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Phoca SEF
★★★★
A Life Saver
byqjereq, March 16, 2010
Phoca SEF
First the bad:
1) poor English translation.
2) Core hack required.

Okay, now the good:
1) I didn't have to write this stuff myself!!

This plugin does exactly as described:
1) It logs all requested urls that are not valid (404 errors).
2) Allows you to map old/missing URLs to new URLs (one to one mapping, no wild cards).

I restructured my site to use K2 for all content thus changing all URLs of my content. Internally, this is no big deal since I could just fix any bad links. However, what about all the external pages that link to my site? All those links would be broken if it were not for Phoca SEF! It's not 100% automatic, but it's light years easier than the alternatives I thought of.
Owner's reply

Hi, thank you for your review

1) Will be great to get one. I am not English native speaker, so the correct English will be appreciated
2) See the Phoca.cz forum, why I selected this method (core hacking) instead of e.g. system plugin, etc.

Thank you, Jan

K2
★★★★★
The absolute best! ...for developers.
byqjereq, March 16, 2010
K2
I discovered this plugin less than a week ago and have since rebuilt my site around it. I won't name names but K2 replaced two other commercial products on my site (a comment system and a blogging system) as well as the built-in content system. Out of the box, K2 has virtually everything a publishing web site could need. This begs the question: Why wasn't all this stuff in Joomla in the first place? All developers and wanna-be developers should give this a try. However, non-technical people might want to stay away, especially if your time is limited. Although the free support forum is pretty good, there is almost no formal documentation for this product.

One more thing. Someone mentioned below that you will "probably" have to buy add-on products for videos and photo galleries. That's only half true. You will need add-ons, but they are totally free and open source.
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