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

in line 53 on includes/classes/usu.php i changed

			self::$unicodeEnabled = (@preg_match('/\pL/u', 'a')) ? true : false;

with

			self::$unicodeEnabled = (@preg_match('/\p{L}/u', 'a')) ? true : false;

and now everything is OK

I am good in php as in English :smile:
Can I leave so this change? - everything works fine!! (in both cases also: "non-alphanumerical " and "punctuation")

I like this very much. I know that if you use this and already have products, you have to go through each product and resave each product to make the url come alive.

I have two sites. One has this feature, the other does not. The one that does not is my main store with over 3,000 products. How can I use easy populate to download all my products to the newer site so it will automatically add the url for new products being brought in?

a_berezin:

Hi,

I scanned the site with Netpeak Spider and Screaming Frog SEO Spider. No internal links to /m and /mobile is not found.
This either means that somewhere there is an external link or that old internal links that were once on the site.
Disallow this uri in robots.txt and eventually they fall out of the search.
Another way - to do a 301 redirect to the home page.

P.S. You have problems on the site - unnecessary 301 redirect, not disallowed uri in the robots.txt, etc. I recommend to download Free Screaming Frog SEO Spider and independently verify the site. Or contact the experts.

Thanks Berezin,
The m / mobile urls in google are still mysterious to me. In Google search console it shows that the link to them is from my
main url and I never add a link to m / mobile directories or created such directories.

Regarding the 301 redirects, checked them on Screaming Frog as you suggested and all the 301s seem to be made automatically by Ultimate SEO so please let me understand why do you say they are unnecessary.

Hi,

Is there any way to remove the product and category ID numbers from the SEOed URLs?

For example, the following URL from my test site:

"http://www.futuregarageservices.co.uk/test/decelerometers-vosa-dvsa-approved-decelerometers-c-1903_1919_1920/bowmonk-brakecheck-decelerometer-p-16968.html"

…would look so much cleaner as:

"http://www.futuregarageservices.co.uk/test/decelerometers-vosa-dvsa-approved-decelerometers/bowmonk-brakecheck-decelerometer.html"

Apologies if this question has been asked elsewhere - I can’t find a thread which discusses the matter.

@Podgeminster, those product- and category-id values are how the plugin's .htaccess file links the URL to the associated product and/or category in your store's database.

Short answer: No.

No worries - thanks for the response.

Hi there,

I was a little baffled with one of the category pages for my client redirecting strangely. It turns out that the product name has an M in it followed by a number, which I believe is being picked up as the manufacturer's number (we don't use manufacturers).

Is there a way to ignore or escape the M character? I'm not sure if it is the plugin, or the core functionality - I tried removing reference to manufacturer from the plugin file, but it was still converting to 'manufacturer'.

The category name is "Leica M 240" and the URL should be: http://www.jkcameras.co.uk/leica-m-240-c-18 but it redirects to: http://www.jkcameras.co.uk/-m-240

Strangely, the product pages are fine (because they use the 'Leica Bodies' parent category?):
http://www.jkcameras.co.uk/leica-bodies-c-1/leica-m-240-black-p-96
http://www.jkcameras.co.uk/leica-bodies-c-1/leica-m-240-black-p-98

Is there a simple fix to this? Other than the obvious solution of removing the space between M and 240 (unfortunately this isn't an option).

Many thanks

you can comment out the redirect line for manufacturers in the .htaccess code, by adding a # in front of the line.

RewriteRule ^(.*)-m-([0-9_]+).html$ index\.php?main_page=index&manufacturers_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

#to:

#RewriteRule ^(.*)-m-([0-9_]+).html$ index\.php?main_page=index&manufacturers_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

or you could delete the line altogether or change the order of the lines.

the product pages are find because the product line is above the manufacturers line in the htaccess file.

good luck.

Fanstastic, that did the trick! Many thanks for your help

I uninstalled Ultimate SEO, but somewhere in the url ?CPath=15_22& example. It is not at all the products, just some.
How do I remove?

Hello,

My site is https://footballheaven.com.au

how do I remove the numbers added after the category, product, manufacturers, all other pages

example https://footballheaven.com.au/homeware-c-8/bedding-c-8_88/

I don't want the -c-8 and -c8_88 displayed I followed carlwhat reply in this page to place a # infront of the rewrite line but that didn't work

Any help would be appreciated

selphy007:

Hello,

My site is https://footballheaven.com.au

how do I remove the numbers added after the category, product, manufacturers, all other pages

example https://footballheaven.com.au/homeware-c-8/bedding-c-8_88/

I don't want the -c-8 and -c8_88 displayed I followed carlwhat reply in this page to place a # infront of the rewrite line but that didn't work

Any help would be appreciated

my # was for the manufacturers.... different...

you need to understand how these URLs work; what you are asking for is impossible with this plugin. the -c- is what is known as the anchor. the 8 is your category (homeware) and the 88 is the sub-category of bedding. they do the navigation to the proper page. for example, if i went here:

https://footballheaven.com.au/this_is_total_crap-c-8_88

i would get to the same place. try it!

now if i went here:

https://footballheaven.com.au/this_is_total_crap-c-7

i get to the skins under the phone accessories category.

so you can not do what you asking with this url rewriter. i know there are others that use permalinks and perhaps can get more of what you want, but i am unfamiliar with them and i do not know if there are any plugins similar to those for use with ZC.

best.

carlwhat:

so you can not do what you asking with this url rewriter. i know there are others that use permalinks and perhaps can get more of what you want, but i am unfamiliar with them and i do not know if there are any plugins similar to those for use with ZC.

best.
There is 1 that offers permalinks and works quite well with ZC, there is 1 that offers uris I believe without "the number" but it comes with a host of problems out-of-the-box including either frequently generated logs files or similar for the host to deal with.

If not mistaken, the instructions for this plugin identify the types of uris that are generated and is something to consider before installing a uri rewriter, before modifying an htaccess file, and before switching from one method of presenting a uri and any other.

Does anyone have this working on v1.5.5e?

Thanks,

allmart:

Does anyone have this working on v1.5.5e?

Thanks,

Yes (and more text to meet the minimum requirement).

Thanks for the reply. Other than what is indicated in the included documentation, are there any additional file modifications needed for 1.5.5e?

Nope. Did the installation and all was good.

v1.5.1 treeoflifejewellery.com

Problem: all pages other than the index do not load but return 404 errors.

History:
plugin has been working fine since loaded a couple of years ago -
yesterday in cPanel at host I activated a 301 redirect domain >>> https://www.domain. (there was an existing redirect domain >>>> www.domain which I deleted first
From that point the site would not load at all, not even the index page - Firefox stated the way the site was configured it would not complete - Chrome said too many redirections
host indicated a .htaccess problem
this file was same .htaccess file unaltered from the plugin files when loaded
in deleting all content of the .htaccess file it changed nothing, same result, nothing loaded
reinstated content of .htaccess file to original state - nothing changed
deleted redirection in cPanel which resulted in current condition with SEO URL's turned on in admin/configuration - all pages other than the index do not load but return 404 errors

Current status: turned off SEO URLs in admin/configuration and site works fine obviously with standard cPath urls.

Baffling thing is that everything this exactly the way it was prior to making the cPanel redirection above, everything, nothing else altered (other than now having the plugin switched off so that site works)

I even migrated the cPanel overnight to a new host in case it was a host server issue which it turned out not to be, apparently (unless the fault was also migrated which I doubt). I can only assume that caused this hiccupp is that deleting the existing redirect?

If access to cPanel is required to resolve this please let me know.

cheers, Mike

shags38:

v1.5.1 treeoflifejewellery.com

this file was same .htaccess file unaltered from the plugin files when loaded

i do not believe this to be the case.

cpanel is a frontend to various aspects of your hosting solution. adding a redirect in cpanel adds code to your htacess file.

in addition, there can multiple htaccess files; 1 within each of your directory structure.

thanks Carl - so what do you suggest as a solution?