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We're pleased to announce the release of 4SEO version 5.4.0. This is a feature and maintenance release with many additions and improvements
Here are the highlights:
New Movie structured data rule type
New ProfilePage structured data rule type: use for About us or author profile pages to help search engines understand who's writing on your site
Added support for new Offers and CourseInstance properties to the Course structured data type
Added some support for J2Store ratings
Reworked accessibility aria markup for all tab switchers
Allow automatically computed meta description to be used even when Joomla progressive or conservative cache is active
Removed display of FID metric on Pages page after it's officially removed from Google's Core Web Vitals list
Multiple changes to account for Google Universal Analytics shutting down permanently on July 1st, 2024. Includes warning on dashboard, stop rendering snippet and inability to add new Universal analytics rules on that date
Improved aliases data entry: automatically fix missing leading slash and remove website root URL if present. Also block saving when invalid data is present
Added message suggesting to use the auto-clear notification feature on sites where it's not enabled. Displayed randomly every few notifications
Added dashboard notification to apply ProfilePage structured data rules to About us or Author pages
Make it clearer when connection to Google Search Console was lost and needs to be authorized again
Updated code to read current user information for future-proofing against Joomla platform changes
Ensure website home address URL is entered as a lower-case string
If user-provided custom Structured Data code is invalid, do not insert it in the page
Possible PHP warnings if Joomla pagebreak or vote plugins are disabled
Redirecting sh404SEF legacy URLs to Joomla SEF URLs may not work
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 4Podcast version 3.1.0. This is a maintenane release with a couple of minor bug fixes and addition of customization options
Here are the highlights:
Added css classes to platform links text and icon for css targeting; also hide names on mobile devices byb default
Possible deprecation warning in PHP log files when article with podcast episode is displayed through a Joomla Tags page
Possible deprecation warnings when opening a podcast episode article
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 4SEF version 2.4.0. This is a maintenance release with several improvements and a bug fix
Here are the highlights:
Added option to enable legacy sh404SEF shURLs execution by 4SEF. Previously, adding a filter was needed to change that option
Finally removed logging to file when an empty non-sef is provided. Error can still be logged by using Detailed logging mode.
Ensure Virtuemart vmconfig is loaded on VM pages before using vRequest, may cause errors that fill log files
Number of imported URLs not displayed on last summary page of import wizard, shows %1 instead
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 4Podcast version 3.0.0. This is a feature release with important additions and single bug fix.
Here are the highlights:
Added support for showing icons and links to podcasting platforms underneath the player
Added translation for Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Swedish and Chinese
Added episode thumbnail field for better display performance of audio-player
On website blog or list views, that URL is shared to social networks instead of that of the episode
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.
