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hi, I almost done with my wish url, I need remove the Category URL Indicator name called “category”:

I have this:
http://www.mysite.com/index.php/entertaiment/category/music

I remove the index.php and have this:
http://www.mysite.com/entertaiment/category/music

now I need remove “category” for get this final url:
http://www.mysite.com/entertaiment/music

how I can remove that?
thanks 😊

You can’t do that, unless you use Cxx categories, like http://example.com/entertaiment/C12.

definely I cant? Cxx its more ugly that a name, but I need remove the entire name, with the parameter backspace=“6” it not possible, remove 6 characters? maybe I confuse with funtionally of that parameter…  mmm

you know looks better and more simple to remember to users remember this: http://www.mysite.com/entertaiment/music and not http://www.mysite.com/entertaiment/category/music

thanks

No, you can’t. Not easily, at any rate: some PHP, and perhaps querying the data directly from the db would get you there, I suppose, but out of the box, you can’t do it. And, no, the backspace parameter doesn’t do this.

I don’t think it’s much of an issue, very few users (if any) are going to type in the link to a category by hand, and your internal links, as well as Google & Co., won’t care.

That said, you can always rename “category” to something better suited for your site.

thanks Ingmar, well you have a reason that is not a big issue… so I think in better names… “tag” sounds good I think, any other name suggestions? for no use category? 😊

You could grab the segment containing the category_url_title, use a quick query to fetch the category ID, and use that as a parameter for your weblog tag.

Your URL would look like this (without the “Category URL Indicator”) so make sure your links also lose the indicator.

<a href="http://www.mysite.com/index.php/entertaiment/music/">http://www.mysite.com/index.php/entertaiment/music/</a>

your category_url_title would be segment_2:

{exp:query sql="SELECT cat_id FROM exp_categories WHERE cat_url_title = '{segment_2}'"}

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="your_weblog" category="{cat_id}"}
...
{/exp:weblog:entries}

{/exp:query}

Let me know if you need more help.

True, Cocoaholic, but certain tags would not recognize that you are on a category page, like the Category Heading tag.

Indeed, but you can easily fetch it with the same query and add it, right?

{exp:query sql="SELECT cat_id, cat_name FROM exp_categories WHERE cat_url_title = '{segment_2}'"}

<h2>{cat_name}</h2>

<p>{exp:weblog:entries weblog="your_weblog" category="{cat_id}"}<br />
...<br />
{/exp:weblog:entries}</p>

<p>{/exp:query}

Or am I missing the point?

No, just that certain tags will not work as intended.

I just found out that if you use a dot (’.’) as category indicator name, the ‘category’ URL segment is completely hidden from the URL. So it would be /entertainment/music in your particular case.

This is certainly not a recommended method. I’ll try this myself, but would quite frankly be surprised if there were no ill side effects.

This is certainly not a recommended method. I’ll try this myself, but would quite frankly be surprised if there were no ill side effects.

I was quite surprised that this works in the first place. However, I haven’t come across any side effects yet—and I’ve almost finished building the website. Coming from Textpattern, I’m missing the possibility to fine tune your URLs very much, so I was happy to find such a workaround.

would be good to see an example of this? maybe a code snippet?