LOCATION: Manchester School of Technology, Manchester, NH
TOPICS: Newbie Questions & Answers Session, AceSEF & sh404SEF Comparison
ATTENDEES: Liane Haslauer (host), Kathy Lombard, Brian Ducharme (presenter), Lois Wolter (presenter), Justin Herrin, Celeste Guidice, Brendan Dowd, Paula
Welcome to our new members Brian, Brendan and Paula!
Newbie Questions & Answers Session
The night started off with brief introductions and the newbie questions & answers session. Topics covered were...
- JCE groups and permissions chat/questions from Brendan and his school's new Joomla site (Ashland Elementary School)
- How to change the default images folder on a per-group basis (Edit Group Parameters tab)
- Recommendations for how to handle access levels for the different teachers and departments
- Moodle for LMS
- Recommendations for backing up and restoring site files (Akeeba Backup)
- hiddenjoomlasecrets.com by Brian Teeman
- Best practices for new installs
- Delete User ID 62 (J1.5) / 42 (J1.6)
- Hide XML files
- Remove the Disallow /images/ in robots.txt line
- Remove or override the Generator meta tag
- Hide ?tp=1 in .htaccess file - MailChimp for newsletters
AceSEF Overview
Brian Ducharme, of White Raven Consulting, gave a quick overview of the AceSEF extension. He covered the following areas...
- URL / redirector
- Metadata checker/editor for all articles in one place (K2, Zoo, Flexicontent items also supported)
- Sitemap generator
- Tags
- Internal Links - "nofollow" for external links, automatic link creator for specified keywords within your pre-existing content
sh404sef Overview
Lois Wolter gave a quick overview of the sh404SEF extension. She covered the following areas...
- Alias manager
- Daunting configuration
- 404 requests manager
- Title and meta data manager
- Re-route component URL structures...
- K2 + Core SEF: domain.com/news/item/54-my-news-item.html
- K2 + sh404sef: domain.com/news/my-news-item.html - No included internal links
- No included sitemap
- Google Analytics integration
- Shortened URL creator
Next Meeting
Our next user group meeting is scheduled for May 11th in Manchester. Keep watching the website for more details coming soon.
