Hi Brendan,
Thanks a lot for taking the time to test Route 66 v2 and share such detailed feedback — that’s really helpful.
You’re absolutely right about the menu item alias not being reflected in the in-form SEO tab. It’s currently being ignored there, although in the Crawled Pages view it works as expected since the data comes directly from the crawled page. We’ll be working on a fix for this.
The canonical field is designed to give you full control when you want to manually override the auto-generated canonical (from Route 66 or any other extension).
As for the title and description fields:
- In Route 66 v2 we introduced the crawler, which means these fields are available for any page on the site, not just Joomla articles.
- They also allow centralized editing of metadata, which can be much easier than digging into Joomla’s native article and menu item options. The Joomla UI for this isn’t very intuitive, especially for non-experts.
Regarding the Yoast checks: unfortunately, we don’t have any control over how their engine evaluates the content. We just pass the page data through. In many cases, their recommendations should be taken as guidelines rather than strict rules — it’s not always worth restructuring your content just to turn everything green.
For documentation: we’ve published a full set of docs for the new version here:
👉 Route 66 Documentation
Most of the workflows are covered, but I agree that inline help text or a contextual help button in the Joomla toolbar could be very useful. That’s something we’ll consider adding in a future update. If you have specific spots where help text would have been especially useful, please let me know.
Thanks again for your constructive feedback. Please do keep sharing any other issues or improvements you notice — it really helps us refine Route 66 further.
Best regards,
Lefteris
