New version of the MO Auto add terms module for Drupal 6.x

April 29, 2010 - PRLog -- Made to Order Software enhanced its advanced module MO Auto add terms. We have now released version 1.9. This module automatically updates the pages of your Drupal website with terms from your vocabularies (also called taxonomies in Drupal) making it a lot easier to manage a large index including all of your thousands of pages.

Our module has been successfully used on very large websites (well over 100,000 pages.) It only requires Drupal Core version 6.x with the Taxonomy module enabled. It has many features to search for words, their synonyms and also similar words. i.e. at times synonyms are not enough, terms that represent conjugated verbs such as have can react on has, hast, had. These are not synonyms and therefore our module allows you to define those as equivalents instead.

The MO Auto add terms module, found at http://www.m2osw.com/mo_auto_add_terms, can be setup to index all or part of your existing pages. Let's say that your website already has 100,000 pages. How would you make sure that all of those existing pages where properly indexed in your vocabularies? Although it may take a little while, the MO Auto add terms module goes through all your pages in circle and attaches all the words found automatically. The module first works on pages it has never worked on before. Once all the pages were worked on, it updates the first pages it previously worked on. This means the module always reworks all your pages, whether your website has a few pages or 1 million.

The automatic feature of the MO Auto add terms module is particularly important for websites that have a growing index (what is called a Tag vocabulary in Drupal.) When you create a new page and add a new tag, say Yellow, the module marks for auto-update all the pages linked to that vocabulary. At that point, it knows that it has to rescan all the pages for the word Yellow. And yes! This means all the pages using the word Yellow will properly be indexed under that word within one hour, or maybe a few hours on larger websites. The amount of time it takes will depend on your website settings and how often your CRON system runs against your website.

By default, the MO Auto add terms module checks the title and body of your pages. You can limit the search to just the title, just the body and optionally, you can ask the module to look at your comments and thus increasing the number of terms attached to your pages as people talk about your content.

Drupal allows you to create vocabularies with a hierarchy. In other words, you can group different terms under another. For instance, you could put the words Apples, Oranges, and Cherries under the word Fruit and the words Cadillac, Mercedes, and Rolls Royce under the word Car. When you do so, it is often that you would want to attach the word Fruit or Car to your pages, even if those very words don't appear in the page. Since the module knows that the group names are the parents of words found in the page, it can add them to your page automatically.

As with all of our PHP libraries, our Drupal modules come with the source code, and our license allows you to do modifications to the code to tailor the module to your system when necessary. Also, we offer a 30-day money back guarantee, so if the module is not exactly what you were looking for, you can delete all your copies and we'll refund you in full.

Made to Order Software offers many other modules for Drupal 6.x, such as extensions to the FCKeditor or the Taxonomy VTN modules; and a module to backup your Drupal website using PostgreSQL, and another that implements the PayJunction gateway in Ubercart. For a detailed list of all our modules, go to http://www.m2osw.com/drupal and don't hesitate to contact us as we can develop your own module or enhance our existing modules to the specifics of your website.

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