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We're pleased to announce the release of 4SEO version 1.4.1. This is a new features release with multiple changes and a couple of bug fixes.
Here are the highlights:
Added support for image sitemaps
Added support for automatic collection of Ignite Gallery images into sitemap
Added support for automatic collection of Phoca Gallery images into sitemap
Added manually adding sitemaps entries through text or xml file
Added text editor to create or modify custom sitemaps entries file
Show number of unique images in sitemap on sitemap dashboard
Remove hash from sitemap partials names, prevent Google from requesting outdated files resulting in 404s
Expanded text area input fields to be wider
Added a filter on the list of sitemaps to be submitted to search engines, allows adding your own
Added display of total number of items on all pages, before was only displayed on analyzed pages page
URL analysis exclusions rules are now also taken into account when a redirect happens
On dark themed sites, frontend metadata edition popup text is not visible, written in white on white color
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 1.3.2. This is a maintenance release to fix a couple of issues in previous versions 1.3.x
Here are the highlights:
Added a filter to disable injecting 4SEO cron pixel on a request
Excluded Acymailing pages from analysis
Better detection of timeout and invalid TLS certificatse when crawling pages
Added extra filtering of the external cache bypass variable as needed by some servers. Would prevent analysis to complete on these setups
External cache (such as CDN) option is now enabled by default
Robots.txt content may be overwritten on very busy servers when adding the sitemap line automatically
When Bypass CDN is enabled, some pages may incorrectly be classified as duplicates instead of canonical on some servers
Possible PHP fatal error when crawling the site, can prevent analysis to complete on some sites.
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 1.3.1. This is a maintenance release to fix a couple of issues in previous version 1.3.0.
Here are the highlights:
Possible failure on PHP less than 8 when generating FAQ Page structured data based on CSS selectors.
If a product condition (used, new,...) is not present, structured data will have an null field instead of no field at all.
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 1.3.0. This is a feature release with new features, multiple improvements and a few fixes.
Here are the highlights:
Added OpenGraph and Twitter cards image and content detection for Hikashop
Added OpenGraph and Twitter cards image and content detection for K2
Added support for K2 crawling
Added support for Hikashop crawling and structured data generation
Added support the FaqPage schema.org element. Questions and answers can be selected with CSS, with short codes or entered manually for a page or a group of pages
Added an URL input to all Author inputs in Structured data rules as Google shows interest in having a dedicated author page.
Added display of a URL QRCode for all analyzed page in admin and frontend edit.
You can now limit the number of replacements made by any replacer rule
Added OpenGraph and Twitter cards image detection to Contact component support
Do not include ValidUntil and ValidThrough values in strucured data records if not set
When URL rewriting is not used, check existence of links that look like actual, physical files before adding the /index.php/ file prefix, can cause incorrect 404 reports for these links.
When saving with Ctrl+S a rule being created, always close the edit windows to ensure the underlying rules list is refreshed and creation is complete
Some links on embedded help pages are not working
When URL rewriting is not used, Allow directive of sitemap file in robots.txt was incorrect
Structured data published date may sometimes be replaced with modification date
Active item in main menu may not always be highlighted
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.
