Top Level Category not Showing in Url

krumz

So I have a menu type List All Categories selected for a top level category of House Cleaning Tips. Under this TLC I have sub-categories of Bathrooms, Bedrooms, Floors, etc.

When you view the menu in the frontend and click the House Cleaning Tips main menu item the url looks like this:
sitename/top level category

The problem is when you click a sub-category listed on the page, I loose the top level category from the url and it looks like this:
sitename/sub-category

What I need to see is:
sitename/top level category/sub-category

This is a website I am rebuilding and has been in existence for years and I need to have the top level category in the url as we don't want to do hundreds of redirects.

I know in the menu structure if I do it in this way:
Menu item type list all categories
Menu item type category list
Menu item type category list
and so on, or use the mega menu - the top level category will show.

What I am trying to avoid on this websites menu structure is having a drop down menu show.

Thank you.

Ninja

krumz
Hi
In Joomla if you want to show a menu on the top level and other menu item after this.
Please make sure your subcategory items are the child menu item of top level category.
Create a top level category A
Now add another menu for category B and select A menu as parent item.
This way you will see the list of menu in URL.
If you want to hide the Menu name, you can hide it from Joomla menu item > link type options.

Regards

krumz

Ninja

Thank you. I am aware that I can do it this way but I was hoping to not have to. Guess I will. Thanks again.

Ninja

krumz
Hi
Joomla use this way to show the URL. If you want to override the url you can use 3rd party extension like sh404 that help you to create custom URL for your site.

Regards