Hello,

Running K2 v2.7.1 and J! v3.6.2.

I'm looking for a way to get breadcrumb and URL to display the 'normal' way like hereunder. I’m using both K2 Breadcrumb & Joomla Breadcrumb to see which one will work better.

Noting that in this example “sub cat” is a sub category using 2 words with alias “sub-cat”
Ideally how it should look:
- On item page: Breadcrumb: Home > Cat > Sub cat > K2 Item and SEF URL: mywebsite.com/cat/sub-cat/k2-item
- On sub-cat page: Home > Cat > Sub cat and SEF URL: mywebsite.com/cat/sub-cat
- On cat page: Home > Cat and SEF URL: mywebsite.com/cat

If I create a Menu for ‘k2 categories’ for Cat (Main Category) only, these are the results:

1. When I navigate on item page using my Menu for ‘k2 categories’, then choose ‘sub cat’ on that page, then choose item on the sub-cat page.
Results : Breadcrumb: Home > Cat > Sub cat > K2 Item and SEF URL: mywebsite.com/cat/sub/k2-item (the only issue here is that URL is showing only 1st part of the alias ‘sub-cat’)

2. When I navigate on sub cat page using my Menu for ‘k2 categories’, then choose ‘sub cat’ on that page OR make use of breadcrumb
Results : Breadcrumb: Home > Cat > Sub cat and SEF URL: mywebsite.com/cat/content/sub-cat (the only issue here is that URL is now adding ‘content’ however ‘sub-cat’ is now displaying correctly)

3 (a) When I navigate on cat page (using my Menu for ‘k2 categories’)
Results : Breadcrumb: Home > Cat and SEF URL (is no more SEF) : mywebsite.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=itemlist&layout=category&task=category&id=2

3 (b) When I navigate on cat page using breadcrumb
Results : Breadcrumb: Home > Cat and SEF URL: mywebsite.com/cat (everything’s perfect here)

I was thinking of rewriting the URLs in htaccess since the item URL exist for example :
redirect mywebsite.com/cat/sub/k2-item to mywebsite.com/cat/sub-cat/k2-item

But sub-cat URL won’t exist and hereunder will provide 404 errors.
redirect mywebsite.com/cat/content/sub-cat to mywebsite.com/cat/sub-cat

P.S If I create Menus for ‘k2 categories’ for Cat and another for sub cat only, then everything will become a mess.
Results for sub cat will be : Breadcrumb: Home > Sub cat and SEF URL: mywebsite.com/sub-cat

k2 parameters snapshot: imgur.com/a/giZss , site is not online actually.

Thanks for any input

Joomla!'s breadcrumbs will display the menu path, regardless of K2 categories and subcategories.

K2 Tools will display K2's full path, even if there are no menu items assigned to a category or its children.

Keeping that in mind you can build your menus either by mapping each of your categories into a separate menu item which will will result into /parent-cat/sub-cat/item menus or, you can use K2's advanced SEF and use (only the last) category as a prefix.
Alternatively you can map only the top level(s) and leave the last URL token to be generated by K2's advanced SEF.

Hello and thanks Krikor,

just to let you know that I was using mega menu and all aliases got messed up.

Everything is now perfect with classic main menu.

Nice to hear that the issue has been resolved :)