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We're pleased to announce the release of 4SEO version 1.1.0. This is a feature release with 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:
Added measurement and reporting of Google performance metrics: Core Web Vitals, part of the Page Experience Update
Redirect rules can now use {$1}, {$2},... placeholders in redirect targets, avoids having to switch to regular expressions
Added documentation about and improved user interface when creating an external cron job to trigger 4SEO actions
More thorough automatic meta description cleanup
Hardened soft cron pixel handling, browser console may show some errors depending on server config (errors do not affect operation anyway)
Improved handling of multipage articles, taking into account tabs and sliders formats - close #283
Default organization logo width and height may not be properly computed when log is pasted in instead of selected from server
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 1.0.3. This is a maintenance release improving multiple things and fixing multiple bugs. It is advised to Reset Analysis after updating, in order to get updated information.
Here are the highlights:
Also expand variables (4seo_[redacted]) in full page source, not just regular content and modules. Can be used inside of custom structured data rules for instance
Enforce a default structured data type for structured data rules creation, prevent saving if empty
Added option to only crawl links found inside website pages and discard external requests.
Modified CSS for Joomla 4 RC2
Do not collect requests made with the ajax component
Now counting only analyzed pages when showing duplicate titles/meta description
Now removing aliases from articles and other native content types ids, for brevity and in case they are modified by user
Added more common tracking variables to be discarded from incoming requests
Improved dashboard design for clarity
Order Errors and broken links display by number of hits
Custom meta description or title are set into page but not used in OGP or Twitter Cards
Sometimes structured data rules may not be applied if there is no specific 4SEO plugins for the extension creating the page content
May create empty rows in the rules tables when structured data rules are executed.
Frontend 4SEO button is full page width on Firefox
Built-in articles structured data rules may not be applied on Joomla 4
May collect pages with double or more /index.php/ prefix on multilingual sites with no URL rewriting
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 1.0.2. This is a maintenance release improving duplicates identification.
Here are the highlights:
Drop category id from single articles identifiers, prevents recognizing duplicates. Same with menu item as it cannot change page content.
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 1.0.1. This is a maintenance release fixing a couple of bugs and updating a library.
Here are the highlights:
Joomla agglomerates Cookies variable in input, must separate cookies and post data when building page id. Can cause some pages to miss canonicals or other tags in case of cookies added by some hosts
Updated web-vitals library to 2.x
If a page in error is fixed, it was not detected and put back on the regular pages list after fixing unless manually deleted from Broken links page
Typo in Structured data type name and in language file
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.
