Direct Alias Pro 3.1.3

Download free Direct Alias Pro. Allows you to control menu item alias and have short SEF URLs without including aliases of parent menu items. Removes menu items aliases from articles URLs leaving only single article alias.

Joomla native routing is not quite robust and you can't control how the SEF URL of menu item is built. You can only define menu item alias - a component of URL.

By default aliases of Joomla menu items are relative: aliases of all parent menu items are auto-prepended to SEF URL.

So child menu items have URLs like:

http://site.com/parent-menu-item-alias/child-menu-item-alias

This plugin allows you to switch alias to 'direct' mode and have short URL without aliases of parent menu items:

http://site.com/child-menu-item-alias

E.g. this page has URL

Direct Alias Pro - Remove IDs from Joomla articles, categories and tags URLs

Allows you to control menu item alias and have short SEF URLs without including aliases of parent menu items.

alterbrains.com

instead of

Direct Alias Pro - Remove IDs from Joomla articles, categories and tags URLs

Allows you to control menu item alias and have short SEF URLs without including aliases of parent menu items.

alterbrains.com

Additionally to the functionality of Direct Alias (free extension) listed above you can remove menu items' aliases from article URLs and leave only single article alias.

So instead of

http://site.com/news/34-article-alias

you will get

http://site.com/34-article-alias

or

http://site.com/article-alias

if IDs are removed.

Active menu item is still identified, hence current menu item is highlighted in menu modules and modules are displayed correctly. Direct article menu items are preserved and have original native URLs unchanged.

Previous native URLs are redirected to new URLs with 301 status, hence search engines index is preserved.

Plugin adds only a single database query if a page is loaded via single article shortened URL. It's a nice and simple alternative to monstrous 3rd-party SEF extensions.

• Removes parent menu items' aliases from URLs per menu item or for all menu items.
• Removes menu items' aliases from article URLs per category or for all articles. Direct article URLs are preserved.
• Simple code, works fast.
• Display and highlight of menu item in menu modules is preserved.
• Old URLs with original aliases are redirected to new URLs with 301/303/308 configurable status (this feature is missed in free version).
• Displays custom alias modifications in backend menu items list.
• Easy installation: just install and publish 'System - Direct Alias Pro' plugin, order it first in 'system' group of plugins, edit settings.
• Works with Falang except menu items alias translations in 'FaLang Language Switcher' module.