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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
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Because also Google and other robots translate these letters and they equal them.
Also lot of people do not use punctuation symbols, they got used to write emails without punctuation, because it cause troubles for email clients to read them.
Then I suppose crawlers started to equal those letters, because sometime they are in use and sometime they don't.
Nobody use foreign characters in URLs anyway.
Dean,
can you give some idea how to make this possible. Maybe some code for one letter and I will do (equal) on other letters myself .-)
Dean there is one issue i am consedering. There is no way for me to uninstall or deactivate this plugin since it is not visible in plugin manager etc... Is there a query which will uninstall it ?
Dean there is one issue i am consedering. There is no way for me to uninstall or deactivate this plugin since it is not visible in plugin manager etc... Is there a query which will uninstall it ?
Click Plugin-Manger and delete it - then remove the lines you added in your .htaccess file
*EDIT - I just reread your post, you stated it's not visible in your plugin-manager but it should be...just checked my admincp and it's there for me.
I asked T2DMan if he was ever going to make his google sitemap mod compatible with your rewrite hack, basically he says it's more damaging to have this installed than to not have it.
His words exactly :
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Meantime, I dont want to add any credibility to a rewrite script that I consider is so half done that its worthless, and in fact damaging.
What are your thoughts on that? I certainly don't agree with him.
I asked T2DMan if he was ever going to make his google sitemap mod compatible with your rewrite hack, basically he says it's more damaging to have this installed than to not have it.
His words exactly :
What are your thoughts on that? I certainly don't agree with him.
At the moment it's in beta, of course there are problems. But all these issues are fixed in the version I shall release soon
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