Hi,

Did you made any modifications to the file manager ?
I have spent many time to "internationalise" it. In fact to remove the hard coded textes by some define()

Will you be interested by this ?


If that's the case, you can download filemanager.php and /language/english/admin.php
here.

There have been some useful threads here about search engine optimisation. Search engine friendly URLs may still be a distant reality apart from Apache mod rewrite, but there is another powerful option to "friendly URLs, that is link popularity. Google which is the main contender for searching query string addresses put considerable emphaises on link popularity as well as content density and relevance.

Using mylinks module for a "Reciprocal links directory"

The my links module would be a good tool for optimising link popularity throughout the XOOPS community. This is what is required:

1/ Modify Mylinks to make a global category that automatically includes all links in all other categories.
2/ Make the global category data portable from one Mylinks module to another.
3/ On the XOOPS.org, website create a global category for 'xoops websites' in the modified module .
4/ Invite all XOOPS users to register their own websites in the global category.

Links popularity.

1/ Users wanting to maximise link popularity need to register their own website in the XOOPS links category.
2/ They then need to install the modified Mylinks module with data input facility
3/ Now, download and insert the global links data into your own global category.

This will take some time to build up, but eventually there is potential for thousands of sites linking to one another through this combined links category. Some sites will rank highly anyway by virtue of their content. If they are linked to your site, because they use the global category with your site on it, your popularity will be increased due to their linking. The global category is only a small intrusion in your links categories compared to the overall benefits.

Extra benefits.

Reciprocal links add value to your web site, let your web site visitors return to your site, and you'll get targeted traffic from clicks of your links on other web sites.

As a positive side effect, you'll also benefit from increased search engine traffic if you have good incoming links. Almost all major search engines rank your web pages based on the number and the quality of links that point to your web site (link popularity). Google uses link popularity as an important factor in ranking sites. HotBot, AltaVista, MSN, Inktomi and others also use link popularity in their formulas.

This is not a perfect solution, because link relevance can not be included and it depends heavily on user participation, BUT it's a start!

Any thoughts, comments or better ideas?


Richard

I had a problem that is still taking place actually with the newbb. When I upgraded my site from 2.0.3 to 2.0.5, the posts that were there stopped showing up. If you choose the option to show all posts it showed them up, but there is no way I have seen that lets me show them up like that all the time. I'm planning on rehauling the site in the next week or so anyway and I'm going to put the IB Mod on it.

@svaha
Well I think that will be the wrong thing to do m8, its near haggis season and we will shoot anyone that doesn't wear a kilt

Oh well, it's that I have this bad cold at the moment, so my doctor forbid me to wear kilts/sarongs/jaballas (no underpants of course), so I'll wait and wish you happy hunting.
Aloha

The Sections thing I have been using is the one that comes with the XOOPS 2 distribution that I downloaded 2 days ago. If WFSections/XFSections is something different I apologise for my ignorance.

Edit.. Downloaded and installed xfsection. At first glance it seems much more the sort of thing I'm after. Thanks all for your help.

Regards
Ashley

Charpres just did a really nice roundup of Content Modules...
see it here:
https://xoops.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=flat&topic_id=16200&forum=4

Ok, beg me for asking here,

I think either you have been using the wrong version of WF-Sections or you are a kinda mixed up about the whole WF-XF thing here.

XF-Sections is WF-Section with bugfixes and nothing more. So how can you say that one has one thing but the other doesn't?

And WF-Sections is not a core module as yet, it will be as from XOOPS v2.6.0.

You can also find it here in the XOOPS Module Downloads:
https://xoops.org/modules/mydownloads/viewcat.php?cid=24&orderby=titleD

Charpres, that is a very helpful round-up of sections modules. Thanks.

You probably didn't find it because I called it xfsections when it's actually xfsection.

You can get it here:http://linux2.ohwada.net/modules/mydownloads/singlefile.php?cid=1&lid=1

@meme:
Thanks m8, I'm more than sure it will be

@Draven
Yeah I nicked it from another module dev But I had to change it thou, you know improve on it

@svaha
Well I think that will be the wrong thing to do m8, its near haggis season and we will shoot anyone that doesn't wear a kilt

Thats as been fixed as well