sh404SEF, JoomSEF and AceSEF
After we released AceSEF, we recieved too much questions asking about why we needed to develop a new SEF component because of there were great SEF components avaliable. Well, yes, there were SEF components but they either were just generating SEF URLs (sh404SEF) OR didn't fullfil the needs (JoomSEF).
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Here it is the comparison table of the most used sh404SEF and JoomSEF components versus AceSEF.
Click on this link for the updated Part 2 of this comparison.
Here it is the comparison table of the most used sh404SEF and JoomSEF components versus AceSEF.
| sh404SEF | JoomSEF | AceSEF | |
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| Free Support |
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| Generates SEF URLs |
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| Overrides Joomla! core files which can break functionality |
Yes | No | No |
| Easy-to-use graphical user interface |
Worst | Good | Best |
| Written according Joomla! 1.5 Framework & MVC Standarts |
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| Written 100% in modular way |
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| 3rd Party extensions installation and management |
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| Sitemap (XML) for ALL components |
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| Meta Manager in batch mode |
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| Advanced SEF URL rewriting methods management |
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| Basic SEF URL rewriting, no plugin obligation to make SEF |
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| Supports Joomla! 1.5 router.php files |
Paid ver. | |
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| 100% accurated pagination | |
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| Alias option for ALL components |
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| Managed automatic meta tags generation |
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| Duplicated URLs management |
Hard-to-use | Good | Easy-to-use |
| Unique numerical URLs for duplicated URLs |
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| Advances SEF URLs filtration in backend |
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| Migration from other SEF components without losing old URLs |
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| Automatic update(new version) checker |
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| Upgrade page |
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| Customisable 404 page |
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| Supports Google News numbering |
Simple | Extended |
Extended |
| Queries for FrontPage (cache on) |
24 | 27 |
31 |
| Redirect from non-SEF to SEF URL |
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About the Author
Denis Dulici
Denis joined the Web World in 2006 with SMF forum. In 2007, he met with Joomla and couldn't leave it. Due to his education, his all job was to write and maintain code. He brought qualified components to Joomla such as AceSEF, AceSearch & AceACL. Of course that hid didn't achieve all of that alone but with the team of JoomAce LLC. His professional field is PHP & MySQL but due to his job & education he masters XML, Java and C# too.
Denis is a citizen of Albania, bachelor of Marmara University Technology Engineering, CTO of JoomAce LLC, married and father of teenyweeny girl.
Denis is a citizen of Albania, bachelor of Marmara University Technology Engineering, CTO of JoomAce LLC, married and father of teenyweeny girl.
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