identical to them. Therefore, we will consider only the option based on the category template, and you can deal with the section yourself by analogy.

So, go to the Joomla admin panel, select the items “All menu” - “Name of the one you need” from the top line. On the page that opens, click the "Create" button located at the top. In the tree that opens, click on the option "Materials" - "Category" - "List Template". As a result of these actions, a window will open with menu item settings based on the template you selected:

In the "Title" field, as usual, enter the name for this menu item, which will be displayed on the site. The Alias field should only be filled in if . Then you will need .

If you use third-party components for the SEF organization, you will not need to fill it out. I already wrote.

The Link field displays a hyperlink to the page generated from this menu item. You can copy it and use it to add weblinks from the text of other articles on your site. In the "Show in" field, you will have to select the menu in which the item we are creating will be located.

In the "Parent element" column, you can select the parent for the element being created, when you click on it, our nested item will be displayed in the menu. If you do not want to make it nested, then you should leave the default option "Top".

In the "Access" area, you can specify which of the visitors will see this item. Either everyone (used most often), or only registered, or only Joomla administrators (option "Special").

In the "Open in" field, choose whether the page will be opened in the same window, or in a new window, or in a new browser tab.

Joomla blog setup

We go to the right side of the settings, where the tabs are concentrated with the parameters responsible for the presentation of the web page that will be opened as a result of clicking on this link. Let's start with the main parameters located on the tab of the same name:

In the "Category" field, you must select the one whose content will be displayed as a blog. In the "Description" column, you can hide or show the display of the description for this category, which will be displayed at the top of the blog page. The same goes for the Description Picture.

In the "Full Width" field, you can specify the number of articles (most often only their introductory parts - announcements) that will be displayed in the full width of the web page, without splitting into columns. In the "Introduction" column, you specify the number of materials that will be divided into columns, and in the "Columns" field, you specify their number. They will be displayed behind those articles that are displayed in full width.

Thus, you can, for example, enter the numbers in these four fields: 1 6 2 4, as a result of which the formed blog page will look like this: one article announcement will be displayed at the very top, followed by six more announcements from this category, well, at the very bottom there will be a list of four more links.

Clear? Not? Then try to experiment with the numbers in these settings yourself and everything will become clear and understandable to you. It is currently not possible to implement in Joomla the output of articles in a category or section blog, first in columns, and then to the full width of the page. Therefore, you will have to be content with what you have.

By the way, a zero in any of these four fields other than "column" would mean that none of the content in that category would use that display capability. We have reviewed the main parameters that can be changed when creating a menu item in Joomla. Now let's go to the advanced tab:

The settings that are responsible for the order of the articles are concentrated here. There are a lot of options - by date, alphabetically, in the order of display that you set in the content manager (of this category).

You will need the Order field if you are creating a menu item for a section containing more than one category. In this case, you can choose the way you need to sort the categories in the section, according to which their list will be displayed on the page, formed on the basis of the section blog template.

The "Sort" field determines how the articles themselves are sorted when they are displayed. By the way, when creating a menu item code-named "Section Blog Template", you can sort all the articles without regard to their belonging to a particular category, but for this you need to select the "Default" option in the previous "Order" field.

If you select the "Display order" option, then the articles from the Joomla category you have chosen will be displayed on the page in the order that you set in the content manager, filtering only on it.

There are two ways to sort articles in the content manager that belong to the category we need. You can arrange the numbers you need in the "Sort" column and click on the diskette located next to the name of this column. And you can also use the green arrows in the same column, but with a large number of articles, this will probably be inconvenient.

In the "Pagination" column and the next few columns of advanced menu item settings based on the category or section blog template, you can hide and show pagination. For example, if there are more materials in the displayed category than you specified in the settings described above, then Joomla will add numbering (pagination) at the bottom of the generated web page with a blog, if you do not disable this in the "Pagination" field.

Do not forget that articles intended to be displayed as part of a blog in Joomla must be prepared accordingly, namely, you will need to open it in a visual editor for editing, put the mouse cursor after several paragraphs of text and click on the button " More” located at the bottom of the editor window.

As a result, at the position of the cursor, a line will appear separating the text of the announcement. Only the announcement above this line will be displayed on the blog.

Output of a single material, list of categories or articles

Let's now go over the settings you can set when creating or editing a menu item based on the standard section template. To get started, go to the admin panel, select from the top line “All menus” - “Name of the one you need”. In the window that opens, click the "Create" button located at the top.

In the opened tree of items that you can create, click on the option "Materials" - "Category" - "Standard Section Template". As a result of these actions, a window with settings will open.

Remarkably, its left side will look exactly the same as in the one we considered earlier. The main difference lies in the points of the main parameters:

In the "Section" field, you will have to select a section, the list of categories of which will be displayed when you click on this link in the menu. By the way, the visitor, when viewing the list of categories, will be able to view the list of materials in each of them by simply clicking on its name with the mouse. The purpose of the fields "Description" and "Picture" is similar to that discussed above.

The purpose of the remaining fields will be easier for you to see in action than to read about it. All other settings are no different from those discussed above.

Let's try to create a menu item in Joomla based on the category list template and see how the settings differ:

In the settings below, you can set the number of articles displayed in the list, as well as allow or prohibit the display of list column headings, the date of creation (you can set your own format for it) and a filter that will allow you to sort materials by headings, authors, or hits (the number views of material by visitors).

Well, finally, I’ll say a few words about creating a menu item in Joomla based on a standard material template. Everything is quite simple here, in the main parameters there is only the ability to select the article you need from the material manager, which will open when you click on the menu item link.

It is possible that this bourgeois vision of successful blog promotion will come in handy for you (the author of the most popular SEO blog in the bourgeoisie speaks):

Good luck to you! See you soon on the blog pages site

CjBlog functionality

I will introduce that for sites related to blogs, it is most important to maintain a user-friendly interface, the developers have provided for many different little things. However, we will consider the most important functions, which are as follows:

If you need a tool that will allow you to create not only a functional, but also a really easy-to-use blog, then this option is perfect. Making a high-quality blog on joomla, where each user can maintain their own pages, and also collaborate with social networks without any problems - all this is possible if you choose the right extension.

Modern blog for everyone

In the top menu, select the item MATERIALS- CATEGORY MANAGER- CREATE A CATEGORY

In the form that opens, we are interested in 3 fields:

Title, where we write the name of the category, in our case it will be BLOG
Alias, if we leave this field empty, then the alias will be automatically generated by translating the name of the category into Latin
PUBLICATION DIMENSIONS- AUTHOR press USER SELECTION and in the pop-up window, select the desired user who will be the author of the material

Now we press SAVE AND CLOSE
The second way to create a category is when we are already in the MATERIAL MANAGER, the CATEGORY tab, you just need to click CREATE and continue according to the above scheme.
We will return here only at the optimization stage.

Publication of articles

The next step is the publication of materials, i.e. articles in BLOG, for this we also go: MATERIALS - MATERIAL MANAGER - CREATE MATERIAL.
Or if we are in MATERIAL MANAGER, then go through the tabs to MATERIALS and press CREATE.

In the form that appears, we need to fill in:

Heading where we write the title of the article
Alias, if we leave this field empty, then the alias will be automatically generated by translating the title of the article into Latin
Category, select the desired category from the drop-down list, in our case it is BLOG
If we need the article to be published on the main page, then we need the SELECTED drop-down list and select YES
Author, similarly as when creating a category
The article itself

Now we press SAVE AND CLOSE

The icon should change its color, which means that it is published on the main page and if you go to the tab SELECTED MATERIALS - MATERIALS MANAGER, then you will see it in the list, in order to remove it from the publication you need to do the same operation or in the article editing mode in the drop-down list SELECTED select NO

The last preparation before shamanism, you need to create a menu item, for this we use MAIN MENU

Let's go MENU- MAIN MENU- CREATE MENU ITEM, or, as you already guessed, if you are in the menu manager of the main menu, just press CREATE

In the list that appears, we need:

Type of item me in the window that appears, select BLOG CATEGORIES
Menu title, where we write the name of the menu item, so it will be displayed on the site, in our case we write BLOG
Alias, if we leave this field empty, then the alias will be automatically generated by translating the menu title names into Latin
Required parameters, select the desired category, in our case BLOG

Click SAVE.

We go to the site and see that not everything is so smooth, now our task is to comb everything

Blog setup

Now the customization magic itself begins, revealing the main secret that in Joomla! there is a certain hierarchy of settings, in our case ARTICLE - CATEGORY - MENU ITEM, i.e. article settings are used first if the rest are set to default, i.e. they are taken from the settings of the article, at first I said that we don’t touch anything else, in order to comb the entire blog, we are interested in the settings of the menu item, by changing from we will change the settings of all articles, this is very important in wordpress this is not, and I consider this the main drawback, there this is achieved only by programming and plug-ins, i.e. for a non-programmer, as a rule, this is not available.
One more nuance, all settings fields support tooltips, which clearly describe the purpose of this field, so let's go:

tab CATEGORY PARAMETERS

Category title - allows you to manage the publication of the category
Category description - allows you to manage the publication of the category description
Category image - allows you to manage the publication of a category image
Subcategory levels - not considered in this article
Empty categories - default, hide, show
Missing content message - default, hide, show
Description of subcategories - within the framework of this article we do not consider
Number of articles in a category - default, hide, show
Page subtitle - not considered in this article

Key tab for us LAYOUT DIMENSIONS BLOG

Full width - here you need to specify how many articles we want to publish to the full width of the template (content)
Introductions only - here you need to specify the number of materials that will be displayed in columns
Number of columns - here we indicate the number of columns for articles from the previous paragraph
Number of links - here we indicate the number of articles that will be published at the end of the page in the form of links
Order of placement in columns - here we specify how the material will be placed in columns: by default, from top to bottom, across
The next 2 points are not considered
Category sort order - here we choose how we will sort the category
The order of materials - here we choose how we will sort the material in the category
Date for sorting - if date is used in sorting, then choose which date to use for sorting: creation, modification or publication of the article
Pagination - default, hide, show, auto, i.e. choose how we will display pagination
Pagination results - default, hide, show

last tab for us MATERIAL DISPLAY OPTIONS, here a setting option is added - use material settings.

Title - allows how to display the title of the article
Header as link - whether to make the header as links
Introductory text - display introductory text on the article page in full view
Category - whether to show the category of the article
Category as a link - whether to make it as a link
Parent category title - not considered in this article
The title of the parent category, as a link - not considered within the framework of this article
Author - whether to publish the author of the article
Author as link - whether to make it as a link
Creation date - whether to publish it
Modified date - whether to publish it
Date of publication - whether to publish it
Navigation - whether to publish it
Rating - whether to publish it
Show "More" - whether to publish it
Show title along with More details - i.e. Next to the text, the title of the article is published in more detail.
Show icons - meaning printing and e-mail
Print icon - whether to publish it, i.e. users will be able to open a printable version of the page
Email icon - whether to publish it, i.e. users will be able to send a link to the article to another
Number of views - whether to publish it
Show links to unauthorized people

The material is based on the latest version of Joomla! line 2.5, by the way, there are a lot of positive changes in terms of SEO.
And a couple more tips, before you start implementing, spend half an hour on design, i.e. how you want your blog to look.
Don't be afraid to experiment, play with the settings!

PS if you notice a typo or inaccuracy, write it down in this thread, the material is voluminous, maybe you missed something

Blog Joomla 3 is one of the layouts of the Joomla system for displaying site articles. The look and feel of the Joomla 3 blog layout is familiar to you. This is a one-page display of article announcements with links to further reading. The layout specifies how article announcements will be placed on the page, how the title of the articles will be shown, how the link to detailed reading will be shown, in what form the navigation through the blog pages will be displayed.

The Joomla content structure organizes content into categories. One Joomla 3 blog can include articles of the same category (category blog) or categories of different articles (featured articles). The number of both types of blog Joomla 3 is not limited. You can create any number of blogs, both categories and featured content blogs.

Don't confuse blog featured content with home page. If selected materials can be combined into any number of blogs, then there can be only one main page on Joomla. Also, let me remind you that on the main page of the Joomla 3 site, you can display any of the Joomla layouts, including a list of materials, a blog of materials or a separate article.

To understand the layout settings of the Joomla 3 blog, for example, let's step by step create a category content blog and set up its display on the site.

By the way, you noticed how the ability to communicate with software products and the Internet has deeply penetrated into various spheres of life. This process continues to deepen. For example, only yesterday, available only in science fiction films, 3D scanners are quite commonly used in various areas of human life from medicine and construction to everyday life and entertainment. The market for modern scanners is no longer so expensive and is available in the widest range. see special material.

How to Create a Joomla 3 Blog

We start creating a Joomla 3 blog, like creating any Joomla layout, by creating a menu item of the desired type. A menu item is created in any site menu and, moreover, not necessarily published.

Creating a menu item

When creating a menu item for displaying a blog, you need to specify its type. For a blog, the menu type should be Category Blog or Featured Content. The Favorites blog may include articles from several categories.

For example, in the "Mainmenu" menu, we will create two blogs: the category blog "Category Blog" and the featured materials blog "Selected Materials".

Create category blog

You can create a category blog without articles in this section, but for a blog to appear on the site, this category must have at least one article published. It would be more accurate to say that the menu item for this blog will not appear on the site if there is no published article in the category of this blog.

Log in to the site's admin panel.
Enter the "Menu Manager";
Open the desired menu and click "Create" menu item. The menu item must have a title. The name, or rather the name alias, must be unique within the site,
Next, click "Select";

To create a blog, you need to select the type of menu item "Materials" → "Category Blog".

After selecting this type of menu item, the page will reload and the settings for the content blog will appear.

On the left side of the page, set the category for which the blog is being made.
On the right, select the menu that contains this menu item and the parent item in the menu. If there is no parent, then select "Root Menu Item".
There are 8 points in the category blog settings. The appearance (layout) of the blog is configured in the "Blog Layout Options". We look at the photo.

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1- full width: The amount of content that will always be the full width of the blog, regardless of the columns set.

2- Only introductions: Number of introductions to articles on one blog page. Does not include "Full Width" articles.

3- Number of columns: You can set 1-2-3-4 columns. Introductions to blog articles will be placed in these columns.

4- Number of links: Determines the number of links to other articles on the site.

Important that these blog content display settings will override the general content settings (tab Content Manager→Settings). If you do not fill in anything, then the general blog content settings will be applied to the blog.

However, if in the "Parameters" settings of this category, the Alternative template style, "List" is specified, then it will not work to display this category as a blog. For a blog, set the category template on the Category Manager→Category Editing→Settings, Default, or Blog tab.

How to create a featured content blog

A blog of selected materials is done in the same way, only the type of menu item is selected as "Selected materials", and when choosing categories, not one, but several categories are selected.

How to make a blog the main page of the site

Any blog can be made the main page of the site. To do this, when creating a menu item for this blog, set the "Home" button to the green "Yes" sector. Again, Joomla can only have one main page.

And one more note. If, when creating an article, you place it in the featured content, then it will fit in all the Featured Content blogs that include the category of this article.