How to set a root article as subpath url for children articles

Question

How to set a root article as sub-path URL for children articles?

Meaning, I have a root page named article0, and article{1-100} under this root article.

I want to display the article0 under the URL website.wb/article0, but also website.wb/article0/article{1-100}under the former…

For now, I can put articles under article0, but I cannot get the corresponding URL… And seems I cannot use Hidden Menus and Categories to get the result.

So is there any solution built-in in Joomla, or I have, at least, to override /components/com_content/category, or coding components, etc…

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Edit

The above mentioned override of com_content/category/, is to put in default.php this content:

    <?php
    $table_plan         = JTable::getInstance('Content', 'JTable');
    $table_plan_return  = $table_plan->load('2');
    echo $table_plan->introtext;
    ?>

where '2' is the id of the root article. Then I put this category as link in the wanted menu.

Answer 1

Ok, this is a bit hack-ish, but it can work:

Set article0 as a category itself, not as an article. Use the Category Description field to hold what you currently have as the article text.

Set article1-100 as articles in the category. That way /article0 is the category (Blog or List) page, and the rest are /article0/articlex as articles within that category.

Joomla likes to list articles on the category page (the Category Blog menu item type might be able to be convinced to display 0 articles, haven't tested it). That means you will probably have to write a template override in order to do a clean display of it.

That's the simplest solution I can see, at the moment, unless you can find a third party SEF URL generator that will use menu item parent/child relationships to build the URLs. Other ideas are using a third-party generator to manually create all 101 URLs you're talking about (can be done, but seems tedious to maintain) or writing your own SEF extension to do what you want.