I have a problem with magento product links. When I search a product and then click the product link, Magento redirects me to index.php/test666.html when it supposed to be index.php/products/grocery/miso-soup/test666.html.
is it possible to force Magento use product's full path?
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I can't get it to work by enabling 'Use Categories Path for Product URLs'. So I ended up with the following code.
$categories = $_product->getCategoryIds();
$lastCategory = $_categoryModel->load(end($categories));
$urlPath = explode("/",$lastCategory->getUrlPath());
$urlPathCnt = count($urlPath)-1;
$urlPath[$urlPathCnt] = str_replace(".html","",$urlPath[$urlPathCnt]);
$productUrl = "/".implode("/",$urlPath)."/".$_product->getUrlKey().".html";
but I really don't like this way. It uses unnecessary resource. Any ideas??
Search results won't give you a full link because Magento allows any product to be in multiple categories. There is no way to guess the correct category for the product if you are using the search box. In other words, a product link could have multiple URLs.
If you are completely sure you're only assigning one category per product, you may change the search source code or make an extension, to show a link with full path for every search result.
In the admin, go to System>Configuration>Catalog>Search Engine Optimizations and set Use Categories Path for Product URLs
You may need to refresh the "Catalog URL Rewrites" index. The HTML may also be served from the cache, so refreshing it wouldn't hurt.
Also make sure you're using the method $product->getProductUrl() to take advantage of the setting mentioned above.
I assume that search results won't give you a full link because Magento allows any product to be in multiple categories. There is no way to guess the correct category for the product if you are using the search box. In other words, a product link could have multiple URLs.
But if you are completely sure you're only assigning one category per product, you may change the search source code or make an extension, to show a link with full path for every search result.
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I followed the instructions here on establishing a new provider and generating custom URLs, and it works as expected. There doesn't seem to be a clear reference for what parameters can be utilized in the settings as the example given is very basic.
I want to use the category name of the post in the URL. I tried:
/[Category]/[UrlName]
but what I got in the frontend was:
http://localhost:60327/my-page/Telerik.OpenAccess.TrackedList%601[System.Guid]/my-post-name
I also tried
/[Category.Title]/[UrlName]
which just threw errors.
Anyone know how to do this, or better yet, a good reference for the parameters?
I don't think this is possible since the Category property is actually a collection (TrackedList).
In theory you would need one of the collection items, let's say the first one, and your URL expression would be /[Category[0].Title]/[UrlName], but this is currently not supported by the expression parser.
Also, the idea of making the URL dependent on a complex (related) field is not a good idea. If someone deletes that category, they will break all your blog post URLs.
I would suggest you to create a custom text field for the blog post item (ex: CategoryUrl) and then you should be able to set the URL format to /[CategoryUrl]/[UrlName]. Make sure CategoryUrl field is required.
Is there any way to change the actual structure of a url in Shopify, rather than just the handle? For instance if I add a product it will be available at the following urls:
/products/some-product
/collections/collection-name/products/some-product
Is there any way I could change this to /collection-name/some-product, i.e. remove unnecessary words from the url?
I also realise you can add redirects, but this isn't what I want.
When thinking on the product page you should never think of playing or using the url which has 'collections'. If you take a deep look on the source code of a product you'll realize they all have a rel canonical tag pointing to the
../products/some-product
even if the product is displayed within the url
../collections/collection-name/products/some-product
If the collections url doesn't have that canonical tag, use it, otherwise crawlers/robots would consider it duplicate content because 2 different urls would show the same content.
Then if you're ok with the first part, you'll only have
../products/some-product
In such case, you will never be able to change the
../products/
part. But this is good as it helps Shopify store owners maintain a really well structured organization of products.
If you still for some reason need to play hard with urls, you can deep a bit into Application Proxies.
Currently BigCommerce does a pretty good job at defining the canonical link for pages. But I am looking to update the behaviour for product list pages and remove the page number out of the link.
Currently it behaves as /category/?page=1, /category/?page2, and so on. I wish to elimate the page number completely and simple use /category
I prefer that search engines view all these pages as a single page as it is just the same data that is indexed from other places.
Currently the page defines the canonical link in the header as:
%%Page.CanonicalLink%%
I am looking to see if anyone has encountered this problem and is looking for a solution.
Thanks
I've got a site where users can create groups (we call them games)
www.ongoingworlds.com/games/270/
www.ongoingworlds.com/games/287/ etc
Each of these games has it's own user-generated content. I want to use a Google custom search for each game. But I can't see an easy way to amend the embed code to add a dynamic path, and I don't want to have to register multiple (hundreds) of GCSEs separately to get an embed code for each.
What would be the best way of allowing each of these URLs (above) to have their own GCSE?
You can search subparts of your site by using a combination of site: operator and webSearchQueryAddition parameter on gcse element.
webSearchQueryAddition appends additional search term to your user's query. If for each of the "games" you change the webSearchQueryAddition to point to the "game" base url, the search results will be matching that url. You can inject that parameter programmatically with e.g. javascript, for each of the "games".
Documentation is here: https://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/element#supported_attributes
And here is working example:
http://jsfiddle.net/t2s5M/
I would like to write web pages that have links to Rally issues (Test Cases, Defects, etc). I would like to be able to generate a URL with the FormattedID. Is this possible? Or do I really need the objectID? For example:
http://rally1.rallydev.com/363953481d/detail/testcase/TC1665
(or something like that, instead of the cryptic object id)
The following allows users to go directly to the detail page of a work product without having to know the Object ID:
https://rally1.rallydev.com/#/search?keywords=US1234
This relies on a feature of Rally's search functionality and isn't officially supported - so the above URL isn't guaranteed to work forever. However it's a decent way to use Formatted ID's as a workaround.
Searching by just keyword will give you the item with that ID and related items (e.g. other items that mention the desired ID in their name). Sometimes this is fine, sometimes not.
To search for DE75700 and DE72760 only, and no others use
https://rally1.rallydev.com/#/search?keywords=FormattedID%3ADE75700%20FormattedID%3ADE72760
This is equivalent to manually typing
FormattedID:DE75700 FormattedID:DE72760
in the Rally search box.
As a corollary to the main answer I have defined a Chrome browser bookmark which will take me right to any Rally item by its ID.
The URL for this bookmark in full is:
javascript:(function(){window.location = "https://rally1.rallydev.com/#/search?keywords=" + prompt("Enter ID:");})();
When this bookmark is activated, it prompts you like so:
I find this to be a huge time saver.
Thanks to Displaying a prompt from javascript Chrome bookmark.