URLs excluding the recordID somehow?

Feature Requests
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For SEO and social sharing purposes, it would be great to have shorter dynamic URLs. Ideally, I’d like
“website.com/items/item1/r/rec1234567890abcdefghijklmn”
to ALSO work when entering
“website.com/item1” (or, less ideally: “website.com/items/item1”)

… Is this something you’re planning? I’m actually considering manually adding server redirects to all listing URLs on my site in this format. Is that a bad idea?

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Hello @niclasj,

Please note that you can define custom SEO parameters for each List item page within the Airtable base. And you can add shorter slugs :slight_smile:

Check this doc > List Details - Softr Docs

Thanks,

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Thanks, I’ve tried this and it gives me “website.com/items/SLUG/r/recordID”. So no, using the SEO:Slug field doesn’t remove the recordID from the URL. Looks like I might have to use these long urls, might add redirects for the most important pages.

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Yes, currently record ID cannot be removed from the URL for now, this is how it works.

Perhaps, you can use the redirect feature to make a pretty URL for a single page, but not for all the records.

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Yes, I understand this. My suggestion in the first post was for Softr to auto-generate a “short URL” version for ALL dynamic pages and redirect that to the long URL. Hope this can be considered.

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Got it, sorry for misunderstanding @niclasj :slight_smile:

I will add this feature request surely :slight_smile:

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