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#1756 2011-04-05 16:26:53
Re: MLP - The Multi-Lingual Publishing Pack
Hello,
I’m having some troubles with the MLP (and, maybe, 4.4.0). When I write some new article, this is not visibile in the mlp table. Yet if published, it is visibile on the public side.
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#1757 2011-04-05 22:56:42
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Re: MLP - The Multi-Lingual Publishing Pack
Did you upgrade or is it a new install?
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#1758 2011-04-06 07:34:38
Re: MLP - The Multi-Lingual Publishing Pack
It’s an upgrade, I have overwritten all the files… (so I guess)
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#1759 2011-04-06 12:28:28
Re: MLP - The Multi-Lingual Publishing Pack
Can’t seem to find anything on this one – using 4.4.0 with the latest MLP files. Have one section called “specialities” and there are articles assigned to the section.
TXP display all the articles correctly, but searching from TXP backend results in zero articles. Its a bit odd because phpMyAdmin also returns all the articles correctly. I just can’t find the articles from within TXP backend (neither in MLP nor in Renditions) which is frustrating because I’d like to edit the articles!
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#1760 2011-04-06 20:12:46
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Re: MLP - The Multi-Lingual Publishing Pack
Manaus and Jonathan, looks like you both have a similar problem? I just tested my MLP installation on an upgraded Txp 4.4.0, and I’m not having any problems viewing the articles in either the Renditions or the MLP tab, I can see both existing and new articles.
Are you sure you have all MLP files? It’s easy to miss txplib_db.php.
Last edited by els (2011-04-06 20:13:45)
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#1761 2011-04-07 00:30:52
Re: MLP - The Multi-Lingual Publishing Pack
Yes, I have the MLP version of txplib_db.php on the server. Not sure what the problem is right now.
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#1762 2011-04-07 06:58:37
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Re: MLP - The Multi-Lingual Publishing Pack
Are the articles in the l10n_articles table? With all their ‘members’?
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#1763 2011-04-07 07:14:24
Re: MLP - The Multi-Lingual Publishing Pack
I’m having these plugin activated:
cbs_navigation_menu
gbp_admin_library
ign_password_protect
l10n
smd_gallery
smd_lib
smd_prognostics
upm_image
wet_peex
wet_quicklink
zem_contact_lang-mlp
zem_contact_reborn
and these disabled:
cnk_versioning
rss_admin_db_manager
Now I’m gonna install 4.4.0 – mlp on another location, so to try isolating the problem…
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#1764 2011-04-11 20:43:53
Re: MLP - The Multi-Lingual Publishing Pack
Is it possible to replace the slash after the language code with a underscore or a dash?
Would be interesting for SEO to have urls like en_article_title or en-article_title instead of en/article_title.
Is gbp_permanent_links able to do that with some modifications?
Thanks for any hint …
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#1765 2011-04-11 22:33:30
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Re: MLP - The Multi-Lingual Publishing Pack
Andreas, I honestly don’t know if that is possible, you might want to ask this question in the gbp_permanent_link thread, as Graeme knows both plugins well. But I am curious why for instance en-article-title would be better for SEO than /en/article-title?
Last edited by els (2011-04-11 22:34:19)
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#1766 2011-04-12 06:22:46
Re: MLP - The Multi-Lingual Publishing Pack
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For SE “en” in en/article_title is the first level and more relevant than the article_title. If between them is only a dash, than they are on the same level and only the position of the keyword in order counts …. for example look at the url structure of “tripadvisor”.
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#1767 2011-04-12 09:30:40
Re: MLP - The Multi-Lingual Publishing Pack
As far as I know, the one thing Google advises against is deep nesting, i.e. dir1/dir2/dir3/dir4 etc. (In TXP it is hard to go overboard with nesting anyway.)
The language directory in MLP, in its solitary state, gives you the corresponding language site root, so it is only logical that this persists when there are sections afterwards. It will not break the bot’s neck as long as you have a hierarchy (path) that leads to that article.
This said, it will be great if you can point to reference reading supporting what you said — I’m always open to surprises.
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#1768 2011-04-13 08:54:21
Re: MLP - The Multi-Lingual Publishing Pack
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@datorhaexa
it is only a “phenomena” that you can observe. some sites with a lower PR and lower linkpower rank higher because of the easier url structure, that means relevant keywords on the first level (means before the second slash after the domainname) in url ….
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@all
Anyway, is it possible to get rid of the language code at least for the homepage?
lreynolds asked it already in this post, but with no answer …
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#1769 2011-04-13 13:16:28
Re: MLP - The Multi-Lingual Publishing Pack
Andreas, could you please provide some reading on the subject? I have not observed said “phenomenon”, but would be interested to read about that. Thanks!
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#1770 2011-04-13 14:53:37
Re: MLP - The Multi-Lingual Publishing Pack
datorhaexa
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I can´t. It´s like every time in SEO. Everyone has another opinion, thinks he is right and Google & Co. have no open source algorithms for proving these propositions. Sorry moderators for offtopic talk….
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