Development Discussion Board

the whole point of the update is to update. what would you get to choose what edits to make? you have to figure out how to make those edits so that your MODs still work, but you still have to make them in order to be updated. Some times there will be conflicts in the codelines.' Some times existing...

Hello, On my board I have a returning problem. My users are not skilled in using phpBB. Its too advanced for them. Especially the UCP where they find all the options never ending. I think it would be a great idea to let the users switch between simple and advanced mode. Make phpBB easier to use for ...

Title is content too.
But there is no problem in hiding the sitename for bots in the title.
I didnt see that option.

But I am not sure if showing speciel content for bots and other for users is considered cloaking? Can you elaborate some more on this? Yes, lets take a look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloaking The page explains that it is cloaking when we show different content to bots than we show to our u...

Sounds like a good idea David.
But I am not sure if showing speciel content for bots and other for users is considered cloaking?

Okay then, lets make an example of a topic where the topic title an board name is used. Car broken - Evy's place You can make arguments proving you are right, which you will be in some cases. But most of the times it would be better to use topic title + forum name. Stoker wrote:Should they know how ...

Hello, I was wondering if it would be a good idea, and possible, to make some improvements to the automatic updater. I would like the opportunity to chose which edits to add to a file. Lets say that there are 4 edits of the includes/functions.php I want to accept the first 3 edits, but not number 4 ...

But for search engine results, we definitely want content first, followed by site name to identify where the content is coming from to the users. Not displaying the site name in the page titles puts your content out of context. You need the site name so that whether its a bookmark, a history or a s...

Amazon.com, lets take on of their book pages and look at the title: <title>Amazon.com: Sizzling Sixteen (Stephanie Plum) (9780312383305): Janet Evanovich: Books</title> By looking at the title I can tell that Amazon.com isnt Search Engine Optimized. We could also take a look at the source code or th...

Lets take a look at the template edit. You are replacing the title code with this: <title><!-- IF not S_VIEWTOPIC and not S_VIEWFORUM -->{SITENAME} - <!-- ENDIF --><!-- IF S_IN_MCP -->{L_MCP} - <!-- ELSEIF S_IN_UCP -->{L_UCP} - <!-- ENDIF -->{PAGE_TITLE}<!-- IF S_VIEWTOPIC or S_VIEWFORUM --> - {SITE...