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We're pleased to announce the release of 4Podcast version 1.4.0. This is a maintenance release fixing a few annoying bugs and changing the URL used in API calls.
Here are the highlights:
Changed API endpoint address to /index.php/_wblapi. Also always include nolangfilter=1 in API requests, to prevent language filter redirects
Missing UTF-8 response header in podcast rss feed
Downloads tracking does not work on Joomla 4
PHP error when triggering updates through the Joomla 4 command-line application
Links to podcast articles included in RSS feed may not be always correct, depending on the Joomla website menu structure, when using regular Joomla SEF URLs system.
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 4.5.1. This is a maintenance release with multiple small improvements and bug fixes:
Here are the highlights:
Hikashop: do not default to using the website publisher if a brand is not specified for a product
More thorough clean-up of Hikashop own generated microdata on product pages
Automatic redirect from mixed-case URLs to lower case URLs is now disabled by default.
Removed sitemap partial file reading progress
Now forcing application/json content type on all POST/PUT/PATCH/DELETE fetch requests, should reduce mod_security incorrectly blocking requests
Do not try to log execution of built-in rules (firewall or others), this fills up the log files with useless error data
Hikashop structured data records always use default currency instead of actual
Automatic redirect to lowercased URLs does not work on multilingual sites if it is only the language code that has the wrong case
Automatic redirect to lowercased URLs only works in J4 is a 4SEO custom error page is enabled
Search Console integration Connect button is disabled and error message displayed if access key has dashes (-) in it
On multilingual sites, OpenGraph OG:locale value is incorrect, uses default language
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 4.5.0. This is a feature release with many new features, multiple improvements to existing things and a few bug fixes:
Here are the highlights:
Added new SEO metadata rule type: allows customizing page title, description meta, robots meta and canonical for an entire set of pages with one rule
Added support for entering custom OpenGraph (Facebook and others) and TwitterCards title and description per page. Both from admin and frontend
Added ability to analyze a single page immediately rather than waiting for the background process to analyze it. Trigger analysis from the admin or the frontend. Use on newly created page, or refresh data for already analyzed pages.
Added content replacer ability to replace content only in Page title, meta description, OpenGraph title or description and Twitter Cards title or description.
Now checking for any applicable redirects from the native Joomla Redirect component before processing error display rules
Added option to redirect uppercase, or mixed-case, URLs to their all lowercase counterpart. Enabled by default but disabled if 4SEF or sh404SEF are running, as they already handle that situation better
Added new full translation to Lithuanian by Andrius Balsevičius
J2Store product SKU, name, brand, price and description now available as dynamic variables usable in content or meta
Hikashop product SKU, name, brand, price, description and condition now available as dynamic variables usable in content or meta
Updated Core Web Vitals library to latest, takes into account Prerendering in Chrome 108
Now automatically excluding language switcher flag images from sitemap
Image/file browser now sorts files and folder before displaying them
Detect when invalid access key has been entered on Joomla 4 Update sites pages and prevent starting a connection to Google Search Console if so
Blur update key when input field not focused
Sitemaps images exclusions rules are not always applied
gRegular expressions target in redirect rules cannot be entered unless they start with http(s)://
Fatal error on some rare configuration of article home pages
Long links are not broken/ellipsized on list pages
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 1.4.0.This is a maintenance release with multiple improvements and a couple of bug fixes.
Here are the highlights:
Prevent trying to save a new URL pair without providing a non-SEF
Added note that Add URL suffix option must be set to No on Joomla 3 websites when using any other suffix than .html
Now using /index.php as API endpoint, should reduce false positive and blocking by security systems on some servers
Creating or editing articles may not work when using some 3rd-party articles manager
Blur update key when input field not focused
Smart title option for multiple articles is not smart enough to work when the page break code in a page does not follow the default ordering created by TinyMCE on Joomla default installation
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.
