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We're pleased to announce the release of 4SEO version 4.7.0. This is a feature and maintenance release with multiple improvements and bug fixes.
Here are the highlights:
Added Czech translation
Added Portuguese translation
Added support for Error pages to apply to Joomla unauthorized access messages
Clarified message shown when no import from sh404SEF can take place
When replacing a text with a link, existing links were only partially protected against the replacement, sometimes resulting in broken HTML
Icon linking to home page on Pages list goes to /null instead of /
Redirecting to lowercase may cause some URLs to be excluded from the pages list and sitemap on sites using non-latin characters in their URLs
Number of execution of structured data rules is not recorded
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 4SEF version 1.5.0. This is a feature and maintenance release with multiple improvements and bug fixes, focused on adding many languages.
Here are the highlights:
Added full Czech translation by Ľuboš Beľan
Added Portuguese translation
Added Polish translation
Added Lithuanian translation
Added Italian translation
Added Spanish translation
Added German translation
Trying to create a totally custom URL for a component that is not installed or does not have a router.php file to build SEF URLS fails with a javascript error
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 4.6.0. This is a feature and maintenance release with multiple improvements and bug fixes, including the support for IndexNow submission:
Here are the highlights:
Added submission to IndexNow from the frontend
Added submission to IndexNow from Pages page in 4SEO admin
Now showing a warning if the URL used to access the admin is not the same as the one configured for the website home address
Added tooltip on all rules title input fields mentioning title is the only searchable field and should be meaningful
Always use the configured main site address to build sitemap addresses instead of currently loaded sitemap address
Reworked sitemap generation, more efficient, will more often serve stale sitemap until new sitemap is ready, reducing / service unavailable / errors for search engines
Added setting for delay between 2 consecutive sitemaps automatic rebuild, change default from 5 to 30 minutes
Restored display of Bing last visit to load the sitemap
Disabled automatic retrieval of GPS coordinates in Organization structured data, was exceeding GoogleMaps quota and failing too often. GPS coordinates should only be retrieved with the Find coordinates button in the Stuctured Data settings
Changed API endpoint address to /index.php/_wblapi. Also always include nolangfilter=1 in API requests, to prevent language filter redirects
Toolbar and local menu options to delete a page record now disabled for home page
Manual add/refresh page now re-analyze page, even if it was previously excluded from analysis
Never add the home page to the list of URLs excluded from analysis
Removed link to Twitter sharing tester page, no longer fully active
PHP error when triggering updates through the Joomla 4 command-line application
Images with a protocol-relative src attribute are not properly extracted from content, resulting in incorrect image link and possibly false-positive broken links
sh404SEF importer does not import all redirects/canonicals, including those with external redirects targets
Frontend metadata and social networks edit popup can only be closed once, requires a page reload otherwise
Tracking of search engines loading sitemap was only working as expected for index sitemap, not for partial sitemaps
When checking Joomla Redirect component for redirects in case of a 404, the 4SEO error page will not be displayed if a redirect exists n the form index.php?Itemid=123, and the menu item with ID 123 does not exists
404 error page is not displayed on sites which had sh404SEF when 4SEO was installed, but sh404SEF database tables were deleted since 4SEO installation
Possible deprecation warning on PHP 8.x in medata helper for some values of the meta description
Possible PHP warning on Hikashop product pages if product has no rating
PHP fatal error when generating structured data for Hikashop when it is configured to let users sort comments and reviews on the frontend
Possible deprecation warning when creating structured data on PHP 8
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 4SEF version 1.4.1.This is a maintenance release with multiple improvements and bug fixes.
Here are the highlights:
Revised category URLs URL customization: can now add a suffix to category URLs, and all duplicates are also redirected after a customization
Added option for category feeds safe mode, using format and type query vars instead of path segments
Changed API endpoint address to /index.php/_wblapi. Also always include nolangfilter=1 in API requests, to prevent language filter redirects
PHP error when triggering updates through the Joomla 4 command-line application
PHP warning about weblinksSlugForUncategorizedWeblinks on Weblinks component
SEF URLs for Weblinks component are not properly built, use Joomla SEF
Incorrect input validation allows entering invalid URLs when creating a SEF or customizing one
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.
