We're pleased to announce the release of 4SEO version 5.2.0. This is a feature release with also a few bug fixes and several improvements.
Here are the highlights:
Sitemaps are now submitted to Google using the Search Console connection, if present. Manual submission also possible from within the Sitemaps page
Added support for upcoming `INP` Google Core Web Vitals metric to Performance measurement
Added content replacer rule option to prevent replacement to happen in title tags content (H1, H2, H3, etc)
Added new type of redirect rule, to redirect one or more non-SEF URLs to their SEF version
Redesigned Sitemaps page. When connected to Google Search console, now shows details of sitemaps registered with Google, including pages and images submitted
Added ability to extract images that are lazy-loaded with javascript, reading the image URL by default from the data-src attribute. Also added a filter to add more attributes as needed
Enforce links protection in replacer rules if replacement is set to Metadata
For all rules, if `When to run` URL starts with `/index.php?`, the `Disregard query string` is now automatically disabled
When analyzing external pages, do not send the 4SEO security key. If the other site also runs 4SEO, it will respond with a 404 even if the page actually works, because the security cron keys don't match
When rendering error page on Joomla 4 and 5, some events may not be triggered
Keywords list on Dashboard Google Search Console display is not keyboard-accessible
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 5.1.0. This is a maintenance release with a few bug fixes and several improvements.
Here are the highlights:
Default value for Disregard case when creating any type of rule is now Yes
Accept more than one URL in sitemaps for the same content id. Allows use manual override to include several pages for the same canonical content
Do not URL-encode URL reserved characters when adding them to sitemaps, as they are sometimes used as is in URLs
Now defaulting to not checking Joomla com_redirect before triggering a 404 on Joomla 3, as this prevents error pages to operate. Can use corresponding filter to enable back if needed.
Aliases now also operates in Debug mode or if the site is offline.
Background cron trigger pixel image URL changed to avoid collisions with actual words that may trigger security systems
Better cleanup of com_tags non-sef URLs when creating a page content id for canonical identification
"Others" status selector does not work on Recorded Errors page
Aliases and redirects are not executed on Joomla 5 when they concern non-existing URLs
4SEO does not allow selecting Structured data images when location of the images media folder has been changed from the default
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 5.0.0. This is a feature release that includes Joomla 5 compatibility.
Here are the highlights:
Minor tweaks for Joomla 5 compatibility
Added CCBot to "Exclude common AI bots" and prevent the CommonCrawl crawler to use your site data to train their model
Added Google-Extended to "Exclude common AI bots", to prevent Google Bard and VertexAI bots to use your site data to train their model
Added ability to add translation for new languages, or override existing translations, by dropping a json file in a subdirectory of /libraries/weeblr
If Joomla Debug system is enabled, 4SEO won't display user-configured error pages anymore
Accomodate pages where some custom javascript code has been added that includes invalid html tags in text strings, thus breaking cron or performance measurements pixels injection
When customizing a URL in 4SEF, if the custom URL is an existing one, the metadata in 4SEO was lost
Possible fatal error when using a custom field to configure a structured data date (publication, modification, etc) and a custom date format is in use through modifying DATE_FORMAT_LC* Joomla language strings
Multipages articles are not properly canonicalized, based on whether the Show All option is enabled or not
Inserting a local image into an error page through the editor does not show either in the admin or on the frontend
Canonical pages that have been excluded from sitemap by a rule or otherwise can sometimes be put back in the sitemap
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 4.9.2. This is a maintenance release with one single bug fix.
Here are the highlights:
Recently added new languages translation files are not packaged with the extension
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.
