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#5913 – Joomla Blog tags display url with string code using sh404SEF

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Thursday, 25 July 2019 18:04 UTC
malvcomm
 I am working out urls on each section of my development site. One of my menu items uses Joomla's Category Blog with article tags since the articles may appear in more than one blog category without duplicating article content.

Without sh404SEF, a category blog url will appear as: https://dev.xxxx.com/news/newest-equipment
With sh404SEF, a category blog url will appear as: https://dev.xxxx.com/news/?filter_tag[0]=2
Non-sef link is: news/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=13&filter_tag[0]=2

I tried a sh404SEF 301 and tried a canonical link without joy.

Linking articles urls are as I expect and same with or without sh404SEF: https://dev.xxxx.com/news/sonobond-ultrasonics-battery-assembly-capabilities-expand-to-china

Can you provide guidance please?

Thank you,
Paul
Friday, 26 July 2019 12:17 UTC
wb_weeblr
Hi

I tried a sh404SEF 301 and tried a canonical link without joy.
There's no reason to do that, the problem here is that you do not like the URL: a redirect or a canonical is meant to solve an issue where you have one URL and you want visitors to be sent to another one.

Tags are so rarely used in Joomla that we elected to not convert them to text, mostly for performance reasons. If you want a "clean" URL for such a link, you can simply create a custom URL:

- in the SEF URL manager, click the New button
- Enter:

SEF: news/newest-equipment
non-sef: index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=13&filter_tag[0]=2&Itemid=xxxxx

where xxxxxx is the menu item id you created for that page.

Click save and the URL should now appear as before.

[EDIT] Note that you can use any SEF URL, not just news/newest-equipement

Best regards
 
Saturday, 10 August 2019 05:34 UTC
system
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