SEO URL for Blogs (Opencart Vs Journal3)

Hi.

I'm hoping someone can offer me some sage advice as I've been going round in circles on this one for over a week now....

I'm using Opencart V3.0.3.2, with the Journal 3 theme installed and recently I added an SEO pack in order to clean up my URLs (www.kublox.co.uk)

https://www.opencart.com/index.php?rout ... ack&page=2

Overall I was super pleased with the extension and it worked really well. However I've just written my first blog using the Journal 3 Blog interface and have now discovered that it's not compatible with the "SEO Pack" extension.

https://www.kublox.co.uk/blog/journal3/ ... _post_id=3

The Journal 3 blog page has an option to configure the SEO URL, however with the SEO pack extension enabled it doesn't work. If I disable the "SEO Pack" the Blog URL works perfectly, however all my other site URLS go back to being their previously ugly selves?!!

I've contacted Journal who say that it's the fault of the Extension...
.. and I've been trying to contact the SEO pack developer but I'm struggling to get a response (... although will keep trying in parallel).

I was just hoping to get some fresh ideas in the mean time? Do I have any sensible alternatives to get around this?

Thanks In Advance

KT

smith_ka wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 02, 2020 6:09 pm

The Journal 3 blog page has an option to configure the SEO URL, however with the SEO pack extension enabled it doesn't work. If I disable the "SEO Pack" the Blog URL works perfectly, however all my other site URLS go back to being their previously ugly selves?!!

KT

Is there an error page/code or it just doesn't work? May be you can find out how the Journal 3 SEO works, and disable everything but the way it implements URL for the blog.

rjcalifornia wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 03, 2020 1:44 am

Is there an error page/code or it just doesn't work? May be you can find out how the Journal 3 SEO works, and disable everything but the way it implements URL for the blog.

The only way I can get it to work (which is how I have it set now) is if I leave all the Journal Blog URL option blank and let it default to it's own URL of https://www.kublox.co.uk/blog/journal3/ ... _post_id=3

or bizarrely... if I enter "blog/journal3/blog/post?journal_blog_post_id=3" into the Journal 3 Blog URL option it works fine but links me to the ridiculous URL of..... https://www.kublox.co.uk/blog/journal3/ ... _post_id=3...

.. and I've just tried entering "post?journal_blog_post_id=3" as the SEO keyword and it works but takes me to.... https://www.kublox.co.uk/blog/journal3/ ... _post_id=3

I just don't get it?..

If I use the SEO Keyword "Cavaletti_101" It takes me to the correct URL of https://www.kublox.co.uk/blog/journal3/ ... aletti_101 but shows a "the page you requested cannot be found" error.

Sadly I don't have the knowledge or skill to figure out how the Journal 3 SEO works within my timeframe. I know its optimistic but I was hoping for a relatively quick & easy fix?

Thanks for taking the time to reply though!!

I understand. I was referring to deactivate in the code the other SEO settings in Journal but the blog one.

Looks like you will have to wait for one of the developers to respond.

rjcalifornia wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 03, 2020 6:57 am

I understand. I was referring to deactivate in the code the other SEO settings in Journal but the blog one.

Looks like you will have to wait for one of the developers to respond.

I agree the developers are going to be my best bet for a quick-fix on this one!

Fortunately they've been in touch overnight & hopefully will now help get it sorted. I suspect everyone's just massively back-logged after the COVID-19 impact and I'm just going to have to exercise some patience while people catch up. To be fair they've been great so far so fingers x'd they can get to the bottom of it. Will post a response if/when we get a solution.. I've seen similar unresolved threads so guess I'm not the only one out there struggling.

Many Thanks

KT

Problem resolved by extension developers! Technical term is "tweaked" so as to be compatible with Journal 3 Theme Blogs.

smith_ka wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 06, 2020 10:18 pm

Problem resolved by extension developers! Technical term is "tweaked" so as to be compatible with Journal 3 Theme Blogs.

Great! I'm glad it was solved!

Hey there!

I have pretty much the same problem with that. Can you please share the fix with me?

Thanks very much!
Peter

smith_ka wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 06, 2020 10:18 pm

Problem resolved by extension developers! Technical term is "tweaked" so as to be compatible with Journal 3 Theme Blogs.