Add custom parameters to “Article Manager: Add New Article” section (Joomla 2.5)

Question

I am writing a Joomla 2.5 template and the template articles are sorted by categories and type(video / text / images).

Each category can contain articles of any type.

What I need is to add a custom parameter in the add/edit article section where I can specify the article type.

Is this possible without editing the Joomla core since this is not an option?

Thanks

Answer 1

Use a content plugin to add the parameter. But really it sounds like you could just use one of the tagging extensions from the JED and have those three tags.