Remove date from permalinks

[Andrea]

I upgraded from 2.9 to 3.05 and found a world of changes. My biggest one being that in the previous version we had coded the links to only go to a “main” event page for any recurring event. So if it was any recurring Christmas it would link to http://www.url.com/holiday/christmas/ and not the date like http://www.url.com/holiday/christmas/2013-12-25/ . It was really easy to do on the last version, but I can’t seem to find in this version how to do that again.

Any idea how to remove the date from the end of the link?

Thanks for any help you can give.

[Andrea]

Just an update:

I actually tried to roll back to use my previous version since I did not want to have a zillion url’s for holidays that should only have one link, but when I did I seemed to lose a bunch of my events on the front end. They looked like they were still available in the admin, but they did not show up on the calendar.

The script is forcing all links to a date link and as mentioned above and I can’t seem to find a way to stop it. I just want clean simple links to holidays/events that are yearly. Don’t need a “Dated event page” for each year. Is there any filter to use or a way to roll back without losing my events?

Thanks.

[Barry]

Hi Andrea, did you follow the rollback process as outlined here?

If I’m understanding you correctly you are manipulating links with some custom code – is that accurate?

[Andrea]

Yes, there was help on the forums last year about removing the date from the end of the event links so they all went to one “main” page and I did that. Now all links are pointing to individual event date pages and I am getting 301’s from my original links to these new links.

Anyway to stop the forced 301 so the links can just go directly to a single page for the event? It does it for non-recurring events, so is there a way to do this for recurring events?

I have an older copy of 2-something. What version is the newest version that I could downgrade to and still have the old features.

I love the new version, it’s got lots of upgrades, but the multiple 301’s to dated pages makes this a SEO nightmare.

Thanks for your help. I appreciate it.

[Barry]

If you need to downgrade it is probably best to move back to 2.0.11. Do understand that that will severely limit our ability to offer you support, however.

A strategy for downgrading is as per the link in my last post. I hope that helps – and of course we’re sorry to hear that our 3.x releases aren’t meeting your needs here.

[Andrea]

Thank you for your reply. So there is no way whatsoever to remove the automatic 301 to a dated page? Can you tell me where in the script the 301 is happening and where the date is being added. Last version it was a simple “addeventdate” call that was removed. Now it seems to not be working.

Is there anything else I can do? I realize this was a big update, but losing pages is a huge issue.
Thanks again for your help.

[Barry]

Can we roll back a step?

Quite possible I’m missing something here, but when you refer to “forced 301s” can you provide a little more detail? As far as I’m aware, navigating directly to a recurring instance of an event does not result in any HTTP redirects.

[Andrea]

If you have a recurring event say like Christmas, and you type in http://www.url.com/event/christmas/ it will 301 forward you to the url of the next recurring “Christmas” so it would actually go to http://www.url.com/event/christmas/2013-12-25/ . There is no way to just go to http://www.url.com/event/christmas/. In the older version you could go to just the main recurring url without the attached date on it, but you can’t in this version.

Is it possible that it’s not supposed to do that? That would solve a few issues for me.

Thanks again.

[Barry]

OK, I see what you mean now and that is indeed intentional, I believe, as it will attempt to take you to the next occurring instance of that event (in most cases this is desirable – and also in a sense transparent as the event description etc are shared between all instances of the event and the visitor is redirected without any further action on their part).

If you want to put forward a case for change you can certainly do so at tribe.uservoice.com and this will also allow other users to show their support for the idea. Right now I’m afraid there’s not much else we can offer to help.

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