#97 – sh404SEF and easyblog

HI

Weird that they sent you to us. SEF URLs are build using small files (called plugins), that tells sh404SEF how to build URLs for each component (Joomla has the same sort of files). EasyBlog comes with an sh404SEF plugin that they wrote, to provide support for sh404SEF, so surely they can advice on modification to do what you want.
I think they do it this way because most people like it.

I run EasyBlog on this site, so I'm familiar with it, though in my case I want to have the /blog/ part, and so I'm fine with their plugin.

You can do a modification of that plugin, if you're familiar with doing such thing.
Looking quicky, I think that commenting out line 89 of the file /components/com_easyblog/sef_ext/com_easyblog.php should do what you want. It should look like this:

$easyblogName	= empty($easyblogName) ?  getMenuTitle($option, $task, $Itemid, null, $shLangName) : $easyblogName;
$easyblogName	= (empty($easyblogName) || $easyblogName == '/') ? 'EasyBlog':$easyblogName;

// $title[] = $easyblogName;  // MODIFY HERE: insert // at the beginning of line

$validViews = array('archive','blogger','categories','dashboard','entry','featured',
                    'images','latest','login','myblog','ratings','search','subscription',
					'tags','teamblog','trackback');

You would need to purge urls in sh404SEF so new ones are recreated.

Please don't do this if you're not familiar with such things. In any case, keep a backup copy of the file, so that you can revert the changes.

Also, be aware that those changes will be lost in case of an update of EasyBLog, which may override this file. You may have to redo the changes again.

As you see this is a complex matter, so maybe you can also setup 301 redirects from old URLs to new ones in your .htaccess? There is however an SEO loss in doing that.


Hope this helps

Rgds

Cool then. Keep in mind the bit about updates. We'll have an sh404SEF today (If I can get to do it), and so you'll have to edit again the file.

Closing this ticket now, feel free to open a new one as needed.

Rgds

ok. I'll try to be in touch with them, ideally, they should maybe use the changes I made to their plugin as a base to update theirs, but now is not the right for me to get into that.

Closing this ticket now, feel free to open a new one as needed.

Rgds