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sh404SEF version 4.17.0 released

Hello,

We're pleased to announce the release of sh404SEF version 4.17.0. This is a feature release which addresses an important change in the way Google displays E.U. websites in their results. Be sure to update before the changes takes effect, end of october

Here are the highlights:

  • Now adding a robots meta tag for all pages to comply with new Google/EU opt-in requirements to fully appear in search results
  • Prevent authentication errors on some Google Analytics servers by using Joomla HTTP client to make requests
  • Added a filter, sh404sef_ogp_image_excluded_search_contexts, to let integrators exclude some content types from automatic OGP image search
  • Change encoding of description and meta data when using full page cache, can cause styling issue with some components (K2)

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

wbAMP version 1.14.0 has been released

Hello,

We are pleased to announce the release of wbAMP version 1.14.0. It addresses an important change in the way Google displays E.U. websites in their results. Be sure to update before the changes takes effect, end of october

wbAMP brings Accelerated Mobile Pages to Joomla. Please read our blog post for more details.

Here are the highlights:

  • Now adding a robots meta tag for all pages to comply with new Google/EU opt-in requirements to fully appear in search results
  • Display a warning when i-amphtml classes are used in custom CSS, this is not allowed by AMP specification
  • Now allowing password and file input types on AMP forms, per AMP specification
  • Added ugc and sponsored to the list of allowed rel attributes
  • Account for some extensions using query strings as part of images extensions to build proper structured data AMP image
  • Removed direct support Amazon ads, should now be created as custom ads
  • Added support for AdSense auto format and full width attributes
  • In standalone mode, an Fatal error can happen if sh404SEF is not running on the site
  • When publishing multiple modules to the same module position, they all share the same title
  • Update site is not removed when upgrading from Community version to standard version, may cause reverting to Community later on

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

sh404SEF version 4.16.1 released

Hello,

We're pleased to announce the release of sh404SEF version 4.16.1. This is a maintenance release with the added benefit of full Chinese translation, thanks to Deng ChangBin!

Here are the highlights:

  • Added full sh404SEF translation for Chinese, both zh-CN and zh-TW
  • Under rare circumstances alias may not automatically created when customizing a URL
  • Cannot customize a URL in backend when running MYSQL 8.0+
  • When Joomla caching is enabled, some before content or after content sharing buttons may not be displayed
  • Added a filter on the global configuration object.
  • Analytics reports authorization procedure may fail depending on which protocol Google uses in its response

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

sh404SEF version 4.16.0 released

Hello,

We're pleased to announce the release of sh404SEF version 4.16.0. This is a feature release as we remove all support for Google+ together with a few bug fixes and improvements of existing features:

Here are the highlights:

  • Removed support for Google+
  • Prevent warnings on some invalid, query strings only URLs
  • Added a filter just before URL parsing starts in sh404SEF
  • Pinterest pin button may not be displayed when using sh404SEF button tags inside content.
  • Added a filter on the global configuration object.
  • Automatic meta description is not generated when using Joomla cache on articles with multiple pages
  • Under some circumstances article meta decription entered in Joomla may not be taken into account and instead automatically generated description may be used
  • Using Joomla cache can sometimes lead to page corruption when OGP data image tag is enabled.
  • Message saying that Google Analytics is not properly configured is displayed when using Google tag manager
  • Font file for drawing Analytics graphics was damaged during packaging.

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