The Weeblr Blasts: A Joomla SEO podcast

Hi all, I'm not very keen on end-of-year posts, but I do feel that this time it's worth looking back a bit, and more importantly, also looking forward. So here I go, 2025 and 2026 from my perspective as a Joomla SEO and content extensions developer.   Read the full blog post here or visit our blog for more episodes . Don't miss an episode: copy this link into your preferred podcast app: https...

Today, we're introducing 4Command . It complements Joomla's classical menu-based navigation system with a  command palette  and  keyboard shortcuts . the command palette lets you  search and run things fast  and  without knowing where they are keyboard shortcuts lets you  do things with 2 keystrokes  instead of 2 page loads 4Command adds shortcuts to Jo...

Hi all, I've been meaning to write about the concept of canonical for a while and this week, a comment at the end of a support ticket finally prompted me to do so. The thing is, canonical is used (mostly) in two different ways and they seem to contradict each other: a page is canonical (or not) a page has a canonical tag The confusing part is that: when a page has a canonical tag , it's usually be...

Google just had not one but two official algorithm updates, and then started to apply manual penalties to a lot of sites the next day. Also, OpenAI changes their pricing model for accessing their API, to a pre-paid credit system. And finally we just released updates for 4AI, 4SEO and 4SEF!       Read the full blog post here or visit our blog for more episodes . Don't miss an episode...

4AI version 4.0 is released today and it can now generate and modify images ! Learn how it works and what you can do with it in this episode. Full release notes are here and we now have a dedicated 4AI image creation/modification documentation page .     Read the full blog post here or visit our blog for more episodes . Don't miss an episode: copy this link into your preferred podcast ap...

  A quick post to keep you updated on what's happening both in and outside of the Joomla World and what's the outlook for 2024 here at Weeblr! Links to mentioned news: - Carlos Camara just released a book with everything you need to know about developing Joomla 5 extensions - Full video on how to update your Joomla 4 site to Joomla 5 by Aleksej Khoroshevskij   Read the full blog post her...

Being a developer and not a business person, and coming from a history of free of charge extensions, I've always been reluctant to increase prices. But something's gotta give, and from today I'm applying the new pricing scheme which debuted with 4AI, our Joomla AI-powered assistant a few months back. 4SEO, 4SEF, and 4Podcast now also have 2 subscriptions each: Regular has updates and support for 3...

I believe chat-like interfaces such as ChatGPT are a good fit for many use cases but  not the best for all  -  and I'm not the only one to think that  by the way. And so here are the guiding principles for designing 4AI, the new Joomla assistant that we launched a couple of weeks ago at JoomlaDay Netherlands: Integrate directly with Joomla (3&4) where it makes sense to use...

This episode is about a pressing issue for many Joomla 3 website owners who use either of the JoomSEF or MijoSEF SEF URLs extensions. As neither have a Joomla 4 version, upgrading to Joomla 4 means losing: SEF URLs, especially custom onesc custom page titles and meta description custom redirects Losing all SEF URLs is particularly catastrophic as it means losing all rankings in Google and other se...

I like podcasts, so much that we made 4Podcast to help you run your own podcast(s) using just your Joomla website. Most of the podcasts I listen to are tech and SEO oriented, so I figured it would be a good idea to share them here. While only one is Joomla-specific, they certainly explore topics that most Joomla website developers and owners should find of interest. Find all the podcasts details o...

We've been busy over the last couple of months adding several new features to 4SEO to make it both easier to use and extend its Search Engines Optimization capabilities to help you get more traffic. Let's go over 4SEO version 4.5.0 main new features and changes. Useful links :  4SEF, All-in-one SEO extension for Joomla 3&4 4SEO Documentation Read the full blog post here or visit our blog...

This is the day. After a long, much longer than I hoped,  4SEF beta testing period , we're officially releasing today  4SEF, our latest SEF URLs for Joomla 3 and 4 extension .  But that's not all, today is double-released day: 4Podcast lets you very simply run a fully featured podcast with only standard Joomla categories, articles and a dedicated custom field. It's released today at...

We just had a support question regarding how to evaluate and use  4SEO real Core Web Vitals  (CWV) measurement, and after replying to it, I thought this might be a good topic to talk about, again. The question was similar to:  4SEO  reports a bad Core Web Vitals score for many pages but common online speed test tools give me a perfect score. What's going on here? There's still...

A quick round-up of the two major features added to 4SEO over the summer: generalized usage of Joomla custom fields   a full integration with Google Search Console   Read the full blog post here or visit our blog for more episodes . Don't miss an episode: copy this link into your preferred podcast app: https://weeblr.com/blog/feed/rss/?wb4a=1  

Google has retired one of their authorization methods to access Google Analytics data, and so sh404SEF will soon not be able anymore to display traffic information in your site admin. Google Analytics data collection will keep working as before, but you'll need to visit Google own website to see traffic information.   Read the full blog post here or visit our blog for more episodes . Don't mi...

As of today, we are discontinuing wbAMP, listen to this episode to learn why, and what will happen next.   Read the full blog post here or visit our blog for more episodes . Don't miss an episode: copy this link into your preferred podcast app: https://weeblr.com/blog/feed/rss/?wb4a=1  

We're starting the "public" beta testing of 4SEF , our latest SEF URLs extension for Joomla 3 & 4. 4SEF focuses on just SEF URLs and has a goal to produce the same SEF URLs as sh404SEF as possible. It can import custom SEF URLS from sh404SEF database tables. 4SEO, our all-in-one SEO extension , can now also import meta data and redirects from sh404SEF. Useful links: 4SEF import from sh404SEF d...

We're starting a "private" beta testing of 4SEF , our latest SEF URLs extension for Joomla 3 & 4. 4SEF is a Joomla 3 and Joomla 4 extension that offers SEF URLs creation and customization. 4SEF is not ready for primetime just yet. Today we are opening a private beta testing phase. This means I'm asking for a (small) group of testers to contact us so that they can start working with, testi...

We just released 4Video, a high-performance Joomla 3 & 4 module to embed YouTube and Vimeo videos in your website. 4Video is designed to give perfect Core Web Vitals score, with zero Cumulative Layout Shift. It also lets you add an active table content next to the video to click through to specific times in the video. 4Video is and will stay free of charge. Read the documentation and install i...

Joomla 4 was released officially last week. A great event for the Joomla community and we are all thrilled to start using it over the next months. However, Joomla 4 is not compatible with Joomla 3 . Many, if not all extensions and templates must be modified or sometimes rewritten from scratch to work on Joomla 4. This is an important factor to take into account before upgrading any Joomla 3 site t...