I have mapped all categories into menu items and I am currently having K2 advanced SEF OFF

They are disabled because you sent me credentials and I disabled them myself.

The default URLs are /menu-item/item/id-itemalias.
Since you were getting completely different URLs, to be more precise,
category-prefix, no ID in the URL and no /item/ this is the result of K2's advanced SEF.

Without K2's advanced SEF you would not be getting these URL patterns.

Finally in your site the URLs are:

staging.domain.com/blog/hot-topics/item/71-the-recent-surge-of-pu-erh-tea-prices-in-china.html

or
staging.domain.com/blog/green-tea/item/167-green-teas-are-not-all-equal.html

which are of the pattern:
/main-category/subcategory/item/id-item-alias.

You can reenable K2's advanced SEF in order to remove the /item/ prefix, just don't use the item's category as a prefix.

Mere suggestion for the HTML tags you should use.

Let's hope all goes fine.

Will do. We go live tomorrow, so I think we'll find anything wrong fairly fast ;)

Thank you buddy.
Let me know if that produces any issues.

Brilliant!

Applied and working - thanks Krikor, very much appreciated!

I applied a proposed fix here: github.com/getk2/k2/pull/336/files
Let me know if that works for you.

Finally, trying not to sound redundant, thank you Kelsey for reporting this :)

No luck I'm afraid!

You can see the effect in action here: brandcheer.com/rth/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&layout=item&id=30&Itemid=141

Github.

Is there a download for that yet or just get it straight from github.com/getk2/k2 ?

Thank you Vu Mai for the recommendation.

I would still like to deal with the urls without using an extension at this stage as I am trying not to make the site too complicated.

Will consider it if necessary in the future.

best regards

En Jie

Hi again

I have attempted to turn sh404sef off and got urls as:

staging.valleygreentea.com.au/blog/hot-topics/2-current-events-and-hot-topics/the-recent-surge-of-pu-erh-tea-prices-in-china.html

where
'/hot-topics' --> menu title
'/2-current-events-and-hot-topics' --> category title

(both listed where there should only be one)

Best regards

En Jie

Can you try with 2.7.1 and let me know if that helps?

Ha - a fair question given my history.

This time I'm being boring - plain old 2.7.0

Are you using 2.7.0 or the DEV version?

I've got a bit of an odd thing going on and don't know if it's "as intended".

I have a mod_k2_content list displaying content filtered by a single category and by multiple tags.

The problem is that each item will appear as many times as it has been tagged with the selected tags.

e.g. if I have an item tagged with "one" "two" and "three" and the module set to show items tagged with "one" "two" and "three", the item will appear in the list three times.

This still occurs even if my overrides are changed back to default.

What am I missing?

Hi Jon

Many thinks!

Category: staging.valleygreentea.com.au/blog/hot-topics.html (blog-top category; hot topic - subcategory; both linked to menu items)
Item: staging.valleygreentea.com.au/item/71-the-recent-surge-of-pu-erh-tea-prices-in-china.html (the url does not have a category nor subcategory, but 'item/id-'.)

regards

En Jie

Hi Both

Thank you so much for your effort to help.

Here is the site: staging.valleygreentea.com.au

As you can see under the menu 'blog', each category is linked to a menu item. The category/subcategory urls are nicely done, but the item urls are nothing like what is expected. I have cleared the cache and purged the urls many times. Made no difference here.

Looking forward to hear some advice on what is causing this?

best regards

En Jie

If you map each category into menu items then you can create submenus as well. Recreate the category structure into menu items.
This is the most efficient way.

Orphan tags and users are tags and user pages which are not mapped into any menu items.
Creating a blank menu item will give you nice URLs for these views as well.

it is not simple, it is confusing.

i) You either need to enable K2's advanced SEF

This does not do what En Jie needs

ii) map each K2 category into a separate menu item (this is what I do).
Additionally you can create an empty K2 categories menu (leave the category selection empty) and call it eg: content. This way all orphan users and tags are rendered through that menu item.

This is not a good way of having dynamic content and I have no idea what orphan tags and users are. I just want nested category SEF. But the mapping of individual menu items to categories seems the only way to achieve this.

iii) Use a 3rd party SEF extension which supports K2.

This really is misleading. SEF Extensions can support K" but not give nested category SEF URLs. SH404SEF will not provide nested category SEF URLS, the only one that might is 'SEF Advanced'. I am assuming this because someone on one of the referenced threads says he has.


If anyone actually has a working system of K2 with nested category SEF URLS using a 3rd part SEF Extensions please let me know how you did it., preferably with examples.

Thanks as always