Ultimate SEO v3 (and v2.200) [Support Thread]

So I'm guessing nothing looks wrong in the coding? :lookaroun

Except for the user-agent rule and the one that follows, that's as-shipped USU.

I'm just not sure how this rule is going to affect the overall rewrites:

RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

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Originally Posted by lat9

RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

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This will return a 403 forbidden error to the client.
The Dot (.) in regex means any character; Dot Star (.*) means 0 or more of any character; F = Forbidden; L = last and stop processing the rule set

Just an FYI, I put the bot blocking code at the top of the .htaccess in my shop folder and also added it to the .htaccess in the public_html folder. They are now being blocked.

Is it possible to customize the URLs generated by the Ultimate SEO module? For example, instead of default URLs like 'page 2', 'page 3', and 'page 4', I’d like to assign specific, descriptive names that reflect the content of each page.

This could potentially be achieved by introducing a custom mapping file, such as:

PHP Code:

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return [
    'page_2' => 'faq',
    'page_3' => 'wholesale',
    'page_4' => 'services',
]; 


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The module could reference this file during URL generation and, if a custom name is defined, use it instead of the default. This approach would retain existing functionality for undefined pages while offering greater flexibility for SEO and user-friendly URLs.

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Originally Posted by marcopolo

Is it possible to customize the URLs generated by the Ultimate SEO module? For example, instead of default URLs like 'page 2', 'page 3', and 'page 4', I’d like to assign specific, descriptive names that reflect the content of each page.

This could potentially be achieved by introducing a custom mapping file, such as:

PHP Code:

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return [
    'page_2' => 'faq',
    'page_3' => 'wholesale',
    'page_4' => 'services',
]; 


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The module could reference this file during URL generation and, if a custom name is defined, use it instead of the default. This approach would retain existing functionality for undefined pages while offering greater flexibility for SEO and user-friendly URLs.

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I've created a GitHub issue (https://github.com/lat9/usu/issues/60) to record your request.

v3.1.2 of USU is now available for download: https://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=132

This version contains the correction for GitHub issue #59 (Undefined variable $value_pair)

Is there a way to quickly get the URI of a given category?

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Originally Posted by retched

Is there a way to quickly get the URI of a given category?

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Off the top of my head (so let me know if it doesn't work):

zen_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT, 'cPath=' . $categories_id);

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Originally Posted by lat9

Off the top of my head (so let me know if it doesn't work):

zen_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT, 'cPath=' . $categories_id);

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That did it!