How to set the title and intro text as hyperlinks to the full article in blog layout?

Question

When displaying articles in blog layout on my website, I want the respective article link on the title and the whole intro text.

I looked at the code in components/com_content/views/category/tmpl/blog_item.php, but I was not able to find a solution.

Does anyone know how to do that?

Answer 1

Important Note after KlintWeb comment:

You certainly want to do any such changes inside a template override. Search in this site and also in the web about Joomla Template Overrides to find out how you can create them.

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How to wrap the intro-text inside a link to the article:

In components/com_content/views/category/tmpl/blog_item.php there is a piece of code:

<?php echo $this->item->introtext; ?>

This one echoes the introtext of the article.

A a few lines below, there is:

<?php if ($params->get('show_readmore') && $this->item->readmore) :
    if ($params->get('access-view')) :
        $link = JRoute::_(ContentHelperRoute::getArticleRoute($this->item->slug, $this->item->catid, $this->item->language));
    else :
        $menu = JFactory::getApplication()->getMenu();
        $active = $menu->getActive();
        $itemId = $active->id;
        $link = new JUri(JRoute::_('index.php?option=com_users&view=login&Itemid=' . $itemId, false));
        $link->setVar('return', base64_encode(ContentHelperRoute::getArticleRoute($this->item->slug, $this->item->catid, $this->item->language)));
    endif; ?>

This one generates the link for the read-more button (if the button is enabled). It also takes into consideration if the content is restricted.

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So, now you have all the needed elements to do what you want to do.

Just wrap your intro-text with an <a> element and use the article link for the href attribute.

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*If you don't have restricted content, then just use:

$link = JRoute::_(ContentHelperRoute::getArticleRoute($this->item->slug, $this->item->catid, $this->item->language));

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