Joomla 5 Link Featured To The Article

We were ready to ditch Joomla! when we needed to show “Featured” articles on the home page with intro text and intro image, but then link to the full article. What the default mode is show the article in the same spot as the blurb. This did not work for our layout. This is a “no-brainer” in WordPress, so we were disappointed with Joomla! for not having be easy.

We got is working and it was easy. It did take some “Joomla! Smarts” to figure it out, but as often with Joomla you will need a “hidden” menu. It is hard to link to anything in Joomla if there isn’t a menu item. We do like this because you need content for the page, you need the page, and then you can link to it. Which really does make sense, because there is no point of putting a link to something when there really isn’t content.

Here is what we did:

• Created two “categories” for the articles called simply “Posts” and “Pages“.
• The home page link was set to “Featured Articles”.
• Created a “hidden” menu which is a menu that just resides in the backend just to be able to create the right URL.
• Made a new menu item and set it to “Category Blog” and the category was “Posts“.

That was it, and the site was working the way we wanted it to.

Let us know if this helped you…