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.
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.
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.
