After a lot of searching, this has been an issue for a few years.. With NO stock solution or inbuilt solution within K2, it just seems crazy to me to change the address of every single article on you site.

The only solution is to use a commercial SEF component, but that just means if there is a component then it can be done, so why hasnt K2 done it, or provide an option..

I'm less and less inclined to use K2 for my main site until they have resolved this and I think its a main stumbling block for owners of established Joomla sites to convert to K2.

solution is found?

up this them!

I don't want to believe that only option for normal URL rewrite is a paid component.
After all that is something that all other CMS provide for free.
And Joomla itself does this great.

Maybe some htaccess guru can figure out what to write in .htaccess ? If I'm not mistaken URL rewrite function just adds some lines to .htaccess anyway.

I have no problem paying for extra things, I have bought several extensions from Joomla works alone, but URL rewrite doesn't seem a thing I should pay for.