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Change your index template type to XML, RSS, CSS, JS or static.

Posted on July 01, 2009 by Leevi Graham

This wasn’t immediately apparent to me but you can change your index template type to a setting other than HTML.

Perfect for creating XML sitemaps or each section for your site and combining them in a sitemap index.

  1. Create a new template group called xml_sitemaps
  2. Select the new xml_sitemaps

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Handle incorrect URL’s properly - avoid search engine penalties and help users with 404 error pages.

Posted on June 10, 2009 by JonnyUK

It is very important to make sure you handle invalid URL’s properly within your Expression Engine website.

By default, if you visit a URL that points to an invalid entry for a weblog, instead of showing an error ExpressionEngine will generally try to second-guess what you were trying to find by

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Validating monthly archive URLs, exceptional SEO and clever titles.

Posted on June 08, 2009 by Leevi Graham

<!-- Validate monthly archive URLS like /blog/archive/02/2009 and display blog posts -->

<!--
    
Validate the URL using the query module.
    
Users cannot have crazy urls like /blog/archive/13/2009
    Assign a couple of nice variables 
for titles meta
-->
{exp:query sql="SELECT

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Force WWW or no-WWW

Posted on May 29, 2009 by Philip Zaengle

I don’t care which, but this’ll help you a lot when working with logged in vrs. logged out users.

If your not on the same domain (http://www.eeinsider.com vrs http://eeinsider.com) you can end up with all sort funky things happening (mainly cookies being set in the wrong place, and other such

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