While working with testers on the beta testing period of 4SEO, we found ourselves often wanting to look at logs files to read error messages or figure out the conditions under which a problem occured.
Joomla has a nice log files API that extensions can easily use to log details about their operations but it turns out accessing those log files is not that easy (FTP anyone?).
So we set out to quickly build a tool that does just that: easily manage Joomla log files. It's simple, it's free and it's called 4Logs.
JoomlaDay USA was 2 weeks ago and it was a blast. Laura, Dorothy and the "Joomla Bunch" did a phenomenal work at putting the event together and we should have access to all the talks in video soon. Many thanks to all of you and I'll post back when the videos are up.
But JoomlaDay USA was also a major event for Weeblr and me personnally, as we were finally able to start the public beta period for our new shiny all-in-one SEO extension,4SEO:
It's been nearly a year in the making and uses the best technology available today (in my opinion, of course!) to give you an insanely fast and easy experience inside of either Joomla 3 or Joomla 4. We have put all the experience gathered on both Joomla and SEO over the last 14 years (!) into it, in the hope of providing a simple and mostly automated answer to the difficult technical SEO problems most website owners face.
A bit more than 2 weeks to go and we'll finally be able to attend a JoomlaDay again. Well, sure, it's online but after so much time I'm pretty happy to gather with fellow Joomlers from around the USA and beyond.
So happy in fact that after being accepted to speak, I decided to become a sponsor and try help Laura and the entire team in putting the event together. Don't know the team? they've done this little video for you to get to know them!
The speaker line-up is impressive and they will cover the entire spectrum of building and running Joomla sites.
I myself will discuss "What's up in SEO in 2021", covering both new SEO things as well as trying to sort out what matters and what does not.
A couple of months ago, I started using Firefox more and more and found that I was missing on at least one SEO-related extension. That's when I set out to build a simple browser extension to accompany me in Firefox and ... 2 months later, we now have a fully featured Firefox and Chrome SEO extension. Yes, it was so useful to me on Firefox that I could not do without it on Chrome :)
SEOInfo displays icon alerts as you navigate website pages for SEO-related technical errors. At the click of a button, all SEO and performance information and graphs about the current page are displayed. This includes SEO checks and AMP validation inside the extension. This information can be saved with a single click to another tab for printing or saving to file.
What SEOInfo does
Plenty of things! A nearly full list can be found on this page of the documentation but there are mostly 2 things I wanted to achieve:
Get alerts on SEO-related issue while navigating pages of a website, withouth having to click on something or do anything at all
When needed, click a button to get a/ full information about the current page and b/ even more checks and validation at a click of a button
We're just out of Black Friday/CyberMonday madness where so many companies offer discounts so large it makes me wonder just how much they have to charge later to recoup their costs. Another thing that bugs me is that active, paying subscribers actually do not get those extraordinary deals.
We're not discount fans here as I prefer offering our lowest possible price to everyone, all year's round. The exception is our subscribers who get a 20% discount when they renew and keep using our Joomla extensions.
But this year is not like any other: we quietly celebrated 10 years of sh404SEF being a professional extension - and 13 years since I started its development!
That's many years and many people have trusted us with their SEO during that time. So to celebrate with you, starting today and until January 3,
Active subscribers will get a 30% renewal discount instead of 20.
Even more exceptional: renewal discounts normally apply only to active subscribers, but again until January 3:
If your subscription to sh404SEF or wbAMP has expired, you can renew with a 20% discount.
Now is the time to take advantage of those anniversary discount as sh404SEF 4.18 and wbAMP 1.15 are just out today!
