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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.
We're pleased to announce the release of 4SEO version 1.1.1. This is a maintenance release for 1.1.0, which included Core Web Vitals measurement included and multiple improvements and fixes. It is advised to Reset Analysis after updating, in order to get updated information.
Here are the highlights:
Filter out more robots requests from 404s errors list
Added replacement rule option to execute or not content replacement on links href/src attributes
Simplified layout when viewing on details view of a single page
Take into account some query variables when finding out canonical URLs, do not rely on Joomla router
Include page number in item ids, else some pages may not be considered canonical. Except for multipage articles
Added empty alt attribute on noscript cron trigger image
Crawler can be marked as 'in error' under some rare conditions even if there's one or more pages to crawl
Some external requests can be stored as pages even if Collect Incoming Requests is disabled (under rare conditions)
Sitemap can be empty due to to Incoming URL collection option not being set
Sitemap URL copy button does not work
Collect incoming requests option added in last version was not properly initialized
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.