Major Additions - DC SEO vB URL Rewrite

[high]Removed until further notice[/high]

[DC Seo vB URL Rewrite]

Information

• [high]vBulletin Version:[/high] 3.5.x
• [high]Author:[/high] Dean Clatworthy
• [high]Copyright:[/high] You may use this modification at your own risk. I cannot and will not be held responsible for any damage you may cause to your forums during installation or thereafter. You may not distribute this modification in whole or parts and anyone found doing so faces risk of prosecution. All my modifications are released at vBulletin.org and anyone found releasing them elsewhere also faces risk of prosecution. You may not translate this modification without my prior permission.
• [high]Donations:[/high] I release my modifications for free. If you wish to donate please contact me and I will give you my details. All donations are graciously appreciated.

What does this modification do?
This modification will allow you to automatically have more search engine friendly URLs in your vBulletin. A forum which would normally display as forumdisplay?f=1 will now appear as f1-forumtitle.html and the same with threads. Having keywords in your URL can be of an advantage in search-engine ranking.

Requirements:

• You must have mod_rewrite apache module enabled on your server. Contact your host for more information.
• This will not work well for non-english boards as it strips most non-alpha numeric characters. E.g. ? would be stripped on french boards etc

Installation

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[ILTK]

Yeah I know, but I'd rather downgrade slightly for guests and not risk dupe content, I have of course tried using the forums as a guest and evaluated the changes, and unless you know vbulletin well, you'd never know what was missing, if you do it right it's very small changes overall, like missing lastpost links/lastpost.gifs, just show last post dates instead with no link, sort links on forumdisplays I just downgraded to text instead of a link etc..

And hey, more reasons for real visitors to register

[kafi]

I would love to have this hack, but I need this for 8852-2 charset.

How do I accomplish this. There must be some way to tell that certain character si equal to another charakter like:
é = e

Thank you

[Dean C]

Originally Posted by kafi

I would love to have this hack, but I need this for 8852-2 charset.

How do I accomplish this. There must be some way to tell that certain character si equal to another charakter like:
? = e

Thank you

I'm not going to set it up to allow foreign characters yet until I see documentation on how foreign characters are allowed in URLs.

[Okie]

Thanks and i hope the you add some of the VBseo feature

chick install

[vau7]

Originally Posted by vau7

Found another Bug!

If i want to rate the a thread with this URL:

http://www.rapmatics.de/t384-quotein-bisschen-rapquotep-free-download6-trackskinkerlitzchen.html
there will be an 403 Error!

If I open up this Thread per its real URL everything is normal.

Did you read about this bug? It is not urgent for me, but if this Hack comes out from the betastate it should be fixed.

[Zhen-Xjell]

Originally Posted by vau7

Did you read about this bug? It is not urgent for me, but if this Hack comes out from the betastate it should be fixed.

I tested rating a thread at http://de.castlecops.com/forum using this plugin (and modified to match a bit of http://googletap.com for foreign characters) with absolutely no issues. I can also merge threads with no issues either. I can't seem to replicate the bugs.

[vau7]

Rating at all is not a problem, just in a thread with a URL like this which has beeng generated in this case. I think there was an Problem because the user has used Quotes for the Title.

You can use the new URLs to move particular postings? I cant believe that.

[mfizzel]

Originally Posted by vau7

Rating at all is not a problem, just in a thread with a URL like this which has beeng generated in this case. I think there was an Problem because the user has used Quotes for the Title.

You can use the new URLs to move particular postings? I cant believe that.

what do you mean you can't beleve that? Moving posts/threads works fine, what are you talking about?

[adventideas]

This plugin is working like a charm on our board, but the only problem i'm having with it is that it breaks up pages after 10 posts.

Anybody else experienced this or know how to fix it? I tried to double the post #s from inside the admin, to see if it would just even it out but no matter how many posts I set it to display before splitting the page, it keeps showing only 10 posts inside a thread and then splits the page.

Thanks everyone.

[ChrisSy]

Originally Posted by adventideas

This plugin is working like a charm on our board, but the only problem i'm having with it is that it breaks up pages after 10 posts.

Anybody else experienced this or know how to fix it? I tried to double the post #s from inside the admin, to see if it would just even it out but no matter how many posts I set it to display before splitting the page, it keeps showing only 10 posts inside a thread and then splits the page.

Thanks everyone.

I also noticed problems with the posting pages