Simplifying URL Structure
I'm trying to figure out how to restructure how URL's are built that are related to the EasyBlog pages. For example:
Default blog page:
EXISTING: http://www.nfpt.com/blog/latest">http://www.nfpt.com/blog/latest
WANT: http://www.nfpt.com/blog
Blogger page:
EXISTING: http://www.nfpt.com/bill-bean/blogger/listings/bill-bean
WANT: http://www.nfpt.com/blog/bill-bean or maybe http://www.nfpt.com/blog/authors/bill-bean
Single post page:
EXISTING: http://www.nfpt.com/bill-bean/5-ways-to-say-hello-world
WANT: http://www.nfpt.com/blog/5-ways-to-say-hello-world
I'm confused by the settings available within the configuration and SEO for titles and how that interacts with the Joomla menu items I created that are the actual author pages.
Default blog page:
EXISTING: http://www.nfpt.com/blog/latest">http://www.nfpt.com/blog/latest
WANT: http://www.nfpt.com/blog
Blogger page:
EXISTING: http://www.nfpt.com/bill-bean/blogger/listings/bill-bean
WANT: http://www.nfpt.com/blog/bill-bean or maybe http://www.nfpt.com/blog/authors/bill-bean
Single post page:
EXISTING: http://www.nfpt.com/bill-bean/5-ways-to-say-hello-world
WANT: http://www.nfpt.com/blog/5-ways-to-say-hello-world
I'm confused by the settings available within the configuration and SEO for titles and how that interacts with the Joomla menu items I created that are the actual author pages.
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Hello Aaron,
I am sorry for the late reply.
Regarding your issue, with Joomla default sef feature, I am afraid you can't achieve what you are looking for the sef url structure
Are you using any 3rd party sef component such as sh404sef? If you are using sh404sef, then maybe I can help you to customize the sef link via the file sef_ext.php from EasyBlog compoment folder
Hope this help and have a nice day
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We are using sh404sef. -
Hello Aaron,
I am sorry for the late reply.
Ah if you are using sh404sef, then it might be able to achieve what you want for the sef links. Can you create a ticket with us at helpdesk.stackideas.com and send us your Joomla backend superadmin access and your ftp account and i will help you to customize the sef link from the ext_sef.php file
By the way, during the testing, i might need to purge your sh404sef links, is that okay with you?
Please advise.
Hope this help and have a nice day
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I submitted a ticket (#11462). Please do NOT purge ALL links to sh404 that have been configured. Only those related to the pages of the blog. With regards to simplifying the author pages URLS's. Would it be easier to just create aliases for those manually and redirect the variations as appropriate using sh404?
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I'll take a look at the .php page and see if I can determine the method to adjust the URL structure. Client not comfortable with sharing FTP information for the website.
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Looks like I've been able to work through most of my custom blog URL's with the basic functionality included with sh404sef instead of having to manually hack the code itself. You can close the other support ticket that was submitted.
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Well, I take that back. Still getting weird URL's. For some posts I'm getting a URL like www.nfpt.com/blog/blog-title-here
However, my first test post is coming across as www.nfpt.com/nfpt-team/blog-post-title
The "NFPT Team" is the name of a blog author I've setup as being used for a generic post not attributed to a specific author. I've also got an author setup that is "Guest Blogger" as well.
I don't want the author name used in a post URL ever. It should be blog name "/blog/" and then post title. I'm guessing this is what I need to modify directly in the sef.php files now? -
Hello Aaron,
I am really sorry for the delay of this reply. I am not entirely sure if this issue is related to the other post at http://stackideas.com/support/discussions/when-saving-changes-to-social-integrations.html . But I've replied you there, let me know if I missed out anything here.If you need help, do visit our documentations below,
http://stackideas.com/support.html
http://stackideas.com/docs/easyblog.html
http://stackideas.com/docs/easydiscuss.html
