Recommend a Page

Recommend a Page

Classification

extension_key

Version

main

Language

en

Description

Displays pages that other visitors visited using the piwik database

Keywords

recommend, page, visit, visitor, piwik

Copyright

2016

Author

Markus Kugler

Email

projects@jweiland.net

License

This document is published under the Open Publication License available from http://www.opencontent.org/openpub/

The content of this document is related to TYPO3, a GNU/GPL CMS/Framework available from www.typo3.org.

Table of Contents

What does it do?

This extension uses data collected by piwik to display pages other visitors also visited. The pages are displayed as links using the typo3 pid.

This extension also works with realurl 2+.

User/Admin manual

After installing and activating the extension there a three major things to do:

  1. Set the PIWIK database information in the extension configuration
  2. Include the typoscript template and insert the plugin either to specific pages or apply it to all pages. Applying to all pages can be done for example using a content element with slide to display it on all sub pages.
  3. Create a load recommended pages task using the scheduler. This pre loads the recommended pages and needs to be done in order to run this extensions.

Optional:

Set the count if recommended pages to display in the extension configuration.

Other:

This extensions will not display hidden or deleted pages. To exclude your own pages use the checkbox "Do not Recommend" in your page configuration. Be sure to run the task after making changes to apply them. Attention: Resolving the recommended pages is done by either reverse using realurl or using the id get param.