How to remove /item/ from k2's urls?

online100 · Post by **online100** » Sat Dec 10, 2011 5:38 am

I used K2 and joomla1.7 to create website.When i turned on SEF,it generated the urls as http://www.mysite.com/dir1/dir2/(dir3)/item/xxxx .There are 3 or 4 directory in urls with are not friendly for Search Engine. So I want to remove /item/ from urls.

For example:
http://www.nanadeals.com/accessories-apparel/jewelry/item/3-05ct-black-diamond-ropework-right-hand-ring-only-99-with-discount-code
to
http://www.nanadeals.com/accessories-apparel/jewelry/3-05ct-black-diamond-ropework-right-hand-ring-only-99-with-discount-code

BTW:I wouldn't like to use SEF extensions,they didn't run well at multilanguage website.

Could anyone tell me how to do?please help.
Many thanks!!

drlovecat · Post by **drlovecat** » Tue Dec 13, 2011 7:11 am

Dear online100
you have to create an k2 menu prior eg. category type, blog type
and point theirs from menu.

cheers,

online100 · Post by **online100** » Wed Dec 14, 2011 10:39 pm

Dear drlovecat
Thanks for your answer.
Yesterday,I tried to point K2 blog ,category and list type to main menu.But it still has "item" in the urls of K2 that just like the article at nanadeals.com/accessories-apparel/shoes.
Would you like to let me know how to do correctly?
Thanks a lot.

sapromo · Post by **sapromo** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 9:39 am

That does not work.

If you don't have a lot of items then create a menu entry for each, that will remove the ITEM. BUT... if you have a lot of items clearly creating a static menu link is not viable (as with me).

Also look for a solution but even the K2 forums don't have the answer and it is generated by the core Joomla SEF.

online100 · Post by **online100** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 6:55 pm

Have any solution for this issue?

sapromo · Post by **sapromo** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 7:58 pm

Yes, create a menu link to the K2 item like I did on this page http://www.southafricanshop.net/biltong/biltong, see menu on left with link to the item "biltong" thus giving me a clean URL

online100 · Post by **online100** » Mon Dec 19, 2011 5:42 am

Thanks for your idea.But I have many items,I can't point every one to menu.

sapromo · Post by **sapromo** » Mon Dec 19, 2011 9:17 am

so do I and I only picked the most popular or those who I want the SEO to be better on... for starters as I have over 1000 items would not be funny having to add every single one of them.

kenvin_jbt · Post by **kenvin_jbt** » Fri Feb 22, 2013 2:13 pm

I've same probelem, any solution, please...

scorpiock · Post by **scorpiock** » Sun Feb 24, 2013 7:31 am

You can remove item from URL in Joomla! 3

Login into Joomla! 3 Administration Console
Click on Components>>K2
Click on Parameters
Click on Advanced tab
Enable advanced SEF for K2 URLs and make your settings as below

http://chandan.pro/site/index.php/cms/j ... -k2-joomla

snowman001 · Post by **snowman001** » Tue Feb 26, 2013 2:32 am

Remove an item from K2's url is a very dangerous thing for your the SEO of your site!

kenvin_jbt · Post by **kenvin_jbt** » Tue Feb 26, 2013 2:36 am

snowman001 wrote:Remove an item from K2's url is a very dangerous thing for your the SEO of your site!

Why do you think that? the 'item' in url is bad with standard url for SEO.

kenvin_jbt · Post by **kenvin_jbt** » Tue Feb 26, 2013 2:38 am

scorpiock wrote:You can remove item from URL in Joomla! 3

Login into Joomla! 3 Administration Console
Click on Components>>K2
Click on Parameters
Click on Advanced tab
Enable advanced SEF for K2 URLs and make your settings as below

http://chandan.pro/site/index.php/cms/j ... -k2-joomla

Thank you

snowman001 · Post by **snowman001** » Fri Mar 01, 2013 8:39 am

As I was also a new in SEO, maybe it is a fault, what I had said!

kulot · Post by **kulot** » Tue Sep 10, 2013 10:11 am

wow, savior of the day, instead of messing around with the router.php file, this also solves the removal id number in the url

gpullen · Post by **gpullen** » Thu Sep 12, 2013 1:39 pm

Wow, thank you guys for posting the fix. Only took me 10 seconds on google to come across this thread...

Was having the same problem... ...com/brokerage/item/6-name in the URL, but following the steps above, It now looks much better.

See http://nautorswanusaeast.com/dev/brokerage when you hover over a boat, the URL's are much better!!

rafagano · Post by **rafagano** » Thu Mar 13, 2014 2:41 pm

Hi there, it's not a Joomla!3 only solution, it's a K2 solution.
It worked for me on Joomla!2.5 and latest K2

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