We're pleased to announce the release of 4SEO version 6.2.0. This is a maintenance release with bug fixes and improvements.
Here are the highlights:
Added warnings in some settings and options pages that modifying said settings may require resetting analysis data et running a new full analysis.
Possible PHP fatal error when creating Event type structured data if event has an OfferPrice value
Fixed roles and aria attributes on new version available icon
Possible occasional PHP notice when no sitemaps has already been sent to Google Search Console
Possible fatal error on PHP 8+ when using a combination of settings for an Event type structured data rule
Possible fatal error when Joomla internal date display format is modified through a language override to a non-standard date/time format and a structured data rule uses a Joomla Date custom field
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 6.1.0. This is a feature and maintenance release with many additions and improvements
Here are the highlights:
All types of rules can now execute based on the domain used to access a page: redirect, metadata, inject content, analytics, error pages, content replacement,...
All types of rules can now execute based on visitor user groups, as well as IP addresses: redirects, inject content, analytics, error pages, content replacement,...
Allow any type of Joomla custom fields to be used throughout 4SEO. Added checks in cases user selects fields lacking require information for their purpose, to avoid PHP warnings
Allow J2Store native views to be analyzed
Added 24 new AI robots user agent strings to the list of crawlers to be blocked in robots.txt with the feature
Added Performinggroup as an option to Event structured data Performer type property
Remove Performer field in Event structured data if in custom mode and no performer was provided in rule configuration
Added a separate Address input field to Event structured data record, to better distinguish between online, in-person and mixed event attendance modes location
Now stripping all HTML content from custom fields when using them in structured data properties
When using a custom field for a date value in a structured data rule, enforce the Show Time custom field parameter usage
When no time is provided for a date in a structured data property, truncate the output to only show year-month-date instead of using 00:00:00
Performance: result of dimensions check for externally hosted .svg images are now also cached. SVG don't have dimensions so there's no need to try again and again.
Performance: dimensions of local images are now cached, to avoid repeated work (only remote images dimensions were cached previously)
Now removing the query string from an image URL before trying to identify .svg images (in case parameters are added for images CDN for instance)
Easier to use confirmation popups, do not change page scroll position when opening or closing
Prevent deprecation notices being logged to file by Joomla on Joomla 5+ (getInput)
Disconnection from and by Google Search Console are not correctly identified and displayed on the Integrations configuration page
Accessibility: alternate table view of Google Search Console data chart on 4SEO dashboard can't be focused and therefore scrolled with keyboard
Adding aliases to very long URLs does not work, the alias redirect to an invalid target
Avoid low-contrast colors combination when displaying an error message in some circumstances
Rules triggered for URLs containing a %20 string (coding for a space) are not executed
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 5.4.0. This is a feature and maintenance release with many additions and improvements
Here are the highlights:
New Movie structured data rule type
New ProfilePage structured data rule type: use for About us or author profile pages to help search engines understand who's writing on your site
Added support for new Offers and CourseInstance properties to the Course structured data type
Added some support for J2Store ratings
Reworked accessibility aria markup for all tab switchers
Allow automatically computed meta description to be used even when Joomla progressive or conservative cache is active
Removed display of FID metric on Pages page after it's officially removed from Google's Core Web Vitals list
Multiple changes to account for Google Universal Analytics shutting down permanently on July 1st, 2024. Includes warning on dashboard, stop rendering snippet and inability to add new Universal analytics rules on that date
Improved aliases data entry: automatically fix missing leading slash and remove website root URL if present. Also block saving when invalid data is present
Added message suggesting to use the auto-clear notification feature on sites where it's not enabled. Displayed randomly every few notifications
Added dashboard notification to apply ProfilePage structured data rules to About us or Author pages
Make it clearer when connection to Google Search Console was lost and needs to be authorized again
Updated code to read current user information for future-proofing against Joomla platform changes
Ensure website home address URL is entered as a lower-case string
If user-provided custom Structured Data code is invalid, do not insert it in the page
Possible PHP warnings if Joomla pagebreak or vote plugins are disabled
Redirecting sh404SEF legacy URLs to Joomla SEF URLs may 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 4SEO version 5.4.0.This is a feature and maintenance release.
Here are the highlights:
All rules definitions now have a Notes free text field to log changes and details about the rule
Perf: only load API response handler on API requests
If an error happens when saving an alias to the database, the error message is not logged nor displayed
Possible fatal error when viewing the dashboard Search Console data if no data is cached or present
Sitemap not submitted to Google when submission is triggered manually from the user interface
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.