By cnolle on

Howdy,

I am currently working on a site which uses taxonomy throughout. I have setup taxonomy in the following way:

taxonomy/term1/term2

I want to make term1 and term2 a top-level page so the end user can control the content via Create Content/Content and so that I can completely control the taxonomy overview page using either views or something along those lines. I don't want to rely on the taxonomy description for these. I have tried to override the taxonomy pages with views but that doesn't seem to be possible.

I have also tried using the Taxonomy Redirect module, however it creates these very non-sensible urls like http://website.com/This+Is+A+Taxonomy+Term which are no good and not very SEO friendly either and it is also only possible to redirect them on a per vocabulary and not per terms basis. I am using print_terms throughout the site to create a 'tag' like link structure and these all link to the taxonomy terms. Is it possible to rename the URLs generated by Taxonomy Redirect perhaps by defining the 'taxonomy_redirect_custom_term_path' function in my theme?

I know it is pretty much impossible to overwrite taxonomy URLs (or at least I have not figured out how to do it).

My question is, is there another way around this this issue? Perhaps a .htaccess solution even though its not optimal?

I hope this makes sense, if anyone has any questions let me know.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Best,
Christian

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Comments

nevets’s picture

nevets commented

The standard taxonomy path for a listing of content is taxonomy/term/{tid} where {tid} is a taxonomy term id (a number). Views with the taxonomy_term view that can be used to override this path for all terms (it is disabled by default). You can click the 'add' link for this view to make a copy you can customize.

Now depending on what you mean by "end user". if you mean the site owner with the ability to edit category/taxonomy information you might want to look at the Taxonomy Introduction module.

PRFB’s picture

PRFB commented

I want to do much the same thing, and thought Taxonomy Redirect would work, but the limitation of one destination per vocabulary is a big problem for me.

Best I've come up with so far is a 301 redirect, and I'm not sure how SEO-friendly that would be in this case.

There's probably also a way to read the taxonomy from a node and generate a block with the desired links in a separate block. But feels like there should be an easier way....

PRFB’s picture

PRFB commented

I think I figured something out. Check out Related Links and its "Discovered Links" feature.

In my case, I have News and Pictures which are assigned to taxonomy terms for certain brands. I also have Guides to those brands. I wanted to point users (and Google) to the Guides more than a taxonomy list.

So, I tell Related Links to include Guides, and I make the first page of each Guide (they're multi-page Books) "sticky at top of lists" so it turns up ahead of the follow-up pages.

Hope that works for you, too!

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socialnicheguru commented

good idea.

Chris

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phKU’s picture

phKU commented

I know it is pretty much impossible to overwrite taxonomy URLs (or at least I have not figured out how to do it).

I still can't figure out what is impossible with Drupal. There's an API function right out the box for that:

custom_url_rewrite_inbound

The 'q' variable will then reflect the new url.