How can I create a page that links to all articles with fake long titles?

Question

I would like to have a page that lists all articles in a category by subcategory, and to have these articles listed by titles longer than Joomla's built-in maximum length.

In asking this question I found out that changing Joomla's built in maximum length is a very bad idea, but that there are ways to "fake" long article titles in links to lists of articles.

How can I create a page that lists articles in a category by subcategory with "fake" titles that are longer than Joomla's built-in article length limit?

Answer 1

You can achieve this with the built in functionality of Joomla.

• Create a Category Blog Menu Item and deactivate title under the options tab.
• While creating an article, write first your fake title and maybe a short intro text.
• Then use the "read more" button on the bottom of the editor to insert the read more button (displayed as line in the editor).
• Then you can write your main content of the article.

https://docs.joomla.org/Splitting_an_Article_into_an_introduction_with_a_link_to_read_more

Answer 2

You can do a template override for the category view and instead of displaying a title in HREF use the intro part of each article that is displayed above the fold.