RSSeo! Changelog

12 Dec 2023
Version 1.21.21
  • Fixed - There was a problem with the custom SEF option on Joomla! 4 & 5.
08 Nov 2023
Version 1.21.20
  • Added - Native support for Joomla! 5.
20 Jun 2023
Version 1.21.19
  • Fixed - The crawler was not working for some Joomla! installations.
06 Jun 2023
Version 1.21.18
  • Added - Option to set your own root for the sitemap URLs.
  • Added - Option to include page images to your sitemap.xml
10 Feb 2023
Version 1.21.17
  • Fixed - The "Custom Head", "Remove Javascript files" and "Remove CSS files" options were not working when using the AJAX crawler.
16 Jan 2023
Version 1.21.16
  • Upgraded - The Dompdf version was updated.
11 Jan 2023
Version 1.21.15
  • Fixed - Removed SEO Performance tab. Due to multiple services discontinuing, this no longer provides enough data to justify its usage.
08 Dec 2022
Version 1.21.14
  • Updated - Improved the connection method for Google services.
09 Nov 2022
Version 1.21.13
  • Fixed - PHP 8.1 fixes.
05 Sep 2022
Version 1.21.12
  • Fixed - PHP8 fix when minifying js/css files.
31 May 2022
Version 1.21.11
  • Fixed - Joomla! 4 CLI was throwing an error when the RSSeo! System Plugin was published.
04 Mar 2021
Version 1.21.10
  • Fixed - When generating the XML sitemap the "Enable sitemap cron" option was set to enable, even if this option prior to this was disabled.
12 Nov 2020
Version 1.21.9
  • Fixed - Added Google Analytics 4 tracking.
29 Sep 2020
Version 1.21.8
  • Fixed - The XML sitemap was generating errors when 'sitemap cron' option was enabled.
06 Aug 2020
Version 1.21.7
  • Added - Joomla! 4 compatibility.
  • Added - Option to remove the auto-crawled pages from the sitemap.
  • Upgraded - Select a default image for when creating rich snippets on articles.
10 Apr 2020
Version 1.21.5 & 1.21.6
  • Added - You can now use emoji's in the page metadata.
  • Added - Redirect multiple error URLs to a single redirect URL.
  • Added - Delete old visitors data option.
  • Upgraded - Upgraded the edit page metadata from the frontend.
28 Feb 2020
Version 1.21.4
  • Fixed - Custom SEF fixes.
19 Feb 2020
Version 1.21.3
  • Fixed - Removed 'Google pages', 'Google backlinks' and 'Google related pages' options from the SEO Performance area.
06 Nov 2019
Version 1.21.2
  • Fixed - In some cases, the homepage was redirecting to a random page.
14 Oct 2019
Version 1.21.1
  • Fixed - On some servers the webp functionality was not working correctly.
03 Oct 2019
Version 1.21.0
  • Added - Convert png,jpg images to webp.
  • Added - Remove scripts and stylesheets from pages.
  • Added - Restrict Google Analytics accounts.
  • Added - Create short URLs for pages.
07 Jan 2019
Version 1.20.18
  • Added - Custom HEAD scripts on each page.
  • Added - Custom global HEAD scripts.
  • Added - Show the HTML sitemap on multiple columns.
  • Added - Show the HTTP status of all crawled pages.
31 Jul 2018
Version 1.20.17
  • Fixed - Custom SEF for some components caused a redirect loop.
18 May 2018
Version 1.20.16
  • Fixed - Custom error pages and error URLs was not working anymore.
08 May 2018
Version 1.20.15
  • Added - Web property options.
  • Added - Ignore IPs from visitors.
  • Added - Hide the 'Home' breadcrumb item.
  • Updated - Moved scripts and images to the media folder.
  • Updated - Code optimizations.
  • Fixed - The pagination from custom SEF URLs was not working corectly.
26 Feb 2018
Version 1.20.14
  • Fixed - When using custom SEF, some menu parameters were not set correctly.
21 Feb 2018
Version 1.20.13
  • Fixed - Metadata was not saved correctly when using custom SEF and loopback crawler.
24 Aug 2017
Version 1.20.12
  • Fixed - Visitors were not ordered correctly.
  • Fixed - When using multilanguage the metadata of home pages could not be set.
21 Aug 2017
Version 1.20.11
  • Fixed - Optimized visitors queries.
16 Aug 2017
Version 1.20.10
  • Fixed - Page title counter was not working due to a javascript error.
  • Fixed - Some large websites were slowed down after upgrading to the last RSSeo! version.
10 Aug 2017
Version 1.20.9
  • Fixed - After upgrading to v1.20.8 some errors prevented the website to render correctly.
  • Fixed - Custom SEF URLs was not working when using multilanguage.
09 Aug 2017
Version 1.20.8
  • Added - Create custom SEF URLs.
  • Added - Google structured data.
  • Added - Google keywords using the Google Search Console.
  • Added - Remove all visitors data button.
  • Updated - Keywords are now called Keywords replacement.
  • Fixed - Do not track errors from the administrator.
07 Mar 2017
Version 1.20.7
  • Fixed - When editing pages in simple view, and re-crawling, the page details were removed.
  • Fixed - Removed Dmoz.
08 Feb 2017
Version 1.20.6
  • Fixed - Removed the URL unique key from pages database.
25 Jan 2017
Version 1.20.5
  • Fixed - When Joomla! SEF was disabled, the Itemid on some URL's was removed.
5 Dec 2016
Version 1.20.4
  • Fixed - Automatic ALT and TITLE for images was adjusted to not break javascript declarations.
11 Nov 2016
Version 1.20.3
  • Fixed - Joomla! cache workarounds.
25 Oct 2016
Version 1.20.2
  • Fixed - JSON decoding error.
26 Aug 2016
Version 1.20.1
  • Fixed - Save metadata from frontend was not working well when SEF was off.
23 Aug 2016
Version 1.20.0
  • Added - AJAX crawler.
  • Added - Edit page metadata in frontend.
  • Added - Cron for checking keyword position (http://www.site.com/index.php?option=com_rsseo&task=keywords)
  • Added - MOZ page rank, page authority and domain authority.
  • Added - Pause between page requests when crawling.
  • Added - Skip pages with noindex to be added in the sitemap.
  • Added - Option to allow auto-crawled pages to be added in the sitemap.
  • Added - Automatically set alt and title tags to images.
  • Added - Create a redirect straight from the error urls.
27 Apr 2016
Version 1.19.9
  • Fixed - Removed Twitter counter from statistics.
27 Apr 2016
Version 1.19.8
  • Fixed - HTML encoded keywords were not replaced.
22 Apr 2016
Version 1.19.7
  • Fixed - HTML encoded keywords were not replaced.
20 Apr 2016
Version 1.19.6
  • Fixed - Page Rank check was removed since is no longer used.
  • Fixed - Competitors check optimized.
26 Jan 2016
Version 1.19.5
  • Fixed - Keyword density was not working for keywords that had more than one word.
18 Dec 2015
Version 1.19.4
  • Fixed - As of Joomla! 3.4.6 the crawler stopped working.
5 Oct 2015
Version 1.19.3
  • Updated - File permissions for sitemap.xml and ror.xml files can now be set through the RSSeo! configuration.
  • Updated - Sitemap generation now shows errors if something went wrong.
1 Oct 2015
Version 1.19.2
  • Added - Set custom file permissions when creating the sitemap xml files.
16 Sep 2015
Version 1.19.1
  • Fixed - The "I understand" button from the "cookie law" option was not visible on iOS.
  • Fixed - Backup/Restore was not working anymore due to the fact that it was still using MooTools.
8 Sep 2015
Version 1.19.0
  • Added - Yandex site verification.
  • Added - Updates will now show up in the Joomla! Update section.
  • Added - Show referals on error links.
  • Added - Add a custom Itemid to the error page when the error handling option is a custom message.
  • Added - Option to skip links that have rel="nofollow" when crawling.
  • Added - Standard and simple view for fast changing page metadata.
  • Added - Statistics view.
  • Added - Track visitors.
  • Added - Track internal / external URLs.
  • Added - The Cookie Law.
  • Updated - The crawler interface.
  • Updated - All MooTools scripts were converted to jQuery.
5 Jun 2015
Version 1.18.19
  • Fixed - Google analytics API updated.
30 Apr 2015
Version 1.18.18
  • Fixed - When auto-crawler option was enabled, some links were not saved correctly.
24 Apr 2015
Version 1.18.17
  • Fixed - Some links were not crawled correctly.
13 Mar 2015
Version 1.18.16
  • Updated - The competitors algorithm.
3 Mar 2015
Version 1.18.15
  • Fixed - The backend sidebar on Joomla! 3.4 was not showing correctly.
09 Feb 2015
Version 1.18.14
  • Fixed - Keywords are now case sensitive.
15 Dec 2014
Version 1.18.13
  • Fixed - The keyword position was not retrieved correctly.
12 Dec 2014
Version 1.18.12
  • Fixed - Some URL's were not redirecting correctly.
14 Nov 2014
Version 1.18.11
  • Fixed - Some characters were not saved correctly in the "Keyword delimiters" area.
07 Oct 2014
Version 1.18.10
  • Updated - The keywords density algorithm has been updated.
26 Sep 2014
Version 1.18.9
  • Fixed - In some cases a fatal error was thown when accessing the back-end of RSSeo!
22 Sep 2014
Version 1.18.8
  • Fixed - Redirect was not working in some cases.
21 Jul 2014
Version 1.18.7
  • Fixed - Workaround to prevent bug that causes double HTML encoding in RokNavMenu module.
08 Jul 2014
Version 1.18.6 - Joomla! 2.5/3.x only
  • Fixed - Small redirect problem when not using patterns.
23 May 2014
Version 1.18.5 - Joomla! 2.5/3.x only
  • Fixed - Connecting with cURL in some cases was faulty.
15 May 2014
Version 1.18.4 - Joomla! 2.5/3.x only
  • Update - Status filter from the pages view.
  • Fixed - Restoring with an old backup file.
22 Apr 2014
Version 1.18.3 - Joomla! 2.5/3.x only
  • Fixed - Metadata was not saved correctly in some cases when using JomFish.
15 Apr 2014
Version 1.18.2 - Joomla! 2.5/3.x only
  • Fixed - Backup/Restore algorithm.
03 Apr 2014
Version 1.18.1 - Joomla! 2.5/3.x only
  • Fixed - The "Modified pages" filter.
  • Fixed - Compatibility with PHP 5.2.x on the http connector helper.
28 Mar 2014
Version 1.18.0 - Joomla! 2.5/3.x only
  • Added - Dashboard module with statistics for your website.
  • Added - Dashboard module with the most visited pages.
  • Added - Set custom metadata on pages.
  • Added - Page hits. (This will tell you how many times the page was accessed)
  • Added - Ability to set up a cron for the sitemap creation.
  • Added - Create redirects using wildcards.
  • Added - Keep track of how many times a redirect was triggered and see where it came from.
  • Added - Show Google similar pages for your competitors.
  • Added - Check domain age for your competitors.
  • Added - Choose what type of analytics tracker to use : Classic or Universal Analytics.
  • Updated - Also backup your keywords, competitors and custom errors.
  • Updated - The "From" field when creating a new redirect is now AJAX autopopulated.
  • Updated - Broken pages now has a progress bar.
  • Updated - The script that calculates a website's page rank.
  • Updated - Error URLs were not displaying the error code.
18 Oct 2013
Rev 17 - Joomla! 2.5/3.x only
  • New - Create custom error pages.
  • New - Check for broken links on your pages.
  • New - Keep track of URLs that generate HTTP errors.
  • Updated - Improved competitors functionality.
14 Nov 2012
Rev 16 - Joomla! 2.5/3.x only
  • Added - Show a list of images that are missing the "alt" attribute.
  • Added - Show a list of images that are missing the "width" and "height" attributes.
  • Updated - Joomla! 3.0 compatibility (including responsive design & bootstrap compatibility).
  • Updated - Refactored code to use less resources.
24 Aug 2012
Rev 15
  • Updated - Google analytics code.
11 Jul 2012
Rev 14
  • Fixed - Bing Pages and Bing Backlinks were not retrieved correctly.
  • Updated - Improved Google Page Rank functionality.
26 Jun 2012
Rev 13
  • Updated - Missing language translations are now reverted to en-GB
  • Updated - Improved loading of the configuration
  • Added - Google connectivity check
  • Fixed - Crawler now skipping URLs with uppercase extensions correctly
  • Fixed - Alexa rank was not retrieved correctly
  • Fixed - "Refresh Cache" in Extension Manager was throwing an error
21 Nov 2011
Version Rev 12
  • Added - Enable/Disable the ability to use the php exec function as alternate connection method.
  • Added - Include/Exclude Auto-crawled pages into the sitemap.
  • Added - Multiple "Add to sitemap" option.
  • Added - New sitemap filter for pages listing.
  • Added - You can remove the Joomla! generator meta tag.
  • Added - Ability to generate robots meta on each crawled page.
  • Added - Ability to add the canonical link to each crawled page.
  • Added - Set the page priority and frequency per crawled page.
  • Updated - Google pagerank class.
  • Updated - Check connectivity. (cURL uses the proxy server details)
18 Apr 2011
Version Rev 11
  • Added - Google analytics reports
  • Added - Google analytics tracking
  • Fixed - Incorrect replacement of the keyword "Keyword"
  • Updated - Keyword replacement ignores text inside headings
  • Updated - Selected keyword will not be replaced on the "Internal Anchor Link" page if the link is internal
23 Dec 2010
Version Rev 10
  • Added - You can select which pages to add to the sitemap
  • Added - You can redirect pages to non internal links
  • Added - Keyword replacement limit
  • Added - Html sitemap based on your Joomla! menus
  • Added - Calculate keyword density
  • Fixed - The keyword anchor was working only with http links
  • Fixed - Case sensitive keyword replacements
15 Sep 2010
Version Rev 9
  • Updated - Integration with Joomfish
  • Updated - Crawler for SSL option using cURL
  • Fixed - Redirect to homepage
  • Fixed - Keywords will be replace also in modules
  • Fixed - Sitemap bugs
  • Fixed - Language bugs
  • Fixed - Delete all pages now truncates the pages table
  • Added - Protocol in sitemap
  • Added - Keyword attributes
25 May 2010
Version Rev 8
  • Added - Backup - Restore functionality(Pages and Redirects).
  • Added - Proxy support for cURL.
11 May 2010
Version Rev 7
  • Added - Check for internal and external links on pages.
  • Added - exec support. (Please read here first)
  • Added - Export competitors.
  • Fixed - Improved crawler.
  • Fixed - Rewrote installation procedure
27 Jan 2010
Version Rev 6
  • Added - dmoz.org search in competitors.
  • Fixed - problem with Virtuemart links.
  • Fixed - Small bugs.
07 Jan 2010
Version Rev 5
  • Added - Bulk page refresh.
  • Added - Bulk page restore.
  • Added - Site name in page title.
  • Added - Page size and page loading time.
20 Nov 2009
Version Rev 4
  • Added - New HTML DOM parser class.
  • Added - Support for PHP4.
18 Nov 2009
Version Rev 3
  • Added - Yahoo! sitemap verification code.
  • Added - Bing sitemap verification code.
  • Added - Delete all crawled pages function
  • Added - Subdomains for keywords search.
  • Fixed - Date in Sitemap creation.
22 Oct 2009
Version Rev 2
  • Added - Tehnorati rank in Competitors view.
  • Added - Canonicalization in the rsseo plugin.
  • Added - Google sitemap verification code.
  • Added - Custom 404 redirects.
  • Fixed - When crawling the second time all your previous data was erased.

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