I imported posts from Wordpress to Joomla I have created a category blog_post to which they are all assigned I have not so far as I am aware set any option to adjust or set paramaters to effect the aliases and the alias are all of the format "this-is-the-title"
However in the SEF process, Joomla is adding the create date/time as a directory and then inserting the article number at the begining of the article Thus an article with an alias "mydomain.co.uk/Interesting-article-to-read" would become "mydomain.co.uk/2016-05-05-12-06-36/234Interesting-article-to-read"
If it makes a difference the Joomla is 3.5.1 I am not using any other re-writing product other than comes with joomla Other pages and menus not imported do not display this behaviour.
I do have to have an entry in .haccess which converts the old blog alias from myolddomain/year/alias to mydomain/alias however, I have tesed this and it is working well.
I am not an expert with Joomla by any means so any help greatfully received. Regards
In the Joomla Global configuration page there is settings for url rewriting. Did you try that?
I recommend you try this 1. http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/extension/site-management/url-redirection/non-sef-to-sef 2. http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/extension/site-management/sef/sef-wizard-for-joomla