How To

Step 1
Download the file.

Step 2
Go to MijoSEF=>Extensions  from Joomla! menu.

Step 3
At Install / Upgrade section, click Browse, select the file and finally click on Upload File & Install.

To migrate from sh404SEF to MijoSEF you should follow these steps:

1. Go to sh404SEF control panel
2. Click on Import/Export URLS button
3. Click on Export redirections in the opened page
4. Go to MijoSEF Control Panel
5. Click on Restore / Migrate button
6. Select the file you got from sh404SEF extportation, the file name should be sh404SEF_sef_urls

That's all, wellcome to MijoSEF.

ItemID is one of the most important and problematic part of Joomla! and SEF, check out the OSTraining tutorial for more info about what is ItemID http://bit.ly/chjojc

1. Problems

There are 2 main reasons of creating duplicated URLs from multiple ItemIDs:

1. One article/category pointed in 2 different menus
2. Some modules, not coded well, do not add the correct ItemID to non-SEF links, they add the ItemID of active page to links.

2. Case study

The following image is an example of the #1 problem. As you can see, on our live site we use 2 different menus to show the company's articles, Main Menu and Company Menu.



As per result, SEF components will generate 2 different records with the same SEF URL but different Real URL:

3. Solutions

Solution for problem #1

Since MijoSEF 1.5.4, we have implemented a smooth solution for this problem. You will have the oppurtunity to add an MijoSEF URL to any menu item:




So a second URL for that article won't be created. It's recommended to lock that SEF URL from MijoSEF=>URLs page because it's ID is stored in menu item.

Solution for problem #1 & #2

We have added 3 new options to solve this issue in a smart way.
The first option is MijoSEF=>Configuration=>URLs=>Ignore Multiple ItemIDs, the second one is MijoSEF=>Configuration=>URLs=>Find ItemID smartly and the third one is MijoSEF=>Extensions=>Your Extension (Content)=>Use Smart ItemID. The first and the second options are global but the second one is extension based which means it's not available for all extensions.




These 3 options will try to eliminate Duplicated URLs caused by multiple ItemID in an automatic way and creating just one URL/record for you. Of course, there is no 100% guaranteed automatic solution.

NOTE: Some components (like Zoo and Wrapper) recognize the page just using ItemID and do not add any other variable to the URL. For example in Zoo, applications added to menus are separated just by the ItemID and the other part of the URL is the same. In such a case you should turn off the MijoSEF=>Configuration=>URLs=>Find ItemID smartly option.

There is a few ways to resolve this issue:

1. After the duplicated URLs are generated you can set one of them as Used in MijoSEF=>SEF URLs page to choose, what URL you want to use for given SEF URL (in case you want to use just 1 URL always); If you would like to use both, you will need to change one of the SEF links to something else, so the 2 are not conflicting.

2. You can also prevent such "duplicates" creating by changing the Record duplicated URLs option to No in MijoSEF=>Configuration=>URLs or MijoSEF=>Extension=>Proper Extension parameters. Then only 1 version of SEF URL will be stored - and in case it is not the one you want - you will need to update it manually.

3. You can also prevent such "duplicates" creating by changing the Numeral duplicated URLs option to Yes in  MijoSEF=>Configuration=>URLs or MijoSEF=>Extension=>Proper Extension parameters. Then an unique SEF URL will be created for each URL.

4. Another option would be to update your site in a way, that there do not exist links with both types of URL. Then no duplicate URL can occur. The most common reason of duplicates is the ItemID issue, check the following link to learn more about ItemID, click here for more info.

You should just press the Upgrade  button but first of all, you should enter your Personal ID  into MijoSEF configuration.

To do that, go to www.miwisoft.com/my-profile  and copy your Personal ID.

Then go to MijoSEF => Configuration => Personal ID  field and paste the copied ID.

 

This is a brand new feature of MijoSEF that allows you to create Sitemap Index automatically.



As you know, the following link is used to create a XML sitemap including all sitemap items:
index.php?option=com_mijosef&view=sitemap&format=xml

But what if we want to filter/categorize the XML sitemap and/or create multiple XML sitemaps? Here you have it.

Let's say we've FAQs as top category and General, Current Users, Languages and New to Joomla as sub-categories of FAQs. Of course that these categories have items/contents inside and may be thousand of items in each one.

So what we want to do is to create different sitemaps for each category so that it'll also speed up Google to read it. We can achieve this in 2 ways:

1. Creating a Sitemap Index

That is pretty simple, we just have to enter the SEF path that these categories contain to the XML link like in image #1 above:

index.php?option=com_mijosef&view=sitemap&format=xml&root=k2/faqs

So it'll search for 1 deeper level SEF URLs in MijoSEF and create a sitemap for each of them.

2. Modifying the sitemap link manually

We can enter the category path manually like this:

index.php?option=com_mijosef&view=sitemap&format=xml&s1=k2/faqs/current-users

We can include up to 7 different paths in one sitemap using s1, s2, s3... s7 in the sitemap link.

Component based XML sitemap

We can use the following link style to create component based XML sitemaps:

index.php?option=com_mijosef&view=sitemap&format=xml&com=com_k2