DawPi Posted January 19, 2018 Posted January 19, 2018 This modification allows to change group of search bots from guests to another. It's do not affect logged in members (even if they change the useragent with a switcher or anything else). Works only for a guests recognized as a spider crawlers.
Unlucky Posted June 5, 2020 Posted June 5, 2020 Hi, Just purchased - guess this is 4.4 compatible? Thanks DawPi 1
DawPi Posted June 5, 2020 Author Posted June 5, 2020 Yes: Quote File Information Compatibility 4.2 4.3 4.4
balazsp Posted January 28, 2021 Posted January 28, 2021 Can I assign a dedicated group to bots (with the group assigned to a single barebone theme) with this plugin? Thanks!
DawPi Posted January 28, 2021 Author Posted January 28, 2021 7 hours ago, balazsp said: Can I assign a dedicated group to bots Yes, this is what this mod doing. 7 hours ago, balazsp said: with the group assigned to a single barebone theme Explain.
Nathan Explosion Posted January 28, 2021 Posted January 28, 2021 7 hours ago, balazsp said: with the group assigned to a single barebone theme Edit all your themes except the 'barebone' one and disallow your group from using them. The edit that one theme, make sure your group is allowed to use it. Result: only allowed to use one theme. DawPi 1
balazsp Posted January 29, 2021 Posted January 29, 2021 20 hours ago, DawPi said: Yes, this is what this mod doing. Explain. I want googlebot (and maybe other SE crawlers) to use a plain, almost text-only like theme so indexing is fast and efficient, while giving users a more heavy, feature and js rich theme for UX. 19 hours ago, Nathan Explosion said: Edit all your themes except the 'barebone' one and disallow your group from using them. The edit that one theme, make sure your group is allowed to use it. Result: only allowed to use one theme. So you can confirm it is feasible? Thank you! 🙂
balazsp Posted January 30, 2021 Posted January 30, 2021 16 hours ago, DawPi said: It's standard feature of IPS4. May I ask how? I don't want all guest visitors to have the plain theme, only the bots. Thank you in advance.
DawPi Posted January 30, 2021 Author Posted January 30, 2021 Edit choosen template to be used by group X. Then using my mod assign 'bots' to that group. That's all.
Nathan Explosion Posted January 30, 2021 Posted January 30, 2021 9 hours ago, balazsp said: May I ask how? ? On 1/29/2021 at 3:29 AM, balazsp said: So you can confirm it is feasible? Thank you! I have literally told you what you need to do... Edit each of your themes Remove your chosen group from the 'Available for' field for those themes that you don't want your chosen group to use Add your chosen group to the 'Available for' field for the theme that you do want your chosen group to use
balazsp Posted January 31, 2021 Posted January 31, 2021 14 hours ago, Nathan Explosion said: ? I have literally told you what you need to do... Edit each of your themes Remove your chosen group from the 'Available for' field for those themes that you don't want your chosen group to use Add your chosen group to the 'Available for' field for the theme that you do want your chosen group to use 15 hours ago, DawPi said: Edit choosen template to be used by group X. Then using my mod assign 'bots' to that group. That's all. Thank you both. Have a great day!
balazsp Posted February 14, 2021 Posted February 14, 2021 Quick question: will the 'Default Front-end Theme' setting override the group selection? I assigned the group bot in the plugin: edited the theme Bot to use for it for the Bot group excluded the Bot group from my default theme and when I try to save it, I have to set my default theme as default, otherwise I get this error: and google insight still shows the default theme instead of the Bot theme: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flfg.hu%2Fforum%2F&hl=en&tab=mobile What did I miss? Or how I can test that the plugin is working as intended? Thanks in advance!
DawPi Posted February 14, 2021 Author Posted February 14, 2021 It's not related to my mod, but to IPS4 in general. You must have at least one default skin. That's all. 🙂
balazsp Posted February 14, 2021 Posted February 14, 2021 Thanks and I get it is a built-in IPS4 requirement. My issue is that for example Google Insight still shows the default theme instead of the Bot theme - so I am not sure how I can even verify that the plugin is working.
DawPi Posted February 15, 2021 Author Posted February 15, 2021 8 hours ago, balazsp said: so I am not sure how I can even verify that the plugin is working. Use any of the browser extension to emulate your useragent as a spider and then check. See forum permissions: Plugin settings: Result: When I disable mod: It's working fine.
balazsp Posted February 15, 2021 Posted February 15, 2021 I did change the useragent in the browser, but the still the default skin came up, not the one I assigned to the Bot group. I am using (DP44) Bot Group 2.0.0.
DawPi Posted February 16, 2021 Author Posted February 16, 2021 I can't tell you more than what this mod doing - changing spider group grom guest to another. That's all. Everything beyond this isn't included in support for this mod.
balazsp Posted February 17, 2021 Posted February 17, 2021 Thank you. So.. when I described what I want to achieve with the mod, Nathan told me it was possible, you did not correct him and even confirmed it:"Edit choosen template to be used by group X. Then using my mod assign 'bots' to that group. That's all." it actually meant that I can only assign a specific theme to bots if it is already the default theme? Or did I misread something? Don't get me wrong, I still think is a good plugin (learned a few things from reading the source), but I'd greatly appreciate if you could demo your statement above on your demo board with any cloned skin. Thank you in advance.
balazsp Posted February 26, 2021 Posted February 26, 2021 Hi @DawPi Is there anything I can do to help with the debugging? TIA!
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