Set Up Short URL’s in ocPortal

Last Updated on Saturday, 15 June 2013 02:16 Written by Steve Jarvis Friday, 14 June 2013 12:00

Most Website users expect easy to read website URLs which help a great deal with Search Engine Optimisation so this ‘How To’ deals with how to set up the Short URLs when using ocPortal. Short URLs are easier to remember and follow than having code numbers for pages. There are two options for short URL’s built in to ocPortal. Whichever option you want to use requires the same initial process.

How to Add a New SEO URL (Rewrite Rule) in Clip-Bucket v2

Last Updated on Saturday, 11 May 2013 06:14 Written by Richi González Monday, 13 May 2013 12:00

Hello,

Today I will show you how to add a new Rewrite Rule to your Clip-Bucket powered website, such as /myaccount, /videos, etc. You must have a page previously created, of course. This can be adapted to any website that uses Rewrite Rules (apache mod_rewrite).

1. Let’s say you have a page called my_earnings.php, and you regularly access it by going to http://yoursite.tld/my_earnings.php and we want the SEO URL to just be /myearnings.

How to Enable SEO URLs in Clip-Bucket v2

Last Updated on Tuesday, 20 November 2012 12:44 Written by Richi González Saturday, 24 November 2012 12:00

Hello,

Today you will learn how to make your website look more professional. How? By enabling SEO URLs. SEO URLs make the URL look cleaner, shorter, and more user friendly, which is what every website owner wants: make their users feel comfortable in their website. This article applies for the v2 branch of Clip-Bucket. You must have mod_rewrite enabled in the server plus no NGINX or LiteSpeed instead of Apache running.

Difficulty level: Easy

Opt for PHP full tags instead of short ones

Last Updated on Friday, 15 April 2011 09:43 Written by Richi González Friday, 15 April 2011 09:43

Hello,

In the search of some scripts in the net, I found that a lot of them contained ugly code. By ugly, I mean code that is not well-structured and has bad writing forms. The use of short tags over full tags was the one that pissed me off more; I had to tweak my PHP settings to make them work.

Making Short Profile URLs in Elgg

Last Updated on Friday, 8 July 2011 09:57 Written by Rodolfo Hernandez Saturday, 20 November 2010 09:54

Something that elgg sites have is that they use long urls for profile pages. There is no guide for making then short and easy to share. Until now.

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