RE: Hiding category name from URL

Hi there,

Thanks again for your response.

Excluding Quix from rewrite worked and it's loading correctly now.

I'm still don't quite understand how

By adding the world articles in front of the pattern
>> articles/{articleAlias}

it will make other articles under different menu items to all appear under /articles right?
e.g.

Articles of the same structure >>http://exmaple.com/[MENU ALIAS] / [CATEGORY ALIAS] / [CATEGORY ALIAS] / [ARTICLE ALIAS]
http://exmaple.com/articles/20/01/test-article
http://exmaple.com/music/20/01/test-music
http://exmaple.com/news/20/01/test-news

will become come the following correct? (how does route-66 handle url collisions?)
http://exmaple.com/test-article
http://exmaple.com/test-music
http://exmaple.com/test-news

is there a way to keep the menu structure while removing the category names in the URL such as:
http://exmaple.com/articles/test-article
http://exmaple.com/music/test-music
http://exmaple.com/news/test-news

P.S.
Can you also explain how "Add suffix to menu links" function is intended to be used? I can't find any documentation nor any example of using this functions.


Thanks,
Mark

 

You can just add the word articles to your pattern:

articles/{articleAlias} and you are done .



Regarding the page builder just navigate to Route 66 options and exclude the specific component from redirects and JavaScript optimizations.



If you need more help you are kindly requested to create a ticket in our help desk.



Regards





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Thank you for the quick response.



I've downloaded and and tested it and worked like what you have described :)



However I found a couple of problems:



1. Using Article URL pattern: {articleAlias}

Original URL structure explained is as follows, I have a menu called "articles" which is display a [CATEGORY BLOG]

>>http://exmaple.com/articles/20/01/test-article

>>http://exmaple.com/[MENU ALIAS: articles] / [CATEGORY ALIAS: 20] / [CATEGORY ALIAS: 01] / [ARTICLE ALIAS: test-article]



After applied Article URL pattern: {articleAlias} , the URL become:

>> http://exmaple.com/test-article



the category name /20/01 disappeared as expected

however the menu "articles" was also disappeared, which was not what I expected.



Is this the intended behaviour?



2. After route-66 is installed (and both plugins moved to the bottoms of the list as instructed),

it seems to cause some conflicts with Themexpert's Quix page builder.

Basically a Quix page won't open up in edit mode, and just hang at the loading page (initializing builder page, see attached)



Any idea what's causing it?



Many thanks



Mark

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