vBSEO 3.3.0 RC2 Released - Announced on Twitter

Hi everyone,

All pending bugs discovered during the RC1 testing iteration have been corrected and RC2 is now available for download. Unless further issues are identified, vBSEO 3.3.0 GOLD will be our next official release.

Virtual HTML Display

Please remember to check out and take advantage of the new Virtual HTML Display feature. This is a powerful new tool to optimize your pages by eliminating non-relevant text elements and links. This is applied to your vBulletin notices when enabled, but can also be applied to any non-relevant widget on your forum using a custom template tag. Ask us, and we'll tell you how to use it.

Google, Yahoo, and MSN's new canonical hints are also built in.

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A full list of new features, updates, and fixes will be provided in the 3.3.0 GOLD release announcement.

NOTE: If your vBSEO license is currently expired you must renew before installing vBSEO 3.3.0 RC2 on your forum. Just click the 'Renew' link next to your forum URL in your license list.

Download vBSEO 3.3.0 RC2

For forums with vBSEO 3.2.0 or earlier versions installed, vBSEO 3.3.0 RC2 requires an update to your .htaccess file.

Find :

Code:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(admincp/|modcp/|cron)
RewriteRule ^((archive/)?(.*\.php(/.*)?)?)$ vbseo.php [L,QSA]

Replace

Code:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(admincp/|modcp/|cron|vbseo_sitemap)
RewriteRule ^((archive/)?(.*\.php(/.*)?))$ vbseo.php [L,QSA]

03/12/2009 Update:

The vBSEO 3.3.0 RC2 package has been updated on March 12 . Below a list of the bug fixes and updates in the most recent package:

• Disabling email notifications for users within vBSEO CP not working.
• Bug with CRRs redirecting rewrites to the homepage.
• A bug with previous/next thread lings on showthread.php.
• Advanced option to include ID's in metas to prevent duplicate meta descriptions via Google Webmaster Tools. To turn on this option, set VBSEO_META_DESCRIPTION_UNIQUE to '1' via config_vbseo.php.

Please note that the issues described above occur under specific configurations only and may not affect your specific instance.

Updating . Thanks Mert

Thanks.

I think I'll stay on 3.1, till I get time to update my skin template and upgrade vB to 3.8.x

Btw, what thing is that... the [Click to Expand +] image link ?

Click to Expand ( + ) is the hidden .htaccess changes.

Pretty slick!!!

Saw this on twitter

I will be doing upgrading first thing in the am

Originally Posted by Mert Gökçeimam

Click to Expand ( + ) is the hidden .htaccess changes.

Ah... yes. Noticed its the {spoiler} tag.
How about sharing the custom BBCode with the vBSEO users ?

Here you go ,
Tag Name : spoiler
Use {option} : Yes

Code:

<div>
    <div>
   	<span  title="Click + to expand changes" style="float:left; font-style:bold;">{option}</span><input title="Click + to expand changes" class="button1" type="button" value="( + )" style="width:30px;font-size:10px;margin:0px;padding:0px 4px;" onclick="if (this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display != '') { this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = '';this.innerText = ''; this.value = '( - )'; } else { this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = 'none'; this.value = '( + )';}">
    </div>
    <div>
        <div style="display: none;">{param}</div>
    </div>
</div>

Thanks Mert.
*Goes to implement it on my Forum*

Btw, if all goes well; this would be the last RC that we see for 3.3.0 ?

Yes , if everything goes well , this is the last RC we plan to release.

What needs to go in place of ?? below. What is {option} for?

[spoiler=??]Helloo[/spoiler]

??

Helloo

thanks

Originally Posted by Mert Gökçeimam

Here you go ,
Tag Name : spoiler
Use {option} : Yes

Code:

<div>
    <div>
       <span  title="Click + to expand changes" style="float:left; font-style:bold;">{option}</span><input title="Click + to expand changes" class="button1" type="button" value="( + )" style="width:30px;font-size:10px;margin:0px;padding:0px 4px;" onclick="if (this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display != '') { this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = '';this.innerText = ''; this.value = '( - )'; } else { this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = 'none'; this.value = '( + )';}">
    </div>
    <div>
        <div style="display: none;">{param}</div>
    </div>
</div>

Originally Posted by Mert Gökçeimam

Click to Expand ( + ) is the hidden .htaccess changes.

Hello Mert,

any changes to nginx rules?

What needs to go in place of ?? below. What is {option} for?

Like this:

Code:

[ spoiler=Hint message]Full text[/spoiler]

any changes to nginx rules?

No changes.

But the default nginx rules need some modifications ... the last rule needs to be placed outside the location directive.

Thank you very much >>> vbseo