SEO - Make SEO great again
SEO of websites and applications is a...  moreSEO - Make SEO great again
SEO of websites and applications is a critical point for any service online. Many sites have excellent SEO which makes them better visibility in search results. Therefore it is essential to improve SE's SEO solutions to compete with current SEO guidelines and standards.
SE's current SEO is ok, but I think there can be more improvements to help users to find relevant contents. That will also drive more traffic and signups which is mandatory for a community.
I suggest improving meta-tags like descriptions, and titles. It should be easier to modify them without adding a plugin. For example in blogs: it would be a great feature to add a summary of the article which will get the meta description. I hope it helps Thanks  less

Hi, I've moved this to the correct forum section for Help and Ti...  moreHi, I've moved this to the correct forum section for Help and Tips. Please read this tutorial for the video app in order to enable video uploads from your (or your member's) computer instead of only video share sites. Note you need to upgrade if you only see Vimeo as an option as there are hundreds of video sites to choose from. 
https://support.socialengine.com/php/customer/portal/articles/1659253-admin-panel---plugins->-videos  

Hi, I am creating a community using Social Engine PHP. Unfortuna...  moreHi, I am creating a community using Social Engine PHP. Unfortunately, the videos plugin allows only linking videos from 3rd party sites like Vimeo instead of uploading the Video directly onto my site.
Is this how SE PHP works or am I missing something here?
   

If you want this to be considered, please follow the posted guid...  moreIf you want this to be considered, please follow the posted guidelines. Disparaging the product and third party products like that isn't necessary and doesn't contribute to the solution. 
Please read the stickied guidelines in this forum section and please post all of the details required. You can copy and paste from the guidelines and fill in the information if you want this considered. Right now, this cannot be considered as it is written.  

No problem. I moved it.

This is for SE PHP Sorry i posted it in cloud...

Hello,
The SEO on SE is terrible. Also, those crap SEO plugins o...  moreHello,
The SEO on SE is terrible. Also, those crap SEO plugins on the marketplace are not improving SEO. It would be great it if you could enhance Meta descriptions and titles. Many pages show up as duplicate content or even missing H1 tags. Or blogs that have the whole blog article as meta-article. It would be great to add a custom meta description for every post.
It is required to have a well-optimized site to rank good and get more members. And precisely this is what you try to tell us in your blog-posts: "How to start a social network" or "How to get more members." But why don't you start and make better optimization for search engines?
This will improve everything! I hope to see improvements in 4.9.10 because the current situation is 2/10 stars.
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The Show in Search results is a core feature in each of the core...  moreThe Show in Search results is a core feature in each of the core plugins. It is in the groups plugin. When editing a group or creating one, it is one of the settings and is shown in the screenshot that @Maria posted above. :)  

You probably should remove them completely. https://support...  moreYou probably should remove them completely. https://support.socialengine.com/php/customer/en/portal/articles/2121821-how-to-remove-delete-a-plugin-from-your-website?b_id=14386 the expert that made the products should be able to help you with that. Either by telling you what you need to remove, or by doing it for you (most likely with a fee).  

==>"Sorry but where do I find "Show on" = yes?  am i mis...  more==>"Sorry but where do I find "Show on" = yes?  am i missing another setting somewhere? Essentially if i have the option to "Yes include group in search results"
 
My apologies - it's a similar setting available in many of the 3PD Plugins I have, but it's basically the same thing.  They too had to change their privacy funcionality to mimic what SE was doing.  @Donna's example is a further example of what I was referring to - so that nothing appears if the User doesn't meet the Privacy criteria, rather than letting them see some things but just prevent the page/content from loading.  
My thoughts about this as an FR is to either include an ADMINcp setting for ADMIN to determine which way to go (i.e. old way vs. new way) or to allow the User to do so when posting each content.  Not sure which is better from a legal perspective.  less

Plugins are from third party

You're welcome. If you would like, you could add a detailed feat...  moreYou're welcome. If you would like, you could add a detailed feature request for how you would like privacy addressed. If you have more than one thing you want (privacy, search, etc) please put those in separate requests. There's a detailed explanation in the feature request section (stickied post there) mentioning what information we need and you can copy and paste the stuff we mention to make it easier. :)  

thanks Donna I really do appreciate your detailed response. ...  morethanks Donna I really do appreciate your detailed response.  I guess I was confused as two of my sites allow me to do what I want to do and this one won't so I thought it must be a setting I was missing or a bug.  I understand now, thanks so much for the clarifications
 
kind regards
Maria
   

Donna said:
Donna said:
The group does show in search results fo...  moreDonna said:
Donna said:
The group does show in search results for members of the group. 


It is so members of the group can find it if they have a lot of groups they are a member of. 
I am sure a third party expert can make a customization for you or one of the plugins available at the marketplace can probably do what you need. 
Here's the issue relayed by other clients, including on my own site. I can use my own site as an example here so as not to divulge any client site details.
On my site we have authors. I allow any genre on the site as it's for all authors, readers, agents, etc. We can have fans of children's book authors on the site - that means kids and their parents.
We can have erotica authors (and do) on the site. They make their content private in order for none of the images and text to spill into the "family" friendly main areas.
Imagine their groups with adult images were shown in the search. Someone searching for a children's book group may accidentally find one of the erotica gro...    less

thanks Donna, I understand about the 'invite' but what is t...  morethanks Donna, I understand about the 'invite' but what is the 'show in search results' option for ? if you can't see the group in search?  what am I missing?   

Is that for third party plugins or SocialEngine official plugins? 

You're welcome. 

Donna said:
The invite friends is how things work for invitation...  moreDonna said:
The invite friends is how things work for invitations. 
I've tested and it works to invite a friend on 4.9.4p4 on a second testing site. The friend can see the group once they click the notification from the invitation.
Only invited people can see the private group even if a link is sent. This is how it is designed.
For the members that you need to access the group, if you friend them and invite them, it should work. It works for me on 3 different sites now (two demo testing sites and my live site) all on 4.9.4p4. 
There are some plugins in the marketplace for advanced groups or pages. You may find different privacy settings and features in those that you need to enhance the functions.
The group does show in search results for members of the group. 

It works as the above. Due to the privacy fixes.   less

Glad you have it resolved. My locals use up to 7.1.8 as I don't ...  moreGlad you have it resolved. My locals use up to 7.1.8 as I don't use RC versions of PHP. I wait for stable.  

Hello,
 
I have a lot pages from plugins that I don't use a...  moreHello,
 
I have a lot pages from plugins that I don't use anymore, and it becomes messy in my layout editor. Is there a solution to remove or hide them without passing by database?
 
I see that I have solution to delete some pages, but it's not present on all the pages.