Ok, now that we solved the VM/CBSubs challenge, have a new one.

We have this componen/plugin installed

extensions.cesky-web.eu/documentation/multi-category-for-joomla

Here's our problem we just noticed. We you have a plan and you have two categories selected, and even if both of those categories are chosen in CBSubs, CBSubs quits protecting the article with two categories.

Any thoughts?

Thanks for the follow-up. Navigating it normally via menuing does indeed work. Our challenge is that once you select two categories for the same article (via the backend with CW), the frontend article (at the read more) is no longer protected, even if you choose both cats for CBSubs to protect.

I have reached out to the multi-cats dev for assistance with this one. The URL protection would work fine for menuing or other high-level requirements but, we need it at the read-more

This was a stretch to reach out here because CBSubs works fine with just one category selected or without this product installed

Let me ask a question, would the files that need to be tweaked to support this in this zip?

cbplug_int_cbsubscontent.zip

We're looking into this now to see if it's possible to tweak a few files to support this functionality. Our challenge is we have a site with 77,000 articles, growing by 1000 a month (medical journal site) and in the past, the editors posted articles twice to have them in two categories and CW Multi-cats seemed like the fix. Well, we know as do most that when you install another addon that monkeys with core features, it breaks something else and thats what happened here and now we need to get some code customized to get this working since it's so important for cross posting.

The reason for multi-categories is menu navigation. Thats the bane of Joomla's existence is if you can navigate via menus, then it's easy to organize content.