{"id":1761,"date":"2012-09-07T14:54:57","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T14:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/2012\/09\/07\/link-category\/"},"modified":"2021-11-19T02:00:16","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T07:00:16","slug":"link-category","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/joomla\/joomla-3\/link-category\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Disable Linked Categories in Joomla 3.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The default behavior within <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/joomla\/joomla-3\/show-parent-category\/\" data-wplink-edit=\"true\">Joomla 3.0\u2019s article options<\/a> is to show the category an article belongs to, and to have that category as a link. When you click the category link, it will bring you to a page showing other articles that belong to that category.<\/p>\n<p>If you don\u2019t want the category name to be a link back to the category, Joomla 3.0 gives you the option to disable this feature. The setting is referred to as <em>Link Category<\/em>, and is given the following description:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Link Category<\/strong><br>\n<em>If set to Yes, and if Show Category is set to \u2018Show\u2019, the Category Title will link to a layout showing articles in that Category.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>To turn off linked 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 administrative dashboard<\/a><\/li>\n<li>In the menu at the top of the page, click <strong>Content<\/strong> and then click <strong>Article Manager<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>You will then see a list of articles on the page. Click the article that you want to adjust this <em>linked category<\/em> setting for.<\/li>\n<li>In the list of tabs at the top of the page, click the tab labeled <strong>Article Options<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Find the setting labeled <strong>Link Category<\/strong>. Click either <em>Use Global<\/em>, <em>No<\/em>, or <em>Yes<\/em>. Then, click <strong>Save<\/strong> in the top left of the page.<a href=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/edu_joomla-3_writing-new-articles_article-options_linked-category.gif\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1017\" height=\"831\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/edu_joomla-3_writing-new-articles_article-options_linked-category.gif\" class=\"optimized-lcp-image\" alt=\"linked-category\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\"><\/a>\n<div style=\"clear: both;\"><\/div>\n<p>You can see in the screenshot to the right how this setting affects our pages. As you can see, <em>Test Article 2<\/em> has the option to have a linked category, while <em>Test Article 1<\/em> does not have the setting for a linked category.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both;\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"alert\"><strong>Please note!<\/strong><br>\nIn our testing, we noticed that this setting only affects category pages (pages that list articles belonging to a specific category \u2013 as in the screenshot above). When you are viewing a specific article, the category will always be a link, regardless of the <em>link category<\/em> setting.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The default behavior within Joomla 3.0\u2019s article options is to show the category an article belongs to, and to have that category as a link. When you click the category link, it will bring you to a page showing other articles that belong to that category. If you don\u2019t want the category name to be<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/joomla\/joomla-3\/link-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-1761","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 Disable Linked Categories in Joomla 3.1 | InMotion Hosting<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"When you view an article in Joomla 3.0, the default behavior is to link to the category the article belongs to. 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