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.
We're pleased to announce the release of 4SEO version 4.8.1. This is a maintenance release to fix a single bug introduced in last version, 4.8.0.
Some redirects are not executed after adding view selection rules parameters in last release
Here are the highlights of 4SEO version 4.8.0:
Added a series of shortcodes about Joomla articles, such as article_title, article_category. Can be used with replacer or in metadata SEO rules for instance
Can now include or exclude component views on the When to run tab for any rule defined in 4SEO
Excluded URLs can now be specified on the When to run tab for any rule defined in 4SEO
Multiple input fields are now textareas (multiple rows) for easier entry of longer content
Added filter to customize automatically generated canonical links
Updated Google search results preview to current Google display
Added a filter to disable the 4SEO generator tag
Added option to disregard URL case when deciding if a rule (any type of rule) should run or not
Removed option: Collect incoming URLs
When importing redirects for a non-sef URL, from sh404SEF, default to taking query string in consideration so that they are not interpreted as non-sef to sef redirects
Added forseo_ogp_data and forseo_tcards_data filters to let user customize programmatically OpenGraph and Twitter Cards data before they are injected into the page
Reverted to prioritising canonical computed by 4SEO after full site analysis over dynamically computed one
Added notification on system configuration page if a function file is found
Rel canonical links have double & if canonical URL has a query strings with an & character
Under some circumstances, pages with a URL containing some non-ascii characters can be considered non-canonical
Twitter Cards meta tags are invalid, not using proper syntax
On sites installed in a subfolders, redirects rules using regular expressions go to a faulty URL target
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 4.8.0. This is a feature and maintenance release with multiple improvements and bug fixes.
Here are the highlights:
Added a series of shortcodes about Joomla articles, such as article_title, article_category. Can be used with replacer or in metadata SEO rules for instance
Can now include or exclude component views on the When to run tab for any rule defined in 4SEO
Excluded URLs can now be specified on the When to run tab for any rule defined in 4SEO
Multiple input fields are now textareas (multiple rows) for easier entry of longer content
Added filter to customize automatically generated canonical links
Updated Google search results preview to current Google display
Added a filter to disable the 4SEO generator tag
Added option to disregard URL case when deciding if a rule (any type of rule) should run or not
Removed option: Collect incoming URLs
When importing redirects for a non-sef URL, from sh404SEF, default to taking query string in consideration so that they are not interpreted as non-sef to sef redirects
Added forseo_ogp_data and forseo_tcards_data filters to let user customize programmatically OpenGraph and Twitter Cards data before they are injected into the page
Reverted to prioritising canonical computed by 4SEO after full site analysis over dynamically computed one
Added notification on system configuration page if a function file is found
Rel canonical links have double & if canonical URL has a query strings with an & character
Under some circumstances, pages with a URL containing some non-ascii characters can be considered non-canonical
Twitter Cards meta tags are invalid, not using proper syntax
On sites installed in a subfolders, redirects rules using regular expressions go to a faulty URL target
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 4.7.0. This is a feature and maintenance release with multiple improvements and bug fixes.
Here are the highlights:
Added Czech translation
Added Portuguese translation
Added support for Error pages to apply to Joomla unauthorized access messages
Clarified message shown when no import from sh404SEF can take place
When replacing a text with a link, existing links were only partially protected against the replacement, sometimes resulting in broken HTML
Icon linking to home page on Pages list goes to /null instead of /
Redirecting to lowercase may cause some URLs to be excluded from the pages list and sitemap on sites using non-latin characters in their URLs
Number of execution of structured data rules is not recorded
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.
