Changelog

3.7.2

• NEW Custom taxonomy for automatic schemas (eg: Brand for product schema) – PRO
• NEW Add image caption and title to XML Image Sitemaps
• NEW Image sitemaps now support shortcodes (useful with DIVI page builder)
• NEW Add %%post_content%% dynamic variable to get the post content / product description
• NEW ‘seopress_titles_product_cat’ hook to filter product categories using %%wc_single_cat%%
• NEW ‘seopress_titles_product_tag’ hook to filter product categories using %%wc_single_tag%%
• NEW ‘seopress_titles_cat’ hook to filter product categories using %%post_category%%
• NEW ‘seopress_titles_tag’ hook to filter product tags using %%post_tag%%
• INFO Improve schemas rendering to avoid “}” missing error in Google Search Console
• FIX UI – Hide Redirections tab in SEO > Tools if SEOPress PRO is not enabled
• FIX new meta robots
• FIX Call to undefined function is_product() in /wp-seopress-pro/inc/functions/options-woocommerce.php:8

3.7.1

• NEW JobPosting schema (PRO)
• NEW ‘seopress_metabox_seo_tabs’ hook to filter tabs in SEO metabox
• NEW ‘seopress_schemas_auto_job_html’ hook to filter JobPosting global schema
• NEW ‘seopress_schemas_job_html’ hook to filter JobPosting manual schema
• NEW ‘seopress_sitemaps_max_posts_per_sitemap’ hook to filter max posts per paginated sitemap
• INFO GA: we now follow all external links, even if you have not defined an empty target attribute
• INFO Performance optimization
• INFO Improving security
• INFO Improving the user experience

3.7

• NEW Import metadata from CSV file: title, meta description, meta robots and more… (SEO > Tools > Data) – PRO
• NEW Support the new Google meta robots (max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1), ON by default
• INFO Improve translations
• FIX %%current_pagination%% for first page
• FIX robots.txt with Elementor didn’t load in specific configurations
• FIX Outbound links count in content analysis
• FIX Last separator for breadcrumbs with “seopress_pro_breadcrumbs_crumbs” hook

3.6.5

• NEW XML Author sitemap
• NEW ‘seopress_schemas_organization_html’ hook to filter Organization schema
• NEW ‘seopress_remove_feature_titles’ hook to remove Titles and metas block in SEO > Dashboard
• NEW ‘seopress_remove_feature_xml_sitemap’ hook to remove Titles and metas block in SEO > Dashboard
• NEW ‘seopress_remove_feature_social’ hook to remove Social block in SEO > Dashboard
• NEW ‘seopress_remove_feature_google_analytics’ hook to remove Google Analytics block in SEO > Dashboard
• NEW ‘seopress_remove_feature_advanced’ hook to remove Advanced block in SEO > Dashboard
• NEW ‘seopress_remove_feature_woocommerce’ hook to remove WooCommerce block in SEO > Dashboard
• NEW ‘seopress_remove_feature_edd’ hook to remove Easy Digital Downloads block in SEO > Dashboard
• NEW ‘seopress_remove_feature_local_business’ hook to remove Local Business block in SEO > Dashboard
• NEW ‘seopress_remove_feature_dublin_core’ hook to remove Dublin Core block in SEO > Dashboard
• NEW ‘seopress_remove_feature_breadcrumbs’ hook to remove Breadcrumbs block in SEO > Dashboard
• NEW ‘seopress_remove_feature_schemas’ hook to remove Schemas block in SEO > Dashboard
• NEW ‘seopress_remove_feature_page_speed’ hook to remove Page Speed block in SEO > Dashboard
• NEW ‘seopress_remove_feature_robots’ hook to remove Robots block in SEO > Dashboard
• NEW ‘seopress_remove_feature_news’ hook to remove News block in SEO > Dashboard
• NEW ‘seopress_remove_feature_redirects’ hook to remove Redirects block in SEO > Dashboard
• NEW ‘seopress_remove_feature_bot’ hook to remove Bot (broken links) block in SEO > Dashboard
• NEW ‘seopress_remove_feature_backlinks’ hook to remove Backlinks block in SEO > Dashboard
• NEW ‘seopress_remove_feature_rewrite’ hook to remove Rewrite block in SEO > Dashboard
• NEW ‘seopress_remove_feature_htaccess’ hook to remove htaccess block in SEO > Dashboard
• NEW ‘seopress_remove_feature_rss’ hook to remove RSS block in SEO > Dashboard
• NEW ‘seopress_remove_feature_tools’ hook to remove Tools (Import / Export) block in SEO > Dashboard
• NEW ‘seopress_remove_feature_license’ hook to remove License block in SEO > Dashboard
• INFO Aria-label attribute in breadcrumbs is now translatable
• INFO %%current_pagination%% is now set to 1 by default
• FIX ‘seopress_sitemaps_html_pages_query’ hook to include $cpt_key parameter
• FIX bounce rate with custom dimensions
• FIX Hierarchical post types in HTML sitemap
• FIX CSS bug in SEO dashboard with WordPress 5.2.3

3.6.4

• NEW Add ‘seopress_bot_query’ hook to filter the broken links checker query
• INFO Relevanssi users: posts marked as noindex are no longer indexed by default (Relevanssi 4.3.2 required)
• INFO Updated Chart JS library
• FIX primary category in XML sitemaps
• FIX meta robots / canonical tags for static blog page
• FIX Breadcrumbs with before / after HTML hooks (thanks to @wpchannel)

3.6.3

• INFO Improve code quality
• INFO Improve security
• FIX Notice: Undefined index: seopress_backlinks_majestic_key
• FIX Notice: Undefined index: seopress_robots_file
• FIX Notice: Undefined index: seopress_rss_before_html
• FIX Notice: Undefined index: seopress_rss_after_html
• FIX Saving FAQ manual schema
• FIX Saving Service description manual schema
• FIX Saving Recipe ingredients manual schema
• FIX Saving Recipe instructions manual schema
• FIX Pixels counter color
• FIX Some CSS
• FIX map_meta_cap was called incorrectly. The post type seopress_404 is not registered, so it may not be reliable to check the capability “edit_post” against a post of that type.
• FIX Undefined variable in installation wizard

3.6.2.1

• FIX Video duration for manual edit (automatic schema)
• FIX Notice: Undefined variable: seopress_excerpt_length
• FIX undefined ‘post_author’ variable if no posts in author archive
• FIX %%post_author%% and %%author_bio%% variables
• FIX Redirections with HTML entities

3.6.2

• NEW Add custom manual / automatic schema with dynamic variables (PRO)
• NEW Add custom tracking code after opening body tag like Google Tag Manager 🍾
• NEW Add meta name “thumbnail” option in SEO > Titles and metas > Single post types to display post thumbnail in Google Custom Search (eg: https://wordpress.org/search/seopress)
• NEW Add FAQ global schema (PRO)
• NEW Add ‘keywords’ for Recipe schema (PRO)
• NEW Add ‘recipeCuisine’ for Recipe schema (PRO)
• NEW Add ‘recipeIngredient’ for Recipe schema (PRO)
• NEW Add ‘recipeInstructions’ for Recipe schema (PRO)
• NEW Add ‘BlogPosting’ for Article schema (PRO)
• NEW ‘seopress_schemas_auto_faq_html’ hook to filter FAQ global schema
• NEW ‘seopress_sitemaps_single_img’ hook to add custom fields to XML image sitemaps
• NEW ‘seopress_sitemaps_html_pages_depth_query’ hook to filter depth for hierarchical contents in HTML sitemap
• NEW ‘seopress_custom_body_tracking’ hook to filter custom body tracking
• NEW ‘seopress_titles_template_variables_array’ && ‘seopress_titles_template_replace_array’ hook to filter dynamic variables for title tag / meta description
• NEW Add keywords density to content analysis to help you avoid keyword stuffing
• NEW Add outbound links to content analysis (in links tab)
• INFO WP-Rocket now automatically detect our XML sitemaps (WP-Rocket 3.3.7 required)
• INFO Add quick button separator for title fields
• INFO You can now disable BOT / Broken links checker from the SEO dashboard (admin bar, menu page and post type)
• INFO Improve content analysis by removing empty target keywords
• INFO Remove Alexa Rank feature (the API is no longer provided for free by Amazon)
• INFO Translate Google Analytics UA option field with WPML / Polylang
• INFO Automatic schemas tab is now the default one in Structured Data Types metabox
• INFO Checks if the redirects feature is active before importing redirects
• FIX Some translation strings / localize strings
• FIX wpml-config.xml file, WPML / Polylang users can now translate Archives title and meta description (eg: shop page)
• FIX Recipe schema: cooking time / calories / yield / total time
• FIX Custom tracking code in head
• FIX Remove Website schema if nositelinkssearchbox option is ON

3.6.1.1

• FIX s(…).tabs is not a function in seopress-cookies.min.js

3.6.1

• INFO PHP 5.6 is now the minimum requirement
• INFO Small performance improvements
• INFO Refactoring some JS files (drastic weight reduction)
• INFO Support %%title%% dynamic variable (alias of %%post_title%%’) in title / meta description
• INFO Remove query strings for social sharing and image XML sitemaps
• FIX Canonical placeholder value in SEO metabox for terms taxonomy
• FIX Undefined variable: html
• FIX Breadcrumbs shortcode
• FIX Fatal error SEOPRESS_Language_Packs
• FIX Notice array to string conversion
• FIX Saving image fields for automatic schemas

3.6

• NEW Using the pixel to calculate the length of title / meta description (beta)
• NEW All translations are now maintained on TranslationsPress
• NEW Remove static Shop page defined in WooCommerce settings from Breadcrumbs (PRO)
• NEW Google Ads (SEO > Google Analytics > Tracking tab)
• NEW Import redirects from Yoast Premium (PRO)
• NEW Service schema (automatic and manual – PRO)
• NEW “seopress_metaboxe_term_seo_priority” hook to filter SEO metabox priority in terms taxonomy
• NEW “seopress_gtag_ua” hook to filter Google UA tag + features
• NEW “seopress_gtag_ads” hook to filter Google Ads tag
• NEW “seopress_pro_breadcrumbs_crumbs” hook to filter crumbs for breadcrumbs
• NEW “seopress_sitemaps_html_cpt” hook to filter post types for HTML sitemap
• NEW Add ‘seopress_schemas_auto_service_html’ hook to filter automatic service schema (PRO)
• INFO Refactoring broken links checker feature (PRO)
• INFO Remove stop words feature
• INFO JSON-LD breadcrumbs is now automatically called in the head of your document (if enabled). No longer need to manually add the function in your theme.
• INFO Improve UI for License page / displaying license error
• INFO Improve UI for Tools page
• INFO Improve CSS for Schemas
• INFO Improve SEO metabox UI for term taxonomy
• INFO Improve Content Analysis metabox UI
• INFO Removal of the version number in the header of the SEO dashboard (too confusing)
• INFO Significant performance improvement for Google Analytics widget in Dashboard
• INFO Improve select values for automatic schemas
• INFO Better Admin Columns PRO integration (thanks Stefan from ACPRO team @admincolumns)
• INFO Minify some JS files to slightly improve performance
• INFO Remove 100 CSS lines in seopress-pro.css
• FIX Social meta tags for Shop Page (WooCommerce)
• FIX Some translation strings
• FIX Add a check to avoid displaying empty automatic schemas
• FIX White Label: Remove SEOPress admin header
• FIX SEO metabox position for term taxonomy is now using the setting defined in SEO > Advanced
• FIX Undefined variable: article_img_height for article schema
• FIX Undefined variable: article_img_width for article schema
• FIX Redirections category filtering in backend
• FIX JS error ctx is not defined when configuring Google Analytics widget in Dashboard
• FIX Notice Only variables should be passed by reference in Import tool page
• FIX CSS position sticky with Safari
• FIX CSS for FAQ schema (Structured data types metabox)
• FIX Display the searched keyword in the breadcrumb
• FIX HTML Entities decode in placeholders for SEO metabox
• FIX Product Global Identifiers type and value for manual Product schema
• FIX Using WooCommerce product metas with automatic schemas
• FIX Broken link checker percentage of completion
• FIX Strip HTML comments in title / schemas (especially those of Gutenberg)

3.5.8

• NEW Installation wizard!
• NEW Import redirects from Redirections plugin
• NEW Display and automatically accept the user‘s consent on page load (not fully GDPR) for Google Analytics
• INFO Compatibility with LifterLMS plugin
• INFO Improve redirections export to CSV
• FIX Import/export redirects tool for query param
• FIX Links in SEO Tools
• FIX Post type archive link if no posts page set in Settings > Reading for HTML sitemap

3.5.7

• NEW Add 23 LocalBusiness types
• FIX Sitemap for subdirectory installs
• FIX get_home_url() with WPML

3.5.6

• NEW Rank Math importer
• FIX Notice in HTML sitemap
• FIX Fatal Error with manual Product Schema if Brand isn’t defined

3.5.5

• FIX Fatal errors
• FIX Strings translation

3.5.4

• NEW brand field for Product Schema (PRO)
• NEW aggregateRating for Product Schema (PRO)
• NEW review for Product Schema (PRO)
• NEW global identifiers field for Product Schema (PRO)
• NEW SKU field for Product Schema (PRO)
• NEW priceValidUntil field for Product Schema (PRO)
• NEW URL for Product Schema (PRO)
• NEW Remove default JSON-LD structured data (WooCommerce 3+, PRO)
• NEW ‘seopress_ga_dashboard_widget_cap’ hook to filter Google Analytics dashboard widget capability (PRO)
• INFO Small performance improvements
• INFO Add default values for Product schema if empty fields (for manual and automatic)
• INFO Google Analytics dashboard widget is now only visible for users with “edit_dashboard” capability (PRO)
• FIX Page Speed screenshots (PRO)
• FIX Notices in Page Speed analysis (PRO)
• FIX Esc_attr for term taxonomies
• FIX Revert itemscope attribute in Breadcrumbs (it’s not possible to be valid both in W3C and in Google Structured Data test tool, PRO)

3.5.3

• NEW Add ‘seopress_dublin_core_language’ hook to filter Dublin Core language
• FIX itemscope attribute in Breadcrumbs
• FIX Conflict between SEO and Schemas metboxes
• FIX XML sitemaps compatibility with WPML (double slash, prefix in URLs…)

3.5.2

• INFO Block Ahrefs bot in 1 click (SEO > PRO > robots.txt)
• FIX robots.txt save in multisite setup
• FIX Title in Content Analysis
• FIX CSS typo

3.5.1

• NEW Add %%sku%% dynamic variable (thanks to Necdet Emre Ozpalamutcu)
• INFO Improve content analysis by adding nositelinkssearchbox detection
• INFO Refactoring some JS files
• INFO Improve UI in redirections edit screen
• INFO Improve UI in Social pages
• INFO Display page post type first in HTML sitemap page
• INFO Display post type archive link in HTML sitemap if available
• FIX XML Product category sitemaps with latest version of WooCommerce
• FIX Content analysis if target keywords field empty
• FIX Undefined index: seopress_analysis_target_kw
• FIX noimageindex meta tags detection in content analysis
• FIX Google Optimize if empty
• FIX CSS conflicts with WooCommerce / Easy Digital Downloads

3.5

• NEW WP 5.2 compatibility
• NEW Automatic schemas for your posts, pages, post types: article, local business, course, recipe, video, event, product, review (SEO > PRO > Structured Data Types)! (PRO)
• NEW Add ‘seopress_schemas_auto_article_html’ hook to filter automatic article schema (PRO)
• NEW Add ‘seopress_schemas_auto_lb_html’ hook to filter automatic local business schema (PRO)
• NEW Add ‘seopress_schemas_auto_course_html’ hook to filter automatic course schema (PRO)
• NEW Add ‘seopress_schemas_auto_recipe_html’ hook to filter automatic recipe schema (PRO)
• NEW Add ‘seopress_schemas_auto_video_html’ hook to filter automatic video schema (PRO)
• NEW Add ‘seopress_schemas_auto_event_html’ hook to filter automatic event schema (PRO)
• NEW Add ‘seopress_schemas_auto_product_html’ hook to filter automatic product schema (PRO)
• NEW Add ‘seopress_schemas_auto_review_html’ hook to filter automatic review schema (PRO)
• NEW Add ‘seopress_schemas_article_html’ hook to filter manual review schema (PRO)
• NEW Add ‘seopress_schemas_lb_html’ hook to filter manual review schema (PRO)
• NEW Add ‘seopress_schemas_faq_html’ hook to filter manual review schema (PRO)
• NEW Add ‘seopress_schemas_course_html’ hook to filter manual review schema (PRO)
• NEW Add ‘seopress_schemas_recipe_html’ hook to filter manual review schema (PRO)
• NEW Add ‘seopress_schemas_video_html’ hook to filter manual review schema (PRO)
• NEW Add ‘seopress_schemas_event_html’ hook to filter manual review schema (PRO)
• NEW Add ‘seopress_schemas_product_html’ hook to filter manual review schema (PRO)
• NEW Add ‘seopress_schemas_review_html’ hook to filter manual review schema (PRO)
• NEW Add ‘seopress_titles_article_published_time’ hook to filter article published time meta
• NEW Add ‘seopress_titles_article_modified_time’ hook to filter article published time meta
• NEW Add ‘seopress_titles_og_updated_time’ hook to filter article published time meta
• NEW Add additional tracking code like Facebook Pixel, Hotjar… from SEO > Analytics > Tracking (PRO)
• NEW Add seopress_gtag_after_additional_tracking_html hook to filter custom tracking
• NEW White label: remove SEOPress icons on the right in header (changelog, YouTube, Twitter…) – (PRO)
• NEW Add SEOPRESS_WL_ICONS_HEADER define to remove SEOPress icons
• INFO WordPress 4.6 is now the minimum recommended version
• INFO Removing multiple references to SEOPress to improve the white label
• FIX White label for subsites in a multisite setup
• FIX TotalTime for recipe schema
• FIX Remove /category/ in content (thanks to Udo Telaar)! Flush your permalinks!

3.4

• NEW Automatically set the image Title based on filename
• NEW Automatically set the image Alt text based on filename
• NEW Automatically set the image Caption based on filename
• NEW Automatically set the image Description based on filename
• NEW Redirect attachment pages to the file URL
• NEW Query parameters of redirections (exact match, exclude all parameters, exclude all parameters and passed them to the redirection)
• NEW Google Optimize
• INFO Show content analysis tab even if there is no target keyword entered
• FIX Escape attribute on custom field dynamic variable (thanks @wpchannel)
• FIX Word count for Themify builder plugin

3.3.15

• FIX Fatal error: Can’t use function return value in write context

3.3.14

• NEW Paginated XML Sitemaps (NGINX USERS READ THIS PLEASE: you must update your nginx configuration file. More info here: https://www.seopress.org/support/guides/xml-sitemap-returns-404-error/)
• NEW Add categories for redirects (PRO)
• FIX Redirects with parameters in specific cases
• FIX CSS admin body class

3.3.13.1

• FIX CSS admin body class

3.3.13

• INFO Update updater
• FIX The link has expired with very specific configurations
• FIX Can’t save PRO options with some configurations
• FIX PHP Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in options-redirections.php on line 18
• FIX CSS admin body class hook

3.3.12

• NEW Support Redirects with parameters (PRO)
• NEW Add Argentina Peso currency (PRO)
• NEW White label settings + Multisite (PRO)
• INFO Improve Content Analysis UX/UI if no target keywords
• INFO Improve UI in Permalink settings page
• FIX Test redirection link and Test your URL button (PRO)
• FIX Notice Trying to get property ‘ID’ of non-object in wp-content/plugins/wp-seopress/inc/functions/options-titles-metas.php:439
• FIX Notice Trying to get property ‘ID’ of non-object in wp-content/plugins/wp-seopress/inc/functions/options-titles-metas.php:807

3.3.11.2

• FIX Content Analysis for non UTF-8 characters
• FIX H1 count for Content Analysis
• FIX Content Analysis for Images and links detection

3.3.11.1

• FIX SSL verification for Content Analysis / Snippet Preview!
• FIX a problem with cookies that prevented the generation of Snippet Preview / Content Analysis

3.3.11

• NEW Add seopress_category_rewrite_rules hook to filter rewrite rules for category taxonomy
• INFO Content analysis is now working with draft / pending review / published posts
• FIX Date Picker CSS conflict
• FIX WP Editor in term description

3.3.10

• NEW Content analysis for all page builders / themes
• NEW Add Turkish language
• INFO Improve CSS
• FIX Security

3.3.9

• NEW WP 5.1 compatibility
• NEW German language updated by WP Translations
• NEW Select a primary category for post permalink
• NEW WooCommerce dynamic variables for title / meta desc: price with taxes (%%wc_single_price%%), price without taxes (%%wc_single_price_exc_tax%%)
• INFO Better URL encoding for canonical / dc.relation / dc.source / og.url
• INFO Add is_wp_error checks for custom taxonomy in title tag
• FIX Canonical URL for old permalink
• FIX redirects with + sign
• FIX CSS in Tools blocking buttons
• FIX og:image:alt esc_attr

3.3.8.1

• FIX Remove Google +

3.3.8

• NEW Remove the advice if None schema selected option in SEO > Advanced > Appearance (PRO)
• INFO Add new notification in SEO > Dashboard about 404 cleaning
• INFO Improve UI/UX for License page / XML Sitemaps
• INFO Improve UI when clicking Import / Export redirects buttons
• INFO Google Analytics links to documentation updated
• INFO Google Suggestions is now localized to your country (PRO)
• FIX Warning Invalid argument supplied for foreach() when using filters to remove metaboxes (thanks to John Buchanan)
• FIX Remove Blog page for Tags / Categories option
• FIX Cross domains tracking if multiple domains
• FIX OG:type video.other
• FIX Import SEOPress Google Analytics settings (thanks to @wpchannel)
• FIX Permalink encoding in Google Snippet Preview / XML Sitemaps (thanks to Tsika Boom)
• FIX Compatibility with WPML and e-commerce features for XML sitemaps
• FIX Tribe events for XML Sitemaps
• FIX Reset License button
• FIX Compatibility with WPML/Events Calendar/HTML sitemap

3.3.7

• NEW Add ‘seopress_sitemaps_html_cat_query’ filter to HTML sitemap
• NEW Add ‘seopress_sitemaps_html_pages_query’ filter to HTML sitemap
• NEW Add menu_order option for HTML sitemap
• NEW Remove static Posts page defined in WordPress Reading settings from Breadcrumbs (PRO)
• NEW Enhanced Google Analytics Dashboard widget (PRO)
• NEW Add 92 Types for Local Business schema (PRO)
• NEW Add ‘seopress_rgpd_full_message’ filter for user consent message (PRO)
• NEW Add Persian language
• INFO HTML sitemap now lists your content hierarchically if the custom post type is (eg: Pages).
• INFO A11Y for cookie bar
• INFO Update of the logo for 404 email notification
• FIX Shortcode for user consent message if privacy page not available
• FIX 404 filter in post type list
• FIX Encoding for tags and categories in Video XML sitemap
• FIX Import / export Redirections
• FIX SEOPress icon font

3.3.6

• INFO Allow rel attribute in RSS feeds
• INFO Improve license notification
• FIX Multisite: metaboxes did not show up if super_admin user role
• FIX Google News Sitemap (news:title encoding)
• FIX Count words column (was displaying unique words instead of words)
• FIX Warning invalid argument for Page Speed

3.3.5

• INFO Add admin notice for License / automatic update (PRO)
• INFO Password posts are now excluded by default from XML Sitemaps
• FIX Video / Image sitemaps
• FIX SEO tools URLs
• FIX Notice: do_shortcode_tag was called incorrectly in XML Sitemaps
• FIX Progress-bar CSS conflict with WPML
• FIX PHP Warning: htmlspecialchars(): charset ‘UTF-8;’ not supported, assuming utf-8 (to fix bad server PHP configuration)

3.3.4

• FIX Notice: Undefined variable: seopress_social_og_thumb

3.3.3

• NEW Add og:image:width, og:image:height, og:image:alt and og:image:secure_url for better social sharing
• FIX Notice $is_block_editor

3.3.2

• FIX Support non unicode characters and accents in Redirections

3.3.1

• NEW Add Ukrainian hryvnia currency (PRO)
• INFO Improvement of UI
• FIX Rollback for executing shortcode in meta description: replace do_shortcode by strip_shortcodes
• FIX Display meta description only if not empty

3.3

• NEW Add Simple Review schema (PRO)
• NEW Update Google Page Speed to API Version 5 (PRO)
• NEW Add Persan language (thanks to Dariush Ojabonian)
• NEW Add separator button in SEO metabox
• NEW Use [seopress_privacy_page] in Consent message for user tracking field to get Privacy Page URL dynamically
• NEW Add og:locale:alternate with Polylang
• NEW Add Target keywords quick edit from post type list
• INFO Support DIVI / Elegant Theme Builder / Visual Composer / page builders using shortcodes for meta description / social / Image XML sitemaps… (🍾)
• INFO User cookie bar A11Y / CSS / HTML improvements
• INFO Improvement of notification for license activation
• INFO Improvement of XML Image sitemap
• INFO Improvement of import/export tool
• INFO Update seopress-cookies.min.js
• INFO Allow target (eg: _blank) attribute in consent message for user tracking textarea
• INFO Phasing out jQuery dependency
• INFO Update SEOPress webfont
• INFO Add Validate my schema button for Structured Data Types metabox (PRO)
• FIX PHP Fatal error: Uncaught ArgumentCountError: Too few arguments to function get_category_link(), 0 passed in /wp-content/plugins/wp-seopress-pro/inc/functions/options-breadcrumbs.php on line 488
• FIX Increase timeout to generate Google Snippet Preview (5 to 15 seconds), useful on slow server
• FIX Stop words now only applied when post is published, not updated
• FIX Stop words and Polylang conflict
• FIX User consent message bar with caching plugins
• FIX Quick edit in post types
• FIX Bulk edit for custom post types
• FIX Logo preview in Structured Data Types
• FIX Words counter column in post type list
• FIX Breadcrumbs with custom search URL (PRO)
• FIX Breadcrumbs with default search URL
• FIX Notice Trying to get property ‘labels’ of non-object
• FIX Notice Trying to get property ‘name’ of non-object
• FIX Notice undefined index ‘seopress_google_analytics_ua’
• FIX Notice undefined index ‘seopress_google_analytics_opt_out_msg_ok’
• FIX Notice undefined index ‘seopress_google_analytics_cross_domain’
• FIX Notice undefined variable ‘seopress_local_business_type_option’

3.2.6

• FIX Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function get_current_screen()

3.2.5

• NEW Add hook ‘seopress_real_preview_remote’ to filter Google Snippet Preview remote request and allow htaccess/htpasswd
• INFO Support maintenance plugin for Google Snippet Preview
• FIX Gutenberg compatibility if Classic Editor activated

3.2.4

• NEW Add Guternberg / WP 5.0 compatibility
• INFO German translation updated (thanks to Nicola Stobbe)
• INFO Support %%sitename%% (alias of %%sitetitle%%) in titles and description
• FIX %%post_author%% dynamic variable in meta description
• FIX CSS on Breadcrumbs
• FIX Elementor compatibility when creating new single template

3.2.3

• NEW Add ?replytocom option (SEO > Advanced settings)
• NEW Add Business type option to Local Business Schema (PRO)
• NEW Add “None” choice for Contact option (Knowledge Graph)
• NEW Add Bulgarian lev currency to Product / Event data type (PRO)
• INFO Add Help tab in Licence page
• INFO Redirect URL is no longer needed if status code is set to 410 / 451
• INFO Add 404, 410 and 451 redirects to filters in Redirections list
• INFO Improve UI/UX
• INFO Remove max limit to “Number of posts / pages / post types to scan”
• FIX Remove WooCommerce pages from sitemap if noindex set in SEO > PRO > WooCommerce
• FIX Video schema publisher logo
• FIX Dutch translation string (thanks to Dirk)
• FIX check if XML sitemaps feature on/off
• FIX Add checks to Structured Data Types fields
• FIX Words counter
• FIX conflict with Google XML Sitemaps
• FIX Undefined notice in admin.php line 177
• FIX HTML sitemap with WPML
• FIX article:author / article:publisher
• FIX JSON-LD Breadcrumbs can now be used without HTML Breadcrumbs

3.2.2

• NEW Add %%sep%% dynamic variable (custom separator)
• NEW Add %%post_modified_date%% dynamic variable for meta title / desc
• NEW Add meta property article:author and article:publisher for Open Graph
• NEW Capture the user agent for 404 monitoring (PRO)
• NEW Add itemCondition for Product schema (PRO)
• INFO Improve UI
• INFO Add option to disable Knowledge graph (select None in Person or organization field, in SEO > Social Networks)
• FIX Snippet preview counters if no custom title / meta desc set
• FIX WPML XML sitemap issue
• FIX Breadcrumbs with WooCommerce
• FIX Disable date archives

3.2.1

• FIX Image sitemaps

3.2

• NEW WPML officially supported (still one issue with duplicate sitemap)
• NEW Polylang compatibility for translating options (site title, global titles / meta desc, google analytics user consent message…)
• NEW The SEO Framework import tool
• NEW Add Local Business schema on a per post basis (PRO)
• NEW Add FAQ schema on a per post basis (PRO)
• NEW Add orber/order by option for HTML Sitemap (SEO > XML / HTML Sitemap > HTML Sitemap)
• NEW ‘seopress_404_exclude’ to filter 404 error creation
• NEW Add 410 (gone) and 451 (Unavailable For Legal Reasons) redirections type
• NEW Add Arabic language (thanks to Moqbel Bajri)
• NEW Prevent Google to display a sitelinks searchbox in search results (nositelinkssearchbox)
• NEW Remove Genesis SEO link in WP Admin Menu (SEO > Advanced > Appearance)
• NEW Add Indonesian rupiah currency to Product / Event data type (PRO)
• INFO Updating Google Analytics API source
• INFO Better UI for meta robots
• INFO Automatically exclude URLs starting with “wp-content/cache” from 404 monitoring
• INFO Exclude base64 img from XML Sitemaps
• INFO New notifications to detect already active SEO plugins to avoid conflicts
• FIX Import tool (AIO, Yoast, The SEO Framework)
• FIX XML Video sitemap
• FIX dynamic variables in term titles / term description
• FIX ‘seopress_breadcrumbs_after_html’ hook
• FIX redirects
• FIX Video and News sitemaps template_include
• FIX First thumbnail from the_content for OG/Twitter img
• FIX Couldn’t fetch XML sitemaps with the new Google Search Console
• FIX Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /****/wp-content/plugins/wp-seopress/inc/admin/admin.php:3074)
• FIX Avoid error 500 if mbstring PHP module is not installed, add fallback if not available

3.1.1

• FIX Yoast/AIO import tool
• FIX Updater! (PRO)

3.1

• NEW All In One SEO importer
• NEW JSON-LD for Breadcrumbs (PRO)
• NEW Add German language (thanks to Nicola Stobbe)
• NEW Add Greek language (thanks to Stratos Karavarakis)
• NEW Add author biography tag for meta description
• NEW Add seopress_404_cleaning_query hook to filter 404 cleaning query (PRO)
• NEW Add ‘seopress_rgpd_message’ hook to filter user consent message (RGPD)
• NEW Add Valid from / Image / Description in Event data type (PRO)
• NEW Add new types of Events for Structured Data types (PRO)
• NEW Add Indian Rupee / Chilean Pesos / Vietnamese đồng currency to Product data type (PRO)
• INFO Complete refactoring of the breadcrumb trail: more flexible, more efficient
• INFO Add link to post type archive in SEO > Titles & metas > Archives (if has_archive is true)
• INFO Remove Whois tool
• INFO Change default ItemCondition from UsedCondition to NewCondition for Product schema (PRO)
• INFO Improve Yoast importer tool
• INFO Improve Google Snippet Preview UI
• INFO Add date picker in Event data type to improve UX/UI (PRO)
• INFO Improve Reset License action
• INFO Improve UI
• INFO Improve performance
• FIX Undefined index: responseCode
• FIX Post update messages if 404 monitoring is on
• FIX Undefined variable: seopress_404_test
• FIX 404 cleaning after 30 days (PRO)
• FIX Ping Google manually link
• FIX Disable News Sitemap if green toggle off
• FIX Some strings translation / wrong text domain
• FIX TechArticle selected value in admin
• FIX Fixing updater / license “the link has expired”
• FIX If default search parameter is empty, do not display quotes in breadcrumbs / meta title
• FIX Calculation of title length / meta description for content analysis
• FIX Use OG if no Twitter Cards
• FIX OG/Twitter cards thumbnail if Your latest posts is set for homepage

3.0

• NEW 404 monitoring will now automatically exclude crawlers (robots/spiders)
• NEW Hide SEO tools option in SEOPress dashboard page
• NEW Hide Useful links option in SEOPress dashboard page
• NEW Add ‘seopress_404_bots’ hook to filter bots list
• NEW Add ‘seopress_adminbar_icon’ hook to filter SEOPress icon in adminbar (White labeling)
• NEW Add SEOPRESS_WL_ADMIN_HEADER define to remove SEOPress admin header (White labeling)
• NEW Add SEOPRESS_WL_ADMIN_HEADER_LOGO define to change SEOPress logo in admin header (White labeling)
• NEW Add ‘seopress_content_analysis_content’ hook to filter the analyzed content (eg: adding custom fields, ACF fields…)
• NEW Add ‘seopress_custom_tracking’ hook to add your custom tracking code (Facebook Pixel, Hotjar…) with user consent
• NEW Breadcrumbs: add translation for homepage option
• NEW Breadcrumbs: add translation for 404 error option
• NEW Breadcrumbs: add translation for Search results option
• NEW Breadcrumbs: add translation for No results option
• INFO Improve UI / UX
• INFO Improve CSS / JS registering
• INFO Performances improvement
• INFO A11Y for Breadcrumbs (remove title attr)
• INFO Better microdata markup for Breadcrumbs
• INFO Remove News keywords / genres / standout tag for News XML Sitemap to match new guidelines
• INFO You can now delete “Your theme doesn’t use add_theme_support(‘title-tag’);” notice
• INFO Add compatibility for Admin Columns > 4.3 (older versions of AC will stop working with SEOPress, please update)
• INFO Improve content analysis
• INFO Decrease meta description length to 160 characters
• INFO Meta robots for articles and terms (noindex, nofollow, nosnippet, noodp, noarchive, noimageindex) are now precoched according to the global parameters.
• FIX Change og:price:amount prefix to product
• FIX Change og:price:currency prefix to product
• FIX Event calendar compatibility with Breadcrumbs
• FIX If Google News sitemap is off, Video tab doesn’t display in SEO metaboxe
• FIX [seopress_breadcrumbs] shortcode to return instead of echo
• FIX jQuery accordion error
• FIX %%archive_date%% in title/meta desc
• FIX Udpater

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