Hello,

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.

Best regards

Weeblr.com

Hello,

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.

Best regards

Weeblr.com

Hello,

We're pleased to announce the release of 4SEO version 5.1.0.This is a maintenance release fixing a couple of bugs.

Here are the highlights:

• Fixed Polish translation for Search Console CTR - thanks Chris
• On larger sitemaps, with multiple sitemaps subfiles, some URLs may sometimes not be included

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.

Best regards

Weeblr.com

Hello,

We're pleased to announce the release of 4SEO version 5.3.0.This is a maintenance release fixing a couple of bugs.

Here are the highlights:

• 4SEO frontend icon may not be visible on some YooTheme template, added some styles
• Built-in shortcodes are now also replaced in all structured data text fields
• Protect against SEF plugin having option custom domain option filled-in, may cause pages to be considered non-canonical
• Avoid encoding & signs found in invalid URLs when adding them to sitemaps
• Posisble PHP deprecation warning on recent PHP versions when viewing the sitemap (creation of dynamic property)
• Content replacement does not happen if Hn titles protection option is enabled and there are multiple identical Hn titles on the page
• When redirecting a non-SEF URL to its SEF equivalent, if the target is also a non-SEF for some reason, 4SEO should not redirect at all
• Meta description is encoded once too many, causing & sign to be output as &
• Don't try to submit just generated sitemap to Google if not connected to Search Console

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.

Best regards

Weeblr.com