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We're pleased to announce the release of sh404SEF version 4.16.0. This is a feature release as we remove all support for Google+ together with a few bug fixes and improvements of existing features:
Here are the highlights:
Removed support for Google+
Prevent warnings on some invalid, query strings only URLs
Added a filter just before URL parsing starts in sh404SEF
Pinterest pin button may not be displayed when using sh404SEF button tags inside content.
Added a filter on the global configuration object.
Automatic meta description is not generated when using Joomla cache on articles with multiple pages
Under some circumstances article meta decription entered in Joomla may not be taken into account and instead automatically generated description may be used
Using Joomla cache can sometimes lead to page corruption when OGP data image tag is enabled.
Message saying that Google Analytics is not properly configured is displayed when using Google tag manager
Font file for drawing Analytics graphics was damaged during packaging.
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 are pleased to announce the release of wbAMP version 1.13.0 and the corresponding Taylor theme version 1.1.0. These are feature release as we are removing all support for Google+ and add support for Bing cache in forms.
Now enforcing and cleaning attributes on amp-carousel elements created by user
Autoplay attribute in AMP carousel shortcode can now accept a number - used as the number of loops before the autoplay stops
Read robots meta tag set in Joomla, not just those set with sh404SEF
Now allowing any attribute on the path html element, used in svg images
Added z-index to hamburger menu in case users add a large header image in a module
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 sh404SEF version 4.15.2. This is a large maintenance release with several bug fixes and improvements of existing features:
Here are the highlights:
Regular expressions based redirects should use new syntax for redirect targets ({$1}, {$2} instead of previous {*}). Old format redirects will still work normally
Protect against extensions using onContentPrepare on raw documents, can break some site features when automatic description generation is enabled
Remove style tags when automatically building meta-description. Thanks Peter
Now using base64 encode instead of json for embedding auto-generated descriptions and image tags, more reliable when shortcodes are used in content
Added support for automatic description with UniteGallery
Updated Facebook API version to 3.1
Added Quix short code to list of shortcode to be removed when auto-generating meta description
On redirects, do not append again query string if the redirect is an exact match
Structured data phone numbers may loose their required leading + sign
On multilingual sites, if language code is inserted in default language URLs, the home page canonical is not correct
Updated Spanish translation
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 sh404SEF version 4.15.1. This is a quick maintenance release after a bug was found in yesterday version.
Here are the highlights:
Under some rare circumstances, meta description can be written onto the page content instead of being hidden
Pass all non-404 exceptions back to Joomla, better compatibility with 3rd-party extensions
and still with:
Insert Analytics snippet based on access levels in addition to user groups.
Added buttons to delete detailed recorded information about SEF URLs, aliases and shURLs
Automatically generated description is now compatible with Joomla caching.
OGP image detection now compatible with Joomla caching
When redirecting non-joomla, non-SEF URLs (ie magento, prestashop,...), query string is not appended anymore to the redirect target if it matches the redirect itself
Added ability to handle non-sef URLs with nested array variables up to 3 levels (up from 1)
When a page has restricted access, under some circumstances the URL to it can be deleted and/or multiple URLs can be recorded for it
Analytics snippet may not be displayed if configuration is saved with default value of 'Public' in 'Disable Analytics for groups setting
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.
