---
title: "Hiding a menu item"
date: 2016-03-30
description: "Create a page without displaying it in the menu. This makes it easy to create a hidden menu item."
author: "Jeroen Moolenschot"
---

# Hiding a menu item

In some cases, it is desirable to link to another article. This is not always possible without affecting the modules on that page. This is because the modules are linked to a menu item and if the article being linked to is not a menu item, the modules will not be displayed properly. In this case, it was possible in Joomla to create a hidden menu , but from Joomla 3.5 onwards, this can be done a little easier.

 
## Creating a hidden menu item

 Since Joomla 3.5, you can show or hide any menu item.

 To do this, create a menu item as you always did, only then go to the**"Link type**" tab.

 ![menu item verbergen](https://www.joomill.com/images/kennisbank/menu-item_verbergen.png)

 In this tab you see the option**"Show in menu**", which is set to "YES" by default. If you set it to**"NO**", the menu item will no longer be visible in your menu.

 The menu item still exists and is also published, it has just become invisible. You can now use the article editor (such as JCE Editor) to create a link to this menu item and also link all modules you want to show with this article to this page. If you manually create a link to the page then you must use the Alias in the URL, so in this case it's a link to www.mijnwebsite.nl/verborgen.

 Remember that your menu item does show up in your sitemap and will also be indexed by Google. If you don't want this page to show up in search results, go to the "Metadata" tab and set the Robots option to "No index, No follow".


## Custom Fields

**Call2Action Tekst:** I would be happy to assist you in optimizing your menu structure and internal links to ensure that everything continues to function as intended.