“Unlocking PrestaShop: Clean Navigation and the Quest for the Perfect URL” analyzes the challenge of improving user experience by removing search queries from site URLs. It dissects efforts taken to modify core files and develop codes by community members to overcome PrestaShop’s URL clutter caused since version 1.6, which appends every search query to the URL, complicating the web address and impacting SEO. While initial efforts to solve this problem, referred to as “hacking the core,” only partially succeeded, modifications to the SearchController.php file eventually removed search queries from URLs without affecting search results. This resounding success testifies to the power of collective innovation. This account also correlates to the need for simplicity in other areas like nutrition, underlining the importance of collaboration and shared knowledge.

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