Joomla blog two categorys side by side

Question

i am working on a joomla site and want to achieve sth but dont know how to do it.

What I want: If I click on a link in the menu, I want to get a blog-page listing two categorys in two columns. I know its possible to get a blogside listing the articles of 1 category in 2 colums, but I dont know how to to it for multiple categories. I will try to show what I mean cause english is not my main language..:

CATEGORY 1 ARTICLE 1   |   CATEGORY 2 ARTICLE 1
CATEGORY 1 ARTICLE 2   |   CATEGORY 2 ARTICLE 2
CATEGORY 1 ARTICLE 3   |   CATEGORY 2 ARTICLE 3
CATEGORY 1 ARTICLE 4   |   CATEGORY 2 ARTICLE 4
...

is there a simple way to do this? maybe with an override template or extension? I am using joomla 3.3 with my own template

thanks in advance

You can only do that using modules. You have to create 2 positions (if doesn't exist) in your template and set 2 modules each one to get articles from one category. Your menu item has to be set up like: stackoverflow.com/a/25605645/3834042 — emmanuel
Didnt think about modules, will have a look at it, thank you. — jayrrr

Tenergy05 Tenergy05 · Accepted Answer · 2014-09-09T22:41:49

Try creating a new Module of type "Articles Category" and assigning it to the menu item of your choice.

Joomla blog two categorys side by side

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