Remove Category from K2 URLs

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Remove Category from K2 URLs

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Currently my K2 Blog Type URLs are like this:

domain.com/blog/alterbrains-rocks

Can Direct Alias Pro remove the category from the URL, making all Blog Type URLs only use the K2 Item Alias:

domain.com/alterbrains-rocks
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Re: Remove Category from K2 URLs

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If 'alterbrains-rocks' is a menu item - you can edit it and set Alias to 'Direct'
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Re: Remove Category from K2 URLs

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In this example, 'alterbrains-rocks' is an item alias - the item URL is generated from of a K2 > Category Type Menu.

For clarification: Direct Alias Pro can only remove the IDs of URLs (categories & item alias) generated from 'Blog Category' and 'K2 Category' menu generated URLs, but CAN NOT remove the category by setting the alias to 'Direct' for the menu parent so all children inherit the same 'Direct' parameter?
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Direct Alias Pro can only remove IDs from native Joomla articles component (com_content), it doesn't work with K2.

Both Direct Alias and Direct Alias Pro can remove parent menu items' aliases from menu item URL.
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Re: Remove Category from K2 URLs

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Is such a feature impossible to accomplish with a plugin?

Do you plan on offering such a feature?
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Please advice which feature do you mean? K2 has own URLs without IDs.

For now we only plan the feature to use Joomla article alias exclusively for URL:
http://site.com/article-alias
Right now such URL is only possible if an article has own menu item with "article-alias" alias.
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Re: Remove Category from K2 URLs

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Ok - Thank You

One more question - what impact does using Direct Alias (free) have on a website?
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Absolutely minimum, it can only affect performance of a website with e.g. 1000 menu items.
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Ok - Thank You :)
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Re: Remove Category from K2 URLs

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Feature Request:

Is it possible to have your plugin work with NoNumber Add to Menu extension?
https://www.nonumber.nl/extensions/addtomenu
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