By Ulysses Gonzalez on Thursday, 18 February 2016
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Currently, working on a new site/community and have been thinking of only adding one more item to the arsenal to commence building; which is sh404SEF.

I have gone through several forums, where some are having difficulties utilizing with Stackidea products. So before I go and get a ahead of myself, I thought it be adventagious to ask if the team @stackideas still beleive sh404SEF is a good choice considering the benefits that software can bring..

Just rather not have "as" many issues along the way.. At the same time, I do believe that if implemented right at the start, it is less likely to have as many issues.. Based on the forums I have been reading..

Goal is to have every url one simple phrase are the ....com/smallkeyphrase

Don't have much experience with Stackideas products and going to give them all a whirl with a few builds..

Today, I was playing around with setup and noticed that it put out a few different paths to the urls of the posts; which to me looks like links not getting the entire pull through..
Hey there,

JCH Optimizations are often very unpredictable simply because the way they are collecting and compressing javascripts. Unfortunately this is not something that we can fix because it depends on the scripts that are available on the site and how are the ordering of the scripts when JCH Optimize compresses it.

By the way, do take note that with JCH Optimize enabled, your initial page load will increase by default because it needs to stat compressed script files . I always believe the initial page load is much more important than anything else.

As for the URL, unfortunately right now there is no way to fix this. The only way to really address this is for you to add a 301 redirect within your .htaccess file. We did actually thought of creating a "history" table to detect changes in category and process them accordingly when generating URLs but the cons of it is that it adds additional load to the site which is not something very favorable.

I would prefer to create a 301 redirect on the .htaccess file rather than adding additional sql queries and load to the site.
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Saturday, 20 February 2016 00:21
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Hey there,

To be honest with you, I personally prefer to rely on the built in SEF in Joomla and not on 3rd party SEF extensions. Don't get me wrong, these are good extensions but do you really need it? There are pros and cons of having a 3rd party SEF plugin and the biggest disadvantage is the overhead that it adds. This is why we dropped the commercial SEF extension which we previously used for stackideas.com

But if you really need it to solve some of your SEF issues, then by all means go ahead. Our extensions would work out of the box with SH404

P/S: This is just based on my experience
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Thursday, 18 February 2016 12:18
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I agree, the least amount of plugins, components the better and core joomla seems to continue to progress forward.

Speak of components working together, I ran into an issue yesterday with easyblog & jch optimize not playing nice... I will be submitting a separate ticket, since this has nothing to do with SH404.

Prior to departing this ticket, I just like to ask something in regards to url naming conventions.

Let's say we setup using http://www.website.com/menu/title in regards to Easyblog....
Is there any to ensure that the actual urls will be written; as such?

Meaning, if later we create a category and other ways to display content in bundles it will still revert to the exact same url when any user opens to "read more" for example.

I have read several forums where this seems to be an error for a lot and in most cases it's a user error. Like to prevent what may occur, if not planned properly and couldn't find any documentation on this particular question..

Thanks a million
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Friday, 19 February 2016 00:51
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