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#193148

Hello,

All of my aliases seem to be working fine except this single page:
http://utd.zmdesignsbranding.com/index.php/78-content/3-blogspot

The three other featured articles/tiles correctly display the simple aliases I’ve entered…
http://utd.zmdesignsbranding.com/index.php/news
http://utd.zmdesignsbranding.com/index.php/services
http://utd.zmdesignsbranding.com/index.php/photos-and-videos

All four articles are in the same Section called CONTENT

I deleted the blogspot article once and tried to recreate it due to the strange alias. When I did so, I also got an error telling me that another article in this category already has the same alias… even though it didn’t exist because I deleted it. There is a menu item that points to a category blog with the same alias though. Regardless, no matter what I name the alias or article title, all new articles created display the same preceding alias info of “78-content” no matter what category they’re in… even uncategorized. FYI, though the article referenced up top is named “Blogspot,” it’s a basic article just like the other three.

Thanks

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#516251

Hi,

I would like to confirm that the template is displaying the correct url alias format of menu item and articles. Let me explain more clearly why the url alias of blogspot is strange and different from others.

You can see the blogspot belongs to blogspot category while the category and this article itself are not assigned to any menu items at this time. When viewing, the template will display the url alias consisting of category id and category alias (i.e content) i.e:

– 78 is the itemID
– content is the alias

In order to make the url alias of blogspot display the same format with other articles, you just need to assign the Content category to a menu item (i.e Category Blog) or the blogspot article to a menu item itself (i.e Single Article).

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#516343

Hello Leo,

Thanks so much for that explanation. You are a true Joomla Pro.

I must admit though that I’m still confused a bit :confused:

The reason why there’s this issue in the first place is because I REALLY want the Blogspot tile link to the same category blog that the BLOGSPOT menu item links to. But because of the limitations of the template, I cannot link a featured homepage tile to a category, but instead only to an article. This has forced me to create a “landing page” article with that Blogspot tile, from which I then have a link taking the visitor to the category blog. Aside from being really clunky, this approach has obviously now created this second alias problem.

When I implement the changes you’ve suggested, though it does fox the alias issue, it creates a second “redundant” menu item that is dedicated to the blog article landing page— which I can’t have as its far too confusing to the visitor. Is there any way to take advantage of the solution you’ve provided without the added menu item? When I unpublish that menu item, or assign a different permission level, it negates the alias solution. Better yet, is there a way to simply directly link the featured homepage Blogspot tile to the category blog itself?

Your help is very much appreciated!

Best,
Zechariah

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#516358

Hi Zechariah,

I just want to highlight and focus on your main requirement below:
<blockquote> I REALLY want the Blogspot tile link to the same category blog that the BLOGSPOT menu item links to</blockquote>

You can simply move the Blogspot article from Content to Blog category. By this way, the url alias of this Blogspot article will be the same format like other blog articles.

While you can add a link to Category Blog layout inside the Blogspot article without creating any new menu item.

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#516395

Hello,

Thanks again for your help.

Unfortunately, when I move the Blogspot article to the BLOG category like you suggest, the alias looks like this:

http://utd.zmdesignsbranding.com/index.php/blogspot/3-blogspot

It adds the category and the ID# to the url. Do you know how to remove these items?

Thanks

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#516400

Hi zdmdesignz,

That is the correct url alias of a category item. I know the problem that the Blogspot (Category Blog) menu item has the alias blogspot so that you can not create a new menu item (Single Article) with the same alias.

You know, I need to say that it is quite hard to get the article alias as you want with default Joomla menu settings. However, you can try to use the sh404sef plugin to set the alias of page. That is all I can suggest you in this case.

Regards,

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#516434

Hi Leo,

Thanks for the link to the plugin. I’ll give it a look. 🙂

That makes sense that the alias is showing the category, but do you know how to remove the ID# before the article? Why is the url displaying the ” 3- “?

Thanks

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#516449

Hi zdmdesignz,

The sh404sef plugin can help you to hide the category ID inside url alias by redirecting to the new url you configured. However, if you still want to remove directly the ID on Joomla settings without using an 3rd party plugin, you can backup the site and follow this tips.

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#516603

Hi Leo,

Thank you again (x4) 🙂

I’ve found a workaround by combining some of the suggestions you’ve mentioned here. The main solution was creating a new hidden menu and a corresponding hidden Category Blog menu item. I then was able to use use the featured homepage blogspot artcile tile to link to a “Blogspot Gateway” article, which in turn has a link inside of it which takes the visitor to the actual category blog (taking advantage of the valid alias created by the hidden menu item). This has given me valid aliases without categories and ids showing up in the urls. Awesome!

I have one final request which will really make this a completely legitimate solution…

Under the Article Images and Links tab, is there a way to have a dynamic link inside the Link A, B, C boxes? IE: /index.php/alias

Having a hard link here makes the site break if/when changes are made to the domain when I go to kickstart it on the live server via Akkeeba. I really need a way to have those links stay intact without the need of “http://www.domain.com…”

Thanks for all your help Leo. I very much appreciate the time. I hope you had a Merry Christmas as well!

Best,
Zechariah

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#516671

Hi Zechariah,

Thank you for your warm greeting, I really appreciate it. I have read your new question carefully on have a dynamic link inside the Link A, B,C of Images and Links option. However, I regret to confirm that Article Manager component of Joomla does NOT support this kind of dynamic link, it requires you to enter the full url with domain name:

<blockquote>Link A. The URL for the first link to be displayed in a fixed location in the article text. This must be a full URL, not relative. For example, it normally would start with “http://”.
Link B. The URL for the second link to be displayed in a fixed location in the article text. This must be a full URL,
Link C The URL for the third link to be displayed in a fixed location in the article text. This must be a full URL, not relative. For example, For example, it normally would start with “http://”.</blockquote>

You can refer the original source of documentation in here.

You know changing the core feature of Joomla, especially Article Manager is really heavy customization task and it is always avoid to do by Joomla developers, even the masters.

The Link (A, B, C) parameter, the options of Images and Links tab are the fundamental data of articles that our modules, plugins and other 3rd party extension uses to display the content on front-end. It will be NOT good idea to waste time on this kind of customization that we will not sure other related extensions can work fine on it or not.

However, you can try to raise a question on Joomla community for better suggestion on this concern.

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