Ultimate Seo Urls 5 PRO
Version 1.1.0

Settings and Operation

Location in admin panel

admin » Configuration » Seo Urls 5

Settings and what they do

• Enable SEO URLs
  • Effectively an on/off switch .. true being on .. false off
• Enable the cache
  • Effectively an on/off switch for the caching system .. true being on .. false off
• Enable multi language support
  • Turn on/off the multi language functionality .. true being on .. false off
• Output W3C valid URIs
  • Output W3C valid links that won't break your validation
• Select your chosen cache system
  • File:
    Stores the cache as a text file. No queries are used after the cache is fully loaded.
  • SQLite:
    Stores the cache in an SQLite database. No MySQL queries are used after the cache is fully loaded.
  • MySQL:
    Stores the cache in the database.
  • Memcache:
    Super fast Memcached option. Requires Memcache compiled in apache.
    This is really only a solution for shops running on dedicated/VPS servers as it is unlikely to be available in shared hosting
    Read the benefits here.
• Set the number of days to store the cache
  • How many days a cache will be kept before auto deleting itself.
• Choose the URI format
  • There are 4 options

    The difference between the four is shown below: -

    • Standard Seo Urls ( does not require mod_rewrite )
      • www.mysite.com/product_info.php/the-brand-etc-great-product-p-3
    • Path Standard Seo Urls ( does not require mod_rewrite )
      • www.mysite.com/product_info.php/the-brand-etc/great-product-p-3
    • Traditional Rewrite Seo Urls ( Requires mod_rewrite and RewriteRules added to .htaccess )
      • www.mysite.com/the-brand-etc-great-product-p-3.html
    • Path Rewrite Seo Urls ( Requires mod_rewrite and RewriteRules added to .htaccess )
      • www.mysite.com/the-brand-etc/great-product-p-3.html
• Choose how your product link text is made up
  • There are 49 different ways to write your products link text. Any combination of the below ( e.g. bp produces brand-product name or brand/product name if the uri type is path based )
    • p = products name
    • c = category name
    • b = manufacturer name ( b for brand )
    • m = model
  • cbmp produces category-brand-model-product-name or category/brand/model/product-name if the uri type is path based
• Filter Short Words
  • When creating a link from a product name you may want to remove the shorter words .. like a | or | at | the .. etc.
    Default value is 1 but you can choose to filter short words of 1 2 or 3 letters.
    A setting of 3 would filter out all words of three letters or less.
• Add category parent to the beginning of the url
  • Enables/disables the option of adding the category parent to the beginning of category URLs.
• Remove all non-alphanumeric characters
  • Removes all non alphanumeric characters .. this is best left as true.
    If your language uses special characters you will need to use the conversion system see extras/character_conversion_pack/instructions.txt
• Add cPath to product URLs
  • Adds ?cPath=x to the end of product urls .. not sure why ( perhaps menu highlighting ) but retained for backwards compatibility.
• Enter special character conversions
  • Convert/replace special language characters. As a comma seperated string .. like ..
    character=>convert,char2=>convert

    While this can still be used it has been replaced by the files in
    catalog/includes/modules/ultimate_seo_urls5/includes/character_conversion/
    To revert to using this method just delete all the files within the character_conversion folder .. but not the folder itself.

    See extras/character_conversion_pack/instructions.txt

• Turn performance reporting on/off .. true being on .. false off
  • Shows USU5 performance at the bottom of your web shop.
• Turn variable reporting on/off .. true being on .. false off
  • Shows USU5 class properties at the bottom of your web shop. Great for debugging.
• Force www.mysite.com/ when www.mysite.com/index.php
  • Redirects index.php to your base domain. Beware! on some servers this creates a redirect loop so turn it on .. try it .. if it creates a loop turn it OFF.
• Reset SEO URLs Cache
  • Clicking on "reset" will empty the cache.