We're pleased to announce the release of 4SEO version 5.0.0. This is a feature release that includes Joomla 5 compatibility.
Here are the highlights:
Minor tweaks for Joomla 5 compatibility
Added CCBot to "Exclude common AI bots" and prevent the CommonCrawl crawler to use your site data to train their model
Added Google-Extended to "Exclude common AI bots", to prevent Google Bard and VertexAI bots to use your site data to train their model
Added ability to add translation for new languages, or override existing translations, by dropping a json file in a subdirectory of /libraries/weeblr
If Joomla Debug system is enabled, 4SEO won't display user-configured error pages anymore
Accomodate pages where some custom javascript code has been added that includes invalid html tags in text strings, thus breaking cron or performance measurements pixels injection
When customizing a URL in 4SEF, if the custom URL is an existing one, the metadata in 4SEO was lost
Possible fatal error when using a custom field to configure a structured data date (publication, modification, etc) and a custom date format is in use through modifying DATE_FORMAT_LC* Joomla language strings
Multipages articles are not properly canonicalized, based on whether the Show All option is enabled or not
Inserting a local image into an error page through the editor does not show either in the admin or on the frontend
Canonical pages that have been excluded from sitemap by a rule or otherwise can sometimes be put back in the sitemap
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.
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.
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.
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.
