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Info: K2 2.6.5 removes important SEO options
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12 years 3 months ago #109754
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Info: K2 2.6.5 removes important SEO options was created by Matt
Fotis introduced in the K2 2.6.4 news these following options:
"Default parent menu for user pages (optional)"
"Default parent menu for tag listings (optional)"
These options kill the duplicated URL issue with tags and user pages. But for some reason, he removed these options in K2 2.6.5, which means you have yet again duplicated URLs with tags and author pages. The new SEF advance options can't do nothing about this.
At this point, there hasn't been a news to K2 2.6.5 posted, so lets hope that Fotis can explain his decision to remove these options soon.
In the meantime, simply don't update to K2 2.6.5.
"Default parent menu for user pages (optional)"
"Default parent menu for tag listings (optional)"
These options kill the duplicated URL issue with tags and user pages. But for some reason, he removed these options in K2 2.6.5, which means you have yet again duplicated URLs with tags and author pages. The new SEF advance options can't do nothing about this.
At this point, there hasn't been a news to K2 2.6.5 posted, so lets hope that Fotis can explain his decision to remove these options soon.
In the meantime, simply don't update to K2 2.6.5.
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12 years 3 months ago #109755
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Replied by xaoc on topic Re: Info: K2 2.6.5 removes important SEO options
Are they back in 2.6.6 ?
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12 years 3 months ago #109756
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Replied by Matt on topic Re: Info: K2 2.6.5 removes important SEO options
There is no K2 2.6.6. The latest version is 2.6.5.
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12 years 3 months ago #109757
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Replied by xaoc on topic Re: Info: K2 2.6.5 removes important SEO options
they was deleted only from config.xml
variables are still in the plugins/system/k2.php
variables are still in the plugins/system/k2.php
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12 years 3 months ago #109758
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Replied by Matt on topic Re: Info: K2 2.6.5 removes important SEO options
You can put these back in the config.xml, but they won't work anymore. I checked this.
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12 years 3 months ago #109759
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Replied by xaoc on topic Re: Info: K2 2.6.5 removes important SEO options
did you uncomment this line:
//define('K2_USERS_ITEMID', $componentParams->get('defaultUsersItemid'));
in plugins/system/k2.php?
//define('K2_USERS_ITEMID', $componentParams->get('defaultUsersItemid'));
in plugins/system/k2.php?
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12 years 3 months ago #109760
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Replied by Matt on topic Re: Info: K2 2.6.5 removes important SEO options
No I didn't, but thanks for the heads-up.
// Define the default Itemid for users and tags. Defined here instead of the K2HelperRoute for performance reasons.
// UPDATE : Removed in K2 2.6.5. All K2 links without Itemid now use the anyK2Link defined in the router helper.
//define('K2_USERS_ITEMID', $componentParams->get('defaultUsersItemid'))
//define('K2_TAGS_ITEMID', $componentParams->get('defaultTagsItemid'));
So that explains it then. I will do some testing now and report my results shortly.
// Define the default Itemid for users and tags. Defined here instead of the K2HelperRoute for performance reasons.
// UPDATE : Removed in K2 2.6.5. All K2 links without Itemid now use the anyK2Link defined in the router helper.
//define('K2_USERS_ITEMID', $componentParams->get('defaultUsersItemid'))
//define('K2_TAGS_ITEMID', $componentParams->get('defaultTagsItemid'));
So that explains it then. I will do some testing now and report my results shortly.
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12 years 3 months ago #109761
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Replied by Matt on topic Re: Info: K2 2.6.5 removes important SEO options
As I thought, you still have duplicated URLs with tag and user pages when those lines in the k2.php are commented.
Removed in K2 2.6.5. All K2 links without Itemid now use the anyK2Link defined in the router helper.
The advanced SEF options ain't do nothing about this. I don't know what this "anyK2Link" is supposed to mean, but it obviously isn't working. Tags and user pages links all start with "component/k2" if not assigned to a menu, resulting in multiple duplicated URLs accross your site.
Removed in K2 2.6.5. All K2 links without Itemid now use the anyK2Link defined in the router helper.
The advanced SEF options ain't do nothing about this. I don't know what this "anyK2Link" is supposed to mean, but it obviously isn't working. Tags and user pages links all start with "component/k2" if not assigned to a menu, resulting in multiple duplicated URLs accross your site.
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12 years 3 months ago - 12 years 3 months ago #109762
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Replied by xaoc on topic Re: Info: K2 2.6.5 removes important SEO options
comment them out and write a new issue about anyK2Link: duplicated urls are back :(:(:( :angry: :angry: :angry: Its in route.php
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12 years 3 months ago #109763
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Replied by Matt on topic Re: Info: K2 2.6.5 removes important SEO options
I doubt that Fotis or lefteris would pay much attention to it, seeing the enormous amount of
unaddressed issues in the SVN
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I start to think that they don't take their own project serious.
I start to think that they don't take their own project serious.
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12 years 3 months ago #109764
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Replied by Matt on topic Re: Info: K2 2.6.5 removes important SEO options
So Fotis now has posted a K2 2.6.5 news and I don't have facebook, yahoo, aol and hotmail to comment on the article (he disabled the default K2 comment system for some reason, but that's ok, because he wasn't approving comments anyway) I'm going to ask the question here.
In the source code of the system/k2.php file I found this:
I have bolded the important part, performance reasons. Can you elaborate a bit more? Does enabling the duplicated tag/user pages options in K2 2.6.4 result in performance issues? How many queries are executed compared to the new method in K2 2.6.5?
My next question is also releated to performance issues. In K2 2.6.4 the description for the advanced SEF settings is as follows:
This sounds as if the new URLs are stored in the database just like sh404 sef URLs. Is this the case? Can you elaborate more?
In the source code of the system/k2.php file I found this:
/ Define the default Itemid for users and tags. Defined here instead of the K2HelperRoute for performance reasons.
// UPDATE : Removed in K2 2.6.5. All K2 links without Itemid now use the anyK2Link defined in the router helper.
//define('K2_USERS_ITEMID', $componentParams->get('defaultUsersItemid'));
//define('K2_TAGS_ITEMID', $componentParams->get('defaultTagsItemid'));
I have bolded the important part, performance reasons. Can you elaborate a bit more? Does enabling the duplicated tag/user pages options in K2 2.6.4 result in performance issues? How many queries are executed compared to the new method in K2 2.6.5?
My next question is also releated to performance issues. In K2 2.6.4 the description for the advanced SEF settings is as follows:
Enabling this option will modify all K2 URLs making them more SEO friendly. However this option will add a significant performance hit for websites with more than a few hundred K2 items in them. Use with caution. This option is disabled by default.
This sounds as if the new URLs are stored in the database just like sh404 sef URLs. Is this the case? Can you elaborate more?
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