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We're pleased to announce the release of 4SEO version 1.2.2. This is a maintenance release with multiple improvements and a few fixes.
Here are the highlights:
Added analysis option to bypass external caching systems such as CDN or server-level caching
Added sitemap exclusions/exclusions lists with wildcards characters
Now also crawling local links found in hreflang link elements
Now also collecting links when they have a target=_blank attribute, despite this not being good practice
Store display parameters per tab, with a global storage as well for when browser is closed
More efficient Joomla structured data cleanup
Also clean Joomla invalid structured data for logged-in users
Added pagination option to show 50 items per page
Now using weather-themed icons to signal OK/Warning/Error status in messages instead of just colors
Added status role to messages on dashboard and other places
2 columns dashboard notifications layout for wider screens
Now showing a dashboard message if an Analysis reset is needed after an update.
Some system errors are now shown as one-off errors instead of being hidden under the notification icon.
Added attribute to soft cron noscript image to prevent mod_pagespeed to 'optimize' - and break - it
Added data-speed-no-transform attribute to some script and pixel images, prevents 'optimization' by JoomUnited Speed Cache extension
Moved compact mode button to sidebar, next to dark/light theme switcher
User set values for whether a page is canonical and sitemap inclusion can be forgotten if that page is recrawled after it has been modified in some way
Structured data and Open Graph meta data were not output if no address was provided for default organization
Latitude and longitude were inverted in automatic geo-location
Cannot type in Website home address in settings without one or more / symbols being inserted by 4SEO automatically
The ~ character required to enter regular expressions in page address exclusions/inclusions was not allowed in some input fields
Redirects, replacer and other SEO rules hits were not recorded
Long standing issue where 2 alert messages could be displayed at the same time and not be dismissed.
CRON job request URL obtained with the Copy button in System configuration is incorrect
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 4LOGS version 1.1.0. This is a feature release with a new feature, multiple improvements and a single fix.
Here are the highlights:
Added button to delete entire log folder at a time
Do not display post-install message on uninstalls
Removed useless installer plugin as 4LOGS does not require authentication to allow updates
Adjust to Joomla RC4 CSS class naming
Don't stop the app if another extension causes a javascript fatal error, just log it to the console.
Better styling of 'No files in logs folder' message
Possible error if logs folder does not exist
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 1.2.1. This is a maintenance release with multiple improvements and a few fixes. It is advised to Reset Analysis after updating if you update from 4SEO version 1.1.x.
Here are the highlights:
Added compact mode toggle on some pages
Now caching identified search engines requests IP+UA for a week
Collect Core Web Vitals data more often by defaults, every 10 pages and 2 minutes instead of 100 pages and 5 minutes before.
Added missing option to comply or not with noindex meta tag during crawl
More messages can be dismissed: sitemaps alerts & robots.txt alerts
Search engines loading the index sitemaps may not be recorded (partial files visits were)
Possible javascript error 'Cannot read property DISMISS_TYPE_POSTPONABLE' after updating to version 1.2.0
Possible fatal error on some com_contact pages after a redirect
Fixed dashboard layout at low width
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 1.2.0. This is a feature release with multiple improvements and a few fixes. It is advised to Reset Analysis after updating, in order to get updated information.
Here are the highlights:
Added sitemap control rules to exclude group of pages based on their URLs, categories or age (days since creation/modification)
Added sitemap support for excluding archived articles, either globally or using rules for partial exclusions.
Auto-detect, rebuild and submit sitemap when canonical or robots tags changes in a page
Use content-base hashing for sitemaps identification, instead of random. Avoids resubmitting to search engines when sitemap is rebuilt but is actually the same as previous.
Added setting to enable/disable applying robots.txt rules to exclude pages from analysis
Do not collect links from pages with a nofollow meta tag
Added option to decide whether to log external 404 errors. Avoid robots requests cluttering the error logs.
Added full Dutch translation, thanks to Davy Renckens
Added alerts dismissal system, messages and alerts can be permanently dismissed or be reminded later. Also added a system config button to bring back immediately alerts where 'Remind me later' has been selected.
Content replacer now automatically avoids replacing inside of HTML elements when creating a link
Also record external pages linked through redirects instead of just internal ones.
Added a search box in the image file manager
Added more protection in case of invalid canonical URL found in existing page
Updated remote image size detection code, size of more images can be detected.
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.
