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4SEO version 4.8.0

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Hello,

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.

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