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6 years 9 months ago - 6 years 9 months ago #38759 by silke
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Dear Adrien,

WIth respect to the RSS generator I would like to remove respectively exchange the chatty reference to the generator "VMVendor user catalogue RSS feed for Virtuemart and Joomla". - I usually remove such labels referencing the underlying infrastructure on live systems.

That line is hard-coded in the components code:
Code:
$rss_xml .='<generator>VMVendor user catalogue RSS feed for Virtuemart and Joomla</generator>';
Would you mind exchanging the text with a language string (to be overwritten as required) or remove/hide the open mention of CMS and components (as you wish maybe as a configurable option)?

Kind regards,
Silke
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6 years 9 months ago - 6 years 9 months ago #38760 by silke
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PS: With the same reason I would like to ask for an option to change the RSS folder name from /media/vmvendorrss/ to something neutral (e.g. /media/vendorrss) or individual.

Kind regards,
Silke
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6 years 9 months ago - 6 years 9 months ago #38761 by silke
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PPS: One more thing to get it straigt:
Code:
$rss_xml .='<title>'.VmvendorFunctions::xml_entities(ucfirst($user->username).' - '.JText::_('COM_VMVENDOR_RSS_CAT')).'</title>';
should be changed so you do not disclose the username but use the chosen shop name / display name instead (vvl.vendor_stor
e_name e.g.) .

What do you think?
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6 years 9 months ago - 6 years 9 months ago #38762 by silke
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And another addition:
As I collected *.rss files for a while now, I tend to believe that the rss updates do not work as expected (or did not at certain releases)
- customers newer products sometimes do not show up (when is the update triggered?)
- customers disabled products still show at some files
- customer picture changes are not reflected (rss still links to some old picture references, in this case the main vendor pictuer)

Furthermore (5th) I see a personal issue with SEO being enabled:
- updating a menu alias name (bad practice, I know, but sometimes unavoidable) does not trigger an rss update, so older links tend to break.
That seo issue might be resolvable by a backend "update vendor RSS links" feature (better than collecting all the broken links for internal redirects).

What do you think?

(PS: For now I am disabling the vendor RSS on my live system, but I would love to enable it again on update.)

Best regards,
Silke
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