[pmwiki-users] Robots, lofi, skin, SEO

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 06:02:02AM -0800, Carlos AB wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> How can I make web robots index pages of my site, using a specifically 
> designed skin for them. I saw this in some sites from Brazil, where 
> webmasters have a "hifi" version of the site for users and a specially 
> designed "lofi" (SE optmized, tableless design and so on) for the search 
> engines.

In local/config.php:

    include_once("$FarmD/scripts/robots.php");
    if ($IsRobotAgent) $Skin = 'lofi';

See the scripts/robots.php file for a list of user agents that
PmWiki considers to be robots.

> This idea could be extended to skins for mobiles... maybe.

    $MobilePattern = 'pattern to recognize mobile user agents';
    if (preg_match("/$MobilePattern/", $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'])) 
      $Skin = 'mobile';

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