MyBB 1.4 Feature Tour
MyBB 1.4 is a major release of the most powerful, free PHP and MySQL forum software available. There's over 50 new features, many behind the scenes optimizations and a complete rewrite of the Administrator Control Panel. Take a look at the tour below for a small snapshot of exactly what's new and improved in MyBB 1.4 or take a look at the full list.
Search Engine Friendly URLs
Keep Google happy when visiting your forum
Search engine friendly URLs are designed to change the standard web addresses for linking to things like forums, threads and user profiles in MyBB in to a much cleaner equivalent. They're also great to help improve the ability for search engines to navigate through your forums. The other main advantage? It's also a lot easier for users to remember these URLs than the standard URLs in MyBB if they want to pass them on to their friends.
MyBB 1.4 includes search engine friendly URL support for:
- The address of a forum (forum-X.html as opposed to forumdisplay.php?fid=X)
- The address of a thread (thread-X as opposed to showthread.php?tid=X)
- The address of a user profile (user-X.html as opposed to member.php?action=profile&uid=X)
- The address of an announcement (announcement-X.html as opposed to announcement.php?aid=X)
- The address of a calendar event (event-X.html as opposed to calendar.php?action=event&eid=X)
- The address of a calendar day, month or year (calendar-XYZ.html as opposed to calendar.php?action=XYZ)
Oh so easy to enable too
In most circumstances where the web server is running on Apache and supports mod_rewrite, it's generally as simple as renaming the included "htaccess.txt" to ".htaccess" and the search engine friendly URLs will then enable themselves automatically. No need to configure anything!
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