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AceSEF

Enable

You can enable or disable AceSEF to rewrite URLs. This option controls whether AceSEF will be used to process SEF URLs on your site. If disabled, the standard Joomla! core SEF will be used.
Default value: Yes

Enable Version Checker

If set to Yes, AceSEF notifies if a new version is enabled. You can disable if there is any connection problem with joomace.net website.
Default value: Yes

Upgrade

Download-ID

Enter the Download-ID if you have purchased Plus, Pro or VIP version of AceSEF. The Download-ID is used to identify your copy and install the copyright-free version.

Instant Cache

Instant cache will use your server's RAM to cache records instantly. It is efficient for small websites with less than 5000 records (URLs + Metadata + Sitemap + Tags + Internal Links). You don't have to clean the instant cache. Use the Permanent Cache for large websites.

Permanent Cache

It's recommended for websites with more than 5000 records (URLs + Metadata + Sitemap + Tags + Internal Links), otherwise you can use the Instant Cache.

Version Info

Caching Version Info will increase the loading speed of the backend area (Control Panel) of AceSEF. The life time is 1 day for Version Info's cache.
Default value: Yes

Extensions’ Parametres

Caching Extensions' Parameters will decrease the queries made to database and speed-up your site.
Default value: No

SEF URLs

Caching SEF URLs will decrease the queries made to database and speed-up your site.
Default value: No

Moved URLs

Caching Moved URLs will decrease the queries made to database and speed-up your site.
Default value: No

Metadata

Caching Metadata will decrease the queries made to database and speed-up your site.
Default value: No

Sitemap

Caching Sitemap will decrease the queries made to database and speed-up your site.
Default value: No

Internal Links

Caching Internal Links will decrease the queries made to database and speed-up your site.
Default value: Yes

SEO

H1 Headings

Surrounding the article titles with h1 tag to indicate their importance.
Default value: No

Nofollow External URLs

Adds the nofollow tag in external URLs.
Default value: No

404 Page

Here you can set the target of the not founded URLs, Custom 404 Page or Home Page.

URLs

Main

Generate new SEF URLs

If this option is set to No, AceSEF won't create any new SEF URLs and will use only the ones already created. It is useful if you have a web site with static content and all of your URLs are created correctly, so you can be sure that no new URL will be created.
Default value: Yes

Lowecase URLs

If set to YES, all chars in SEF URLs will be lowercase. Otherwise, they will the same as original content title. For example, if the article title is “Team Members” and lowercase URL is no, the SEF URL will be “Team-Members.html”, otherwise, it'll be “team-members.html”.
Default value: Yes

Find ItemID smartly

If set to YES, AceSEF will try to find the proper ItemID in a smart way. This will prevent Duplicated SEF URLs.
Default value: Yes

Numeral Duplicated URLs

If set to No, duplicate URLs will be stored in database and only one of them will be used. AceSEF tries to choose the best one, but that is not always possible. If there are many duplicates for one SEF URL, the links probably won't work correctly. If set to Yes, duplicates will be numbered like “-dp1,-dp2, -dp3 ”, so the correct URL will be always used. "No" is recommended because Google doesn't like duplicated content.
Default value: No

Record Duplicated URLs

If set to Yes, Real URLs that yield the same SEF URL will be recorded. This will allow you to choose which one you prefer, assigning it as Used.
Default value: Yes

URL Suffix

If it's blank, there won't be an suffix on SEF URLs. Generally .html is used. If the article title is “Team Members” and the field is blank, the SEF URL will be: “team-members”. If you write “.html” the SEF URL will be “team-members.html”.
Default value: blank

Replacement character

This character will be used to replace unknown and space characters in the URL.
Default value: -

Include parent menus

You can include not only the menu item itself but also their parents into SEF URL.
Default value: No

Menu URL part

You can use title or alias titles for menu URLs. Also, you can disable menu name in “Extensions” page. Make “Skip prefix / menu” = “No” for this.

Use Title or Alias

Use Title or Alias to generate URLs for components' categories and items. You can also set this from each extension parameters.

301 Redirections

www Redirection

Use this option to set how to handle domains with and without www.
No action : AceSEF will leave domain as it is.
With www : If a domain without www is used to access the site it will be redirected to the same domain with www.
Without www : If a domain with www is used to access the site it will be redirected to the same domain without www.

non-SEF to SEF

If enabled, when accessing the site using the non-SEF URL you will be redirected to the correct SEF URL. If SEF URL does not exist and the “Generate new SEF” option is set to Yes (“No” is recommended for security issues), it will be created on-the-fly.
Default value: Yes

Joomla! SEF to AceSEF

If set to Yes, Joomla! standard SEF URLs will be redirected to their AceSEF equivalent with 301 Moved Permanently header, if any in the database. If it does not exists, it will be created on-the-fly.
Default value: Yes

Advanced

Purge Extension's URLs

If this option is set to Yes, AceSEF will delete all created (except locked) URLs after installation or uninstallation of any extension.
Default value: Yes

Append ItemID to SEF

If is set to Yes, the ItemID will appended to SEF URL. This is useful if you are having problems related with duplicated URLs and want to have unique URLs.
Default value: No

Append limit value to URL

If is set Yes, the limit number will be appended to page number. This option will be valid only if the Items per page parameter is empty in extension's page.
Default value: No

Remove trailing slash

If you select No, category links will have a trailing slash at the end of url. If your site is new, this is not important for SEO but if you used to another SEF component, set this parameter same. Because, search engines sense them 2 different page. For example, if the category title is “Support” and it's set to YES, the SEF URL will be “support”, otherwise it'll be “support/”.
Default value: Yes

Tolerant to trailing slash

If enabled, both URL versions (with and without the trailing slash) will work. Otherwise only one version (the one stored inthe database) will work.
Default value: Yes

Strip characters

These characters will be removed from the SEF URL. Mostly these are characters that are not supported by server configuration.
Default value: ^$%@#()+*!?.~:;|[]{},&¦

Enable Source Tracker

Enabling URL source tracking will help finding the source that generates that non-SEF URL and solve any issue.
Default value: Yes

Insert active ItemID

Insert active menu ItemID if no ItemID is included in Real URL (not SEF).
Default value: No

Remove Session ID

If set to No, the SID variable will not be removed from SEF URL. This may help some components to work properly, but also can create duplicates with some others.
Default value: No

Set QUERY_STRING

If set to Yes, the server QUERY_STRING variable will be set according to parsed variables. Fixes some redirection problems with VirtueMart and other components. You can disable it if you dont use VirtueMart.
Default value: Yes

Base href value

Controls the way the base href value is generated. May be used to fix some problems like images not shown correctly when using SEF URLs.
Leave original : AceSEF leave the original Joomla! Base href.
Use SEF URL : The base href will be generatedusing the current SEF URL.
Use Home page :
Disable : The base href will not be generated at all.
Default value: Use Home Page

Use non-SEF variables

Excludes often changing variables from SEF URL and appends them as non-SEF query. This will decrease database usage and also prevent duplicate URLs in some extensions.
Default value: Yes

Record 404 errors

Whether the non-existent URLs should be stored in the 404 Log. If disabled, the number of SQL queries may be decreased, but you won't be able to see hits to non-existent pages (you may use the Google Webmaster Tools for this).
Default value: Yes

Log 404 errors

Log 404 errors in a phisical log file.
Default value: No

Joom!Fish

Main language

You can select the language which will not have the language code integrated into the SEF URL. This language is also used when user opens the frontpage and language is not determined from browser or cookie.
Default value: -None-

Delete main lang variable

Delete main language variable from Real URL, i.e. "&lang=en" will be deleted if set to Yes.
Default value: No

Insert language code

Prepend language code to URL.
Default value: Yes

Translate URL

Whether the titles in the SEF URLs should be translated to match the language.
Default value: Yes

Language determination

If language not set right, the browser language code will be used.
Default value: Yes

Save language in cookies

Whether the last used language should be stored in the cookie so when user opens your page again, the same language as last time will be used. This is also useful when some component uses redirections without the lang variable set - in such case, the page will not change the language randomly, but the current language is preserved.
Default value: Yes

Language

Unicode (UTF-8) URLs

If set to Yes, all the characters except Strip Characters will be allowed in URLs. At the same time, the non-ascii char replacements won't be applied.
Default value: No

Char replacement list

Here you can set the character pairs for replacement - the first character in a pair is replaced by the second one in the URL. Characters in the pair are separated by | (pipe character) and pairs are separated by comma.

Global variables

non-SEF variables

List of globally applied non-SEF variables that will be removed from SEF URL and appended behind. Separate by: catid, view=article.

disable-SEF variables

List of globally applied disable-SEF variables that will prevent creation of SEF URLs in case of they are included in Real URL. Separate by comma: catid, view=article.

Skip-menu variables

List of globally applied skip-menu variables that will prevent prepending menu title to SEF URLs in case of they are included in Real URL. Separate by comma: catid, view=article.

Force SSL

Force site access to always occur under SSL (https) for selected areas. You will not be able to access selected areas under non-ssl. Note, you must have SSL enabled on your server to utilize this option.

Metadata

Main

Handle core tags

If set to No, AceSEF won’t handle meta title, description and keywords in no circumstances.
Default value: Yes

Show Title meta tag

The HTML tag is automatically added. If you wish you can also add the Meta tag.
Default value: Yes

Extra Tags

Generator Tags

Replace the 'Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management' meta tag.

Remove Generator Tag

Removes the Generator meta tag.
Default value: Yes

Abstract Tag

The Abstract Tag defines a brief abstraction of your website like: SEO Solutions.

Revisit Tag

The Revisit Tag defines how many days the search engine should revisit your website like: 2 Days.

Lang Direction Tag

Language reading direction. 'ltr' => left-to-right and 'rtl' => right-to-left.

Google Key

Authentication Key for this site from Google Webmaster Tools.

Live.com Key

Authentication Key for this website from Live.Com Webmaster Central.

Yahoo Key

Authentication Key for this site from Yahoo Site Explorer.

Alexa Key

Authentication Key for this site from Alexa.

Custom Tags

You can set three (3) custom tags.

Automatic Metadata: Options

Enable auto Title

Automatically generates meta title per component. You can also set this from each extension parameters.
Default value: Yes

Enable auto Description

Automatically generates meta description per component. "If empty" means automatic metadata will be generated only if you have not filled it from your component, i.e. articles of Content component. You can also set this from each extension parameters.

Enable auto Keywords

Automatically generates meta keywords per component. "If empty" means automatic metadata will be generated only if you have not filled it from your component, i.e. articles of Content component. You can also set this from each extension parameters.

Automatic Metadata: Title

Separator

This is the character that separates your page titles from your site name.

Custom site name

Enter a custom site name to use for page title.

Include site name

Include site name in title.

Prefix

Prefix to add before page title.

Suffix

Suffix to add after page title.

Automatic Metadata: Keywords

Blacklist

List of words which won't be listed as keywords. Separate words with commas.

Whitelist

List of words that if found in the text will be added to keywords with priority. A word from whitelist will be listed before other keywords even if it is repeated only 1 time in the text.

Sitemap

XML

Dynamic Link

You can use this link for submitting your sitemap to Google and/or Yahoo, just copy and paste it. You can use the start & limit variables to get paginated / splitted XML sitemap. For example:

index.php?option=com_acesef&view&sitemap&format=xml&start=5&limit=3

The above link will get 3 URLs starting from the 5th URL and display them in XML sitemap.

Static file

You can also use a static XML file instead of dynamic link. Do not end with .xml

Show date

If set to Yes, date column will be contained in XML file.
Default value: Yes

Show frequency

If set to Yes, frequency column will be contained in XML file.
Default value: Yes

Show priority

If set to Yes, priority column will be contained in XML file
Default value: Yes

Ping

Ping after XML generation

Ping the sitemap to Google, Yahoo! and Bing (not Services) automatically after you click on Generate XML on Sitemap page.

Yahoo! Application ID

Enter your Yahoo! Application ID.

Ping Services

List of services to ping, each service seperated by comma and space.

Default Values

Change frequency

Define the default change frequency.

Priority

Define the default priority.

Automatic Sitemap: Options

Enable

If is set to YES, every new generated SEF URL will be added automatically to Sitemap according to the following settings.
Default value: Yes

Components

Apply the automatic sitemap generation feature to the selected components.

Enable category filter

If set to YES, automatic sitemap generation feature will be applied only to URLs passed through category filter that is set in extension's parameters.
Default value: Yes

Filter SEF URLs

Enter the words that if they will be found in SEF URL then the keywords of that URL won't be added in sitemap page, seperated by comma and space.

Filter Real URLs

How Enter the words that if they will be found in Real URL then the keywords of that URL won't be added in sitemap page, seperated by comma and space.

Automatic Sitemap: Cron Task (Scheduling)

Cron Frequency

Cron task is only for static XML file, not for dynamic link. It'll automatically Generate XML file on a predefined interval without requiring CRON support from your host. SEF URL means every SEF URL is generated.

Generate XML

Re-Generate (add to) XML automatically according to cron frequency.
Default value: Yes

Ping Crawlers

Ping Google, Yahoo and Bing automatically according to cron frequency.
Default value: No

Ping Services

Ping pingomatin, technorati etc automatically according to cron frequency.
Default value: No

Internal Links

Main

Enable

Enable Internal Links functionality.
Default value: Yes

Affected Area

For Content, the component must support Content plugins. Main Body is the center area of Joomla! (including Title). Check FAQ section for more info.

Components

Apply internal links to the selected components.

Enable category filter

If set to Yes, internal links will be applied only to URLs passed through category filter that is set in extension's parameters.
Default value: No

Show in category URL

Show internal links in category page/URL.
Default value: No

Case sensitive

Select whether word replacement should be case sensitive (upper-lower case).
Default value: Yes

Default Values

Published

Default Published state while adding new Internal Link.
Default value: Yes

Nofollow

Default Nofollow state while adding new Internal Link.
Default value: No

New window

Default New window state while adding new Internal Link.
Default value: No

Limit

Default Limit value. Leave blank the limit value while addin new Internal Link to use this.

Social Bookmarks

Main

Enable

Enable Social Bookmarks functionality.
Default value: Yes

Affected Area

For Content, the component must support Content plugins. Main Body is the center area of Joomla! (including Title). Check FAQ section for more info.

Components

Apply social bookmarks to the selected components.

Enable category filter

If set to Yes, social bookmarks will be applied only to URLs passed through category filter that is set in extension's parameters.
Default value: No

Show in category URL

Show social bookmarks in category page/URL.
Default value: No

Default Values

Published

Default Published state while adding new Internal Link.
Default value: Yes

Type

Default Type state while adding new Internal Link.

Badges

Twitter account

Enter your twitter account if you're using the Twitter badge. Ex. JoomAce

Icon Sets

AddThis.com ID

Enter your ID in AddThis.com. Only for AddThis.com bookmarks.

Tall A Friend ID

Enter your Tall A Friend Widget ID. Only for tellafriend.socialtwist.com bookmarks.

Icons

Show icons

Show icons before/after text or where you've placed the placeholder.

Prepend text

Prepend some text before displayin icons.

Icons per line

How many icons will be displayed per line?

1) This character will be used to replace unknown characters in the URL.

Default value: -