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Hello,

We're pleased to announce the release of sh404SEF version 4.16.1. This is a maintenance release with the added benefit of full Chinese translation, thanks to Deng ChangBin!

Here are the highlights:

  • Added full sh404SEF translation for Chinese, both zh-CN and zh-TW
  • Under rare circumstances alias may not automatically created when customizing a URL
  • Cannot customize a URL in backend when running MYSQL 8.0+
  • When Joomla caching is enabled, some before content or after content sharing buttons may not be displayed
  • Added a filter on the global configuration object.
  • Analytics reports authorization procedure may fail depending on which protocol Google uses in its response

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.

Best regards

Weeblr.com

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Hello,

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.

Best regards

Weeblr.com

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Hello,

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.

wbAMP brings Accelerated Mobile Pages to Joomla. Please read our blog post for more details.

Here are the highlights:

  • Removed all support for Google+
  • Allow Bing cache origin when submitting 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.

Best regards

Weeblr.com

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Hello,

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.

Best regards

Weeblr.com