This component rewrites Joomla! URLs to be Search Engine Friendly (SEF) and provided other Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Tools. Multilingualism (more language versions, translated URLs) is supported via cooperation with JoomFish. Makes it possible to edit your meta-tags from one place. Upgrades will be easy and painless thanks to the new on-line update features. Extensive support of 3^rd party components thanks to SEF Extension installer.

Version 3.x series will work with Joomla! 1.5 in legacy mode. It is not backward compatible with Joomla! 1.0. For 1.0, use latest 2.x version.

This free version does not provide you with any support or extras. To get a support, please, get a JoomSEF membership - 3 months, 6 months or 1 year.

This component rewrites Joomla! URLs to be Search Engine Friendly (SEF) and provided other Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Tools. Multilingualism (more language versions, translated URLs) is supported via cooperation with JoomFish. Makes it possible to edit your meta-tags from one place. Upgrades will be easy and painless thanks to the new on-line update features. Extensive support of 3^rd party components thanks to SEF Extension installer.

If you are UPGRADING, please read Upgrade Instructions first!

The latest free version of JoomSEF may contain links to ARTIO webpages or some of the JoomSEF development sponsors. You can get the latest version without links of the JoomSEF from our webshop. If you would like to become JoomSEF sponsor, please contact us via email.

More SEF Extensions for popular Joomla! modules coming soon!
You may donate to support further JoomSEF development.

 

What's new in 2.2.6:

• Fix - v2.2.5 bug fix - patch for pagination bug e.g. with VirtueMart

What's new in 2.2.5:

• Fix - automatically clean cache on URL purge
• Fix - SOBI2 warning messages (code update)
• Fix - JoomFish causing duplicates with extra parameters
• Fix - removing parts of SEO URL if it matches suffix
• Fix - content pagination improvements
• Fix - content Itemid estimation improved - prevents duplicates better
• New extension - JEvents

What's new in 2.2.4:

• Fix - incorrect long URL truncation fix
• Fix - wrapper extension default configuration updated to prevent unexpected behaviour problems

What's new in 2.2.3:

• Fix - metadata wrongly shown in administration after save if using UTF-8

What's new in 2.2.2:

• IMPORTANT Fix - possible security breach prevention
• Fix - caching problems leading to file corruption and site stops working
• Fix - 301 redirection problems
• Fix - includes metabot 1.6.0 that fixes the problem of duplicite page titles including page and site name when they are same (e.g. on homepage)

What's new in 2.2.1:

• Fix - fixed problems with automatic update from JoomSEF 1.x versions.

What's new in 2.2.0:

• New feature - possibility to stop generating further URLs
• New feature - possibility to exclude first part of URL for any component (e.g. /shop in VirtueMart)
• New feature - easier access to editing homepage metadata
• New extension - Zoom Media Gallery (download sepratelly)
• New extension - RSGallery2 (download sepratelly)
• New extension - PortFol (download sepratelly)
• New extension - Seyret Video Directories (download sepratelly)
• Fix - fixed problems with some 3rd party sef_ext files
• Update - new configuration options added to VirtueMart extension
• Update - free version will allow direct upgrade to ad-free version

What's new in 2.1.1:

• New feature! - JoomFish support for extension texts (you can now change texts like "viewlink", "search" etc. in URLs)
• Improved 301 redirection - server doesn't get stuck with index2.php URLs
• Bug fix - Custom Titles functionality
• Bug fix - meta title tag in MetaBot
• Improved export and import of custom redirects
• Improved upgrade script and fixed problem with directory permissions
• Updated Mosets Tree extension

What's new in 2.1.0:

• New feature - 301 redirection functionality
• Bug fix - mambot PHP4 compatibility problems

What's new in 2.0.2:

• Bug fix - trailing slash toleration not working correctly
• Bug fix - "save as custom redirect" not pre-checked on URL customization

What's new in 2.0.1:

• Bug fix - unistalling plug-in extensions does not remove DB information correctly
• Bug fix - mambot not working correctly

What's new in 2.0.0:

• Improved searching for 3rd party sef_ext extensions
• Added parameters to individual extensions
• Added possibility to set your own extension title
• Added option to ignore multiple Itemids pointing to same page - removes most of duplicates!
• Added option to set your own Itemid to use with each extension
• Added Cache for mostly visited URLs - speeds the site up up and reduces DB load!
• Added Patching system through mambot functionality
• Redesigned the extension structure and way how extensions are called

What's new in 1.5.x or 1.4.x:

• Please, check documentation or JoomSEF version log document to see changes in older versions

ARTIO JoomSEF Metabot as separate installation file. Normally, the mambot is installed as part of the ARTIO JoomSEF component installation package. You may use this installer to reinstall the mambot in case you have deleted it accidentally and you do not want to reinstall the whole JoomSEF.

This is a new version of the metabot, not included in the latest JoomSEF release 2.2.1. It will be bundled with the next release.

This release fixes the problem of duplicite page titles including page and site name when they are same. (e.g. on homepage).

The metabot takes care about adding the meta tags and page titles edited using JoomSEF to your Joomla! site.

PLEASE NOTE: This mambot requires ARTIO JoomSEF component to be installed to work.

This component rewrites Joomla! URLs to be Search Engine Friendly (SEF) and provided other Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Tools. Multilingualism (more language versions, translated URLs) is supported via cooperation with JoomFish. Makes it possible to edit your meta-tags from one place. Upgrades will be easy and painless thanks to the new on-line update features. Extensive support of 3^rd party components thanks to SEF Extension installer.

Current release introduces many new features and possibilities, including meta tag creating, on-line updates, installer for extension modules, etc.

PLEASE NOTE: If you have v1.3.1 or later installed you do not need to download this, but you may use the online update feature from your JoomSEF instalation Control Panel instead. Using online update feature, you will not loose (or need to backup) your current configuration or existing URLs.

The latest open-source version of JoomSEF may contain links to ARTIO webpages or some of the JoomSEF development sponsors. Based on our policy, the older versions of JoomSEF available from our pages will be kept free of these links. You can also get the latest version without links of the JoomSEF from our webshop. If you would like to becomeJoomSEF sponsor, please contact us via email.

More SEF Extensions for popular Joomla! modules coming soon!
Please donate to support further JoomSEF development.

What's new in 1.5.1:

• Fixed problem when frontpage is not detected if not first item in mainmenu
• Fixed issues caused by upper/lowercase URLs difference where SEO should be off
• Optimized URLs for com_search
• Optimized URLs for com_contact
• Optimized URLs for com_registration
• SEF form components for com_search and com_contact may be disabled
• Fixed problem with image not showing on 404 page

What's new in 1.5.0:

• Added option to accept URLs both with/without trailing slash
• Added option not to store 404 page hits records to decrease number of SQL queries
• Fixed some duplicate URLs issues (especially with VirtueMart)

What's new in 1.4.x:

• Please, check documentation or JoomSEF version log document to see changes in older versions

This is a small fix of Joomlaboard 1.1.2 code to improve SEF generation on some of its elements.