After switching off Advanced SEF for K2, tag filtering still doesn't work and my url looks like "/en/itemlist/tag/Android.html"

@Dante

K2 is using the text of the item as meta description. However you should not have duplicate descriptions unless you have duplicate item pages. Can you provide two links with duplicate descriptions? Are you using any other extension for meta tags?

Finally, your setup is outdated. You should be running Joomla! 3.4.4 and K2 2.6.9. Remember to backup your site in case you decide to update.

There is no need to apologize. This could happen to everyone. Let us know if you need anything else.

Hi,

I don't get what you mean. Can you provide more details on this? K2 tags do not have description.

No, unfortunately not. There is no such functionality in K2.

Can you try to switch off K2 advanced SEF? At least we can see that the issue is coming from there. Remember to clean Joomla! cache after you make the change.

Hi Krikor and Lefteris,

Thank you so much for taking the time to look at this.

I have found, much to my embarrassment, that it is not a K2 issue.

We found that the problem was weblinks. As the tag was to track clicks on external links, I had set the condition for the trigger to exclude links that contained catholicenquiry (so that internal linking isn't captured). As weblinks routs users through internal linking, the trigger wasn't firing as the URL it was being routed through contained catholicenquiry.

I have since changed the trigger to fire when the click URL contains weblinks and it now works like a dream.

Thanks and humble apologies again.

Rene

Hi Krikor and Lefteris,

Thank you so much for spending the time to look at this.

I found what the problem was and I feel somewhat embarrassed that I took up your time.

The issue was I'd set a trigger in GTM to not include URLs that contained catholicenquiry (the site URL catholicenquiry.com) to exclude internal links. We found that even though the links were to external sites, the linking was routed through weblinks - therefore being routed through a URL containing catholicenquiry.

I have since changed the configuration of the trigger to be "containing - weblinks". (and for the benefit of GTM users, I've set the tag label to "Click Text").

Thank you and apologies again for taking up your time on this.

Best regards

Rene

Also, I don't understand such thing.... I have category "blog" and subcategory "it". When I go to category list using menu item my url is: "/en/blog.html" (blog without id) When I go to item my url looks like this: "/en/it/7-it/21-how-to-choose-smartphone-correctly.html". Why url doesn't show top category "blog" and why subcategory "it" shows 2 times: with and without id ? I have the same "blog/it" categories url in "ru" language and it is OK to show id in category items and materials. Everything works properly even I have the same urls... all except tags. Maybe url"/en/tag/Android.html" also should go with id (tag-id)?

Yes, I tried to switch off URL rewriting, after switch off, my url looks like this: /index.php/en/tag/Android.html , but it still shows 404 error.
Here is my .htaccess file content (without unnecessary commented text). I don't see here any issues

## No directory listings
IndexIgnore *

## Can be commented out if causes errors, see notes above.
Options +FollowSymlinks
Options -Indexes

## Mod_rewrite in use.

RewriteEngine On

# Block out any script trying to base64_encode data within the URL.
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} base64_encode[^(]*\([^)]*\) [OR]
# Block out any script that includes a <script> tag in URL.
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (<|%3C)([^s]*s)+cript.*(>|%3E) [NC,OR]
# Block out any script trying to set a PHP GLOBALS variable via URL.
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} GLOBALS(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2}) [OR]
# Block out any script trying to modify a _REQUEST variable via URL.
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} _REQUEST(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2})
# Return 403 Forbidden header and show the content of the root homepage
RewriteRule .* index.php [F]
#
## End - Rewrite rules to block out some common exploits.

# Uncomment following line if your webserver's URL
# is not directly related to physical file paths.
# Update Your Joomla! Directory (just / for root).
##

# RewriteBase /

## Begin - Joomla! core SEF Section.
#
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
#
# If the requested path and file is not /index.php and the request
# has not already been internally rewritten to the index.php script
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index\.php
# and the requested path and file doesn't directly match a physical file
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
# and the requested path and file doesn't directly match a physical folder
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
# internally rewrite the request to the index.php script
RewriteRule .* index.php [L]
#
## End - Joomla! core SEF Section.

@Andrew Voronov

I don't think that the issue is caused by your template. Have you checked the .htaccess file as i suggested? Have you tried to disable URL rewriting by setting " Use URL Rewriting" to "No" in Joomla! global configuration?

Thanks for sharing this.

@Irene Sutherland

I don't think that K2 is causing this. I am not aware about how Google Tag Manager works but does use the recommended "event.preventDefault()" for it's events.

Do you see any errors in the browser console? Maybe there is a conflict as Krikor suggested.

Hi,

You cannot trigger the plugin like that. The plugin tag can be inserted in the extra field as long as you use a recent version of K2. All you have to do is insert the full plugin tag in the extra field value. The only requirement is that the extra field type should be either textfield or textarea.

Hi Krikor,

I had a look at the modules you'd listed (mod_cn_photos, the mod_susnet_twitter and the mod_susnet_likebox).

I had tested for them by firstly disabling them on the page I was testing GTM. I found it made no difference.

It was only when I set up an article (that is using Joomla core Articles rather than K2 Items) - with those modules enabled, that I found GTM worked. That is why I have confidently narrowed it down to being a K2 Items issue.

Got any more thoughts on what might be happening here?

Thanks in advance

Rene

Krikor wrote: Can you post your solution for reference?

Sure.

I combined all of this in the php header of item.php.

And this part is for actually stripping the IMG tag of the Image field I wanted, which had ID 28 (Still in header):

Later on, just declare the new variable $icon:

Yes, I can... but attachment form doesn't work. I can even send you a link with a project on github github.com/pupsikus/iman007
I don't use 3rd part extensions for storing content or for SEF. A turned off all extensions (except K2 and core extensions) and it didn't help.

It is possible that problem is in the template (Meet Gavern), but I am not sure about it.

Can you post your solution for reference?

Thanks for the help Krikor, but as I said before, I managed to solve it combining some functions I found around!

Andrew, I 'm sorry but I cannot confirm the issue.
Which other extensions are you using?
Can you send me your htaccess file?