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Can we get better control of our EasyBlog URLs now?

Sean Carney · ·
11:07 AM Thursday, 09 August 2018
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I am still wishing that I could get more category based urls or menu based urls for my EasyBlog postings.

I want to show you something really interesting which is that I have a module that displays EasyBlog items and gives the items what I consider great urls. But, if I click on the actual item in EasyBlog the urls are not as nice. (yes, beauty is in the eye of the beholder). And, I am hoping maybe with the new routing engine in Joomla that I might be able to get improved EasyBlog URLs even though it would probably break links all over my site that I would need to fix.

Here is a sample page I want you to see:

https://www.drcarney.com/shop/amazon-storefront/books/nutrition-diet

You will notice in the right hand column a link from a ZenTools2 module that just lists and links to EasyBlog items.

The link that says "The Engine 2 Seven-Day Rescue Diet" goes to the following URL:

https://www.drcarney.com/shop/amazon-storefront/books/nutrition-diet/entry/the-engine-2-seven-day-rescue-diet

I like that url because it is very description of the location on our site.

Interestingly enough, if you go back to the parent page at https://www.drcarney.com/shop/amazon-storefront/books/nutrition-diet and then click on the EasyBlog items (using the Grid or the frontpage view) you will be taken to a completely different url:

https://www.drcarney.com/blog/entry/the-engine-2-seven-day-rescue-diet

So, here are the two different urls side by side that are coming from the exact same page:

https://www.drcarney.com/shop/amazon-storefront/books/nutrition-diet/entry/the-engine-2-seven-day-rescue-diet

https://www.drcarney.com/blog/entry/the-engine-2-seven-day-rescue-diet

That seems like something that Google will not think is useful and will probably frown upon.

Also, I placed that particular item into two categories in EasyBlog but was expecting both links to only go to one url. I thought it always went just to the primary category. but, in this case you can get to the very same EasyBlog item from a different location and actually get a third and a fourth url. To see this go to the following page:

https://www.drcarney.com/shop/amazon-storefront/books/cookbooks

There you will see two urls generated, one from the right hand sidebar as follows:

https://www.drcarney.com/shop/amazon-storefront/books/cookbooks/entry/the-engine-2-seven-day-rescue-diet

and the other from the EasyBlog category page as follows:

https://www.drcarney.com/blog/entry/the-engine-2-seven-day-rescue-diet

Do you have any ideas of settings that I may be missing now which would allow me to reduce the number of URLs?

So, in recap, four urls to the same item:

https://www.drcarney.com/shop/amazon-storefront/books/nutrition-diet/entry/the-engine-2-seven-day-rescue-diet

https://www.drcarney.com/blog/entry/the-engine-2-seven-day-rescue-diet

https://www.drcarney.com/shop/amazon-storefront/books/cookbooks/entry/the-engine-2-seven-day-rescue-diet

https://www.drcarney.com/blog/entry/the-engine-2-seven-day-rescue-diet

Thanks for giving this some thought.

Sean Carney
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