How to find the HTML URL of a Joomla Article?

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user2724610 picture user2724610 · Aug 28, 2013 · Viewed 13k times · Source

I created a new article in Joomla in an existing website, but does not know how to find its url. A search online told me that I can find the article with the command http://domainname.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=?? using the specific id of the article. While this worked, what I want to do is to get the HTML URL of that article to use it as a landing page for ad campaigns. How do I find this URL?

Answer

Melbaz picture Melbaz · Aug 28, 2013

Simply, in Administrator Panel > Menus > Create a new menu > add a menu item and configure it to show a Single Article and type the Alias (e.g. offers)

In this way your single article will be reached by adding

Hope this helps

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