While browsing a few referal links through my mint stats application, I noticed that some people are running BOTH MSEO 0.4.1 and 1.0.0 Beta 3. Which is troubling me quite a lot that it makes me realise that I need to include an uninstaller for MSEO 0.4.1 asap WITHIN MSEO 1.0.0. 

Even though I wrote in the instruction html file that you need to remove the old edits, it seems that a lot of people are finding it hard to read my documentation. Well…. I am partly to blame as I didn’t have enough time focusing on the documentation of the application.

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First impression on converting MSEO (IPBSEO) to Invision Power Board 3

Moderately easy, I have been playing around with the sytem for around 3-4 hours today and I was pretty impressed with the application folder system. It is quite nifty and powerful. The installation system and development tools are a true helper while importing the settings.

So far I have been able to get the acronymiser and secure redirects working with only 2 file edits. This means good news and I could get a working version within the first or second week of June.

For the past few days/weeks I have worked quite hard on a stable version of MinervaSEO and the sitemap and I think I will go back to my hiding hole and continue development of new features for Mseo and the sitemap.

But before I go I will be releasing a final release of MSEO around the weekend and nothing major will appear until mid June time. (as long as my problems with immigration get solved). I will be visiting the forums regularly to check for any issues arising and sort sitemap payments.

I have a few ideas for upcoming projects but I won’t say anymore for now, I just want MSEO to become a stable version for general public release. But what I can tell you is that there will be an update before the final version of 1.0.0 goes public to include .htaccess and robots.txt management within the admincp.

IPB3.x.x

Around the end of June I should have converted all my mods to IPB 3.x.x and everything should be working fluidly by then.

Since my last post I have been busy and I was amazed how easy the new FURL system I started to implement was easier to use. In the space of 5 hours I was able to convert ALL the important URL to FURL. This includes forums, topics, board, portal, usercp(not so important, but its fully FURLED), add new post, reply to post, stats, and a few others.

As this is a really quick update I won’t ramble too much, I’m off to sleep in a bit so below is a list of things still to do.

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For the past few weeks I have been able to completely re-write MSEO from scratch ontop of MinervaSEO lite.
I have decided in the end to re-implement the FURL system. But this time the FURL is not too strict and will allow .html&hl=…… additional queries.
This should in short term help in the FURL for IPB 2.x.x

I will be trying to get a complete and fully tested release in 2-3 weeks. But by the end of this week I should be getting some sort of daily script release on http://minervaseo.com for people to see and test it.

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Hi all, in the view that IPB 3 is going to be released soon a few guides will be posted up on this blog to help new and advance users to understand the new structure and interface.

So for the first in the series I have created a quick overview of the skinning system of IPB 3.x.x. This should help new users to get familiar with the interface.
As this is my first full production screencast I would like some review on how to make it better.

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