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We're pleased to announce the release of 4SEO version 1.5.1. This is a maintenance release with a couple of improvements for the new Error pages management feature in 1.5.0.
Here are the highlights:
On error pages, do not suggest non-canonical pages or pages with pagination
Joomlart T4 templates on Joomla 4 do not have CSS styles on custom error pages
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 1.5.0. This is a feature release with multiple additions, changes and bug fixes.
Here are the highlights:
Added support for Virtuemart canonicalization, sitemap inclusion and image detection
Added support for J2Store canonicalization, sitemap inclusion and image detection
Added error pages management: handle different kinds of errors with rules, display custom content within your regular template and suggest similar pages in case of 404
All rules (structured data, redirects, replacer, SEO, analytics,...) can now also be based on content language
4SEO can now automatically redirect sh404SEF URLs to their Joomla SEF equivalent, when disabling or removing sh404SEF
Added configuration section for extensions
Added Italian translation by Guido Tedaldi
Added Polish translation by Marcin Równicki
Added priority analysis: links with some assets-like extensions (.pdf, .txt, .png, .jpg, ...) will be crawled and analyzed after regular pages. Helps on some site with large numbers of linked images to prioritize actual content and speed up discovery
Hikashop structured data now includes textual reviews present on the page if they have an author and a rating
Now showing manual site analysis progress in the browser tab title, to easily view progress when one navigates away during analysis
Added stylesheet to sitemaps files for easier viewing and navigation in a browser
Optimize rebuilding of sitemaps: less frequent but still catch all changes
When checking links to external sites, pages with invalid TLS certificates do not stop a manual crawl anymore. They are now reported as Broken links, with a status code of 421
Cannot enter a domain with a dash (-) when listing domains excluded from analysis
XML sitemap may have invalid characters in them, preventing parsing by browser
Hikashop built-in structured data are not output on Joomla 4
Existing structured data in content are cleaned up even if structured data cleanup is disbled
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 1.4.2. This is a maintenance release with a few changes and a couple of bug fixes.
Here are the highlights:
Exclude (fake) single-image Ignite Gallery pages from sitemap
IgniteGallery, exclude menu item from content id to detect duplicate pages better
Replaced width by dimension in help message as it's used now in both contexts, width and height
Caption and titles in images sitemaps are not properly encoded
Not properly checking if an image has already been seen before trying to store it
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 1.4.1. 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.
