USER GUIDE
Compatibility: PrestaShop v1.7.x – v8.x.x
For Module Version: 3.0.0
FME Modules PrestaShop Pretty URL
Intended Audience
The content of this document is designed to facilitate the users -
managers, supervisors and others of PrestaShop Pretty URL Module. A
step-by-step instruction has been added to this document to help users
to install the module on PrestaShop.
As a safe practice always, backup your files and database before installing
any module on PrestaShop. If you are looking for someone to install the
module, we can do it for you as well. Just go to the support section share
the order id to expedite the installation process.
Once you have installed, please see the User Guide to help you
understand on how to use the module to its full capacity. If you still have
questions feel free to contact us on the support platform where you
bought this module.
If you have any custom requirements feel free to touch base with us.
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Contents
Intended Audience ................................................................................................................................................... ii
Overview ..................................................................................................................................................................iv
Installation Instructions ........................................................................................................................................... v
User Guide ...............................................................................................................................................................vi
Module Configuration ..............................................................................................................................................vi
Pretty URL – URL Cleaner ........................................................................................................................ vi
Products Pages URL Setting: ................................................................................................................ vi
Category Pages URL Setting: .............................................................................................................. viii
CMS Pages URL Setting: ..................................................................................................................... viii
CMS Category Pages URL Setting: ........................................................................................................ ix
Brands Pages URL Setting: ................................................................................................................... ix
Supplier Pages URL Setting: .................................................................................................................. x
Meta Tag Manager ................................................................................................................................... xi
Homepage Meta Tags Settings: ........................................................................................................... xi
CMS Pages Meta Tags Settings: .......................................................................................................... xii
How to use automatic meta generators: ............................................................................................ xii
Category Pages Meta Tags Settings: ...................................................................................................xiii
How to use automatic meta generators .............................................................................................xiii
Product Pages Meta Tags Settings: .....................................................................................................xiv
Duplicate URLs Report ............................................................................................................................xvi
URL Redirection ..................................................................................................................................... xvii
Open Graph ............................................................................................................................................. xix
Robot.txt Settings ................................................................................................................................... xxi
Sitemap Generator................................................................................................................................. xxii
Disclaimer............................................................................................................................................................. xxiii
Support ................................................................................................................................................................ xxiii
Customization ...................................................................................................................................................... xxiii
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Getting Started!
Overview
PrestaShop Advance Pretty URL Module makes SEO friendly URLs of
your store by removing auto generated IDs/numbers from URLs of
your products, categories, manufacturer & other pages. The new
update also includes features like Auto-Generation of Metas,
Robot.txt and Sitemap Generation as well as Full Redirection
Management. This guide will cover all aspects of this module.
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Installation Instructions
1. Go to Modules → Modules Manager → Click Upload a Module → Browse for Downloaded
Module ZIP file and click Upload this module.
2. Click Proceed with Installation.
3. Make sure Cache is disabled in Advance Parameters → Performance.
4. Go to Modules → Modules Manager → Pretty URL to Configure the module
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Module Configuration
Pretty URL – URL Cleaner
1. Go to Backoffice → Go to Modules → Modules Manager → Pretty URL → Configure
2. Click on URL Cleaner on left hand tab to set up URL Cleaner settings
3. In General tab you can enable or disable Language ISO from URLs. Note that language ISO will
only be removed from the default language.
Products Pages URL Setting:
1. In Products URLs Tab you will find following settings:
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2. Remove ID From URLs : Enabling this option will remove IDs from URLs of all product pages.
3. Remove ID Attributes : Enabling this option will remove attributes ID from URLs. Attributes ID
usually appear when user selects some other variation of a product for example size or color.
4. Remove Attributes Alias : Enabling this option will remove Alias for Attributes from URLs. These
are appeared as #/1-size-s/8-color-white
5. Redirect OLD URLs to New : This will redirect all old URLs to new ones. It is recommended to
enable it always.
6. Product URL Structure: Here you can change the structure of your product page URLs. Some
examples of how you can rewrite product page URLs are given below
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Category Pages URL Setting:
1. In Category URL Tab you will find following settings:
2. Remove ID From URLs : Enabling this option will remove IDs from URLs of all category page.
3. Redirect OLD URLs to New : This will redirect all old URLs to new ones. It is recommended to
enable it always.
4. Category URL Structure: Here you can change the structure of your categories page URLs.
CMS Pages URL Setting:
1. In CMS URL Tab you will find following settings:
2. Remove ID From URLs: Enabling this option will remove IDs from URLs of all cms pages.
3. Redirect OLD URLs to New: This will redirect all old URLs to new ones. It is recommended to
enable it always.
4. CMS URL Structure: Here you can change the structure of your cms page URLs.
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CMS Category Pages URL Setting:
1. In CMS Category URL Tab you will find following settings:
2. Remove ID From URLs: Enabling this option will remove IDs from URLs of all cms category
pages.
3. Redirect OLD URLs to New: This will redirect all old URLs to new ones. It is recommended to
enable it always.
4. CMS URL Structure: Here you can change the structure of your cms category page URLs.
Brands Pages URL Setting:
1. In Brands URL Tab you will find following settings:
2. Remove ID From URLs: Enabling this option will remove IDs from URLs of all brands pages.
3. Redirect OLD URLs to New: This will redirect all old URLs to new ones. It is recommended to
enable it always.
4. CMS URL Structure: Here you can change the structure of your brand page URLs.
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Supplier Pages URL Setting:
1. In Supplier URL Tab you will find following settings:
2. Remove ID From URLs: Enabling this option will remove IDs from URLs of all supplier pages.
3. Redirect OLD URLs to New: This will redirect all old URLs to new ones. It is recommended to
enable it always.
4. CMS URL Structure: Here you can change the structure of your supplier page URLs.
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Meta Tag Manager
1. Go to Backoffice → Go to Modules → Modules Manager → Pretty URL → Configure
2. Click on Meta Tags on left hand side to generate meta tags.
Note: Make sure your metas are properly setup and are related to the niche of your website. To
understand further please visit following link.
Homepage Meta Tags Settings:
1. On top of Meta Tag tab, you will find settings for your homepage metas.
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2. Here you can set meta title, description and keywords for your store homepage. Available
variable for homepage is “shoptitle”.
CMS Pages Meta Tags Settings:
1. Next you have settings for CMS Page:
How to use automatic meta generators:
You can also automate the process of generating metas for CMS pages as well. There are two variables
that you can use i.e. Page Title and Shop Titles. All metas are multilingual.
Auto Meta Title for CMS Pages:
1. Write the CMS Meta Titles using variables mentioned. see examples below.
Example 1:
(pagetitle) Page For (shoptitle)
This will set the meta titles as
Contact Us Page for Amazon
Auto Meta Descriptions for CMS Pages:
1. Write the Meta Descriptions using variables mentioned. See examples below.
Example 1:
This is a (pagetitle) Page For (shoptitle).
This will set the meta titles as
This is a Contact Us Page for Amazon
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Category Pages Meta Tags Settings:
1. Below CMS Meta settings you have settings for Category pages. You can set auto meta
generation for titles, description and keywords.
How to use automatic meta generators
You can also automate the process of generating metas for category pages as well. There are three
variables that you can use i.e. Category Name, Parent Category and Shop Titles. All metas are
multilingual.
Auto Meta Title for Category Pages:
1. Write the Meta Titles using variables mentioned. see examples below.
Example 1:
Best Seasonal (categoryname) For (parentcategory) Brought to You by (shoptitle)
This will set the meta titles as
Best Seasonal Blouses For Women Brought to You by Armani
Auto Meta Descriptions for Category Pages:
1. Write the Meta Descriptions using variables mentioned. See examples below.
Example 1:
Latest and Greatest Styles (categoryname) from (shoptitle). Get an amazing discount using special
promo.
This will set the meta description for category pages as:
Latest and Greatest Styles For Women from Amazon. Get an amazing discount using special promo.
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Product Pages Meta Tags Settings:
1. Lastly you have settings for meta settings for Product pages. You can set auto meta generation
for titles, description and keywords.
How to use automatic meta generators
It is a very tiresome job to write metas for all the product pages. Especially if you have hundreds of
products. Our Module takes care of this problem by using variables. You can use these variables to
generate very effective metas. You can also select the desired language for each of the meta.
Auto Meta titles for product page:
1. Write the Meta Title and in place of product name use one of the variables mentioned using
examples below
Example 1:
Buy (variable product name) By (variable product manufacture) For Only (variable retail price) at
(Shoptitle)
This will set the meta titles as:
Buy Black T-Shirt By Addidas For Only $20.00 at Amazon
Example 2:
Amazing Onetime Sale on (variable product name). Get(productreduction) Discount
This will set the meta titles as
Amazing Onetime Sale on Black T-Shirt. Get $5.00 Discount
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Auto Meta Description for product page:
1. Write the Meta Descriptions using variables as explained in the example below:
Example 1:
Now you can get hold of our latest (variable product name) By (variable product manufacture) only at
(Shoptitle)
This will set the meta titles as
Now you can get hold of our latest Black T-Shirt By Addidas only at Amazon
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Duplicate URLs Report
1. Go to Backoffice → Go to Modules → Modules Manager → Pretty URL → Configure
2. Click Duplicate URLs on left tab to see all of your duplicates.
3. You will be able to see the IDs of products, categories that are causing the conflict.
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URL Redirection
1. Go to Backoffice → Go to Modules → Modules Manager → Pretty URL → Configure
2. Click on URL Redirection on left hand side tab. Here you will find all of redirection settings.
3. Redirect Type: Select your redirect type. This depends on the type of server you have.
4. Redirect 404: Here you can select where you 404 error pages are redirected. You can redirect
your error page to:
a. Default
b. Home Page
c. CMS Page
5. Manage URL Redirects: Clicking here will take to a new page where you can add new redirects.
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6. First you will select the redirect type. Then enter the old URL and then new URL. There are
usually three redirect types:
a. 301, "Moved Permanently"—recommended for SEO
b. 302, "Moved Temporarily"
c. 303, “See Other” Not generally used
7. Manage 404 Page: Clicking here will take you to a new page where you will be able to see all
your pages with 404 errors. You can also edit redirections for these pages from here:
8. Manage 404 Reports: Clicking here will take you to a new page where you can see a report of all
your pages having 404 error.
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Open Graph
1. Go to Backoffice → Go to Modules → Modules Manager → Pretty URL → Configure
2. Click on OpenGraph on left hand side to see following settings. Top you have settings for Twitter
Card and below that you have for Facebook.
3. Status: Enable it to enable this functionality
4. Twitter Card Type: Select the type of your card.
5. Twitter Site: Enter your site twitter handle
6. Twitter Title: Enter title you want twitter to show when someone shares your site on twitter.
You can also use variables to auto create title.
7. Twitter Description: Enter description that you want twitter to show. You can also use variables
to auto create description.
8. Twitter Image: Upload image you want twitter to show
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9. Twitter Image Alt: Enter alt image tag for this image. You can also use variables to auto create
img alt tag.
Now you have settings for Facebook graph:
1. Status: Enable to use this functionality
2. Facebook Title: Enter title that you want facebook to show when someone shares your site on
facebook. You can also use variables here to auto generate titles.
3. Facebook Description: Enter your description.
4. Facebook Image: Upload your site image
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Robot.txt Settings
1. Go to Backoffice → Go to Modules → Modules Manager → Pretty URL → Configure
2. Click on Robot.txt on left hand side to see following settings. From here you can not only
generate new Robot.txt file but at the same time can also edit existing one.
3. Add disallow to the links that you want crawler to not crawl.
4. Click Saves to save the robot file.
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Sitemap Generator
1. Go to Backoffice → Go to Modules → Modules Manager → Pretty URL → Configure
2. Click on Sitemap Generator on left hand side to see settings for sitemap.
3. On the top it will be showing your last generated sitemaps in different languages
Below you will find these settings:
4. Sitemap to Generate: Scroll below and select pages that you want to be included in your site
map i.e all urls, only product page urls, only CMS page urls
5. Select Shop: As the module is multi-shop supported
6. Update Frequency: Select when you want to update your sitemap from hourly, daily, weekly,
monthly or yearly
7. Generate Links with: Select you want http or https with links.
8. Check/ Uncheck to include images
9. If you are using CDN(Content delivery network) for images and want to include those in the
sitemap as well, check CDN option
10. Checking “Ping Search Engine for new sitemap” will automatically ping google each time new
sitemap is generated
11. If you want to exclude specific pages from sitemap you can select them by checking on them
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Disclaimer
It is highly recommended to backup your server files and database
before installing this module.
No responsibility will be taken for any adverse effects occurring
during installation.
It is recommended you install on a test server initially to carry out
your own testing.
Support
If you need more information or have any questions or problems,
please refer to our support helpdesk:
You can log a ticket and a support technician can assist you further.
Customization
If you have requirements that are not covered by our module and you
need to have our module customized, feel free to contact us through
support helpdesk.
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