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#8355 – URL rewriting for "filter_tag" feature

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Monday, 06 December 2021 09:28 UTC

persilou

Hi,

Joomla 3.10.3 / SH404 4.23.3.4280
(I can write in french if it's easier to understand)
In the Menu Manager, there is a new feature which allows to create a "blog category" page and chose to show only articles from the selected category with a specific tag (see attachment).

However, I noticed that this kind of link is not properly rewritten, or not rewritten at all (ex : category-1/?filter_tag[0]=2307 ), but more annoying, it creates conflicts between several urls of this kind :
- for example the tag's name used for the title of the page is the same (most of the time, the first which was rewritten) for every page using this feature with different tag.

first url : category-1/?filter_tag[0]=1 : title is tag_1
second url : category-1/?filter_tag[0]=2 : title is tag_1
Breadcrumbs seems lost the same way too.

No problem with SH404 turned of and native Joomla rewriting on :

first url : category-1/tag-1 : title is tag_1
second url : category-1/tag-2 : title is tag_2
Breadcrumbs is ok

Is there something I can do to solve this problem, or is it a "bug" to be solved ?

Thanks for your help

Monday, 06 December 2021 09:59 UTC

wb_weeblr

However, I noticed that this kind of link is not properly rewritten, or not rewritten at all

This is as designed. As one can add many, many tags here, automatically computing a fully SEF URL does not make sense (it could easily be hundreds of characters long) so we just keep the tags as query vars. You can manually make a custom URL if you so desire.

first url : category-1/?filter_tag[0]=1 : title is tag_1

second url : category-1/?filter_tag[0]=2 : title is tag_1

This is not exactly related to tags and can happen with any set of URLs. Joomla decides on title ( and template and other things) based on the menu item id ("Itemid") in the non-sef URL. As the category_1/ URL is the same for both tags, the menu item and the title and other elements atatched to the menu are the same.

The only workaround here is to manully customize URLs for one or more of these URL, including the "filter_tag[0]=1" in the non-sef part.

Note that you will also need to manually customize the corresponding paginated URLs as well, if there are any.

Best regards

Yannick Gaultier

weeblr.com / @weeblr

Monday, 06 December 2021 12:51 UTC

persilou

thanks for your reply and explanations

I tried to make a manual custom url in SEF URLS:
URL SEF : exempletestblabla.html
URL non-SEF: index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=132&filter_tag[0]=2420
No effect, no rewriting, no redirection, I still have this : category/?filter_tag[0]=2420
(I purged URLS SEF, and the name of the SEF url I chose for this example is not related to any existing category or content)

What I don't understand is the native Joomla SEF doesn't seem to be lost with this pages, good url, good title, good content etc. By any chance, is there a way to disable SH404 only for these urls ?

Monday, 06 December 2021 13:12 UTC

wb_weeblr

What I don't understand is the native Joomla SEF doesn't seem to be lost with this pages, good url, good title, good content

There is no relationship between how the Joomla router works and how sh404SEF works. Whatever happens with Joomla SEF has no bearing or relationship at all with what happens with sh404SEF.

I purged URLS SEF

There's no reason to do that. It actually causes more problems in terms of menu item management.

URL non-SEF: index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=132&filter_tag[0]=2420

I don't see any menu item id in that non-sef URL so indeed it's unlikely to work. But I don't know either which links you have on your site, whether these links are menu items or links in content, etc so really hard to say anything here.

So I would suggest:

- use only full and real links, no "samples", including the full and real domain.

- list the menu item involved or show me which links are giving this problem.

- then we can start deciding what the non-sef URL should be

Best regards

Yannick Gaultier

weeblr.com / @weeblr

Monday, 06 December 2021 14:27 UTC

persilou

ok, thanks again. My mistake was to think "non SEF url" was the one we can see in the menu manager (when we create a menu link).

The manual rewriting works perfectly now, but as you mentionned, I have to manage with the corresponding paginated URLs if I decide to keep it

thanks a lot for helping!

Monday, 06 December 2021 16:41 UTC

wb_weeblr

Well, SEF and non-SEF are a complicated topic in Joomla (basically the one sh404SEF has been trying to solve for quite a while now!).

Closing this ticket now, feel free to open a new one as needed. If you do so, please mention this ticket number in the new one.

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Yannick Gaultier

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