Answers.Body: <p>Craft supports hierarchical, nested <a href="https://craftcms.com/docs/categories" rel="nofollow">categories</a> out of the box.</p>
  
  <p>It also supports hierarchical entries, assuming you used the <a href="https://craftcms.com/features/section-types" rel="nofollow">Structure</a> section type (and not a channel or single).</p>
  
  <p>Where Craft and Joomla differ is the <em>output on the front end</em> is completely up to you. There's no default "widget" or anything in Craft that is going to do exactly what you want.</p>
  
  <p>Craft's <a href="https://craftcms.com/docs/templating/nav" rel="nofollow">{% nav %}</a> tag would help you output categories and sub categories. <a href="https://craftcms.com/support/structure-nav" rel="nofollow">This example</a> uses a structure section but it's also applicable to nested categories as well.</p>
  
  <p>There's a few recipes in the <a href="http://craftcookbook.net" rel="nofollow">Craft Cookbook</a> that you might find helpful in this instance as well.</p>
  
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Body: <p>I have a large-ish site built with Joomla and K2, with articles stored in a hierarchy of categories..</p>
  
  <p>What is the proposed way to recreate the Category hierarchy functionality?</p>
  
  <p>What I am interested in is that when a user opens a parent category, he sees all items stored in this category, plus all items stored in children categories.
  If he opens a child category, he sees items stored only in this category.</p>
  
  <p>I have tried a demo installation, and experimented a bit with section types and categories, but what I need is some kind of parent-child relation in Categories or Sections. </p>
  
  <p>Could you please help me clarify how these things are distinct and what would be best practice to achieve what I want?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance for your time.</p>
  
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Comments.Text: RitterKnight gives a [great answer](http://craftcms.stackexchange.com/a/13828/45) for how you may choose to layout your categories in Craft. As for the migration itself, your options will be identical to those mentioned in [this thread...](http://craftcms.stackexchange.com/questions/13817/is-there-a-tool-to-migrate-joomla-k2-entries-into-craft)
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Title: Migrating Joomla K2 nested categories
ThreadText: # Migrating Joomla K2 nested categories
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2016-02-22)
  
  I have a large-ish site built with Joomla and K2, with articles stored in a hierarchy of categories..
  
  What is the proposed way to recreate the Category hierarchy functionality?
  
  What I am interested in is that when a user opens a parent category, he sees all items stored in this category, plus all items stored in children categories.
  If he opens a child category, he sees items stored only in this category.
  
  I have tried a demo installation, and experimented a bit with section types and categories, but what I need is some kind of parent-child relation in Categories or Sections.
  
  Could you please help me clarify how these things are distinct and what would be best practice to achieve what I want?
  
  Thanks in advance for your time.
  
  **Tags:** categories, craft-pro
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: username_2 gives a [great answer](http://craftcms.stackexchange.com/a/13828/45) for how you may choose to layout your categories in Craft. As for the migration itself, your options will be identical to those mentioned in [this thread...](http://craftcms.stackexchange.com/questions/13817/is-there-a-tool-to-migrate-joomla-k2-entries-into-craft)  
  
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  ## 1 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_2 on 2016-02-22. Score: 3 | Accepted answer
  
  Craft supports hierarchical, nested [categories](https://craftcms.com/docs/categories) out of the box.
  
  It also supports hierarchical entries, assuming you used the [Structure](https://craftcms.com/features/section-types) section type (and not a channel or single).
  
  Where Craft and Joomla differ is the *output on the front end* is completely up to you. There's no default "widget" or anything in Craft that is going to do exactly what you want.
  
  Craft's [{% nav %}](https://craftcms.com/docs/templating/nav) tag would help you output categories and sub categories. [This example](https://craftcms.com/support/structure-nav) uses a structure section but it's also applicable to nested categories as well.
  
  There's a few recipes in the [Craft Cookbook](http://craftcookbook.net) that you might find helpful in this instance as well.
  
  
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