Hello,
I am wondering if someone can help please? I am trying to achieve the following. If I had a menu called 'Cars', in the drop down, I would like to have 'Ford', 'Honda' etc. However, if I click on 'Ford', I do not want the URL to be: www.mysite.com/cars/ford, ideally I would like it to be www.mysite.com/ford.
If someone actually clicks on 'Cars', then I would like to be able to have the different categories appear i.e. 'Ford' will appear and 'Honda' will appear,
Would someone be able to advise on how I would achieve this please?
Thank you
Ford, Honda etc as root categories
cars as a hand carved Joomla article with styled links to Ford, Honda etc
Quote from: GJC Web Design on July 04, 2018, 23:33:15 PM
Ford, Honda etc as root categories
cars as a hand carved Joomla article with styled links to Ford, Honda etc
Yes, but when he goes to "Ford," the menu will not be subordinated to "cars". He will go to the main menu (if the main menu is a category of Virtuemart).
QuoteYes, but when he goes to "Ford," the menu will not be subordinated to "cars".
isn't that exactly what he asked?
As far as I understand, he asks for URL.
For example:
Path (Breadcrumbs): Home / Cars / Ford
Url: site.com/ford
Or:
Path (Breadcrumbs): Home / Cars / Ford / Parts
Url: site.com/parts
As with the non-checked SEO setting "Use full category tree for product links":
Path (Breadcrumbs): Home / Cars / Ford / Parts
Url: site.com/cars/parts
But "cars" always remains.
I have seen such sites (not with Joomla), but I may have misunderstood the issue.
Use this extension https://www.artio.net/virtuemart-tools/joomsef
Setup menu not to display
One for each VM category
Make each category a Root
Setup a "display menu"
Spacer
Level 1 menu item Spacer - Cars
Level 2 submenu to Cars - Alias to Ford hidden category menu item - Display name - Ford
Level 3 submenu to Cars - Alias to Honda hidden category menu item - Display Name - Honda
Menu will be
CARS
->Ford url will be site/ford
->Honda url will be site/honda
url will be site/ford
You can use a menu with all categories and menu alias from original menu.
The only problem is that the original menu get not selected
menu all categories(do not need a module):
Ford = link to Virtuemart category ford
Honda = link to Virtuemart category Honda
original menu having alias:
CARS url to category Cars
-Ford alias to all categories : ford Breadcrumb is site.com/ford
-Honda alias to all categories : honda Breadcrumb is site.com/honda