This is is a feature and maintenance release, with an important bug fix. As always compatible with Joomla 3 to 6 without compatibility plugin.
Here are the highlights:
- Refreshed user interface, less distraction and more compact
- Generation of Markdown alternate version of your pages automatically. Supports Content Signals policy to tell bots what they can do with your content. Also: content negotiation, canonical/alternate link management, structured data, configurable caching. Particularly useful for software or product documentation for instance
- Support for llms.txt file generation. Not used for SEO/AEO/GEO but can be useful for product or software documentation pages
- Added support for Content Signals policy. Tell bots which use of your content you allow.
- Added option to decide if automatic change detection runs on entire page or on just main content. Use the latter if your pages have modules with random or often updated content, causing 4SEO to re-analyze pages too often
- Joomla light/dark mode switch in User menu now also control our light/dark mode
- Prevent Joomla using null as an array offset on 404s, which causes PHP deprecation warnings
- YooTheme Pro template can now display 4SEO error pages in full - Joomla 5+ only
- Sitemaps are now served without cookies
- Prefer the live meta description possibly set by Joomla, if any, over the one stored during analysis, in case the page has not been re-analyzed yet
- Under rare circumstances, Joomla may redirect some 404s to home page, when a 4SEO error page is active
- Redesigned notifications icon, was not accessible
- Some toolbar buttons may fail WCAG 2.2 AAA in light mode
- Changed striped tables dark rows background color, was not WCAG 2.2 AAA compliant
- FAQPage and ListItem structured data types use wrong letter case
- Dutch language shows HTML tags in initial setup wizard title
- Some expansion variables may not be available (published date)
- chg FAQ structured data is no longer a page-level entity, can now be added to other page types such as Article or Product
- chg Added forseo_sd_cache_id filter. May help in cases where Joomla progressive/conservative caching prevents custom fields values to be used in structured data rules
- chg Automatic description: now prefers component content over custom fields content. Added new filter to toggle that choice (forseo_auto_desc_prefer_components_content)
- chg More efficient background images dimensions retrieval
- chg Now stripping HTML tags from Hikashop product name when generating structured data records
- chg When generating and structured data records, now using the configured instead of that coming from Joomla, for better consistency
- chg Redesigned dashboard alerts, less overwhelming and more informative
- chg Do not suggest to use an analytics solution if 4Analytics is installed
- bug Under some rare circumstances, a PHP warning showing about using foreach() on null can be visible on page (if server is configured to display errors). No consequence on operations.
- bug Some redirects rules may not work
- bug Possible PHP warning on Structured data Event rule, if Location Name is a custom field, but no value has been set in the item for it
v6.10.1
v6.10.0
- bug Possible PHP warning in logs when comparing image dimensions
- chg Image detection now only prefers images in custom fields over those in an article content if they are larger in pixel size
- chg Product structured data record now includes mainEntityOfPage property
- bug Joomla media upload can be broken on some versions of Joomla
- bug In Product structured data, if a non-default currency is selected, it is output as an array instead of a single value
- new Unpublishing existing articles now triggers an immediate update of the sitemap. These items are also not suggested anymore in the [Similar pages] section of error pages. Publishing back the articles also causes the sitemap to be updated accordingly. Unpublished articles now have an [Error] Status on the Pages page
- chg PHP 8.4 and 8.5 compatibility improvements
- chg Now removing content of alt attributes in content before trying to automatically build a meta description
- chg New option in metadata rule to suppress the meta description from pages. Search results snippets are usually created automatically by search engines, and having no meta description may result in better click rates according to recent studies
- chg New option in metadata rule to always use the configured default sharing image instead of the automatically selected one
- chg Added 3rd option to Core Web Vitals filter: [With Data]. This hides pages that have no Core Web Vitals measurements yet, allowing comparison between passing and failing pages
- chg (small) performance improvement by not adding hooks on some events in the backend, while they are only useful on the frontend
- bug On dark theme systems, standard text of first install configuration wizard is hardly visible
- bug Possible PHP warning in logs in case of error connecting to the Google Search Console
- bug Possible error on some combinations of SPPageBuilder and Joomla versions. Does not affect live site
- bug J6 does not implement Table classes for contact and newsfeeds, only content, can cause fatal errors when some rules use contact or newsfeeds category specification
- bug Frontend editing broken by last update
- chg Increased timeout delay when fetching list of available updates
- chg Allow home website address path section to include mixed-cases
- bug Some links may be missed and not analyzed when using some 3rd-party templates
- bug Should not show the help video button in footer when running the post-install wizard
- bug 4SEO may report that it can import data from sh404SEF in cases where sh404SEF is not installed
- bug Illustration on first run wizard is not showing if website is in a subfolder
- chg Better visibility in Sitemap settings for warning of sitemap submission requiring Google Search Console connection
- chg Added details of which API the Google Maps API key should have access to in settings options
- bug In Language selector and image modification selector, labels and described by are not added to the select element
- bug Added CSS workaround for nasty Safari CSS bug, causing a blank line to appear on some configuration pages settings
- bug Sitemaps excluded and included images URLs should not allow entering fully-qualified URLs, starting with https://
chg Added warning about Google only triggering Event experience in search results for events with a physical location, not online
chg Detect if a structured data FAQ rule with CSS selector does not detect anything and do not output any structured data if so
bug Frontend editing does not sort images by size as expected
bug Frontend dialog broken after last update
bug Structured data output for the Course type is invalid if the provider is a custom value, manually set
bug Not identifying correctly duplicates for Hikashop pages on multilingual websites