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As mentioned in my last post, I have now managed to get a couple of blogging extensions installed and have been pruning my menus. I had planned to re-build these after migration to 1.5 to better fit my new Joomla Blog concept.

On examining one of the submenus I had not intended to change, I noticed something strange.

The menu in question was the one for my Blog Categories. I have one section called Joomla Blog and then a bunch of categories:

• General Joomla
• Joomla News
• Joomla Tips
• Joomla SEO
• Migrating to Joomla 1.5

http://www.makeajoomlablog.com/migrating-to-joomla-15.html

However, the links to the others contained an extra word... "blogcategories".

http://www.makeajoomlablog.com/general-joomla-blogcategories-28.html

I couldn't figure out where the word was coming from. Eventually I opened up the menu item and saw that this was the actual alias of the item:

I didn't enter that alias!

What must have happened is tha the alias got created by the migrator tool.

The fix is simple, open the links and then delete the alias and then save. This will allow Joomla to regenerate it based on the title.

If you are having problems with SEF URL's after migration, open up your menus to check this hasn't happened to you.