Hey all,
DragonByte SEO v1.0.0 Beta 8 has been released! This release adds the URL Rewrite History feature, allowing you to change your URL Rewrite Rules without fear of losing search engine rankings. All your old content URLs posted to search engines, across your forum or across other websites will seamlessly redirect to the new URLs. With datastore caching support, the performance impact of this feature is minimal.
Additionally, other modifications can now extend DragonByte SEO's library of URL Rewrite Rules. Internally at DBTech, we've added DBSEO integration with our shopping cart system. We've also released an update to vBDownloads which adds the same integration. Other DragonByte modifications planned for integration are Gallery, Reviews, Classifieds and vBShop.
Lastly, we've fixed around a dozen bugs, including a serious data loss issue for forums that have vBulletin configured to generate new threads for reported posts.
Below is the complete changelog for this version.
New Features Added
URL Rewrite History
AddOn Support
Bug Fixes And Issue Fixes:
As always, thank you for your continued support
Discuss this news here.
DragonByte SEO v1.0.0 Beta 8 has been released! This release adds the URL Rewrite History feature, allowing you to change your URL Rewrite Rules without fear of losing search engine rankings. All your old content URLs posted to search engines, across your forum or across other websites will seamlessly redirect to the new URLs. With datastore caching support, the performance impact of this feature is minimal.
Additionally, other modifications can now extend DragonByte SEO's library of URL Rewrite Rules. Internally at DBTech, we've added DBSEO integration with our shopping cart system. We've also released an update to vBDownloads which adds the same integration. Other DragonByte modifications planned for integration are Gallery, Reviews, Classifieds and vBShop.
Lastly, we've fixed around a dozen bugs, including a serious data loss issue for forums that have vBulletin configured to generate new threads for reported posts.
Below is the complete changelog for this version.
New Features Added
URL Rewrite History
- Change your URL Rewrite Rules without losing ranking
- Checks for old URL formats only if no matches are made to existing formats
- Stores only one copy of each old URL format for maximum database efficiency
- Results are cached in the Datastore for maximum performance
AddOn Support
- Allows other modifications to add their own rewrite rules / sitemap integration
- Powers our front page & product info pages
- Content-powered DBTech modification support coming
Bug Fixes And Issue Fixes:
- Fixed a serious data loss issue with reported posts if a thread is generated for the report
- Fixed an issue with the Blog Info cache
- Fixed an issue where "Go To New Post" URLs might not display the proper page
- Fixed an issue with building sitemaps on certain vB versions
- Fixed an issue where sitemap files could be generated with no URLs in them
- Fixed an issue in which Tapatalk (and other extensions that rely on directory traversal) would not function if your forum was located in a sub-forum
- Fixed a rare issue where thread URLs could be interpreted as attachment URLs
- Fixed a rare issue where the "Mark Forums Read" feature could stop working with DBSEO .htaccess rules enabled
- Reversing forum titles for URL formats without forum IDs would produce a PHP Fatal Error or a 500 Internal Server Error
- Blog Attachment URLs would not resolve correctly
- (vB3) NavBullet URLs will now rewrite correctly
As always, thank you for your continued support
Discuss this news here.
