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We're pleased to announce the release of sh404SEF version 4.18.0. This is a feature release with changes in the update mechanism to accomodate Joomla 4 and services such as WatchFul. You can also now include custom raw content in the HEAD and BODY section and multiple other improvements.
Here are the highlights:
Added ability to insert custom raw text at top and bottom of HEAD and BODY tags. We have a global value for each, which can be overriden per individual URL.
Now using a single update key: easier, compatible with Joomla 4 keys manager and services such as Watchfuli
Added filters to customize the 404 auto-redirect process: block auto-redirect, change target or change/remove message.
Added a filter, sh404sef_should_insert_article_id_in_title, to enable/disable inserting item id in page browser title
Remove warnings and notices when running under PHP 7.4+
Also display a QR code for home page
Enforce www/non-www and HTTPS redirection in one go instead of relying on Joomla to redirect to HTTPS
JCH Optimize behaves differently than Joomla caching, breaks automatic OGP image and description
Display 404 requested URLs also as non-latin caracters on error page
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 1.15.0. It is a feature release with changes in the one-click update mechanism. The changes prepares for Joomla 4 compatibility and also allows automatic updates through services such as Watchful.
Now using a single update key: easier, compatible with Joomla 4 keys manager and services such as Watchfuli
Added variant field to manifest in order to support Watchful centralized updates
Added manifest tags for update key, in preparation for Joomla 4
Suppressed warnings and notices under PHP 7.4
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 4.17.0. This is a feature release which addresses an important change in the way Google displays E.U. websites in their results. Be sure to update before the changes takes effect, end of october
Here are the highlights:
Now adding a robots meta tag for all pages to comply with new Google/EU opt-in requirements to fully appear in search results
Prevent authentication errors on some Google Analytics servers by using Joomla HTTP client to make requests
Added a filter, sh404sef_ogp_image_excluded_search_contexts, to let integrators exclude some content types from automatic OGP image search
Change encoding of description and meta data when using full page cache, can cause styling issue with some components (K2)
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 1.14.0. It addresses an important change in the way Google displays E.U. websites in their results. Be sure to update before the changes takes effect, end of october
Now adding a robots meta tag for all pages to comply with new Google/EU opt-in requirements to fully appear in search results
Display a warning when i-amphtml classes are used in custom CSS, this is not allowed by AMP specification
Now allowing password and file input types on AMP forms, per AMP specification
Added ugc and sponsored to the list of allowed rel attributes
Account for some extensions using query strings as part of images extensions to build proper structured data AMP image
Removed direct support Amazon ads, should now be created as custom ads
Added support for AdSense auto format and full width attributes
In standalone mode, an Fatal error can happen if sh404SEF is not running on the site
When publishing multiple modules to the same module position, they all share the same title
Update site is not removed when upgrading from Community version to standard version, may cause reverting to Community later on
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.