pathauto

Hi All,
Thanks for a great module. I'm trying to make pathauto construct hierarchical urls using cck-nodereference fields for the hierarchical relationships. And I have some questions about the tokens that are created for nodereference fields. As far as I can see the only usable token is [fieldname]-nid. Is this correct, or are the *-title and *-link tokens populated in certain circumstances?

It's come time for another point release of Pathauto and you can get a "sneak preview" of this by downloading and using 5.x-2.x-dev.

One bug left to fix?

There are still some issues that I'd like to clean up. It seems that 5.x-2.1 caused some problems for modules that make heavy use of taxonomy for their own purposes (forum, image gallery, etc.). Nancyw came up with a patch that will improve the situation for bulk updates: http://drupal.org/node/188606#comment-782627 If more folks could test that, it would be great. That doesn't solve all the problems that 2.1 introduced for these modules, and if someone wants to fix that problem prior to 5.x-2.2 please let me know. Otherwise it will have to be a "known bug".

Bulk Generation Got Faster

Also, stennie came up with some good work to improve the speed of bulk udpates though this code should ideally get some more testing. In fact, all of it needs a little more testing. That's where you come in!

Sneak Preview (aka help test)

If you're a 5.x-2.1 user and can help test this 5.x-2.x-dev you'll help me make sure that 5.x-2.2 will be a nice and solid release so that I can focus on making Pathauto rock for 6.x.

Tối ưu Drupal sites và các máy tìm kiếm, tiếng Anh người ta thường gọi là SEO, Search Engines Optimization, là vấn đề cực kỳ quan trọng đối với mọi site. Tôi xin giới thiệu các module hỗ trợ SEO:

1. pathauto: tự động tạo alias cho các trang node, taxonomy term, user, blog, ... Vì các search engine ngoài việc tìm nội dung ở trong trang web, thì cũng tìm kiếm ở URL của trang web nữa, và độ ưu tiên này rất cao.
2. nodewords: hỗ trợ tạo thẻ meta keyword, description cho từng node.
3. xmlsitemap: tạo chỉ mục nội dung để các SE có thể truy cập, đồng thời, module này cũng thường xuyên submit sitemap đến SE để chúng khỏi quên.
4. ping (core module): thông báo đến một số site quan trọng để biết rằng, site bạn đang sống.

Có nhóm chuyên về SEO ở đây: http://groups.drupal.org/search-engine-optimization

Thế Hồng

Hello folks,

I've fixed a bunch of bugs in Pathauto recently and think it's about time for a 5.x-2.1 release. The current 5.x-2.x-dev is basically what I plan on tagging as a 5.x-2.1. If I could get some "yes, looks good" or "no, need to fix bug #x beforehand" that would be really helpful.

This is likely to be the last release for a couple of months so I'd like it to be really solid.

Thanks.

Hey all,

To get strait to the point.

Pathauto creates alias for taxonomy/term/1 and you can set it to be [vocab]/[catpath].

What if I would like to create more aliases for the same vocabulary like for soccer/[catpath] to be soccer/[catpath] ?

I took a look at pathauto_taxonomy.inc and tried to hard code it in but with no luck.

I would like that so I can rewrite Views urls. Now you can say that I can pass a taxonomy term to a view and solve that.
For some reason it's just not the solution I'm looking for ...

Can anyone help me with this ?

Cheers!

I'm currently working on a new site for a non-profit organization. I've installed pathauto module to improve seo (i hope) but since I'm still in the development phase, I've been experimenting with it a bit.

my typical setting would be like this:

[type-name]/[m]/[yy]/[title].html

as you can see, I added the ".html" at the end of the settings so url output will be like this:

cat/10/07/my-pet.html

have you heard any pros and cons about adding that ".html" at the end? would love to hear it. thanks

I love the way you can use a phrase like "People who live in %" using the regular Drupal profile module and then by clicking the link, get a list of all users who live in %. I'm trying to get the same thing happening with profiles as nodes. I've tried using CCK taxonomy fields in both the Node Profiles and the Bio Modules. It almost works, but only intermittantly. Sometimes I get the message "There are currently no posts in this category ..." other times, some users will show up and others won't - even when they have been tagged with the the term.

Hi,
I'm using the Pathauto module to define the path of nodes.
From a SEO point of view, would you recommend the use of hierarchical alias?

As an example consider the pattern for the posts of my site www.clipperz.com.

users/[user]/blog/

Every time I publish a new post

http://www.clipperz.com/users/marco/blog/2007/05/18/clipperz_compact_in_...

several index aliases are generated

http://www.clipperz.com/users/
http://www.clipperz.com/users/marco/
http://www.clipperz.com/users/marco/blog/

I've lately been working on a few sites with 10K plus path aliases, all generated from pathauto. Mostly on dedicated boxes so resources aren't too much of an issue. It got me thinking about an alternate approach, maybe an addition to pathauto or a separate module. Ok, here goes ...

Pathauto has a nice way of defining path naming rules for content types. These paths are stored in the database as aliases. Good. But how about NOT storing any of these paths in the database. Just "hook" into Drupal to generate a path on the fly based on the pathauto ruleset.

There's a concept of "dangerous" aliases - aliases which can result in broken sites if you use certain options (e.g. index aliases or transliteration where none of the characters are found)

http://drupal.org/node/124459

So, here are the proposed new defaults. Old lines are prefixed with a - and their replaclements are prefixed with a +