Article with custom URL without the adding to menu

[yitzklein]

I have articles which I don't want it to be accessed from the menus on my website only with direct links, and also I should be able to have custom URLs for search engines and myself, so far I can only do it if I add it to any of my menus, or use the article standard URL which is not friendly.

This question might've been asked already several times if yes please redirect me.

Thanks

[dhuelsmann]

Review this tutorial http://www.scribd.com/doc/2300167/Jooml ... t-SEF-URLs

[yitzklein]

I actually am aware of the settings for friendly URLs.

The problem is I could only get it when I add it to a menu, is there any way to do it even without attaching it to a menu, not every webpage I want to be accessed from the menus.

[pdawg51]

Also facing this problem.

Let me know if you found the solution, or if anyone knows of one.

Thanks!

[Noob123]

Here is one way to do it without a menu item for each article:

1. Turn off SEF in global settings. (You can restore it later).
2. In Admin panel, temporarily create ONE menu item of type CATEGORY LIST LAYOUT
3. Make sure the Category selected is that of your article(s)
4. Go to front end and select this temporary menu item. Then click on each of your listed articles and COPY the URL shown for each.
5. Go back to the admin panel and discard your temporary menu item.

The URLs are not pretty, but they will access your articles. You can edit the &Itemid=x part of the URL to match a menu item of your choice if you like.

Hope that helps.
-Frank

[AltElectro]

Create a "hidden" menu (not part of the default main menu). Add your articles to this hidden menu. It will generate SEF URLs based on the structure of the hidden menu though as long as you don't set the menu to be displayed anywhere, users won't be able to access it directly.