I have today installed Articles Anywhere Pro and created a neat blog-style layout for events in three columns. The articles are filtered based on a mandatory custom calendar field - which is the date of the event - and the page only shows events in the future.

Unfortunately, I've noticed that the URL for the individual articles is not search engine friendly, e.g:

.../events-article-with-aa-blog-grid-display?view=article&id=3:event-number-3&catid=8

instead of:

.../events-article-with-aa-blog-grid-display/event-number-three.

The breadcrumb trail does show the article title, though, when on the individual article's page:

..."You are here: Events Article with AA Blog Grid Display / Events / Event number 3"

Normally, to avoid these non-SEF URLs, there would be a category blog with associated articles. But I don't want to use a category blog because I don't want people looking at past events. As I won't be the one adding events, I can't be sure that front-end users adding articles would know how and where to change the unpublish and unfeature dates, hence the use of the custom calendar field.

What can I do?

Thanks for the suggestion.

The plugins (System - SEF and System - Regular Labs Cache Cleaner) are now at the bottom of system plugins before the Task plugins, but unfortunately, that didn't work.

Just to clarify: the original article with the AA code in is ok and has an SEF URL; it's the links to the articles created by the code that are non-SEF.

Here you are:



Thanks

Thank you, Peter.

As I said in a previous post, enabling the 'Events' menu item means that the older items do not get hidden based on the custom field date, which is why I wasn't using the Events menu item in the first place.