SEF Advance extension for K2 is now in testing phase. If you use the K2 component for Joomla it will give you some kick-ass URLs in combination with SEF Advance.

Let me show you an example. Let's say you have a category called Animals, under that a subcategory called Birds and finally two items there: Eagle and Hawk. The parent category Animals is linked to menu.

The regular K2 SEF URLs are right now like:
Animals (category): http://domain/animals
Birds (subcategory): http://domain/animals/itemlist/category/4-birds
Eagle (item): http://domain/animals/item/3-eagle
Hawk (item): http://domain/animals/item/4-hawk

With the new extension for SEF Advance you get:
Animals (category): http://domain/animals/
Birds (subcategory): http://domain/animals/birds/
Eagle (item): http://domain/animals/birds/eagle/
Hawk (item): http://domain/animals/birds/hawk/

It works for unlimited category depth. As you can see there are no IDs nor strange words in the URLs and they are far more logical reflecting your content structure. The other K2 views are also covered with improved URLs.

You will notice there is no "k2" component prefix in the URLs either which was the case in all previous extensions for 3rd party components. This is possible thanks to a new API format in SEF Advance which allows for this to be skipped (will require SEF Advance v2.3.1 or later). As K2 is often used as a replacement for Joomla's own content component and tightly connected to the core, I figured you will appreciate this feature as URLs become far more advanced and simple.

The extension is almost completed and will be available soon for free download to all SEF Advance users. I would appreciate your help through this testing phase though.

How can you help?

If you have a well developed K2 site (preferably the latest version 2.3) with many categories and content and wouldn't mind me testing the extension there please contact me with your admin password and FTP info. You will most certainly get the access to the extension first in that case.

Thank you!

Hello,

Yes, providing you have same titles for categories and subcategories as you had with your sections / categories in Joomla core. K2 export should take care of that automatically.

Feel free to download the free trial and test.

No, it will not be used in K2. In that case you need to reorganize your content and have only one category in K2 which should be named as your previous section.

Yet another question: how does the K2 extension distinguish between Joomla article URLs and K2 article URLs?

Thanks.

Any news about UberPageBreak pagination links? I need only this feature to convert my website to K2.

Thanks.

Hi Saka,
i tried to paginate a K2 article and I optained some URLs width the ending parameter "limitstart": /?limitstart=1 for the second page, /?limitstart=2 for the third page and so on...

Thanks.

multipage links for standard joomla article ends wigth a number, whithout the "limitstart" parameter:

myarticle
myarticle/1/
myarticle/2/

I'm trying to reproduce the same Joomla URLs

Another question: i created a new menu item (alias = menu-item) that points to a k2 category (title alias = my-category). The URLs of K2 article are like this:
menu-item/article-alias
and not like this:
my-category/article-alias

Is this a bug?

It's different in K2, not a big deal I think.

I'm trying to preserve ALL the old URLs of my joomla articles in the conversion to K2 articles. I have a lot of articles divided in multiple pages so for me it's important how the page number is handled in the URL.

It's not a bug, it has to be that way in order to find correct component and Itemid so we can skip "k2" prefix in URLs. Just have the same menu names as category names.

Ok, thanks.