After installing the 1.5.5 upgrade all of my urls changed. This means that all of my bookmarks (350 diggs alone) are no longer valid. I am not getting much help trying to find out how to revert joomla back to its old sef method, but I figured since the old urls still work, There might be an edit I could make to the plugin to use the old urls. I know you probably aren't all that excited about someone editing your module, but if I am to continue using it (and I don't like the other ones out there) then I need to fix it.

To give you an idea of what changed incase you dont already know, here are 2 examples of my urls:
Old: blueballdomains.com/domain-names-blog/34...oomla-15-module.html
New: blueballdomains.com/domain-names-blog/58...oomla-15-module.html

Both lead to the same page so tricking the plugin into using the old version wont impact my site. Please let me know if you have any ideas where my changes need to be. I am sure if I can find the variable that the plugin reads to get the article url, I could use little php/regex to insert the category into the url and hopefully that would work. Thank you for your time.

Justin
Blueballdomains.com

Ok, I decided to start messing around with it and I think I fixed it. I replaced a line in the php file with the following:
$text = str_replace('***url***', str_replace("'", "", str_replace("/domain-names-blog/","/domain-names-blog/34-blue-ball-domains-blog/", $thisurl), $thisurl), $text);

and it seems to have worked. If you could do me a huge favor and just browse through this code and tell me if you see anything that might break this (I am pretty new to php). I understand this will break this plugin for any other section other then this, but that shouldnt be a problem for me since this is my blog and the rest of my pages arent bookmarked.

If that works then use it, but keep in mind that you'll only be able to use the plugin for that specific section. The real problem is with changing your URL structure though.

The built-in method for migrating old URLs is to add the code to your articles' intro text to specify the different URL to use, but you'll have to do it once for each article.



See the plugin information page on this site for the exact code to use. If you have time to do add that code to each article then that is what I recommend instead of the code change you made.