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FWG SEO Booster

Subscription Starter Professional Agency Functional Joomla
Auto-generates clean URLs, Open Graph tags, JSON-LD structured data, and meta descriptions for every gallery and file. Your portfolio gets discovered in image search without manual SEO work.
FW Gallery Part of the FW Gallery product
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Add-on current version: 4.1.0 (Jun 9, 2026) Change history
Joomla 4.x 5.x 6.x
FWG SEO Booster - FW Gallery add-on
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What You Get

SEO URL Rewriting

SEO URL Rewriting

Clean paths like /portfolio/wildlife-photography-c123 replace ugly query strings. URL masks let you customize the pattern for files and categories separately.
JSON-LD Structured Data

JSON-LD Structured Data

Galleries emit ItemList schemas, individual files emit ImageObject schemas. Google uses these for rich image search results with upload dates and thumbnails.
Open Graph Social Tags

Open Graph Social Tags

og:url, og:image (300x200 thumbnail), og:title, og:description render on every gallery and file page. Facebook and LinkedIn preview cards look clean automatically.
Auto Meta Description

Auto Meta Description

Meta description fills from file or category descriptions, meta keywords extract from tags or title words longer than 3 characters. Manual overrides always respected.
Image Alt Text Masks

Image Alt Text Masks

Dynamic alt attribute generation using masks with {site}, {file}, {category} variables. Every image gets a descriptive alt tag without manual entry.
Dimensions in URL Path

Dimensions in URL Path

Image URLs can include dimensions as path segments (w300h200) for semantic sizing. Different gallery views get correctly sized images without query-string ugliness.
Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

Showcase photos, videos, and audio work in one creative portfolio you design, grow, and fully own.

FW Gallery

22 Add-ons 9 Services
Self-hosted creative portfolio for photographers, videographers, graphic designers, musicians, and mixed-media artists. Complete addon library covering image galleries, video files, audio playback, client proofing, front-end upload, SEO, and design templates. Your domain, your files, unlimited galleries.
Responsive Photo Gallery
Multi-level Galleries Hierarchy
Images Batch Upload
Watermark protection
Images rotate
Social share buttons
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FWG SEO Booster Changelog

Version 4.1.0 (09 Jun 2026)

New Features:
- Added new 'Top Tags' module (mod_fwg_top_tags) that displays your most popular tags as a weighted cloud, bulleted list, or inline list - Added tag cloud display mode to the Search module — visitors can now browse by tag directly from the search widget - Added per-tag SEO meta description field so each tag page can have its own custom meta description - Added tag filter option to the Latest Files module, enabling widgets like 'Latest Wedding Photos' scoped to a specific tag - Added SEO Booster image XML sitemap (Google Image Sitemap format) automatically linked from gallery pages - Added Photograph structured data (schema.org/Photograph) for single image pages when EXIF data is available, with configurable fields (camera, focal length, exposure, date, copyright, GPS, creator) - Added configurable tag URL mask in SEO Booster for clean SEF URLs on tag-filtered gallery pages (e.g. /tag/weddings) - Added smart gallery schema type — galleries with mixed media now emit MediaGallery instead of ImageGallery in structured data
Updates:
- Added ongetTopTags plugin event for tag ranking data providers - Added ongetSearchModes and ongetSearchModeData plugin events for extensible search module display modes - Added ongetModuleDataExtraSearch plugin event for tag-based filtering in modules - Added metadescr column to #__fwsg_tag table (auto-migrated on update) - Image sitemap served via com_ajax (index.php?option=com_ajax&plugin=seobooster&format=raw&layout=imagesitemap)
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed 'Load More' button showing an incorrect count when paginating category listings - Fixed category and file descriptions losing HTML formatting when saved from the WYSIWYG editor
## [8.2.2] - 2026-06-09 Adds Top Tags module, tag cloud search mode, Photograph schema, image sitemap, and EXIF/IPTC auto-tagging ### 🚀 New Features - Added new 'Top Tags' module (mod_fwg_top_tags) that displays your most popular tags as a weighted cloud, bulleted list, or inline list - Added tag cloud display mode to the Search module — visitors can now browse by tag directly from the search widget - Added per-tag SEO meta description field so each tag page can have its own custom meta description - Added tag filter option to the Latest Files module, enabling widgets like 'Latest Wedding Photos' scoped to a specific tag - Added SEO Booster image XML sitemap (Google Image Sitemap format) automatically linked from gallery pages - Added Photograph structured data (schema.org/Photograph) for single image pages when EXIF data is available, with configurable fields (camera, focal length, exposure, date, copyright, GPS, creator) - Added configurable tag URL mask in SEO Booster for clean SEF URLs on tag-filtered gallery pages (e.g. /tag/weddings) - Added smart gallery schema type — galleries with mixed media now emit MediaGallery instead of ImageGallery in structured data ### 🐛 Bug Fixes - Fixed 'Load More' button showing an incorrect count when paginating category listings - Fixed category and file descriptions losing HTML formatting when saved from the WYSIWYG editor ### ⚡ Improvements - EXIF GPS coordinates are now automatically pinned to the file location on upload (can be disabled in Meta plugin settings) - IPTC keywords are now automatically applied as tags on upload, with a configurable cap on how many keywords are imported (can be disabled in Meta plugin settings) - Raw EXIF and IPTC data is now exposed to other plugins via the ongetFileExtraFields event for custom integrations ### 🔧 Technical Changes - Added ongetTopTags plugin event for tag ranking data providers - Added ongetSearchModes and ongetSearchModeData plugin events for extensible search module display modes - Added ongetModuleDataExtraSearch plugin event for tag-based filtering in modules - Added metadescr column to #__fwsg_tag table (auto-migrated on update) - Image sitemap served via com_ajax (index.php?option=com_ajax&plugin=seobooster&format=raw&layout=imagesitemap)

Version 4.0.0 (21 Jun 2024)

Updates:
UIkit uk prefix in css classes was replaced to fwk, in scripts to UIkit class was added the fwk prefix to avoid conflicts with UIkit used in templates and others extensions

Version 3.1.1 (06 Nov 2023)

Updates:
Joomla! v.5.x compatibility

Version 3.1.0 (02 May 2023)

Updates:
Full admin design update

Version 3.0.2 (16 Jan 2023)

Bug Fixes:
fixed php 8 notices

Version 3.0.1 (14 Oct 2022)

Updates:
slightly changed the display of cards in the admin
Bug Fixes:
fixed displaying square thumbnails on one image view

Version 2.3.0 (08 Sep 2021)

Updates:
Major Joomla! 4 review Joomla! 4 router update

Version 2.2.1 (17 Jul 2021)

Updates:
Minor update to reduce impact from 3rd party developers to affect FWG SEO Booster rules.

Version 2.2.0 (10 May 2021)

New Features:
Full category hierarchy in file page URL added.
Updates:
Major language file structure rework in the main component compatibility release.

Version 2.1.0 (14 Apr 2021)

New Features:
File images now got perfect Search Engine Friendly links. GET parameters we used to have were hidden with a router.

Version 2.0.0 (23 Mar 2021)

New Features:
Full FW Gallery v 6.x compatibility. Major code review and refactoring to work with Joomla! 4 new architecture and libraries.

Version 1.2.0 (28 Jan 2021)

Updates:
If there is no menu items with FW Gallery layouts then a search will look for menu items with FWG Layout Anywhere modules to link search results to one of them.

Version 1.1.1 (21 Jan 2021)

Updates:
A slight update that refactors the links generation to pass all other parameters used on a page.

Version 1.1.0 (28 Oct 2020)

New Features:
Adds Meta Data section with description and keywords to files and categories. Stores file/category names and tags as meta keywords on save. Name is broken into separate words and those that are longer than 3 characters get stored in keyword field is empty. Stores file/category description as meta description on save. Added Google Structured Data parameter.
Updates:
Massive add-on naming review and cleanup. Context help and detailed parameter description with all language files update. Admin design update and cleanup.

Version 1.0.0 (14 Sep 2020)

New Features:
- Category URL mask - File URL mask - Category image name mask - File image name mask - Category image ALT tag mask - File image ALT tag mask

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