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[calavaro Friend calavaroJoin date: August 2013Posts: 125Downloads:7Uploads:34 Thanks: 28 Thanked: 24 times in 1 posts]

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Hi,

How do you actually remove date and time from the URL when you have the Menu Item Type set as “external URL” that points to “#” (you are of course doing this to make the top menu look nice and this is the only way to do it)?
You have followed the below solution, but it didn’t work for you…


In Global Configuration, you enable in SEO Settings

1.Search Engine Friendly URLs: YES
2.Use Apache mod_rewrite: YES
3.Add suffix to URLs : Yes or No
4. Unicode Aliases: set YES

But Apaches users only! Rename htaccess.txt to .htaccess before activating

Even after applying the above solution it still shows http://domainname.com/2013-10-10-12-05-05/actual-link

The solution is the following.
1. In administrator, go to menu anagement and to the top menu of the link giving you the date and time problem.
2. Change the “Menu Item Type” to “Text Separator”.
3. Edit the date and time that shows up in the “Alias” field to whatever you like.
4. Save.
5. Change the “Menu Item Type” back to “External URL” and add the link “#”.
6. Save and close and you are done. No more date and time issues!

I’m sharing this because it was not obvious to me right away, and it’s a good reference for me at least.

All the best,

Calavaro

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