{"id":1760,"date":"2012-09-07T13:50:19","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T13:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/2012\/09\/07\/hide-category\/"},"modified":"2021-11-19T02:00:16","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T07:00:16","slug":"hide-category","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/joomla\/joomla-3\/hide-category\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Hide Article Categories in Joomla 3.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When viewing articles in Joomla 3.0, the default behavior is to show the category the article belongs to. This is useful for your visitors. If they are interested in a particular article, they can click the category link to view other articles within the category.<\/p>\n<p>Joomla 3.0 has an option you can use to toggle whether or not the category is shown to users. This setting is referred to as <em>Show Category<\/em>, and the following description is given:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Show Category<\/strong><br><em>If set to Show, the title of the article\u2019s category will show.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hiding Article Categories in Joomla 3.0:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol class=\"article_list\">\n<li><a href=\"\/support\/edu\/joomla\/joomla-3\/how-to-log-in-to-administrative-dashboard\/\">Log into your Joomla 3.0 admin dashboard<\/a><\/li>\n<li>In the top menu, click <strong>Content<\/strong> and then click <strong>Article Manager<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>You will then see a list of articles on the screen. Click the title of the article that you want to adjust the category setting for.<\/li>\n<li>In the list of tabs above the article, click the <strong>Article Options<\/strong> tab<\/li>\n<li>Next to the setting labeled <strong>Show Category<\/strong>, click either <em>Use Global<\/em>, <em>No<\/em>, or <em>Yes<\/em>. Then, click <strong>Save<\/strong> in the top left menu.\n<p>You can see in the screenshots below how this setting will affect your article:<\/p>\n<table class=\"article_table\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Show Category: Hide<\/th>\n<th>Show Category: Show<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/edu_joomla-3_writing-new-articles_article-options_show-category-no.gif\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"728\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/edu_joomla-3_writing-new-articles_article-options_show-category-no.gif\" class=\"optimized-lcp-image\" alt=\"show-category-no\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\"><\/a>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/edu_joomla-3_writing-new-articles_article-options_show-category-yes.gif\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"show-category-yes\" class=\"std_ss\" height=\"508\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/edu_joomla-3_writing-new-articles_article-options_show-category-yes.gif\" style=\"max-width: 240px;\" width=\"725\"><\/a>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When viewing articles in Joomla 3.0, the default behavior is to show the category the article belongs to. This is useful for your visitors. If they are interested in a particular article, they can click the category link to view other articles within the category. Joomla 3.0 has an option you can use to toggle<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/joomla\/joomla-3\/hide-category\/\"> Read More ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4403,94],"tags":[4404],"class_list":["post-1760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joomla","category-joomla-3","tag-joomla-v3"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How to Hide Article Categories in Joomla 3.1 | InMotion Hosting<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Joomla 3.0 gives you the option of whether or not to display the category an article belongs to. 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