xeo

Hi xeo and welcome to the forum.

I'm just curious as to why you might be changing the location of children around? Would that be happening regularly? Could you not just put it directly under its ultimate parent?

Well, from my experince I know that  sometimes as site grows  there may be more sections / categories  that  article can be be placed in the future that one cannot forsee right now (like in my example).  By the way, TXP is good at it, i am sure you know this.     

I suppose you want to do this for SEO reasons, but like Diogo said, changing parents like that is not good practice...

Not for SEO. I am not sure in  what  section (parent page)  an article (child page)  will be. Today it is under  site.com/poetry/milton, tomorrow it can be here site.com/poetry/american/revival/milton

I had to setup a similar thing for the cmscritic.com site. Previously it had been running WordPress, which had all the articles living off the root URL. We wanted the new site to maintain all the same URLs as the WordPress site, rather than setting up 301s. So all the articles still live off the root URL, despite the fact that they are actually located within the tree. This is the case for other pages in the site as well. As an example of how to do it, see the cmscritic case study, and the /site/templates/home.php template file code in particular. 

thanx. yes, that's what may be needed. I will take time to read it. it is not that easy to implement for a beginner.

Thanx for the explanation. The problem is not about  the length of urls as such. The reason I want those urls is that pages or articles can be moved from on parent page to another. For example, I have a parent page, say, Poetry and I publish a child page with American poets' stuff, then in the future I may want to divide poetry into American, European etc. poetry pages. Then I have to move my page to the American poetry which is child of the Poetry. In this case my url will be different. I want to avoid it.   

Hi,
I am trying to get url's mode like www.site.com/artilce instead of www.site.com/parent/page/article. Can I achieve this with the plugin?  So far I don't see such an opportunity. If not, can anyone advice how to do that if possible..