**“Back to Articles”**

[akvariefisk]

Mr. Dev ;)

I had an idea while reading an article. I noticed that there’s no “Back to Articles” button above the article that takes you back to the full list of articles.

At the moment, when reading an article, you have to scroll back to the top navigation to return to the articles overview. I think it would be much more user-friendly if every article had a clear “Back to Articles” button at the top.

For example, if someone is reading Lorem Ipsum 1 and wants to continue with Lorem Ipsum 2, they should be able to easily return to the article overview and choose the next one.

Just a small UX improvement, but I think it would make navigating between articles much smoother.

Cheers,
Erik

[akvariefisk]

Adding: even for Projects same button as well.

[synaptikcms]

Hi Erik,

That's actually a theme feature, not a core CMS feature ;)

Each theme has its own design approach and navigation patterns. That's intentional, I want variety in the theme library rather than having them all look and behave the same.

It's already implemented in Mono (default) and Vanta. If you want to add it to any other theme, it's a one-liner in content-articles.php, right before the <h1>:

<a href="<?php echo cleanUrl('articles'); ?>" class="back-link"><?php echo __t('articles'); ?></a>

Then style .back-link however you want in the theme's style.css.

Hope that helps :)

[akvariefisk]

Thanks Florian, Seems to work perfectly. I will try that direct .

[synaptikcms]

Oh yeah I forgot, for the Projects backlink, pretty similar:

In content-projects.php, just add:

<a href="<?php echo cleanUrl('projects'); ?>" class="back-link"><?php echo __t('projects'); ?></a>

[synaptikcms]

Hi @akvariefisk,

Now the CMS allows renaming the content types, so to reflect the new content-type names in your backlinks, you can use this instead:

<a href="<?php echo cleanUrl('article'); ?>" class="back-link"><?php echo sl_type_label('article', true); ?></a>