Flarum SEO

v2.0.3 | Fixed migration issue

Thanks for the PR luceos ! Just got home so I tagged v2.0.3 with your changes merged! This would fix the migration issue users have

CyberGene What will happen if I just remove this extension and not use it anymore. Is any adverse change in Google results expected?

Good question! I don't think it will really affect your ranking, but Google or another search engine might index your site differently. Also, the extension does not only help indexing (providing the necesery tags and tell the engine what page type is a discussion, a user page or a tag page), it also adds the necesery description for that page when people share a page on social media. For example, if you share a forum post on Facebook or Twitter and don't have the extension installed, they'll see the general forum image, title and description (so the embed is just about the forum).

With this extension installed, it will personalize the page embed on the platform with the actual discussion title, a short description and even a custom image if one exists for the page. So it really depends if that's really important to you.

On the left site is an example how a discussion will be shown on social media without extension, on the right side with info.

CyberGene So, apparently my forum is broken now. I’d appreciate it if you can fix this as quickly as possible. I see the same error has already been reported and as you can see there’s a pretty straightforward explanation in StackOverflow. Instead of waiting for a reply from the other guy who reported it, you could have fixed it already… Guys, please be more proactive in future, especially after major reworks of extensions.

Don't get me wrong, it was just such an update that it was a scary one for me as well since I know many forums rely on it (also, I had to update three extensions at the same time to make sure they kept compatible with eachother). I tested many situations, but this MySQL error wasn't appearing on production forums I tested it on before releasing. When the user reported that MySQL error message, it was in the screenshots which I didn't notice, I was focussed on the provided code-block with the Base table or view not found error message

Hope you'll still like the extension though

Hey meihuak , have you tried running composer require v17development/flarum-seo ^2 ?

CyberGene P.S. Ahh, never mind, the new meta editor is per-discussion, just opened it. OK, so everything works now, thank you for this new version of the extension

Awesome, glad you found out! If you have any feedback, make sure to let us know

Hey meihuak ! Does that topic have a discussion owner? Or is that user deleted maybe? Or do you have that issue on all topics?

Thanks for that feedback clarkwinkelmann ! I noticed that there was a PR regarding this issue as well, so I have asked him if it's possible to check and implement your suggestions v17development/flarum-seo100 . I'll wait a short while to see if he is able to update the code, if not then I'll implement the fix!