What's new in the Joomla Crusco Author Bio Box extension

What's new

The HTML Crusco team is always looking for new ideas and ways to improve Crusco Author Bio Box. Here are some of the new features and improvements we have made to the extension, thanks in part to feedback from our customers.

v1.5.0

Added

• Added a dedicated plugin to integrate Author Bio data in the knowledge graph gerated by the Google Structured Data extension by Tassos.
  Thanks @Rollmodl

Changed

• Now the Author Bio JSON-LD integration support these schema.org types: Article, BlogPosting, NewsArticle, TechArticle, Book, Recipe.

v1.4.1

Fixed

• Fixed a PHP warning regarding the latest update.

Changed

• Code optimization for integration with Schema.org.

v1.4.0

Added

• Schemaorg plugin: Converts biography box information into JSON-LD structured data to enrich the articles' Knowledge Graph, improving SEO and GEO. To use this feature, the Joomla 5 (or higher) System - Schema.org core plugin must be enabled, and the author bio must be displayed via Content - Crusco Author Bio Box.

• New AI Crawler section: Enables Micro-Context for LLM (used in Agentic Web Design) to help scraping language models (LLMs) identify the author bio as an E-E-A-T source (Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, Trustworthiness).

• Added rel="me" attribute value for the author's website and social media links.

v1.3.2

Fixed

• Fixed author bio box display issues in content plugin for T4-based templates.

v1.3.1

Fixed

• Fixed an issue when the Joomla “System - Language Filter” plugin is disabled.

v1.2.0

Added

• Joomla! 6 compatible

Fixed

• Issues with loading some translated texts.

v1.1.0

Added

• Option in the module to also display the author of the category in blog and list layouts.

Changed

• Some translation strings.
• Improved code for author biography box rendering.

v1.0.1

Added

• New social media: ArtStation, Mastodon, Substack.