diff --git a/frontend/packages/console-demo-plugin/src/models.ts b/frontend/packages/console-demo-plugin/src/models.ts
index 7aff834a701..1b2bf7d94a5 100644
--- a/frontend/packages/console-demo-plugin/src/models.ts
+++ b/frontend/packages/console-demo-plugin/src/models.ts
@@ -13,3 +13,20 @@ export const FooBarModel: K8sKind = {
   id: 'foobar',
   crd: true,
 };
+
+export const MyTemplatesModel: K8sKind = {
+  label: 'My Specialized Template',
+  labelPlural: 'My Specialized Templates',
+  apiVersion: 'v1',
+  path: 'templates',
+  apiGroup: 'template.openshift.io',
+  plural: 'mytemplates',
+  namespaced: true,
+  abbr: 'MT',
+  kind: 'Template',
+  id: 'mytemplate',
+  specialized: true,
+  selector: {
+    matchLabels: { my: 'yes' },
+  },
+};
diff --git a/frontend/public/components/utils/resource-link.jsx b/frontend/public/components/utils/resource-link.jsx
index 61604a35081..fe0bfad4642 100644
--- a/frontend/public/components/utils/resource-link.jsx
+++ b/frontend/public/components/utils/resource-link.jsx
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ import { FLAGS } from '../../const';
 const unknownKinds = new Set();
 
 export const resourcePathFromModel = (model, name, namespace) => {
-  const {path, namespaced, crd} = model;
+  const {plural, namespaced, crd} = model;
 
   let url = '/k8s/';
 
@@ -26,8 +26,8 @@ export const resourcePathFromModel = (model, name, namespace) => {
 
   if (crd) {
     url += referenceForModel(model);
-  } else if (path) {
-    url += path;
+  } else if (plural) {
+    url += plural;
   }
 
   if (name) {
diff --git a/frontend/public/module/k8s/index.ts b/frontend/public/module/k8s/index.ts
index 6a3f23be59e..bda266006aa 100644
--- a/frontend/public/module/k8s/index.ts
+++ b/frontend/public/module/k8s/index.ts
@@ -564,6 +564,7 @@ export type K8sKind = {
 
   id?: string;
   crd?: boolean;
+  specialized?: boolean;
   apiVersion: string;
   apiGroup?: string;
   namespaced?: boolean;
diff --git a/frontend/public/module/k8s/k8s-models.ts b/frontend/public/module/k8s/k8s-models.ts
index 3bc3e3ea817..b417aabe371 100644
--- a/frontend/public/module/k8s/k8s-models.ts
+++ b/frontend/public/module/k8s/k8s-models.ts
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ k8sModels = k8sModels.withMutations(map => {
   const baseModelCount = map.size;
   const pluginModels = _.flatMap(plugins.registry.getModelDefinitions().map(md => md.properties.models));
 
-  const pluginModelsToAdd = pluginModels.filter(model => !hasModel(model));
+  const pluginModelsToAdd = pluginModels.filter(model => (model.specialized || !hasModel(model)));
   map.merge(modelsToMap(pluginModelsToAdd));
 
   _.difference(pluginModels, pluginModelsToAdd).forEach(model => {