omit "../entry/.." in URL
By Bernard Arias on Friday, 30 May 2014
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Hello support heroes,

I transferred a customer from Wordpress to Joomla/Easyblog. I'm redirecting traffic from Wordpress.com to his new website. I've configured Easyblog to match the ../year/month/day/permalink URL format. The question: EasyBlog appends "/entry/" between the menu-name and the blog-entry address. How can I omit that value?

If I can't exclude that from the path I can't redirect a post being linked to the posts new location. Instead, Easyblog shows the default page, a list of articles, not the one being sought. Wordpress won't let me include "/entry/" in the redirection path. Example:

Wordpress refuses to redirect to this path:
http://2bridgecommunications.com/news/blog/entry/

It can redirect to this, but easyblog appends "entry," and it won't display the post being redirected:
http://2bridgecommunications.com/news/blog/

I need to preserve the blogger's indexed posts-history. What do I do? What do you recommend?

Thank you!

Bernard
Hello Bernard,

There's a simple way around this. You just need to configure EasyBlog to use "Simple" url format under Settings > Seo > General
Mark
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Friday, 30 May 2014 13:15
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Thanks Mark,

Not sure how to follow-up with your suggestion. My point is to preserve indexed URLs such as this example:
http://2bridgecommunications.com/2013/08/16/how-to-talk-to-reporters-why-dont-you-give-me-a-call

Switching to Simple changes the format, and I assume would also break the indexed link. Links from Google's index for example. Am I mistaken? Will switching to Simple display the article displayed in the permalink?

Maybe I should just stop typing and give it a try?
Bernard Arias
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Sunday, 01 June 2014 11:47
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Bernard Arias wrote:

Thanks Mark,

Not sure how to follow-up with your suggestion. My point is to preserve indexed URLs such as this example:
http://2bridgecommunications.com/2013/08/16/how-to-talk-to-reporters-why-dont-you-give-me-a-call

Switching to Simple changes the format, and I assume would also break the indexed link. Links from Google's index for example. Am I mistaken? Will switching to Simple display the article displayed in the permalink?

Maybe I should just stop typing and give it a try?


Wait, I can't do that to my client now, not if this has the potential of creating more page not found errors.

So, if you could answer the question above, that would be greatly appreciated. Will switching to Simple display the article with that permalink?

Thank you!
Bernard Arias
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Sunday, 01 June 2014 11:58
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Hello Bernard,

Ah, if you want to use the date format, you can't omit the /entry/ portion because we would never be able to determine if the current URL is for the entry view or not
Mark
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Sunday, 01 June 2014 13:54
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