SEO Post URL Plugin for Sngine – Auto Slug Generator, Clean URLs, Sitemap

SEO Post URL Plugin for Sngine is a powerful SEO optimization tool that automatically converts your default post links into clean, search engine-friendly URLs.

It intelligently generates SEO slugs from post content, ensures uniqueness, handles redirects, and even creates a dynamic sitemap — helping improve your website’s visibility and ranking on search engines like Google.

Built with performance and flexibility in mind, this plugin works seamlessly with Sngine using hooks and output buffering — no core file edits required.

🚀 Core Features🔗 Automatic SEO Slug Generation

• Generates SEO-friendly slugs on post creation
• Smart priority system:
  • Article title
  • Product title
  • Funding title
  • Offer title
  • Job title
  • Course title
  • Post text

🧠 Advanced Slug Optimization

• Lowercase formatting
• HTML cleanup
• URL removal
• Emoji & symbol removal
• Transliteration to ASCII
• Punctuation cleanup

⚙️ Custom Slug Controls

• Configurable slug length (20–120 characters)
• Stop-word removal support (customizable)
• Clean, readable, keyword-rich URLs

🔁 Unique Slug System

• Ensures uniqueness using:
  • Database-level unique index
  • Automatic fallback suffix strategy
• Prevents duplicate URL conflicts

🗄️ Dedicated Slug Storage

• Stores slugs in: plugin_post_slugs
• Optimized with in-memory caching for performance

🔄 SEO URL Rewriting

• Converts default URLs:
  • /post/{id} → /post/{slug}-{id}
  • /posts/{id} → /posts/{slug}-{id}
• Configurable base structure

✏️ Post Edit Behavior Control

• Lock slug after publishing
  OR
• Regenerate slug on edit (admin choice)

🔁 Canonical Redirect System (301 SEO Boost)

• Redirects:
  • Numeric URLs
  • post.php?post_id= links
  • Incorrect slug URLs
    👉 Automatically redirects to correct SEO URL

🏷️ Canonical Tag Injection

• Adds <link rel="canonical">
• Prevents duplicate content issues
• Improves SEO ranking

🗺️ Post Sitemap Generator

• Endpoint: /post-sitemap.xml
• Includes:
  • Public
  • Published
  • Non-hidden posts

Sitemap Controls:

• Enable/disable sitemap
• Set max URLs (100 to 50,000)
• Returns 404 if disabled

⚙️ Admin Settings Panel

• Enable/disable plugin
• Slug lock or regenerate
• Slug length control
• Stop words customization
• URL structure selection
• Sitemap settings

🔐 Secure & Optimized

• CSRF protection in admin settings
• In-memory caching for performance
• Lightweight and fast execution

🛠️ .htaccess Auto Configuration

Automatically installs rewrite rules:

• Supports:
  • /post/...
  • /posts/...
  • Legacy numeric URLs

📦 Easy Installation & Removal

• Auto creates required tables & settings
• Clean uninstall:
  • Removes database tables
  • Removes rewrite rules

💡 Why This Plugin is Powerful

• Improves Google ranking with SEO-friendly URLs
• Eliminates duplicate content issues
• Boosts click-through rates (clean URLs)
• Fully automated – no manual SEO work needed
• Works without modifying core files

🎯 Perfect For

• Sngine websites
• Social networking platforms
• Blogging platforms
• Content-driven websites
• SaaS social apps

Changelog: v2.0

• Fully compatible with Sngine 4.3
• Updated plugin management path from /admincp/plugins to /admincp/helptor to prevent conflicts with plugins from other authors
• Introduced auto-update functionality for easier and more efficient plugin updates