Remove IDs from URLs
By Richard Pearce on Monday, 28 November 2016
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I am migrating from a 2.5 site to 3.6 and I am trying to keep the same URL structure. The current site uses:

/forum/question/getting-started-with-custom-database-driven-website

However the new site uses:

/forum/post/16322-getting-started-with-custom-database-driven-website

There are two issues:

1) Posts on the current site include the word 'question', but the new site uses 'post'. This might have been because I used an SEF extension on the old site. Is there a way to change this in the code? If it is a language override, can you tell me which constant to look for as I have already looked at this, but couldn't determine the correct one.

2) Can we remove the item ids from posts and other views such as profiles and categories?
Hi there,

1) Posts on the current site include the word 'question', but the new site uses 'post'. This might have been because I used an SEF extension on the old site. Is there a way to change this in the code? If it is a language override, can you tell me which constant to look for as I have already looked at this, but couldn't determine the correct one.
It seems that it required heavy modifications if you change 'post' to 'question' as it cant be change using Language String . I am sorry for any inconvenience.


2) Can we remove the item ids from posts and other views such as profiles and categories?

You can remove them by got to this path backend>Componets>EasyDiscuss>Settings>Search Engine>General and disable "Allow unicode aliases" as shown http://screencast.com/t/MYFkOxoug
Abdul Warith Norudin
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Monday, 28 November 2016 19:25
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Hi... This is fine, but it doesn't remove ID's from the user Profile URL ...

It seems that the url contains the actual User ID taken from the native Joomla site. Is there any way to remove this?
Paul
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Friday, 27 October 2017 21:19
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Hey Paul,

Unfortunately there is no way to remove the id currently because the id is needed to decode the user's permalink
Mark
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Friday, 27 October 2017 21:22
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