Simply the best plugin for Joomla to handle clean search engine friendly URL's

SH404SEF is a plugin for the popular Joomla platform, it turns ugly hard to read URL's into clean easy to read search engine friendly URL's.

Again we have another reason to use open source platforms, Joomla even though it does come with a core option for clean url's it does not work across components that can be added to the platform. SH404SEF is a highly configurable simple to install module that offers an amazing array of options for the site developer.

Once you have installed the plugin all that is needed is the configuring of the .htaccess file, an example configuration comes with the plugin and in 99.9% of all cases this will work for you. The plugin also comes with an option not to use the ModRewrite option if your server configuration does not allow .htaccess files or you simply are unable to create such a file.

The plugin comes with easy to use admin section where all the options can be set, over all it has been though out in a logical fashion and this is conveyed by the ease of configuration.

SH404SEF also handles meta titles and descriptions automatically, this is brilliant for e-commerce sites and makes for a far simpler site development. If required custom page titles and descriptions can be inserted into any URL the plugin is handling.

Under the configuration option you can select to show categories or sections in the url or turn it all off and just have the base url display, the plugin offers a very high level of configuration options.

SH404SEF uses 301 redirects from the non SEF url to the nice clean search engine friendly url so no url hijacking can take place. It also has an extensive security feature to allow insight into any wrong doings going on.

SH404SEF also handles many popular modules for Joomla natively such as, Virtuemart, Community Builder, Fireboard, Docman and many more, this is all accessible under the main configuration menu. Apart from the native support there are also further plugins available to widen the scope of modules that can be used with SH404SEF.

SH404SEF supports Joomla 1.X and 1.5, if you are looking for a stable user friendly plugin to get rid of those horribe generated url's then you should really look at using SH404SEF.