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4SEO chart built from Google Search Console data showing a website Search results performance

4SEO version 4.9.2

Hello,

We're pleased to announce the release of 4SEO version 4.9.2. This is a maintenance release with one single bug fix.

Here are the highlights:

  • Recently added new languages translation files are not packaged with the extension

Please see this page for a full changelog. This release is immediately available both from the download area and using the one-click Joomla! updater of your web site.

Best regards

Weeblr.com

 

 

4SEO chart built from Google Search Console data showing a website Search results performance

4SEO version 4.9.1

Hello,

We're pleased to announce the release of 4SEO version 4.9.1. This is a maintenance release with multiple changes and improvements and a couple of bug fixes.

Here are the highlights:

  • Added caption to per page title and meta description fields, to clarify their use
  • Added option to configure the desired approximate length of auto-generated meta description
  • Added option to list only non-canonical pages, in addition to existing 'Only canonical' option
  • (Tiny) performance increase by using better MYSQL count function
  • Added tmpl=form to the list of automatically excluded URLs
  • Do not convert single quotes when output in title, meta description and OpenGraph and Twitter Cards meta
  • Aliases are not properly executed on multilingual sites, except on default language
  • Possible deprecation warning when outputting TwitterCards tags if Twitter account is not filled in

Please see this page for a full changelog. This release is immediately available both from the download area and using the one-click Joomla! updater of your web site.

Best regards

Weeblr.com

 

 

4SEF dashboard with count of SEF URLs created and chart of requests to the site

4SEF version 1.6.1

Hello,

We're pleased to announce the release of 4SEF version 1.6.0. This is a maintenance release coming in just after our feature 1.6.0 version with a bug fix and small perf improvements.

Here are the highlights:

  • (Tiny) performance increase by using better MYSQL count function
  • Category blog with added tag(s) selected do not make use of the tag(s)

Please see this page for a full changelog. This release is immediately available both from the download area and using the one-click Joomla! updater of your web site.

Best regards

Weeblr.com

 

4SEO chart built from Google Search Console data showing a website Search results performance

4SEO version 4.9.0

Hello,

We're pleased to announce the release of 4SEO version 4.9.0. This is a feature and maintenance release with many changes and improvements, plus several new full translations

Here are the highlights:

  • Added ability to create aliases: another type of redirect which is easier to create, faster to execute but limited in trigger conditions and target URLs
  • Added feature and alert to optionally block IA robots such as those from ChatGPT to crawl the website
  • Added full translation to Arabic, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Norwegian, Romanian, Swedish and Chinese
  • Added option to override Joomla full page cache plugin when applying redirects rules
  • When conservative or progressive caching is enabled in Joomla global configuration, 4SEO can now detect and use for social networks sharing the 'Intro' and 'Full' com_content articles images, as soon as the page is analyzed. Before, it would fall back to using the largest image on the page.
  • Now using official schema.org notation for dayOfWeek instead of community shortcuts
  • Now escaping title and meta description before output else invalid characters may break the page output
  • Added workaround for Joomla 4 issue adding layout=blog to pages, may result in incorrect canonical link
  • Now including site host hash and current version in subscribers update authorization request
  • Workaround for Joomla 4 turning spaces in images file names into %20 for local images when used as article images, breaking local image size detection
  • There should not be a custom field selector input field on the Default person tab of structured data settings
  • On frontend editing, IndexNow panel spills over footer

Please see this page for a full changelog. This release is immediately available both from the download area and using the one-click Joomla! updater of your web site.

Best regards

Weeblr.com