4SEO

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Hello,

We're pleased to announce the release of 4SEO version 5.2.1.This is a maintenance release fixing a couple of bugs.

Here are the highlights:

  • On Broken links page, when the `Errors` selector is active, also show pages that have no error status. Previously, they were only shown when selecting `All`
  • Core Web Vitals data not stored to database due to addition of INP metric

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

 

 

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Hello,

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.

Best regards

Weeblr.com

 

 

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Hello,

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.

Best regards

Weeblr.com

 

 

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Hello,

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.

Best regards

Weeblr.com