what will happen if I disable the SEO extension

meihuak

there are more than 2000 5xx error in google search console, I can not open the URL manually.
if I disable the SEO extension, all of them go mormal.
The reason for all these errors is that the discussion's owner were deleted.

rafaucau

clarkwinkelmann Any other error should probably be reported to the developers so they can fix this

There are two PRs that fixes it: v17development/flarum-seo102 v17development/flarum-seo100

meihuak Instead of disabling the extension you could install a fork until the fixes have been merged https://stackoverflow.com/a/13500676.

Additionally, in the SEO extension it is worth disabling the "Crawl all posts" option. It actually puts the content of all posts to Schema, which has a negative impact on performance in the case of large discussions (rafaucau). Bots will still crawl all posts.

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clarkwinkelmann

Can you share the exact error message?

If the page is broken by a PHP warning, you should set display_errors to Off in your php.ini

Any other error should probably be reported to the developers so they can fix the extension.

What happens to your search results if you disable the extension depends on your settings and what other extensions you have enabled and whether they augment the rich metadata in the search in any way. For a "vanilla" forum it probably wouldn't have much impact if the content has already been indexed. In fact if your site throws 500 errors it's probably much worse SEO impact than not optimizing SEO at all.

meihuak

clarkwinkelmann

meihuak

rafaucau
thanks buddy, where is the fork I can use? you could install a fork until the fixes have been merged

rafaucau

meihuak You can use my fork: rafaucau/flarum-seo
Set extension version in your composer.json to dev-fix-v2.

So:

{
    "repositories": [
         // other repos...
        {
            "type": "vcs",
            "url": "https://github.com/rafaucau/flarum-seo"
        }
    ],
    "require": {
        // other extensions...
        "v17development/flarum-seo": "dev-fix-v2"
    }
}

Then run composer update v17development/flarum-seo