Sometimes you need additional articles in your Joomla website that don’t have direct access through your menus. In example you want to provide an ‘additional resources’ link within an article, or perhaps you just want an article for internal use that does not have a public link. Here are the simple steps to make this article linkable from within another article or module in your site, or from another website.
First create a new menu and call it “hidden” or something useful for yourself to remember. Do not create a corresponding module for this menu, alternatively you can create a module but mark it as ‘registered’ or ’special’ so it will not be seen by the public.
Using this new menu you can create links to articles, or any other available menu item choice. When you create the menu item there is a field called “Link” that is automatically populated when you create the item. This is the relative URL of the page (add http://yourdomain.com/ in front of it for a complete URL to use on another site). If you are using Joomla SEO settings, you can use the alias field to create user friendly links to this menu item.
Note: Though this menu is not published, you can still set your modules to show or not to show on the pages of this menu, or you could even create a different template for these pages.
