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1.8.2 is released.  It puts use_hierarchy back as well as some bug fixes.  Blog post incoming... We're listening, we swear.  ;) Big thanks to Ted & the crew for listening to mere mortals ;) If you decide to remove the use_hierarchy setting in the future, please make sure there's a supported way...

After upgrading to CMS 1.8.2 I found that the urls in the sitemap still use the 'ugly' way of showing parents. I don't want that. I did a fresh install of 1.8.2 and verified that SiteMapMadeSimple works fine with non-hierarchical urls. However, the module was not listed in the module manager, so I ...

Whether to use a hierarchical or non-hierarchical URL structure is debated on most SEO forums and I don't think we'll find the ultimate answer on that by further discussing it here. To get the answer you simply need to try out what works best for your sites. From my own experience I would say that t...

When I learned about this change, I had a strong feeling that forum threads like this one would appear. I can only say that I couldn't agree more with OP, the change made CMSMS less flexible no matter how you look at it. I'm sure that noone around here really cares about my own struggle with the hie...

See what's in the forum rules. All right, got it. We're not allowed to discuss code examples in the forum, at least not if it has to do with the core. It would be highly appreciated if anyone can suggest a pragmatic approach for finding an alternative non-hierarchical url solution (which does not r...

I posted a code change that works for my sites, and asked for comments on it, but the whole post was quickly removed by some anonymous moderator.

Please, can anyone here at least tell me what's wrong with discussing possible solutions?

Nice article on SEO, too bad that page source is so screwed up it can't even be run thru validation which in my experience screws with SEO... Interesting point. Your experience tells you that sites with w3c-validated code performs better with regards to seo. Would you be happy if you upgrade to the...

That's the thing, I am sure for every link you can find that talks about the benefit of short url's you can find another that talks about the benefit of longer hierarchical urls. wiseguy - Honestly, I think the majority of what you want to do with your navigation can be done without the need to cre...

Basically, the shorter url, the better. Why?  It's better perhaps for human memories, but I can't see how it has anything to do with SEO.  Robots index content, not URLs. I have no proof really, it's just my own belief. But there is some interesting reading out there for the ones that try to get a ...

I'm not sure I agree. But I am willing to listen to your reasoning. Basically, the shorter url, the better. The exact words/sentence you want to have in the url can easily be set as page alias. It's debated which url structure to use. Some may believe that adding subfolders creates the best url str...

I would also like to see more flexibility and options for seo friendly urls. Removing the use_hierarchy option from config.php and instead set it to always "true" in version 1.8 was a step in the wrong direction imho. Sure, setting it to "false" may currently brake some of the ad...

Have you tried putting this back in your config file?... $config['use_hierarchy'] = false; I've tried it now without success, cleared cache as well. JeremyBASS: Thanks for being helpful. So far I've mainly used the described multiple menus method for creating footer menus which point to pages that ...

to be honest I don't know why you’re doing it that way.. Interesting, I had no clue that would work. So to "convert" pre-1.8 sites to 1.8 I could modify the menu templates somehow to strip out the /menu2/ part from the urls? And what about sitemap.xml generated by SiteMapMadeSimple? Also,...

I have a question now when use_hierarchy is removed from config.php and instead always is set to "true" in version 1.8. From reading this forum I've learned to create additional menus by creating a new page (with alias "menu2" in my example), disable "Show in Menu" for ...

a) The use_hierarchy tag in the config.php has been removed, we will treat it like it is 'true' at all times.  Don't ask us to reconsider this one.  Web sites are hierarchical, nuf said. I'm using "false" on all my sites, it helps a lot for on-page seo. Please elaborate on why this settin...