Adding Category name to URL?

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Adding Category name to URL?

Post by deverill » Fri Apr 01, 2011 2:26 pm

Hi gang,
We have a tour ticket sales store with items that are in a category and 10 of these categories are in a main category. It looks like this:
Category WashingtonDC has sub-categories Land, Water, Museum, Packages. Under Land we have a "Barefoot Glass-Walking" tour. We don't sell many of these :wink:

I'm looking for a way to have the SEO friendly URL say http://mystore.com/WashingtonDC/Barefoo ... lking.aspx (Land is not necessary here). Any ideas out there of a good way to do this? I know how to use the custom url to make it mystore.com/Barefoot-Glass-Walking but how do I programmatically get the category (city) in as a "folder" in the URL?

Thanks!
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Re: Adding Category name to URL?

Post by jmestep » Sun Apr 03, 2011 11:19 am

You can do that in 7.0.6
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Re: Adding Category name to URL?

Post by deverill » Mon Apr 04, 2011 11:58 am

Thanks Judy, I figured out what I needed. We're on 7.0.6 but instead of the Custom URL being just about names, you can put "WashingtonDC/Barefoot..." in as the Custom URL and it will use that. I was just limiting myself unnecessarily.
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