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We're pleased to announce the release of 4SEF version 1.2.0 - Beta. This is a pre-version, test-only of the final upcoming release of 4SEF!
IMPORTANT: 4SEF is still in beta testing phase. This means it's in the final stages of testing and should be used only with caution as some bugs may happen when used in the real world. Beta testing is meant to identify these issues that cannot be discovered during develoment and internal testing.
We recommend using it on test copies of your website only. If you decide to test on your real website, make sure you have a backup on hand so that you can restore things to their previous state in case something goes wrong.
Here are the highlights:
Let Joomla (4) handle all rewrite prefix and URL base (when in a sub-folder). Fixes issue with some extensions when they create redirect URL on the fly.
forsef_normalize_non_sef filter has no effect, was added as an action instead of a filter
Joomla 4 accessibility plugin preview does not work
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 4SEF version 1.1.0 - Beta. This is a pre-version, test-only of the final upcoming release of 4SEF!
IMPORTANT: 4SEF is still in beta testing phase. This means it's in the final stages of testing and should be used only with caution as some bugs may happen when used in the real world. Beta testing is meant to identify these issues that cannot be discovered during develoment and internal testing.
We recommend using it on test copies of your website only. If you decide to test on your real website, make sure you have a backup on hand so that you can restore things to their previous state in case something goes wrong.
Here are the highlights:
Added code to execute legacy sh404SEF shURLs
Handle links in modules to articles where neither articles not their category is linked from any menu. Joomla cannot handle this sort of links, but they can be found sometimes.
Removed unused sh404SEF legacy code that was left for reference only
Better layout at very low width
Setting for whether to include menu item title in Uncategorised category links is not properly imported from sh404SEF
Pagination not created properly on Joomla 4
Cannot save extension configuration if they have a space or other special character in their display name
Actual PHP fatal errors are not logged to error file when building some URLs, instead a Call to a member function error() on null error is logged.
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 4.0.0. This is a feature release with major new things:
Here are the highlights:
Added an integration with the Google Search Console. Includes one-click connection to Google account, a dashboard page and keywords reports and 3 SEO Insights reports with information not available directly from the Search Console itself, identifying pages and keywords opportunities. All 4SEO Search Console reports use the API, bypassing the 1000 data rows limitation when using the Search Console website directly.
Can now use multiple simple URLs in the When to run field of any rule, simplyfying the creation of multiple redirects when wildcards or regular expressions cannot be used
Added noindex header to background task trigger image, avoids possible Soft404 warning in Google Search Console
Better layout at very low width
Avoid useless redirects by the Joomla Language Filter on each load of the soft cron pixel
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 3.01.0. This is a maintenance and feature release with multiple fixes and improvements!
Here are the highlights:
Make rules URL specification match when entered URL-encoded.
Removed deprecated tags from images sitemaps: caption, geo_location, title, license
The sh404SEF import process requires that sh404SEF is installed and enabled. Alternatively, 4SEF can be used instead of sh404SEF - but sh404SEF data must still be present
Allow AdWords-style IDs in Google Analytics and Google Tag manager rules
Added more cleaning up of CSS selector used for structured data FaqPage question and answers detection, now making sure selector is made up of valid identifiers (no leading numbers in class names, no double-hyphens, etc)
Remove more HTML elements in questions for FAQPage structured data
When using Google Tag manager, an incorrect property ID is injected in the noscript version of the tag
Universal Analytics does not report data if adsFeatures are disabled
Search function in analytics snippets list does not work
When creating or modifying a Structured data rule, it is marked as modified when viewing the What to do tab, even if not change is made
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.
