Peter Olvecky

Hi guys,

same problem here – loading problems. I suppose it’s due to the live check of the SEO status.

Could you please let us decide in Settings whether we want the live check or not, please?

That would quickly solve the problem.

Thank you,
Peter

Hi Alex,

thanks for the prompt reply. So let me first explain why I’m using your plugin in first place.

As I’m not a programmer, I don’t exactly understand why the URL structure in WP is done the way it is. What I know for sure is that if the site architecture is reflected in the URL structure, then I should’t get a 404 page when requesting any part of the URL.

That means, if the links to category pages are structured like

https://www.example.com/category/category-name/

then requesting the URL

https://www.example.com/category/

should lead to a page, ideally with a list of all categories. This principle should be applied to tags, pagination, authors and so on, basically universally throughout the whole site. Pagination is a bit specific, but the principle remains the same.

Unfortunately, most of the template designers don’t care about this issue and you get a 404 page when requesting the “root” of the taxonomy URL.

This is where a plugin like yours comes handy and that’s the reason why I was asking if you can include all of these unnecessary URL parts into your plugin so that they can be removed from URL paths.

To be specific, here is what I want to achieve:

Post formats

FYI: By post formats I mean the type/format of articles in the blog (https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Post_Formats).

The default URL structure now looks like this:

https://www.example.com/type/format-name/

and I would like to have this:

https://www.example.com/format-name/

Authors

The default URL structure now looks like this:

https://www.example.com/author/author-name/

and I would like to have this:

https://www.example.com/author-name/

Pagination

The default URL structure now looks like this:

https://www.example.com/page/2/

and I would like to have this:

https://www.example.com/2/

I hope now it’s clear. Should you have any further questions to clarify my intent please let me know.

Thank you,
Peter

Hi Stefan,

you’re welcome. Looking forward for the update. And thanks for the great work!

Cheers,
Peter

Oh, and I forgot to mention the base slug for pagination as well. I would be great to have the option to get rid of the /page/ and have only the numbers added at the end of the URL. Thanks.

Excellent, mate. Thank you!

I’ve just checked the once again the wildcard usage and have one more request/suggestion:

As I’m mostly using your plugin to display download lists, could you also add an option to Default List Stye settings as “Title (Extension, Filesize)”, please? That would be exactly what I need.

Maybe you could add an input to define custom output style for lists the way it can be defined for single downloads. Just an idea (o:

Thanks once again. Cheers!

Hi Ashley,

you’re welcome (o: Thanks for the offer, I’ll wait for the update, no problem.

Thanks,
Peter

Hi guys,

I’d like to vote for the categories feature as well. As for me, the sooner it will be available the better (o:

Cheers,
Peter