Remove Category from the URL Structure

[susur2007]

I have been trying to fix this URL Structure problem from past few days and unable to fix it. The Problem or my requirement is

I have changed Url method to seo friendly urls and now my urls are like this

http://www.domain.com/Business/this-is-test-post/

What i want to acheive is

http://www.domain.com/this-is-test-post/

I want to remove the category from the url structure, i have tried with html1.php in the libs.

If ($x == "storycattitle") {return my_pligg_base."/" . $var1 . "/" . $var2 ."/";}

i removed the variable $var1 and now my url structure displays correctly
but when i click the url on homepage it is not working, is there anything to do in .htaccess file

Can some one please help me with the solution.

[susur2007]

Hey No Pros to answer my question, do the needful guys

[blaze]

Hey No Pros to answer my question, do the needful guys

I was wondering about this as well. I want to remove the word "category" altogether from the url. Why is this in there? It's not needed at all. Can someone help us out with this. It's better for SEO when your category keywords are closer to your domain name structure than farther away. Why can't we just have:

http://carsite.com/honda/

rather than

http://carsite.com/category/honda/

Links to stories ignore the word category, such as:

http://carsite.com/honda/1988-civic-crx-for-sale/

So why not eliminate the word "category" altogether?

[newsome]

Hello.

That would be nice...I'd like to know the answer, too.

[ekn33]

support is = zero here or ?

[bbrian017]

From what I have learned if your question doesn't get answered in a days time it means the answer is already somewhere on the forums. Just have a look around!

Best of luck guys!

[Divisive Cotton]

yeah, if you question isn't answered the answer is already there.

Don't expect an answer for every question.

actually, what I would like is the category and sub-category to be included in the URL. Not the complete removal of categories from the URL.

I guess the answer for that is already here, but, to be honest, I haven't looked.

[susur2007]

I have done enough search on the forums and i beleive there is no answer to the question i have found. My question was to remove the categories from the url structure.

Good to see some one know the solution for this, i have been working on this but couldnt find the solution.

[pliggedit]

Unless this was a fetaure inculded in the pligg code you might cause yourself some major headaches when upgrading to future versions.

Worst case scenario would be that the code you might use for v9.8.2 to remove /category from the URL may not work with the next update of pligg. this could leave your site with lots of broken URL's until some kind soul posted updated code.

Many good hacks for pligg have been broken by updates some have been fixed some remain broken.

Plan for the long term