By Steve gardner on Sunday, 04 June 2017
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Truing to understand why my auto published article is now showing up as :
http://www.unpresidential.us/component/easyblog/come-back-tuesday?Itemid=

vs
http://www.unpresidential.us/component/easyblog/come-back-tuesday

(ie why the ?itemid= at the end of the URL "
Hey there,

I am really sorry for the delay of this reply as it is a weekend for us here.

I suspect you didn't create "Easyblog - frontpage" menu item on your site, that is why Joomla do not know which menu item id it referring.

To fix this, if you do not want to show the Easyblog menu item on your site menu bar, you can create a hidden menu item for it.

1. Go to backend > Menus > manage > add new menu > type 'hidden menu' > save
2. Open this 'hidden menu' > add new menu > select "Easyblog - frontpage layout" menu item > save
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Sunday, 04 June 2017 10:36
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Thanks.. that got rid of the null itemid... as in http://www.unpresidential.us/component/easyblog/come-back-wednesday?Itemid=242

However i guess my really question is why is the url even have the ?itemid=242 and not just simply:
http://www.unpresidential.us/component/easyblog/come-back-wednesday


ie when you go back to the original autoposts: https://www.facebook.com/pg/unpresidential if you go back to the first few.. none of them had the ?itemid=242 on them....

Humm.. additional info.. when I move the hiden menu item to published... then the ?itemid242 goes away..
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Monday, 05 June 2017 11:18
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perhaps you can provide us with your Joomla backend and FTP access at http://stackideas.com/dashboard/site so I can help you check it now.
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Monday, 05 June 2017 11:34
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Oh, i think its resolved (in that when i auto post the ?ItemID242 is no longer in the image link...)
so hopefully having an active item on the hidden menu does not hurt me later..

i thank you for yout help.. we can close this. unless you know a way to not have the item published and still not have the ?itemIS 242 posted on the autopost links
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Monday, 05 June 2017 11:59
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Hi there,

You are most welcome. Glad to hear that your issue has been resolved now.

As a gentle reminder, kindly start a new thread if you have any other issue in the future so it will be easier for us to manage your inquiry. I will lock and mark this thread as resolved.
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Monday, 05 June 2017 12:28
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Hi there,

Those hidden menu you created will not harm your site anything, and it will help you all the post link will refer on this hidden menu item and it won't generate those permalink with item id when you autopost to your social media.
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Monday, 05 June 2017 13:32
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