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#758 – Better date formatting for SEF URLS

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Wednesday, 29 July 2015 15:46 UTC

conshelf

Hello,

I was wondering if you could assist or maybe even make this a part of your next release. I found this article that shows you how to modify Sh404sef to have cleaner date based URLS.

When I look into the existing code (which i really don't understand, not a javascript coder) it's no longer the same since the article is based on an older version.

Here's the article:
http://www.xxxx.com/blog/xxxx.html

I'm trying to get the urls to look like the attached image.

Thank you,
john

Wednesday, 29 July 2015 17:14 UTC

wb_dimitris

Hi John,

I will pass this request to Yannick.

Regards

Thursday, 30 July 2015 12:15 UTC

wb_weeblr

Hi

Having dates in URLS is usually not a very good idea, especially if using the format you show on your screenshot.
Can I ask why you'd want to to that? compatibility with older URLs?

Rgds

Thursday, 30 July 2015 12:43 UTC

conshelf

Actually, I agree with you.

I'm just going to remove the dates from the URL, how can I turn that off in Sh404sef?

Thursday, 30 July 2015 15:28 UTC

wb_weeblr

Hi

Well, sh404SEF doesn't have an capability to insert dates in URLs (though we'll be adding that soon, exactly for backward compatibilty reasons: people moving from wordpress or from blogging extensions to Joomla native content), so I'm guessing that by "date" you mean "Unique ID".

This setting is found under Extensions tab of configuration, then Joomla. You'll need to set it to No, then purge URLs so that new ones are recreated.

"Unique ID" is not meant to be a date in URL. It's a unique ID, based on date, but longer than that, and it's a requirement for content to be used by such services as Google news.
(the typical date format "/YYYY/MM/DD" in a URL is NOT suitable for Google news).

Rgds

Thursday, 30 July 2015 15:55 UTC

conshelf

Oh, so if I keep that unique ID that will give me a better ranking with Google News?

Thursday, 30 July 2015 15:57 UTC

wb_weeblr

Hi

No, it's nothing to do with ranking. Google news is a service by google. You can submit some content to it, and google will display it as "News". One of the conditions to be considered news is that it has a unique numeric id in the URLs. If you don't have that in the URLs, then your content will be rejected.

Rgds

Thursday, 30 July 2015 16:02 UTC

conshelf

yeah, i was just reading their guidelines. We pretty much serve aggregated content so, we wouldn't fit in there. May be a good idea to keep that url id though just in case things change though. thank you

Thursday, 30 July 2015 18:00 UTC

wb_weeblr

Hi

Up to you, but it's not a good URL structure really (keywords are pushed towards the end of the URL, and this number doesn't add any semantic), so you should think twice before enabling it.

Rgds

Thursday, 30 July 2015 18:11 UTC

conshelf

True, I agree. I disabled it. Keyword ranking is of more value to me anyway. Thank you for the help.

Thursday, 30 July 2015 18:14 UTC

wb_weeblr

Hi

Glad to hear that. Actually, we will have in next release ( a few weeks from now, probably september) the option to prepend date in URL (/YYYY/MM/DD) but that's really designed as a backward compatibilty feature (mostly for wordpress or blogging users moving to Joomla com_content), so I'm still totally not advising to use it outside of that scope.

Rgds

Thursday, 30 July 2015 18:23 UTC

conshelf

That's cool. It's also awesome to hear people switching from Wordpress to Joomla :)

Friday, 31 July 2015 09:20 UTC

wb_weeblr

Hi

For bloggers, yes. Most WP sites are just regular sites and don't use dates in URLs anyway.

Closing this ticket now, feel free to open a new one as needed. If you do so, please mention this ticket number in the new one.

Rgds

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