SEO Backpack 3.8.6 (OpenCart 3.x.)

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– Bug fix: PHP 7.2 error warning of non countable variables

– Bug fix: html_entity_decode now explicitly uses UTF-8

– Improvement: Added functionaliry for always redirecting to the SEO friendly URLs

– Improvement: Added functionaliry for creating heading tags for the product pages

– Improvement: Changes to the Advanced editor UI

– Improvement: Added option for disabling the transliteration for Cyrillic URLs

SEO Backpack 2.8.6 (OpenCart 2.x.)

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– Bug fix: PHP 7.2 error warning of non countable variables

– Bug fix: html_entity_decode now explicitly uses UTF-8

– Improvement: Added functionaliry for always redirecting to the SEO friendly URLs

– Improvement: Added functionaliry for creating heading tags for the product pages

– Improvement: Changes to the Advanced editor UI

– Improvement: Added option for disabling the transliteration for Cyrillic URLs

SEO Backpack 3.8.5 (OpenCart 3.x.)

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– Improvement: Add sitemap feed tab setting

– Improvement: Escape feed special characters

– Improvement: Add button to remove URLS links with no items

– Improvement: Detect not found of non url-alias for product, category, manufacturer and information

– Improvement: 404 redirect url recognation with or without url alias

– Improvement: Sanitize url alias creation from special characters

– Bug fix: Canonical URLs missing in information and home page

– Bug fix: Include language prefix in the hreflang links if option language prefixes to URLs is enabled

– Bug fix: Change language on custom url-alias get not found page

– Bug fix: Fix empty multi-language Custom URL after update

– Bug fix: Fix modification add position

– Bug fix: Force browser to use new assets (css & js)

– Bug fix: Extra slash on image path when Generate Image Names

– Bug fix: Products with no images have null record in Image Names list

SEO Backpack 2.8.5 (OpenCart 2.x.)

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– Improvement: Add sitemap feed tab setting

– Improvement: Escape feed special characters

– Improvement: Add button to remove URLS links with no items

– Improvement: Detect not found of non url-alias for product, category, manufacturer and information

– Improvement: 404 redirect url recognation with or without url alias

– Improvement: Sanitize url alias creation from special characters

– Bug fix: Include language prefix in the hreflang links if option language prefixes to URLs is enabled

– Bug fix: Change language on custom url-alias get not found page

– Bug fix: Change language on non url-alias redirect to homepage

– Bug fix: Fix empty multi-language Custom URL after update

– Bug fix: Force browser to use new assets (css & js)

– Bug fix: Extra slash on image path when Generate Image Names

– Bug fix: Products with no images have null record in Image Names list

SEO Backpack 3.8.4 (OpenCart 3.x.)

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– New feature: Multi-store and multi-language sitemap feed

– Improvement: Apply multi-store and multi-language for Custom URL redirects

– Improvement: Apply multi-store for Content Auto-Links

– Improvement: Apply multi-store for Search Engine Analytics

– Improvement: Apply multi-store for 404 Manager

– Bug fix: Page crawler select current store as default

– Bug fix: Page crawler template

SEO Backpack 2.8.4 (OpenCart 2.x.)

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– New feature: Multi-store and multi-language sitemap feed

– Improvement: Apply multi-language for Custom URL redirects

SEO Backpack 2.8.3 / SEO Backpack 3.8.3 (OpenCart 2.x / OpenCart 3.x)

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– Improvement: The random string suffix to a slug, when the currently created URL already exists, is now refactored. Instead of 5-6 random numbers with no meaning, the suffix now includes the product/category/information/manufacturer ID and the language ID

– Improvement: The Page Crawler now works even on stores where there is an SSL certificate but it is not set up correctly

– Improvement: Better explanation for the detected URLs and their possible redirects

– Bug fix: Price field not being detected correctly if it has commas (For exampe: 9,999.25)

– Bug fix: Detected pages filter – the date filter now works

– Bug fix: Improved trimming of the HTML tags in the automatic Meta Description generation

– Bug fix: The headings counter not being displayed correctly in the Page Crawler (OpenCart 3.x)

– Bug fix: The product image not being displayed correctly in the structured data code (OpenCart 3.x)

– Bug fix: Fix language switching bug, when the experimental option “language folder string in the URL” is enabled (OpenCart 2.0.x-2.3.x)

– Bug fix: Small hooking issue for the H1 and H2 tag editing feature (OpenCart 2.0-2.2.x)

– Bug fix: Minor improvements to the SQL queries

SEO Backpack 3.8.2 (OpenCart 3.x.)

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– New feature: Unify URLs – If you enable this option, the links for your products and categories will be unified across all pages, regardless if you are on the home page, the category page or any other page. This will eliminate the duplicate content caused by the small changes in the URLs, which are generated by OpenCart.

– New feature: Full breadcrumbs in the product pages – If you enable this option, the breadcrumbs in the product pages will include the full path to the product (home page, main category, subcategory, current product).

– New feature: Full breadcrumbs in the cateory pages – If you enable this option, the breadcrumbs in the category pages will include the full path to the category (home page, main category, subcategory, current category).

– New feature: Added filter in ‘404 Detected Pages’ report

– New feature: Added filter in the ‘404 Redirects’ list

– New feature: Added language folder prefixes for the SEO URLs. For example: https://www.yoursite.com/de/iphone5. The feature can be managed from Admin Panel -> Extensions -> SEO Backpack -> URLs & Linking -> Advanced Settings

– New feature: Added automatic SEO URL generation for products. Can be managed from Admin Panel -> Extensions -> SEO Backpack -> URLs & Linking -> Advanced Settings

– New feature: Added automatic SEO URL generation for categories. Can be managed from Admin Panel -> Extensions -> SEO Backpack -> URLs & Linking -> Advanced Settings

– New feature: Added automatic SEO URL generation for manufacturers. Can be managed from Admin Panel -> Extensions -> SEO Backpack -> URLs & Linking -> Advanced Settings

– New feature: Added automatic SEO URL generation for information pages. Can be managed from Admin Panel -> Extensions -> SEO Backpack -> URLs & Linking -> Advanced Settings

– New feature: The home page `index.php?route=common/home` is now replaced with “”. It works with multi-lingual stores as well.

– Improvement: Performance improvements

– Bug fix: Fixed incorrect variable usage in the 404 detection tool

– Bug fix: Various small bug fixes

SEO Backpack 2.8.2 (OpenCart 2.x.)

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– New feature: The home page `index.php?route=common/home` is now replaced with “”. It works with multi-lingual stores as well.

– Bug fix: Fixed the custom URL redirect tool. It had some minor issues if the given page had sorting or pagination. Now this is resolved.

SEO Backpack 2.8.1 (OpenCart 2.x.)

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– Bug fix: Fixed issue `subquery returns more than 1 row` in the admin panel

– Bug fix: Fixed incorrect variable usage in the 404 detection tool

SEO Backpack 3.6 (OpenCart 3.x.)

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– New feature: Added structured data breadcrumbs for the category pages

– New feature: Added Facebook App ID as a meta property tag

– Improvement: Changes in the Advanced Editor for better usability

– Improvement: Changed sorting in the Advanced Editor (Showing the enabled items first, then sorting them alphabetically)

– Improvement: Removed validation for the editable fields in the Advanced Editor

– Improvement: Now correctly detecting Bingbot

– Improvement: Improved 404 redirection tool

– Improvement: URL transliteration support for Greek characters

– Improvement: URL transliteration support for Bulgarian characters

– Improvement: Added support for non-ASCII characters in the ‘Page Crawler’

– Improvement: The Crawler now has better support for stores with SSL certificates

– Improvement: Better PHP 7.x support

– Bug fix: Now showing correct status if the module is enabled or not in Extensiv ons > Modules

– Bug fix: Now correctly escaping special characters in the 404 Detection/Redirection tools

– Bug fix: Fixed ‘Add redirect’ form not working with special characters in the 404 redirection tool

– Bug fix: Now correctly escaping the & character

– Bug fix: Now correctly escaping ‘ and ” characters in the Advanced Editor

– Bug fix: Minor fixes & code refactoring

SEO Backpack 2.8 (OpenCart 2.x.)

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– New feature: Added structured data breadcrumbs for the category pages

– Improvement: Changes in the Advanced Editor for better usability

– Improvement: Changed sorting in the Advanced Editor (Showing the enabled items first, then sorting them alphabetically)

– Improvement: Removed validation for the editable fields in the Advanced Editor

– Improvement: Now correctly detecting Bingbot

– Improvement: Improved 404 redirection tool

– Bug fix: Now correctly escaping special characters in the 404 Detection/Redirection tools

– Bug fix: Fixed ‘Add redirect’ form not working with special characters in the 404 redirection tool

– Bug fix: feed/google_base is now using the multilingual Meta Description settings

– Bug fix: Now correctly escaping the & character

– Bug fix: Now correctly escaping ‘ and ” characters in the Advanced Editor

– Bug fix: Minor fixes & code refactoring

SEO Backpack 2.7 (OpenCart 2.x.)

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– New feature: Added language folder prefixes for the SEO URLs. For example: https://www.yoursite.com/de/iphone5. The feature can be managed from Admin Panel -> Extensions -> SEO Backpack -> URLs & Linking -> Advanced Settings

– New feature: Added automatic SEO URL generation for products. Can be managed from Admin Panel -> Extensions -> SEO Backpack -> URLs & Linking -> Advanced Settings

– New feature: Added automatic SEO URL generation for categories

– New feature: Added automatic SEO URL generation for manufacturers

– New feature: Added automatic SEO URL generation for information pages

– New feature: Added Facebook App ID as a meta property tag

– New feature: Added filter in ‘404 Detected Pages’ report

– New feature: Added filter in the ‘404 Redirects’ list

– Improvement: Added support for non-ASCII characters in the ‘Page Crawler’

– Improvement: Multi-lingual support for H1 and H2 tags editing for the product page

– Improvement: URL transliteration support for Greek characters

– Improvement: URL transliteration support for Bulgarian characters

– Bug fix: Fixed incorrect query, used for managing the manufacturer’s data

– Bug fix: Fixed issues in the ‘Advanced Editor’ if the fields contain single or double quotes

– Bug fix: Compatibility fixes with other third-party modules

– Bug fix: Minor fixes & code refactoring

SEO Backpack 2.6 (OpenCart 2.x.)

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– New feature: Unify URLs – If you enable this option, the links for your products and categories will be unified across all pages, regardless if you are on the home page, the category page or any other page. This will eliminate the duplicate content caused by the small changes in the URLs, which are generated by OpenCart.

– New feature: Full breadcrumbs in the product pages – If you enable this option, the breadcrumbs in the product pages will include the full path to the product (home page, main category, subcategory, current product).

– New feature: If you enable this option, the breadcrumbs in the category pages will include the full path to the product (home page, main category, subcategory, current category).

– New feature: Clear the list – This feature will truncate the list with detected “404” pages

– Improvement: Better PHP 7.x support

– Improvement: The Crawler now has better support for stores with SSL certificates

– Improvement: Unicode support for the autolinks

– Improvement: Added URL transliteration support for over 70 characters, such as “ɓ, ć, ď, è, ġ, ĥ, ij, ì, ķ, ĺ, ʼn, ſ, ù, ŷ, ẃ, ź” and many more

– Bug fix: Fixes for the Add/Edit methods in the Manufacturers

SEO BackPack 3.5 (OpenCart 3.0.x.) / SEO Backpack 2.5 (OpenCart 2.x.)

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– New feature: Added support for Arabic characters

– Improvement: Added support for special characters, like ấ, ở, ễ and ậ

– Bug fix: Fix warning that the slug already exists when using the Advanced Editor

– Bug fix: Fixed error about missing language model file when installing the module for the first time

– Bug fix: Minor improvements on the SEO URL generation tool

SEO BackPack 3.4 (OpenCart 3.0.x.)

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– Initial release of the product for OpenCart 3.0.x. 

– From this version on, all 2.x. and 3.x. versions of SEO Backpack will be compatible with OpenCart 2.x and OpenCart 3.x. respectively

SEO Backpack 2.4 (OpenCart 2.x.)

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– New feature: 404 Detector > Detects all 404 pages visited by your customers.

– New feature: 404 Redirect > Allows you to redirect the 404 pages discovered from the Detector to existing pages in your store. Both features are combined under the “404 Manager” tab.

– New feature: Canonical URL Support for home page, products, categories, information pages, manufacturers and the special page.

– New feature: Added H1 tag support for the products. Available for editing from the product edit form and from the “Advanced Editor” in SEO Backpack.

– New feature: Added H2 tag support for the products. Available for editing from the product edit form and from the “Advanced Editor” in SEO Backpack.

– New feature: Added auto-link support for the category description in the category pages. 

– New feature: You can use the [id] short-tag in the URL builder for the product SEO URLs.

– Improvement: Added support for LoginToSeePrice.

– Improvement: Better layout for the product listing in the “Advanced Editor” tab in SEO Backpack.

– Improvement: Added install script for better compatibility with OpenCart’s OCMOD functionality.

– Bug fix: Added compatibility fix for the manufacturer page title in the front store.

– Bug fix: Correctly detecting if the “file_get_contents” functin is enabled on your server.

– Bug fix: Fixed issue if the an information page has no title when generating SEO URLs.

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