New Metadata Patch for Joomla 1.5

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Dec

2007

New Metadata Patch for Joomla 1.5

Written by Steve Burge

Joomlatwork.com have updated their metadata patch for Joomla 1.5 Release Candidate 4. The patch is free to download by clicking here.

What Does the Patch Allow You To Do?

Add Improved Metadata to Menu Items and Content Items

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You can gain control over page titles, the index/noindex tag, plus Google cache and snippet control

Have Improved Control Over Sitewide Metadata from the SEO tab in Global Configuration

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The tab has been greatly extended to include complete control over the default setting for the title tag, removal of the Joomla metatag, custom metadata fields plus Google cache and snippet control.

How does it work?

In a similar way to the current SEF Patch for Joomla 1.0. Everything is done through XML files. With 1.5 you can define custom fields into a separate XML file so that you can add your own metadata fields.

Comments

#1 David Towers 2007-12-21 09:26

This is great news! I look forward to a good SEF URL component coming out... Am not too keen on the cores SEF URLs in 1.5

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#2 joomlatwork 2007-12-21 09:50

We are working on SEF urls for 1.5. We hope to launch this within the coming weeks. Reason is that we are also not too keen on the SEF urls of J1.5.

Richard

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#3 David Towers 2007-12-21 10:09

Great news Richard, look forward to you keeping us posted about that component then!

Thanks for all your hard work!

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#4 Ulas ALKAN 2007-12-31 18:27

it's a great news for me. After the sef url component has been launched . i will start to use J1.5

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#5 Herbert-Jan van Dinther 2008-01-06 14:16

I have it installed on two new Joomla 1.5 website to further investige the SEO Part of this new version and I really, no I mean REALLY like the features that this patch brings!

I love to get my hands on the SEF component...

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#6 David Towers 2008-01-07 03:28

Glad you like the patch Hummerbie... When Richard gets the SEF Url patch out, that will be a big step forward for SEO in Joomla 1.5 in my opinion.

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#7 Amy Stephen 2008-01-10 16:37

Having the Joomla! Core SEF URLs working should be our common goal. So, if people have patches for the router.php files, let's get those patches into core.

Now, I have *yet* to find one person who thinks this URL is drop dead sexy:
http://example.com/menu-item/nn-category/mm-article.html

People are asking at an increasing rate how to "turn off" the numbers in the URL. So, creating system plugins that offer choice in the URL, makes sense. But, those plugins should change the value coming out of the router and going into the router, not change the router files.

The router is like the network inside of Joomla! that directs traffic and ensures the application passes control correctly from one function to the next. There's nothing more "core" than that. If we all share a common goal of supporting the core router system, we can better ensure opportunities are open for all developers and, in turn, we better ensure innovation.

What we want to avoid, as a community, is having many router systems that developers must code to, or worse yet, "development blocks" emerge were developers have to choose which sub-community to join, to the exclusion of the others. In doing so, we would throttle opportunity and innovation.

If you are really for huge SEO advancements, then let's join together in support of a common, core router system for the entire Joomla! community.

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#8 joomlatwork 2008-01-28 08:58

Just launched a demo site of how the SEF URL component will rewrite URLs to give you an idea: demo.smartsef.org

The component will be released the next week(s)

Richard

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#9 Herbert-Jan van Dinther 2008-01-28 16:00

@Amy, I believe that the SEF patch of joomlatwork does not do anything for the URL rewrites and that it is just a matter of time that the functions in this Patch will be in the Core of Joomla. They are thinking in Joomla 1.6?

@Richard, the demo is looking good, I hope your component will end up as a core enhancement as well in the long run.
I would love to use this new component, keep us informed!

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