The Problem with keeping article links up-to-date
You might have a big base of AMS articles and do a lot of cross-linking between articles. So, every time an article's title changes, links to that article get outdated (i.e. they still work, but with a 301 redirect). For best SEO results, you should update them. This can be a lot of work, when you you have to find and change dozens of links for each title change.
The solution: What "AMS Links Auto-Updater" does
This is a sub-add-on for AMS (it won't work without AMS). If you go to Admin CP -> AMS - Articles -> Find outdated article links (or directly to admin.php?nocte-ams-outdated-links/), you will find a list with all articles, that have outdated links. If you click on an article in the list, you will see a diff, that shows what changes would be made. You can then click on "Update outdated article links" to apply those changes to that article.
There is also a rebuild job, that updates all article at once. You find this also on Admin CP -> Tools -> Rebuild caches. It's called "AMS: Rebuild outdated article links".
For better traceability of changes, this add-on logs all changes to the article's change log ("History").
Screenshots
1. One article with title "TEST article" has outdated links:
2. Here you see the "diff". These are the changes, that would be applied, if you auto-update that article's links. You see 3 links. The last one is o.k., the other two need to be updated:
3. If you go to "update outdated article links", you will see this confirmation dialog:
4. You can do the auto-update. In the end the article will not show anymore as having outdated links:
Limitations
- I am talking about "links," but basically this add-on searches for url's in the format . It does not care about characters before or after the url and so it also updates plain text, that matches this "url" pattern, so it might be a good idea to check the diffs first. But I guess in 99% of use cases the script should work fine.
- This add-on will only work when "Use full friendly URLs" and "Romanize titles in URLs" are on. Otherwise you get an error message.
- If you use route filters: The add-on will not find links, that do not match the current route filter for ams/.
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