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I discovered that certain components do not create or implement SEF links when using SEF_Advance (from Sakic.Net).

For example, the URL: http://www.juicymedia.co.uk/option,com_virtuemart/page,shop.browse/category_id,1/Itemid,54/lang,en/

So we need to make the links more friendly using the “Aliases” option under the SEF_Advance administrative area. After logging in select the component from the admin menu. A list should appear (or empty if its not been used before) and the system will allow you to add a new “alias” to any static URL.

So, using the new tool I made: See Tools Menu

Paste in the none-SEF URL from the website and click the “Submit Query” button. This will generate a super-non-friendly URL which is required by the SEF_Advance alias management which looks like this:

index.php?option=com_virtuemart&page=shop.browse&category_id=1&Itemid=54&lang=en

This generated URL can then be pasted into the aliases URL followed by a description (friendly) url such as “catalogue/Land-Rover-Defender” which is then translated on the website (NB: the text is converted to lowercase automatically).

For this example, this will need doing on each category within the Virtue Mart shopping cart system.

If you have had an error popup whilst attempting to access mambots in Joomla its most likley that your running version 1.0.11?

If so you will need to get an official fix from the Joomla forums (registration required but it's free): http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic,89866.msg455550.html#msg455550

Then simply upload the fix from the zip file (the zip file is called admin.mambots.php.zip) to the directory on the server containing the old file:

/administrator/components/com_mambots

This should fix the issue - Or simply upgrade to the latest version (1.0.12 at the time of writing).