Pretty Url not robust to title change

[labopichot]

I bought the addon pretty url

https://addons.prestashop.com/fr/url-redirections/16633-pretty-urls-supprimez-les-id-et-les-numeros-de-l-url.html

 

I found the urls are not robust to title change, contrary to the classical id-title treatment in prestashop.

 

For instance: The original url from prestashop is

https://labopichot.com/fr/2-piluliers-plastique

 

if I change the title of the category to piluliers plastique france, the new url is

https://labopichot.com/fr/2-piluliers-plastique-france 

but the old url still works

https://labopichot.com/fr/2-piluliers-plastique 

This is nice because I can keep updating titles without my clients having broken links in the email I sent pointing to the old version of my website.

 

With pretty urls, we loose this robustness, there is a 301 redirect from 

https://labopichot.com/fr/2-piluliers-plastique 

to

https://labopichot.com/fr/piluliers-plastique

but if I change the title of the page, to piluliers plastique france, the new url in pretty url becomes

https://labopichot.com/fr/piluliers-plastique-france

but the old url

https://labopichot.com/fr/piluliers-plastique

is broken.

 

This is a big issue for our sales department which sends many quotes per day and we cannot afford links to be broken. I have thus deactivated this module. Is there a way to make pretty url robust to url change like the original prestashop treatment (using the category id in the background ?).

 

Thanks,

Anthony

 

[Guest]

Yes, by buying an alternative and try before you buy next time. We came across the same issues which the author is not interested in fixing.