Joomla! Documentation™

Options

The Options determine how the articles will show in the list menu item.

Layout

• Choose a Layout. Select from the dropdown list.
• Title. Show the Article's Title.
• Linked Titles. Show the title as a link to the article.
• Intro Text.
  • Show: The Intro Text of the article will show when you drill down to the article.
  • Hide: Only the part of the article after the Read More break will show.

Category

• Category. Show the Article's Category Title.
• Link Category. Show the title as a link to that Category.
  Note: You can set this to be either a blog or list layout with the Choose a Layout option in the Category Tab.
• Parent Category. Show the Article's Parent Category Title.
• Link Parent Category. Show the title as a link to that Category.
  Note: You can set this to be either a blog or list layout with the Choose a Layout option in the Category Tab.

Associations

• Associations. Show the associated flags or Language Code. Multilingual only.

Author

• Author. Show the author of the Article.
• Link to Author's Contact Page. Show it as a link to a Contact layout for that author.
  Note: The author must be set up as a Contact. Also, a link will not show if there is an Author Alias value for the article.

Date

• Create Date. Show the Article's create date.
• Modify Date. Show the Article's modify date.
• Publish Date. Show the Article's start publishing date.

Options

• Navigation. Show a navigation link 'Prev' or 'Next' when you drill down to the article.
• "Read More" Link. Show the Read More link to link from the part of the article before the Read More break to the rest of the Article.
• Read More with Title.
  • Show: The article title is part of the Read More link. The link will be in the format "Read More: [article title]".
  • Hide: The link will be "Read more".
• Hits. Show the number of times the article has been displayed by a user.
• Unauthorised Links.
  • Yes: The Intro Text for restricted articles will show. Clicking on the Read more link will require users to log in to view the full article content.
  • No: Articles that the user is not authorised to view (based on the viewing access level for the article) will not show.