Sometimes you want to create a link to a menu item, but you do not want a menu item.

You can link directely with the ugly internal joomla link but no-one wants that. To get around this, there is a trick.

• create a new menu and call it 'Hidden Menu Links'
• create a link in this menu to the item you want
• in your article or Custom HTML, add a JTree link and select the 'Hidden Menu Links', select the link yoou want, and there you go.

NB:

• If the menu item's alias is contact-us you could just use /contact-us as a normal link but this will not have all the benefits of a joomla JLink
• in joomla 3.0x the 'Hidden Menu Links' module is not required, everything relates to the 'Hidden Link Menu' and it's permissions
• Joomla Article Link With No Visible Menu Item - YouTube