Migrating to 1.5 - should I stay or go SefAdvance?

The plugins for Artio/sh404sef that you mention are nothing else but plugins for SEF Advance. It was SEF Advance that established the standard for sef_ext.php files and they were later adopted by other SEF components. So it is the same format, the plugin for sh404sef should work in SEF Advance and the other way around. Of course, there can be some differences and, if developer is not willing to help, I can of course offer some help.

The extensions for 3rd party components listed on this site is not a definite list and other components might as well work with their extensions.

Also, SEF Advance supports router.php files for Joomla 1.5 native SEF which is what most developers will use in future.

As for the migration, most URLs should remain the same, if the content structure and settings are kept same. You should only need to add redirects to those links that change by some reason.

The plugins for Artio/sh404sef that you mention are nothing else but plugins for SEF Advance. It was SEF Advance that established the standard for sef_ext.php files and they were later adopted by other SEF components. So it is the same format, the plugin for sh404sef should work in SEF Advance and the other way around. Of course, there can be some differences and, if developer is not willing to help, I can of course offer some help.

Wow! You need to write that all over your site, Eric!

As I wrote, I've been using Joomla professionally since 5 years (from Mambo) and I didn't know

Also, SEF Advance supports router.php files for Joomla 1.5 native SEF which is what most developers will use in future.

As for the migration, most URLs should remain the same, if the content structure and settings are kept same. You should only need to add redirects to those links that change by some reason.

Ok! Thanks

As for the migration, most URLs should remain the same, if the content structure and settings are kept same. You should only need to add redirects to those links that change by some reason.

I do not agree - the urls of SH404 in my case is VERY different from what I want in Sefadvance.

My sh404 setup doesn't show categories and sections, neither does it show a "unique id" in the url.

I do that in the new site wit SefAdvance.

What would be the best way of not losing all our old links in Google etc?

Would we then manually have to set up thousands of 301s in HTaccess?

I thought you were talking about migration from Joomla core-SEF to SEF Advance.

Anyway, you have an option in SEF Advance to remove sections and categories from URLs and you can turn off unique URL feature so you don't get unique ID too.

I thought you were talking about migration from Joomla core-SEF to SEF Advance.

Anyway, you have an option in SEF Advance to remove sections and categories from URLs and you can turn off unique URL feature so you don't get unique ID too.

And I want the exact opposite, Eric

I want to use sec/cat and unique ID from now on on SEfadvance

I'm thinking................ how do I do this the best way so I don't loose all the nice, incomming links

Well you can't change URL settings and then expect SEF Advance to automatically redirect all URLs somehow magically.

Can't be dome, sorry. You have to think about the SEF component and settings you want from the day one.