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Hi,

great improvements.. i`m interested in but the download link does not work..?

have a nice day

Chris

Doh! Had updated the file on JoomlaCode, and didn’t realize that when you update anything, it changes the URL. Should work now.

thank you very much, it`s working and i have installed it right now.. works like it should and i`m really impressed. Great plugin for my lazy side.. Do you plan to add keyword generation as well?

sincerely
Chris

Hi had considered adding keyword generation in this release, but am still debating the best method of auto-keyword extraction. Essentially, at the moment, the value of keywords (to me at least) is less than the value of the time it would take me to implement it. Maybe for v2.

I See and agree, of course

Hm, what does it need?

A min length of the word, e.g., a keyword should not be smaller than 3 letters.
Only Substantives or not
How many to show / insert
Blacklist?

and of course, handle german umlaute (ä ü and so on )

I know your problem, the lack of time and can reconstruct it, of course. I`m very thankfull for your plugin and keywords are not that important like they were in former times.. i think, and i`m lucky about this plugin, too, because it sure saves time and i must not track all the articles from moderators/team members if the description(s) are set.

so.. thank you very much and have a really nice day and sorry for my real bad english.

greetings

Chris

Tried this plugin looked great for the lazy gits like me, but alas when i enable the plugin, it white screens my site luckily not the admin section, so no harm done….look forward to using it..

Keep up the good work

@rightinfront: What version (and subversion) of Joomla are you running?

Hi

I am a newbie with Joomla so please excuse my lack of intelligence… I would like to know where to upload the folder via ftp so I can enable it in the administration?

@Purse: Install it like you would install any Joomla 1.5 extension. Then go to the Plugins section. Scroll down the list until you see the SEOSimple plugin and then click it to enter the screen with the plugin’s parameters.

Hello! I simply ADORE this plugin, as much as I adored the previous. I have a little problem, though. It does not seem to generate any meta description (title works perfectly). Ie., this is the meta section of my homepage:

———————-
Home – http://www.kimonoflaminia.it

———————————–

Another problem I had with AutoDescSeo was this:
I installed yvcomment to have comments for my articles. When AutoDescSEO created meta description, it used the first comment instead of the content of the article. I cannot check if it’s the same with SimpleSEO, because of the first problem, but I hope it’s been fixed. Thank you!!!

Sorry, the comment module seems to remove the code so I cannot send you the meta section of my site.

Hey Elim, I went to your site to check out the meta tags and that’s a strange thing indeed. The only thing I can think of is that one of the extensions you’re running (component or plugin) is affecting the insertion of the description.

About every bug that I can think of would leave at least some trace of the description tag in there – it might be empty, but it’d at least be there. Am not sure what might be removing it all together.

Have you tried disabling the various components that insert things in your HEAD tags? The JCE stuff, and the yComment stuff and seeing if that changes anything?

Hello!
First of all, thank you for the answer.
Yes, I’ve tried even uninstalling everything in the HEAD tags, but nothing happens.

That’s too strange, since AutoDescSeo worked (even if the problem I told you before).

I really hope we can come to a solution, because this plug-in is possibly the most useful I have on my website.

Thank you again!

Hello again. I thought that maybe I set something wrong in Joomla SEO page, so here’s my settings (sorry if the translation is not exact, but I’m using an Italian version of Joomla):

——————–
HTML title setting: [TITLE] – [SITENAME]
Default title: [SITENAME]
Show title meta tag: Yes
Show author meta tag: Yes
Show Joomla generator tag: No

Meta description: http://WWW.KIMONOFLAMINIA.IT – Abbigliamento tradizionale giapponese

META tag description settings: Don’t use global meta description

Meta Keywords: kimono,haori, michiyuki, furisode, tomesode, tabi, geta, zori, obi, giappone, flaminia, micca, necci, abbigliamento, collezione, geisha, ventaglio, Japan, stile, style, cultura, culture, moda, fashion, Kimono,Haori, Michiyuki, Furisode, Tomesode, Tabi, Geta, Zori, Obi, Giappone, Flaminia, Micca, Necci, Abbigliamento, Collezione, Geisha, Ventaglio, Japan, Stile, Style, Cultura, Culture, Moda, Fashion, anime, Anime, manga, Manga

META tag keywords settings: Don’t use global meta keywords

Generator tag:

Custom fields default setting: Don’t use custom meta default

————————-
Thank you again!!!

Thank you for sharing this – great stuff – I was looking for something similar, and am glad I found your site. Description is good, but no keywords relevant to the article concerned?

@Elim: I have only done prelim. testing with the plugin being used in conjunction with Joomla at Work’s SEO patch. As soon as I get a chance, I’ll take a closer look – but will be honest, that “get a chance” thing is tight these days.

@AainaA: Nope, no tags in this version. It’s on the list to be added, but to implemented it would have taken considerably more time and as meta keywords have pretty much been deemed useless.

Thank you so much!
I suspected that could be the problem…
I’ll wait patiently for your update.

This is a great plugin. I use it for sections/categories pages where Joomla doesn’t allow you to enter meta description. Your extension fills in that gap.
One ‘bug’ I noticed is that it has a problem with a Russian letter P (R sound in English) as for some reason it renders it as some weird symbol �. See for example http://www.russiacall.com/lang-ru/information/39-about-us in the meta description should be the word Россию, instead it’s � оссию.

For what it’s worth it substitutes that one letter with Unicode replacement character FFFD.

Hey Anton – I’ve not tested the plugin with multiple languages, but am not sure why it would have any effect. I’m knee deep in other projects at the moment, but as soon as I have a free moment, I’ll look into a solution for this.

If anyone comes up with one – please let me know.

[...] a quick note to say that version 1.1 of the SEOSimple plugin has been released. This was just a quick release to add some additional front page title tag [...]

Hello! Could you please tell if the issue with Joomla at work’s SEO patch has been solved in this release? Thank you!

Sorry Elim – I just did a bit of testing, and it looks like the SEO patch changes some core files so that this plugin wont work with it.

I like the SEO patch, and have used it on a couple sites – but the fact that it modifies core Joomla files is a bit unnerving – and uninstalling (or “repatching”) after you’ve installed the patch it is a pain in the ass.

I only use it now if I need it on a site where I need to make the page’s title different than the story title.

Ryan,

I realize that the error I’m talking about (REPLACEMENT CHARACTER U+FFFD) is somewhat obscure and most people won’t have to deal with it. My thinking it has something to do with the encoding not decoded correctly, though why does it only do it with one letter is a mystery. Also, this only happens with meta description, not the title.

It’s got nothing to do with Joomfish either; if I put the word starting with cyrillic P capital in the default language it still gives the error.

I like the improvement to the frontpage management by the way. Used to comment it out in the plugin code with the previous version because it didn’t work with Joomfish. Now it’s more multilanguage site compatible.

Hello Ryan! I’m so sorry about that, so I presume that a version that will work with the patch will never be released…
:..(
I REALLY love your plugin and now it would be too difficult (as you say, too) to uninstall the patch.

Well… I keep hoping that maybe someday… ^__^

Thank you!

@Anton: I hunted around a bit online to see if anyone else was reporting problems of a similar nature and couldn’t find anything. I agree that it must have something to do with the encoding and decoding, but really have no idea what could be causing it. If, by chance, you sort it out, please let me know.

@Elim: It’s not possible for my to create a version of the plugin that works with the Joomla At Work SEO Patch because the patch alters the Joomla core. As I mentioned in the last post, because it alters the core, I’ve virtually stopped using it on any sites I develop. The problems it can create outweigh the benefits and unless you need to have an extra field that allows you to change the page’s title tags independent from the auto-generated title tags based on article title (or whatever) then there are other (non core hacks) that do the job just fine.

Such bad news…
I’d really like to remove the patch, but the problem now is that I don’t know HOW to do it.

To Elim: the only way to get rid of the patch is overwrite your whole joomla installation with default original files.

To Ryan: do you think I can insert a custom code in SEOSimple.php something along the lines $text = str_replace…? This is just one character that’s bugging in cyrillic. Don’t know if you can do it with U+FFFD though.

Hello,
I have installed the plugin and enabled it and I am able to configure the tool. When is it writing the meta data, do I have to trigger it off?
Thanks
Erik

Unfortunally I only get the pagename in de browser, not the combination “website title – page title”

I have installed the plugin twice:
http://www.jbscomputers.nl (1.5.4)
http://www.brabantsdialectenfestival.nl (1.5.3)

Take a look at the image slider at http://www.jbscomputers.nl and you will see the correct titles displayed. What’s wrong?

Fixed, openSEF was overruling the title.

@JBS: Good to hear – I really need to put a disclaimer up top that problems may be had if you run this plugin with other (more invasive) SEO/SEF components. Just FYI – I am running the plugin successfully with SmartSEF – which does a decent job of making extra friendly URLs.

[...] Close on the heels of the release of v1.1 I’m releasing v1.2 of the SEOSimple Joomla 1.5 plugin. [...]

Hi,

thanks for the great Plugin. But I have a encountered a problem with my site. First everything went right but the I changed the site name from “go west jobs – High Potential Recruiting” to “go west jobs” and changed the order from [page] | [site] to [site] | [page]

Now it still displays the old site title. When I disable the SEOSimple plugin, I get displayed the new title “go west jobs”.

Could you please check if there is some problem in your code. Or might it be some caching problem? I deleted the site cache and the explorer cache also.

Thanks in advance

Forgot the site: http://www.gowestjobs.de

The problem mentioned above is SOLVED!!! It was a problem with joomfish. The meta and title information in the language selection overruled the global site settings.

Greetings anyways. Great plugin!!!

Hello!
After installing 1.5.2, I’m receiving a lot of these in one of my sections:
Warning: cannot yet handle MBCS in html_entity_decode()! in /web/htdocs/www.kimonoflaminia.it/home/plugins/system/SEOSimple.php on line 124

Thank you!

Obvoiusly, I meant 1.2 and not 1.5.2.

@Andreas: Glad you figured it out. It’s an ongoing problem with the plugin conflicting with some components and hacks that overwrite Joomla’s built in methods, as this plugin relies on them.

@Elim: The problem is not *technically* with the plugin, but with PHP4. It’s a PHP4 bug that is easily solved by upgrading to PHP5. As PHP5 is now 4 years old, and PHP6 close at hand, upgrading your version of PHP is highly suggested. I will try to build in a bit of error checking in the next ver. to help any that refuse to upgrade for whatever reason.

Before installing seosimple:
I am new to joomla seo and was wondering about the correct process to register my site with google and yahoo. Do I register with each one then insert the verify tag in my index.php file? Then install seosimple, put in a front page title along with the meta data. Then when a google robot checks my site will it automaticaly find the info needed to create a website title and info? I have never done this before with joomla, only with flash which you insert meta tags in the index.html file. Any info you can give me would be great. Thanks

Thanks for a great plugin! But I have a question… I’m using it with the MyBlog component, and for articles managed through MyBlog the “title” bar always just says “Home”… it never gives the title of the article, even when I click through to the article. i don’t have this problem with other articles on the site that are NOT managed by MyBlog. Any ideas why this might be happening??? thanks again!

@Steven: Best thing for you to do is familiarize yourself with some basic SEO principles. Also look into a good sitemap component (xmaps is decent).

@pjk: I’m really not sure if there is a conflict with MyBlog – I’ve never used it. If it rewrites the titles, there could be. Shouldn’t be, but could be.

to: Elim Garak

Add this code to file SEOSimple.php in upper (before class start):
————
// Returns the utf string corresponding to the unicode value (from php.net, courtesy – romans@void.lv)
function code2utf($num)
{
if ($num < 128) return chr($num);
if ($num > 6) + 192) . chr(($num & 63) +
128);
if ($num > 12) + 224) . chr((($num >> 6) &
63) + 128) . chr(($num & 63) + 128);
if ($num > 18) + 240) . chr((($num >> 12)
& 63) + 128) . chr((($num >> 6) & 63) + 128) . chr(($num & 63) + 128);
return ”;
}

function encode($str)
{
return preg_replace(’/&#(\\d+);/e’, ‘code2utf($1)’,
utf8_encode($str));
}
————

next, replace line 124:
$text = html_entity_decode($text,ENT_QUOTES,’UTF-8′);
with this:
$text = encode($text);

and anjoy

to: Elim Garak

or replace line 124:
$text = html_entity_decode($text,ENT_QUOTES,’UTF-8′);

with this:
if(( version_compare( phpversion(), ‘5.0′ ) < 0 )) {
require_once(JPATH_SITE.DS.’libraries’.DS.’tcpdf’.DS.’html_entity_decode_php4.php’);
$text = html_entity_decode_php4($text,ENT_QUOTES,’UTF-8′);
}else{
$text = html_entity_decode($text,ENT_QUOTES,’UTF-8′);
}

Hi and first of all thank you.
It returns to me with an error at this line:

“if ($num > 6) + 192) . chr(($num & 63) +
128);”

Maybe should there be a “return” instead of the point?

Could you please tell me how to manually remove SEOsimple 1.2? I had to delete the files from plug-in/system because they crashed my site, but Joomla administration keeps telling me that SEOsimple is still present and doesn’t uninstall it.
Thank you!

@Elim: I would suggest using Hasegawa Makoto’s second suggestion (cheers for that Hasegawa – I’m intending to make a php4/php5 conditional in the next release).

To uninstall the plugin properly, you should use the plugin manager. As Joomla shoves some info into the database for plugins, you’ll need to either re-add the files to the plugin directory and then uninstall it the proper way, or edit your database to remove those references.

Was glad to help you!

Thank you both! I’ve tried using the second method, but this is the error I receive:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_DNUMBER in /web/htdocs/www.kimonoflaminia.it/home/plugins/system/SEOSimple.php on line 124

I managed to uninstall 1.2 and reverted to 1.1 and everything is fine. I think I’ll stick to it for a while. ^__^

Hi there,

First off thanks for what looks like a great plugin.

I have the same problem as Elim Garak. I installed the plugin fine but when i open an article now, i get this…

Warning: cannot yet handle MBCS in html_entity_decode()! in /home/mensstyl/public_html/cyclingextra.com/plugins/system/SEOSimple.php on line 124

Warning: cannot yet handle MBCS in html_entity_decode()! in /home/mensstyl/public_html/cyclingextra.com/plugins/system/SEOSimple.php on line 124

Warning: cannot yet handle MBCS in html_entity_decode()! in /home/mensstyl/public_html/cyclingextra.com/plugins/system/SEOSimple.php on line 124

Warning: cannot yet handle MBCS in html_entity_decode()! in /home/mensstyl/public_html/cyclingextra.com/plugins/system/SEOSimple.php on line 124

What can i do to fix this?

Thanks again!

Hi Chris, I’ll be releasing an update very soon that should address this issue. The best way to fix the issue is to upgrade your server (or have your hosting company upgrade it) to PHP5 – the error is a PHP4 bug that was fixed 4 years ago with the release of PHP5.

If you can’t, or don’t want to update your server/php version, then keep your eyes here for the next plugin version – which should be today or tomorrow.

Hi Ryan,
Just installed the new plugin and it worked perfectly!
Thanks heaps

now is all ok.
u are the best

Notice: Uninitialized string offset: 80 in /var/www/vhosts/zemli-ua.com/httpdocs/plugins/system/SEOSimple.php on line 152
Що це за помилка і як неї виправити?
What it after error and how to correct her?
Ukraine
zemli-ua.com/index.php/lang-ru/2008-08-14-16-34-54.html

to 452:
выключи нотификаторы php для хоста
error_reporting(E_ALL ^ E_NOTICE);

The problem also occurs on with PHP 4.4.x.

Reproduce code:
—————

The problem also occurs on with PHP 4.4.x.

Reproduce code:
—————
error_reporting (E_ALL | E_NOTICE);
$x = ‘test’;
$x[4]; // No notice at all – compiler optimization??
@$y = $x[4]; // Notice supressed.
@’a’ == $x[4]; // Notice NOT supressed – but it should be.
@$x[4] == ‘a’; // Notice NOT supressed – but it should be.
(@$x[4]) == ‘a’; // Notice NOT supressed – but it should be.
(@($x[4])) == ‘a’; // Notice NOT supressed – but it should be.
@($x[4]) == ‘a’; // Notice NOT supressed – but it should be.
@($x[4] == ‘a’); // Notice supressed.

print “Done!\n”;

All Ok NOTICE off

if you can please tell me how to change the front page title i will be highly obliged everything else works great except the front page which shows me home as its title

@Neeshu: If you are using sh404sef, you’ll need to disable its meta tag manipulation function (in the sh404sef settings).

thank you for best plugin for SEO.

Nice work! Thanks for this fantastic plugin.

Hi,

I might be missing something here, but the plugin does not seem to be generating dynamic keywords from the content, from my page: source:

but it does generate your guys metatag i.e:

is there anything obvious i could be missing here?

Sorry the metatags have not shown up in my previous post, they are:

1. Keywords: “” – (Shouldn’t it be generating metatags here?)

2. You generator tag: “” (Your generator tag shows up)

This comes from my page source

@Digitaldemon: The plugin doesn’t bother with keywords. It’s largely accepted that keywords do feck all for SEO in any search engines that are worth the time to care about, so I didn’t bother spending the multitude of hours it would take to come up with a keyword scraping method for the plugin. I may, just out of interest, do so down the line, but I’m not sure when.

However, just to double check, you are getting dynamic meta descriptions right?

Hi Ryan,

Many thanks for the quick reply… If that is the case then things seem to be working properly – i am getting dynamic meta descriptions…
A quick thank-you for the great plugin… Nice One

Hi Ryan,

thank you for this great plugin. I have one question for you. It’s something like feature request

I use pagebreaks a lot, so it would be great to have an option to display title like this:
‘pagebreak title – article title – site title’

For example you have article called ‘World’ with pagebreaks Asia, Africa, Europe, North America… When I open Europe, I’d like to see: ‘Europe – World – Example.com’

Please tell me it’s possible

Thanks in advance for your answer

Ryan,

I had the same problem as in R. Spikker’s comments on http://www.daobydesign.com/blog/2008/09/seosimple-joomla-15-plugin-v13/
It was on some but not all of my pages. I couldn’t see any pattern to which pages had the error. Ex some pages with rss feeds had the error and some did not. My hack/solution was to default the third parameter on line 70.
Before: function onPrepareContent( &$article, &$params, $limitstart )
After function onPrepareContent( &$article, &$params, $limitstart=0 )
$limitstart isn’t being used in that method so I’d imagine this would be ok. I’m running joomla 1.5.7 with php 5.2.6 and simple seo 1.3.

I agree this is a great plugin. Nice touch on the configuration screen with a ‘kill it’ option on the credit tag. I’ll be leaving it on and have cast my vote! Thanks.

Hi, just want to say thanks. This plugin save me a lot of time. Looking forward for another plugin from you. Thanks.

The install was easy thank you. I have one question. When will the meta description update? So far new or existing articles still have no meta description. I am using 1.5.7 and have the plugin enabled. Thank you.

oops sorry cancel that, the descriptions are updating.

I am trying now for hours to get the secion name and category name listed within the meat–desc while using SEOSimple – anybody can give me some help or a hint how to get this working

Dear Ryan thank you very much for your great nice and simple module, i spent hours modified and reprogramming sh404SEF trying to make it work properly with JoomFish, and spent days trying couple other SEO, but in vain, problems are much more than solutions ! but with your module, I had nothing except to install it ! and the most wonderful thing that all third party extensions worked surprisingly well !
I rarely when compliment somebody, but your nice & simple work really deserve that!

@MTW Office: Sorry, can you explain a bit more of what you mean?

@Nadeem: Thanks a lot! Always nice to get a compliment like that.

I’ve set the plugin to pull the text at the last possible stage so that any conversions to the text (via components, other plugins, etc.) should be represented. Due to the nature of 3rd party components, it’s impossible for it to work with all of them, but if they follow Joomla Dev procedures, I think most sure work.

I should also say that I love sh404sef and use it on a good number of my sites. However, I find that the more plugins/modules/components try to do, they tend to lose their focus. I use sh404sef for SEF URL generation, I don’t really want it messing with my meta tags. Which is, in part, the reason I created this plugin.

Hi there, this looks promising, but for some reason the site title is not showing so I get for example: |Home but no site name.

I have a bilingual site with Spanish and English. I am using Joomfish but unlike the previous poster I have made no changes to the metadata within that.

@Justin: Do you have a url? Contact me via the “contact” button at the top of the page if the url is private.

Hello.
um….so, I installed the plugin. Enabled it. Kept the default settings.
Then what?
Nothing appears on my article meta descriptions etc.
I’ve also installed the missing metadata module. and it says the same thing. Empty descriptions.
Im on Joomla 1.5.9 with legacy mode on.

Can someone please tell me what Im missing? Thank you!!!!

um, do I need to remove the global site metadata from Joomla’s global configuration (description and keywords)?

@Paga: SEOSimple doesn’t physically add any meta description information to your Joomla articles. It dynamically creates the meta description when the page is loaded in the browser.

If, however, you have inserted any meta description information in the individual Joomla articles, that meta desc will override the auto-generated one that SEOSimple creates.

This is one of the easiest and best plugins I’ve stumbled upon. I believe this plugin is mandatory for SEO. Just use native Joomla 1.5 SEF setup to handle URL rewrites and this plugin to solve the meta content. That’s it, you don’t need anything else. Love it.

I have a question though on page titles. Running Joomla 1.5.9

I have chosen [Page Title] | [Site Title] in the plugin parameters.

But I’m getting [Site Title] – [Page Title] | [Site Title] in the rendered page.

Do you have any ideas on how I can remove the first “[Site Title] – ” part??

Thanks
Aaron

Hi Aaron – thanks for the kind words about the plugin.

As for the problem with the double [SITE TITLE] – I’ve tested the plugin on J1.5.9 and I can’t seem to recreate the error. Are you certain there isn’t another component or plugin at work? There are known conflicts with the SEO patch and also if you are running sh404sef with the added meta stuff turned on.

Did some checking and you were right, I had an old plugin called Title Manager that was causing the weirdness. Before I installed SEOSimple, I was using SEO Patch and removed that, and 404SEF and removed that. Happy now.

Thanks again.

Aaron

Hello there
I have been looking a long time for your SEAO simple, and I can not make it work, on 2 different web site
the only thing they have in commun is the Rockettheme template.

The meta description is not generated, titles are ok

could you please have look to see if therei is something wrong on this site ??

Thierry

@Thierry: I checked your WWI site (the http://www.villa-sikandar.com/ wasn’t loading) and the plugin seems to be working fine. Please keep in mind that you’ll only see the META descriptions on the physical pages – not in the backend. They are auto-generated automatically on page load.

See: http://www.wwi-memorials.com/memorials and view the source.

hi,

thanks for this cool plugin, is it somehow possible to have an ‘&’ in the sitetitle? I always get an &

I use joomla 1.5.9 and seosimple 1.3

hi ryan, many thanks for this plugin. love it and will use it on many of my future sites.

a question re: Azrul’s MyBlog – how can I make your plugin work with it?

the title is working (onAfterDispatch) but the description metadata does not change (onPrepareContent). I’ve dug around the code for both MyBlog and SEOSimple but am stuck. Any suggestions?

thanks in advance for any insights.

Hi Ryan,

very nice work indeed. Thank you.

I have a unique problem though:

Titles and keywords are working fine. Description seems to be working fine but not exactly ideal. It is generating the text correctly, however it is prefixing it with the site wide global description.

Ideally it should only generate from the page content, or from the actual meta description i have used on the page.

This problem ocurrs only on extensions not on content pages. Event List and Sobi2 mainly. For adsmanager (classifieds) it does not generate anything.

Here are some examples:
http://www.dubaimusicians.com/directory/recording-studios/avproductions-avp.html

http://www.dubaimusicians.com/directory/artist-management.html

http://www.dubaimusicians.com/classifieds.html

Cheers.

Hi Mazen – I’m really not sure there’s anything I/SEOSimple can do about the components. Third party components tend to play by their own rules a bit when it comes to meta generation.

Hi, thank you very much for the useful plugin, it will save me a lot of time. I’m still trying to figure Joomla out so this will definitely help me. Thanks!

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Thank you very much!
I think that is no problem at all for use such plugins and that is quite nice blogs and trips as well

After installing 1.5.2, I’m receiving a lot of these in one of my sections:
Warning: cannot yet handle MBCS in html_entity_decode()! in /web/htdocs/www.kimonoflaminia.it/home/plugins/system/SEOSimple.php on line 124

And some unknown problem also I faced

hi, im new to joomla and i’ve tried your plugin without hassle and its working as it says it is, thanks man for this great plugin and hope you will improve it…many thanks

This is a nice plugin for lazy poeple like me, i’ll try it soon.

Thanks for a great plugin! Ryan
I have a question:
I’m using SEOSimple_1.3 and [Title]mode for each page title but what I get ” – Title “.How can I possibly remove ” – ” tag befor Title name.
Thanks

@Simon: Thx! I’ve not actually tested this, but I am pretty sure that is the default method of Joomla’s title generation, so you wouldn’t need to use SEOSimple’s method.

I’ve already de-activated Joomla default title generation. Whatever it is it comes out of SEOSimple plugin.For instantance if I use [Site - Title] It displays exactly [Site - Title] but in case I use it only as [Title] it displays [- Title].I checked SEOSimple.php & SEOSimple.xml couldn’t figure out how to configure it in a way to have titles appear as [Title]only.
You may see the problem here:
http://www.datadepositbox.com/index.php/data-backup-features/
get the source and you’ll get:
– FEATURES

Thanks

@Simon: As best I know there’s no way to deactivate Joomla’s default title generation without modifying core files. How was it you did that? I’ve tested this plugin on a number of live sites and never had the problems you’re mentioning.

Which version of J1.5 are you using? As of J1.5.11 it was working in all three setups [SITE TITLE - PAGE TITLE], [PAGE TITLE - SITE TITLE] and [TITLE]

Make sure you don’t have another component modifying titles unknowingly (if you browse the comments here and the SEOSimple support forum — referenced above — you should see a few that cause problems).

Thanks Ryan,
I disabled Joomla Title manager plugin and now I get exact [Title].
As you pointed out there shouldn’t be any other component writing Title as when using SEOSimple, Joomla Title Manager plugin should be UNPUBLISHED..perfect and Thanks again.

Hi!

Thanks for your work. Can you help me?

I have 2 problems:

1. When I look into my old articles (no meta nor tags), I don’t have any new meta or tags after installing and enabling your SEOSimple.
Only page titles seem to change. How can I know if it works?

2. I needed to disable your plugin, because my site has those words included as default front page:
“D&D Online”

And it shows something like that with your SEOSimple:
“D&D Online”

I am unable to fix it. Can you help me?

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@Sarr: Your first problem I think is a mis-understanding of how the plugin operates. It doesn’t write anything to your articles. It generates the meta description when the page loads.

The second item should be fixed in the new v1.4 edition of the plugin.

@Ryan:

Thank you for you kind response.

But what I meant is that in back-end, each article has “meta” and “description” as well as “keywords” and “robots” (keywords for Search Engine robots) field. It shows when you edit them.

Those fields are still empty when I open articles to edit them. Does it mean that SEOSimple fills meta etc. for each article when page is loaded, and it doesn’t save it into articles meta?

So, what happens if I’ve written my own meta in the appropriate fields? And how can we tall that it works at all? Only from results?

If it works, that’s great – I will keep using it. But it’s hard to tell if it works or not… And there are other solutions.

So maybe it would be nice if you considered showing users that this plugin really works and how. That would result in even bigger popularity, I guess.

Thanks,
Sarr

Ah, I’ve got your email, than you for your reply . I’ll test new version ASAP!

It’s great to see you working on issues in almost real time, hehe. It’s rare.

Also, the the description above is great. Thank you. I think my misunderstanding was about scanning and not reading too .

Ok, I’ve tested it:

Works perfectly! D&D Online is shown as I write it now. No problems with names on the front or sub-pages.

Big thank you!

I’m getting the following error on install:

“Unable to find install package”

I’ve also tried unpacking it in the tmp folder, no luck.

Any suggestions?

Oops, I had FTP enabled under Global Config.

Works now after following this tip…

http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?t=225840

Hey!

I am using seo simple for some month already. Today I installed K2 (http://k2.joomlaworks.gr/) and found out that I can’t add new articles because of this error message:
Fatal error: Class ‘JSite’ not found in /var/www/virtual/mywebsite.de/htdocs/plugins/system/SEOSimple.php on line 153

Has anybody an idea what went wrong?
Thx.
Dirk

@Dirk: I’m betting that K2 does a massive overhaul of how content is handled, and that likely conflicts with SEOSimple’s ability to tap into the Joomla functions and data that are part of its core.

Hi Ryan!

I’m at a loss here… I am using your SEO simple on a site that I’m building for a friend. I am getting this error: Uninitialized string offset: 727 on line 141. The weird thing is that is only on the About page. I have tried retyping everything with and without images and I don’t get the error until the punctuation is added after the first sentence. It would make sense to me if I was having problems on every page – but it’s only the About page?!?!? I installed the latest SEO simple version.

Any ideas on what the problem might be?

Thanks

@Randy: I believe this is an issue with the description happening to cut off exactly on a break in text. I’ll look into this asap. Have you tried changing the excerpt length in the SEOSimple settings to see if that fixes the problem (a bit of a band-aid solution, I admit).

Hi Ryan!

I went through several iterations of the lengths as well as different combinations of the the title layout. Still had the same error. I’m baffled.

Hi Ryan!

I have asked in the K2 Forum to solve the conflict with SEO Simple. They said that you have change a little thing in SEO Simple. Please have a look at their answer here: http://k2community.joomlaworks.gr/xn/detail/3536014:Comment:10329
Thanks
Dirk

Regarding the K2 issue: Specifically, the suggestion from K2 is to add a check in the plugin so it doesn’t execute on admin sections. the problem currently is that SEOSimple is preventing admins from creating new K2 content from the backend. (Produces blank screen.) Thanks Ryan!!

I have this error whith SEOSimple 1.4:
Uninitialized string offset: 105 … SEOsimple.php online 141

I replace on line 137 by this:

for ($cnt = 1; $cnt < strlen($text)-1; $cnt++) {

now is ok

Hello,

first congratulations for the great plugin.
Just a question.
The site I am dealing with is multilingual (I am using JoomFish) English and Danish.
So far when I go to the English home page I have the title tag as: “English site name” | “optional English keywords”
In the Danish home page I have “Danish site name” | “optional English keywords”.
In short I cannot find a place-holder for the “Optional front page title” in Danish with JoomFish.

Any idea on how I can do that?

Cheers
Luca

Very nice plugin
Thanks

Ryan, any advice for us on the K2 backend issue? I tried adding
“jimport( ‘joomla.plugin.plugin’ );”

after:
“// Import library dependencies” (line 11) in plugins/system/SEOSimple.php. But it did not work.

@John and fellow K2 users: Fixing SEOSimple so it works with K2 is top priority, and will be a definite focus of the next version. I just need to find the free time to implement the changes. Thanks for your patience.

@Randy and @ Ryan: Have you had any luck regarding the Uninitialized string offset on line 141? All of a sudden this notice started popping up. It’s only on one page and I can’t seem to get it tracked down. I’ve tried all of the suggestions and had to disable this great plugin. Thanks!

Thanks Ryan! Feel free to email me if you need any help testing.

Randy and Dirk,
Thanks to a tip from Mircea in the K2 forums here: http://k2community.joomlaworks.gr/forum/topics/error-when-using-the-plugin?page=2&commentId=3536014%3AComment%3A14060&x=1#3536014Comment14060, I have fixed my problem with SEOSmple and K2.

In the plugins/system/SEOSimple.php file, I added:
global $mainframe;
if (!$mainframe->isSite()) return;

to line 154 immediately after:
function isFrontPage()
{

Problem with blank screen when adding new K2 item from backend is now fixed.

Sorry, I meant “Ryan” not “Randy”. Good grief…

Great plugin. Thank you very much!

Thank you! Works great.

Very thx!

I’m replying to the comment posted back in August listed below..I’m having the same issues, not seeing the content on my edit pages…please let me know how I know it’s working…thanks.

@Ryan:

Thank you for you kind response.

But what I meant is that in back-end, each article has “meta” and “description” as well as “keywords” and “robots” (keywords for Search Engine robots) field. It shows when you edit them.

Those fields are still empty when I open articles to edit them. Does it mean that SEOSimple fills meta etc. for each article when page is loaded, and it doesn’t save it into articles meta?

So, what happens if I’ve written my own meta in the appropriate fields? And how can we tall that it works at all? Only from results?

If it works, that’s great – I will keep using it. But it’s hard to tell if it works or not… And there are other solutions.

So maybe it would be nice if you considered showing users that this plugin really works and how. That would result in even bigger popularity, I guess.

Thanks,
Sarr

Sarr, from your browser, just click “View/Page Source” and you can see what meta information is available on the page that you are viewing.

@Sarr: Yes, I understand what you mean. Here’s the third paragraph from the plugin description above:

The SEOSimple plugin automatically generates the meta description tag on page load by taking a customizable length of text from the start of a page’s content. Should you already have a custom meta description assigned to the article (as set in the Metadata Information box in the article editor), the auto-generated tag is ignored and the custom one is used.

The plugin auto-generates the meta description when the page loads, it does not put anything in those meta information boxes in the article editor (in the Joomla backend). If you already have data in those boxes, the auto-generated meta description is ignored (allowing you a more granular control over your meta).

And as John said above, if you want to see if it’s working — just view your page’s source in your browser.

hi, this plugin is great. and is really simple to use !!

just having a little problem here is when sef is in use the plug in is not working!!

@Joe: There’s some conflicts with some SEF components that re-write titles, etc. (most notably sh404sef). If you are using sh404sef, be sure to turn off their meta data features (it’s a tab in the options).

It shouldn’t conflict with Joomla’s native SEF features.

cool! what a fast support!!
thank !!!

@randy
@thomas

re: uninitialized string offset / …… at line 141 ERROR

try to put some text in your category description where the error occurs.

it works for me. the notice is gone.

if you don’t want the description to show up on the page, you can hide it in the menu item parameter, just in case.

hth

bugdown,

I am getting the “uninitialized string offset” error on some of my Jomsocial pages. There is no way to add category descriptions. Would you know how to resolve this issue?

Hi,
thanks a lot for this simple but excellent plugin !
I have a suggestion : it would be great if we could block the plugin for a list of items (some articles, blog articles, menu…) which we don’t want change the title.

Good luck !

Thanks man for a great mod for joomla. It’s all working fine so far and hopefully when Google crawls my site again I’ll be able to see the results properly

I left the credits in.

Five stars certainly

I have installed this on joomla 1.5 with jomsocial. I keep getting an “invalid token” when attempting to log in. Anyone know why?

Hi there, i am very sorry but that link dosnt work! .. i there any solution ?

Many thanks! Great plugin, works well and good instruction. Keep it up!

I have a question how does this compare to some SEO products that are selling for $99 or $79? Could I get a few plugins that do the same that are open source?

Nowadays every one use joomla. This article is great but could you please share plugins in joomla 2.0

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Thanks for that. Just added it to my Joomla! site.

THANK YOU!!!
I was seriously beginning to think no one in the Joomla Community was really GETTING it about page titles, and why there MUST BE an option to remove the site title form the inside pages!!
FINALLY- I can name the font page title anything I want and leave the dammed thing off the rest of the page titles.
I have been looking for this plug in for literally YEARS.
Again, thank you!!

Hi,
When I use Communicator I get this error message:
Fatal error: Class ‘JSite’ not found in /home/comet4/public_html/cliffordpc/plugins/system/SEOSimple.php on line 166

Can it be avoided?
Cheers
Chris

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