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Hello,

We're pleased to announce the release of 4SEO version 1.8.0. This is a feature and maintenance release with multiple improvements and fixes!

Here are the highlights:

  • Added option to auto-clear informational notifications after a delay. Off by default to maintain accessibility
  • Full translation to Russian by Алексей Хорошевский
  • Improved resilience to short internet connectivity loss during long running tasks such as site analysis. 4SEO will retry several times before stopping work.
  • Consider URLs with Unicode slugs and their URL encoded version as the same for crawling purpose
  • Added WhatsApp to list of domains to exclude from crawling
  • Do not store update key on Joomla 4 when in development mode
  • Ensure no-cache header is sent on 404 error page, some hosts may cache them
  • Possible PHP warning when rendering a 404 error page with similar pages suggestions
  • All broken links are incorrectly also shown as originating from the home page
  • Possible PHP warning when crawling content for some 3rd-party extension
  • Using the replacer to automatically link text to another page breaks if Whole words only option is selected

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 1.7.1. This is a maintenance release with multiple improvements and fixes!

Here are the highlights:

  • Ctrl+S shortcut to save a rule now does not trigger browser saving the entire page when data has not been modified
  • Browsers encode non-latin URLs, resulting in frontend meta data and OpenGraph tags editing pop-up window not displayed
  • Added nocache headers to sitemap files to bypass some hosting companies proxy caching
  • Added closing ; after injecting 4SEO admin config. Other extensions may otherwise conflict with it and prevent 4SEO language strings to be loaded
  • On error pages, do not use HTML classes starting with a number, they cannot be styled with CSS
  • Possible fatal error when recording fatal errors on the site

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 1.7.0. This is a feature and maintenance release with multiple improvements and fixes!

Here are the highlights:

  • Added configuration to exclude images from sitemap by domain name
  • Added structured data caching when Joomla own caching is enabled, else structured data may not be generated
  • Some faulty extensions can cause 4SEO error page to display as raw HTML code instead of a normal page. Added an attempt at a workaround
  • K2 uses 0000-00-00 00:00:00 for null data, can cause invalid structured data when an item has not been modified
  • Added sanity test for dates used in lastmod sitemap field
  • Removed unneeded Db query to read configuration sections that have not been configured yet
  • Moved sharing image selector at the top of page edit window, validator at the bottom
  • Enabled back pinging Bing with sitemaps, with an updated ping URL after they silently removed the previous one
  • Styled scrollbars for chromium-based browsers
  • Now auto-detecting Article structured data Headline field for non-Joomla content
  • Added clean-up of wrongly stored WAF rules that may have been added to the rules table incorrectly by early beta versions
  • Compatibility issue with YooTheme template on Joomla 4 can cause PHP warnings to be displayed
  • Place the rule after... field offers only up to 10 rules instead of the full list when modifying any sort of rule
  • Option to disable built-in structured data rules does not disable regular Joomla article ones
  • Protocol-relative images URLs on other domains are not properly made absolute when included 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

 

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Hello,

We're pleased to announce the release of 4Video version 1.4.0. This is a feature release with improved structured data handling:

Here are the highlights:

  • Added video duration and clip endOffset structured data handling
  • Youtube suggests videos at end of play that are from other channels, should be only from the same channel

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