"Categories" Missing From URL On Sub-categories
By Linda Ford on Wednesday, 06 January 2016
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My site is setup with a single parent Category and multiple sub-categories. All of my blog posts are assigned to these sub-categories.

The problem is that all links on the site for these sub-categories, such as the Blog Categories sidebar, are missing the "categories/" string from their URL. For example, if I have a blog assigned to "lync" category, the URL for that category shows "/blog/lync", but I receive a 404 error when following the link. If I go to "/blog/categories/lync", then it works just fine.

As a temporary fix, I've modified the code for the plugin to add in "/categories/", but I'm hoping this is a setting issue.

I cannot grant access to the Joomla or FTP backend.
Hey Linda,

I believe the reason that the url is wrong is because of the way your menu structure is. Your "blog" menu item is linking to a single category and you don't have a menu item which links to the front page layout of EasyBlog.

Here is what you can try:

1. Create a new "Blog" menu (frontpage layout) in your hidden menu.
2. Create a new "Single Category" menu (which is what it is currently now).
3. On your current "Blog" menu, change the type to be a menu alias to link to item #2.
Mark
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Wednesday, 06 January 2016 01:50
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Hey Linda,

To be honest with you, I am not entirely sure what is going on as we have never had such issues before and I have no idea how to reproduce this issue on our end. Without any access to the site, we can't really tell you what went wrong unfortunately
Mark
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Wednesday, 06 January 2016 00:25
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I added in the Joomla login for the site. I've temporarily undone the changes I made to give you and opportunity to see the problem in action.
Linda Ford
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Wednesday, 06 January 2016 00:33
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That took a little creativity, but I was able to use those steps. Thanks!

One problem created by them, if you go to any of the blog pages (http://www.interlink.com/blog) and check the Blog Categories box on the right, the first link for Interlink Cloud wants to map to the Hidden menu item I had to create in step 2, and since I can't use "blog" more than once, I had to use "sub", so the URL is http://www.interlink.com/sub.

Any thoughts?
Linda Ford
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Wednesday, 06 January 2016 05:47
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Hey Linda,

It is actually okay if the first category "Interlink Cloud" links to "/blog" because this is where you really want it to be? Because now you have 2 urls pointing to the same category:

1. http://www.interlink.com/blog
2. http://www.interlink.com/sub

The above will yield issues with Google because Google would think that you are trying to create fake links.
Mark
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Wednesday, 06 January 2016 11:44
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I do NOT want this, but your steps required me to create two Hidden menu items and point the Main menu item to the Hidden menu item for /blog as an alias.

How can I get rid of the /sub one?
Linda Ford
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Wednesday, 06 January 2016 15:14
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Hi Linda,

I am really sorry for the delay of this reply.

I am not really understand what you are trying to achieve here. Do you mean that you want the url of the category "Interlink Cloud" to be /blog/categories/interlink-cloud instead of /blog? By the way you can temporarily disable the "sub" menu item in order to remove the /sub url.

Please advise.
Ezrul Fazwan
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Thursday, 07 January 2016 13:46
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