SEO Backpack 4.0.0 • OpenCart 4.0.x
07/20/2023
Initial release for OpenCart 4.x.

SEO Backpack 3.14 • OpenCart 3.0.x
08/30/2023

- Improvement: PHP 8 compatible (up to PHP 8.2)
- Improvement: Generate URL alias for Hebrew language
- Bug fix: Brand type in product schema
- Bug fix: Validate if category_id exist in full breadcrumbs
- Bug fix: Allow empty product description to generate product meta_description
- Bug fix: Rich snippet breadcrumb if products is not assigned to categories


SEO Backpack 3.13 • OpenCart 3.0.x
09/28/2021

- Improvement: Add a confirm for Start Fresh button on tab URLs & Linking
- Improvement: OpenCart 3.0.3.8 Compatibility
- Improvement: SEO Backpack settings are now cached to speed up the database query
- Improvement: Automatically set multi-language meta_config
- Bug fix: Homepage canonical
- Bug fix: Redirect active language URL protocol
- Bug fix: Fix the unicode replacement-characters in URL alias
- Bug fix: Custom alias on array URL params
- Bug fix: Empty manufacturer title
- Bug fix: H1 and H2 [site_name] shortcodes


SEO Backpack 3.12 • OpenCart 3.0.x
12/29/2020

- New feature: Hreflang sitemap feed
- Improvement: More route listed for noindex,follow
- Bug fix: Page where canonical enabled, hide the noindex
- Bug fix: Use default store language as hreflang x-default and missing sub-folder language prefix
- Bug fix: Unable to empty H1 and H2 input on edit product


SEO Backpack 3.11 • OpenCart 3.0.x
11/19/2020

- Improvement: Multi-language content title format
- Improvement: Custom URL alias performance
- Improvement: Hreflang x-default and remove from paginated pages
- Improvement: Custom URL alias Journal 3 compatibility
- Improvement: Update breadcrumb rich-snippet format
- Improvement: Sitemap feed index
- Improvement: Wildcard not found redirection
- Improvement: Add [attributes] shortcode to Product URL string format
- Improvement: Add [attributes] shortcode to Image Rename format
- Improvement: Option to auto-generate image name on add/edit product
- Bug fix: Restore title site setting on module uninstall
- Bug fix: Admin Custom URL Redirect tab content
- Bug fix: Multi-language url alias change language
- Bug fix: Category page hreflangs
- Bug fix: Escape special characters in 404 URLs logs
- Bug fix: Manufacturer meta title
- Bug fix: Sitemap feed SSL
- Bug fix: Custom alias checkout/cart not reload on product update
- Bug fix: Redirect to SEO URLs lost POST data
- Bug fix: Remove default canonical to homepage
- Bug fix: Product rich-snippet priceValidUntil date
- Bug fix: Misaligned license and notification
- Bug fix: Facebook opengraph status
- Bug fix: Cyrillic transliteration


SEO Backpack 3.10.2 • OpenCart 3.0.x
09/23/2020

- Improvement: OpenCart 3.0.3.6 compatibility
- Improvement: Sectioned feed as an alternative of all products feed
- Bug fix: H1 and H2 input on product edit
- Bug fix: Journal3 Auto-Links
- Bug fix: Category page canonical URLs
- Bug fix: Category page full breadcrumbs
- Bug fix: Breadcrumb rich snippet issue on empty breadcrumb list
- Bug fix: Folder prefix alias with custom URL
- Bug fix: New manufacturer advanced editor


SEO Backpack 3.10.1 • OpenCart 3.0.x
11/07/2019

- Bug fix: Fix language alias issue when default language prefix disabled
- Bug fix: Fix language alias not set correct language session
- Bug fix: Fix canonical url contain: limit, page, etc


SEO Backpack 3.10 • OpenCart 3.0.x
10/02/2019

- New feature: Language prefix alias
- New feature: Noindex meta-document
- New feature: Auto redirect URL to prefixed language
- Bug fix: Fixed an issue with language prefixes in the custom URLs
- Bug fix: Fixed an issue with different custom URLs for each language
- Bug fix: Always redirect to the SEO friendly URLs
- Bug fix: Sitemap feed image
- Bug fix: Homepage language prefix
- Bug fix: Multi-store setting


SEO Backpack 3.9.1 • OpenCart 3.0.x
07/16/2019

- New feature: Added an option to rename the additional images
- Bug fix:
- Fixed minor issue with the product description in the structured data


SEO Backpack 3.9 • OpenCart 3.0.x
06/17/2019

- New feature: Added an option to include the default language prefix to the URL
- Improvement: Added multilingual support for the meta title, description, and keywords
- Improvement: Added additional Schema tags
- Bug fix: Set default variable $product_info
- Bug fix: Fixed issue with clearing the detected missing pages in a multi-store setup
- Bug fix: Fixed minor issue with the sitemap generator


SEO Backpack 3.8.6 • OpenCart 3.0.x
02/13/2019

- Bug fix: PHP 7.2 error warning of non-countable variables
- Bug fix: html_entity_decode now explicitly uses UTF-8
- Improvement: Added functionality for always redirecting to the SEO friendly URLs
- Improvement: Added functionality 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 3.0.x
01/18/2019

- 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 recognition 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 a null record in the Image Names list


SEO Backpack 3.8.4 • OpenCart 3.0.x
08/20/2018

- 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 3.8.3 • OpenCart 3.0.x
06/26/2018

- 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 3.0.x
04/05/2018

- 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 3.6 • OpenCart 3.0.x
02/28/2018

- 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 3.5 • OpenCart 3.0.x
08/24/2017

- 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
08/10/2017

- 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 2.13 • OpenCart 2.0.1.x - OpenCart 2.3.x
09/28/2021

- Improvement: Add a confirm for Start Fresh button on tab URLs & Linking
- Improvement: SEO Backpack settings are now cached to speed up the database query
- Bug fix: Homepage canonical
- Bug fix: Empty manufacturer title


SEO Backpack 2.12 • OpenCart 2.0.1.x - OpenCart 2.3.x
12/29/2020

- Bug fix: Page where canonical enabled, hide the noindex
- Bug fix: Use default store language as hreflang x-default and missing sub-folder language prefix
- Bug fix: Category page breadcrumb rich-snippet
- Bug fix: Unable to empty H1 and H2 input on edit product


SEO Backpack 2.11 • OpenCart 2.0.1.x - OpenCart 2.3.x
11/19/2020

- Improvement: Multi-language content title format
- Improvement: Custom URL alias Journal 3 compatibility
- Improvement: Hreflang x-default and remove from paginated pages
- Improvement: Update breadcrumb rich-snippet format
- Improvement: Sitemap feed index
- Improvement: Wildcard not found redirection
- Improvement: Add [attributes] shortcode to Product URL string format
- Improvement: Add [attributes] shortcode to Image Rename format
- Improvement: Use default URL alias when multi-language URLs not-found
- Improvement: Option to auto-generate image name on add/edit product
- Bug fix: Restore title site setting on module uninstall
- Bug fix: Multi-language url alias change language
- Bug fix: Escape special characters in 404 URLs logs
- Bug fix: Sitemap feed SSL
- Bug fix: Custom alias checkout/cart not reload on product update
- Bug fix: Redirect to SEO URLs lost POST data
- Bug fix: Product rich-snippet priceValidUntil date
- Bug fix: Misaligned license and notification
- Bug fix: Facebook opengraph status
- Bug fix: Cyrillic transliteration


SEO Backpack 2.10.2 • OpenCart 2.0.1.x - OpenCart 2.3.x
09/23/2020

- Improvement: Sectioned feed as an alternative of all products feed
- Bug fix: Breadcrumb rich snippet issue on empty breadcrumb list


SEO Backpack 2.10.1 • OpenCart 2.0.1.x - OpenCart 2.3.x
11/07/2019

- Bug fix: Fix language alias issue when default language prefix disabled
- Bug fix: Fix language alias not set correct language session
- Bug fix: oc2x undefined _route_


SEO Backpack 2.10 • OpenCart 2.0.1.x - OpenCart 2.3.x
10/02/2019

- New feature: Language prefix alias
- New feature: Noindex meta-document
- New feature: Auto redirect URL to prefixed language
- Bug fix: Fixed an issue with different custom URLs for each language
- Bug fix: Always redirect to the SEO friendly URLs
- Bug fix: Sitemap feed image
- Bug fix: Homepage language prefix


SEO Backpack 2.9.1 • OpenCart 2.0.1.x - OpenCart 2.3.x
07/16/2019

- New feature: Added an option to rename the additional images
- Bug fix:
- Fixed minor issue with the product description in the structured data
- Bug fix:
- Fixed minor with the validation of the SEO keyword on product edit.


SEO Backpack 2.9 • OpenCart 2.0.1.x - OpenCart 2.3.x
06/17/2019

- New feature: Added an option to include the default language prefix to the URL
- Improvement: Added additional Schema tags
- Bug fix: 404 redirects base URL on multi-store
- Bug fix: Fixed issue with clearing the detected missing pages in a multi-store setup
- Bug fix: Fixed minor issue with the sitemap generator


SEO Backpack 2.8.6 • OpenCart 2.0.1.x - OpenCart 2.3.x
02/13/2019

- Bug fix: PHP 7.2 error warning of non-countable variables
- Bug fix: html_entity_decode now explicitly uses UTF-8
- Improvement: Added functionality for always redirecting to the SEO friendly URLs
- Improvement: Added functionality 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 2.8.5 • OpenCart 2.0.1.x - OpenCart 2.3.x
01/18/2019

- 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 recognition 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 a null record in the Image Names list


SEO Backpack 2.8.4 • OpenCart 2.0.1.x - OpenCart 2.3.x
08/20/2018

- New feature: Multi-store and multi-language sitemap feed
- Improvement: Apply multi-language for Custom URL redirects


SEO Backpack 2.8.3 • OpenCart 2.0.1.x - OpenCart 2.3.x
06/26/2018

- 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 2.8.2 • OpenCart 2.0.1.x - OpenCart 2.3.x
04/02/2018

- 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 2.0.1.x - OpenCart 2.3.x
03/23/2018

- 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 2.8 • OpenCart 2.0.1.x - OpenCart 2.3.x
02/23/2018

- 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 2.0.1.x - OpenCart 2.3.x
12/13/2017

- 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 2.0.1.x - OpenCart 2.3.x
10/20/2017

- 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 2.5 • OpenCart 2.0.1.x - OpenCart 2.3.x
08/24/2017

- 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 2.4 • OpenCart 2.0.1.x - OpenCart 2.3.x
07/27/2017

- 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.


SEO Backpack 2.3.1 • OpenCart 2.0.1.x - OpenCart 2.3.x
06/13/2017

- New feature: You can now start/stop the Search Engine Analytics data gathering. Until now, the analytics data was automatically collected whether you want it or not. However, since some customers reported that they do not wish to get this data and have other ways to track the bots coming to their stores, now this feature can be enabled/disabled from the admin panel.
- Improvement: When editing SEO URLs from the "Advanced Editor", the system automatically checks if the edited/new URL already exists in the database.
- Bug-fix: Minor design fixed in the admin panel


SEO Backpack 2.3 • OpenCart 2.0.1.x - OpenCart 2.3.x
06/05/2017

- New feature: Manufacturer SEO Data
- meta title, meta description and meta keywords. The fields have multi-lingual support
- New feature: The new SEO fields for the manufacturers can be edited from the Advanced Editor in SEO Backpack
- New feature: You can now use [manufacturer] short-code for the product SEO URL generation
- Improvement: Added 3 more checks when calculating the SEO Score
- Bug-fix: Fixed auto-link functionality where it was adding links to already existing links
- Bug-fix: Fixed filter by name in the Advanced Editor for the manufacturers
- Bug-fix: Fixed filter by meta keywords in the Advanced Editor for the products, information pages and categories


SEO Backpack 2.2 • OpenCart 2.0.1.x - OpenCart 2.3.x
04/19/2017

- New feature: Implemented new "Migrate" function, which will migrate your current SEO URLs (if you have such) to the new logic, introduced in SEO Backpack
- New feature: Added .htaccess file check in the SEO Score calculation
- New feature: Added robots.txt file check in the SEO Score calculation
- New feature: Added Chinese support (experimental)
- New feature: Added limit option for the filter in the 'Advanced Editor' page
- New feature: Added option to remove more than one auto-links at a time
- New feature: Added option to remove more than one custom URLs at a time
- Improvement: Removed image renamer check from the SEO Score calculation, since some of the clients already have their images renamed.
- Improvement: The product prices for the structured data are now formatted to show no more than 2 decimal digits
- Bug-fix: SEO Chart display issue is now fixed


SEO Backpack 2.1 • OpenCart 2.0.1.x - OpenCart 2.3.x
03/30/2017

- New feature: Added new tab, called "Advanced Editor". You can use this to edit all SEO fields (meta title, meta description, meta keywords, SEO keyword) right on the spot. There are also filters included in the page, which you can use to simplify the process
- New feature: Added [lang] short-code for the SEO URL generation. Now you can add "en", "fr", "de", "ru" or the code name of your language to the URL string of your products, categories, manufacturers and information pages
- New feature: Added ".html" string support in the SEO URLs for the products, categories, manufacturers and information pages
- Improvement: The database tables, which SEO Backpack needs, will now be created right after the "Install" button is clicked
- Improvement: The module now remembers the current opened tab in the module, so when you refresh the page you will be taken to the same place you were before the refresh action
- Improvement: Added checks for when the products are corrupted or are with missing names or descriptions
- Improvement: Modified the installation instructions file, which now includes information that you should not use this product alongside other SEO modules
- Improvement: Modified the installation instructions file, which now includes information about .htaccess and how you should set it up prior to the installation of the module
- Improvement: Small design changes in the admin panel
- Bug-fix: Fixed minor issue with the percentage calculation for the SEO Score
- Bug-fix: Added checks for the "Fix"/"Generate" buttons if the store does not have any information pages, manufacturers, categories or products


SEO Backpack 2.0.1 • OpenCart 2.0.1.x - OpenCart 2.3.x
03/23/2017

- Improvement: Added instructions for manual installation of the module
- Improvement: Added uninstallation instructions
- Improvement: Added upgrade instructions for the Extension Installer and manual upgrade
- Improvement: Decreased the max characters for SEO URL from 400 to 200, since some browsers may not be able to load that long URL
- Improvement: Added loader when the pagination is used in the Auto-Links view
- Improvement: Added loader when the pagination is used in the Custom URLs view
- Improvement: Added loader when the pagination is used in the Search Engine Analytics view
- Improvement: The module will not rename the image 'no_image.png' in order to avoid errors showing that the image does not exist, but was assigned to a product
- Improvement: Added instructions to temporary disable & enable the module in case of unexpected errors
- Improvement: Stripping tags and decoding the html characters for the description field in the structured data
- Bug-fix: Fixes for the generation of SEO URLs regarding unexpected/not supported characters by the browsers
- Bug-fix: Fix for the getSiteName() functionality if you are running multi-lingual installation on your store
- Bug-fix: Added `escape` function for the contents in meta title, description and keyword tags for the products
- Bug-fix: Added `escape` function for the contents in meta title, description and keyword tags for the categories
- Bug-fix: Added `escape` function for the contents in meta title, description and keyword tags for the information pages
- Bug-fix: Fixed issue with image renamer when it is showing that the image does not exist if it is located in the base of the 'image' folder
- Bug-fix: Added checks for categories, products and information pages generation of meta tags when the queries for that specific entity does not return any data (e.g. the product is not correctly saved, some of the data is missing or your table is corrupt)


SEO Backpack 2.0 • OpenCart 2.0.1.x - OpenCart 2.3.x
02/16/2017

- Initial release for OpenCart 2.0.1.x, 2.1.x, 2.2.x, 2.3.x, 3.0.x



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