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We're pleased to announce the release of sh404SEF version 4.24.0. This is a maintenance release with multiple improvements and bug fixes!
Important: sh404SEF now requires Joomla 3.9.0 or more recent. It won't install or update on older Joomla versions.
Important: As per previous notices, all our extensions now require PHP 5.6 as a minimum PHP version. sh404SEF or wbAMP will not install or update if a lower PHP version is detected.
Here are the highlights:
Display Whatsapp sharing icon regardless of device size
Clarified Joomla and php message on version requirements in install script
Updated pagination class to allow templates layout overrides for pagination
Removed Offline mode plugin, not needed in a long time due to Joomla handling offline status code properly
Hooks to modify page title and custom description can now be ran even if Joomla caching is enabled
Depart from Twitter colors on static sharing buttons to give them enough contrast ratio
Make sure all static buttons have a unique id attribute for accessibility
Possible PHP warning on rare URLs configurations (JReviews)
Possible PHP warning when using canonical alias rules
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 1.6.0. This is a feature and maintenance release with multiple improvements and fixes, plus a brand new German translation!
Here are the highlights:
Merged full German translation by Elisa Foltyn
Added structured data generation for J2Store, both on real J2Store pages and when included in a regular Joomla article
Removed sitemaps submission to Bing after they stopped that service.
Removed duplicate meta data filter from Pages page, can be too slow on sites with many pages.
Auto-canonical determination now removes common tracking vars (utm_*, fbclid,...) when figuring out canonical
Allow installation of default error pages for Dutch language
Allow for zero prices in Product structured data
Better layout for Help page
Re-check title and meta data a second time as some 3rd-party extension may set them later than best practise.
Disable JCH Optimize image lazyloading feature when analyzing pages to access actual images more easily
Some non-latin characters in default error page messages are not properly displayed
Possible PHP warning relatd to structured data generation on some 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 1.5.1. 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.