Changelog

3.8.1

• INFO Improve general user experience
• INFO Improve UI to import redirections
• INFO Improve backward compatibility
• INFO Remove default WooCommerce meta robots to avoid conflicts
• INFO Improve performance to remove the cookie bar when user clicks the Accept button
• FIX Fatal error $product->get_id
• FIX Some CSS
• FIX Twitter Cards false positive if Tw Image size is set to large

3.8.0.3

• INFO Add a fallback for get modified post date in xml sitemaps
• FIX JS file for SEO metabox

3.8.0.2

• FIX XML Image sitemaps

3.8.0.1

• FIX Fatal error Google Analytics widget

3.8

• NEW Content analysis now detects duplicated schemas from your source code to avoid conflicts
• NEW Add Product Global Identifiers type and Product Global Identifiers fields to WooCommerce metabox for Product schema – PRO
• NEW Software Application schema (manual and automatic) – PRO
• NEW Option to force a default OG:IMAGE tag if no custom OG:IMAGE set from SEO metabox (SEO > Social Networks > Open Graph)
• NEW “seopress_schemas_softwareapp_html” hook to filter the software app manual schema (https://www.seopress.org/support/hooks/filter-manual-software-application-schema/) – PRO
• NEW “seopress_schemas_auto_softwareapp_html” hook to filter the software app automatic schema (https://www.seopress.org/support/hooks/filter-automatic-software-application-schema/) – PRO
• NEW ‘seopress_sitemaps_headers’ hook to filter sitemaps headers (https://www.seopress.org/support/hooks/filter-xml-sitemaps-headers/)
• NEW ‘%%post_title%%’ dynamic variable for RSS feeds
• INFO Improve notifications center
• INFO Improve UI/UX
• INFO Improve SEOPress Wizard
• INFO Improve UI for automatic schemas
• INFO You can now redirect 404 to homepage/custom URL without enabling 404
• INFO Adding a new verification in the content analysis metabox: if the post modification date is more than 1 year, a message will prompt you to update the content of your article.
• INFO Add x-robots-tag: noindex,follow to sitemaps headers
• INFO Add a new argument to “seopress_rgpd_full_message” hook to filter the close button (https://www.seopress.org/support/hooks/filter-user-consent-message-html/)
• INFO Remove some CSS from the cookie bar buttons to better match the design of the themes
• INFO Add a new notification if automatic schemas used without Structured data types option ON
• INFO Improve code quality / refactoring
• INFO If noimageindex checked, remove image links from XML sitemap for consistency
• FIX Bug with primary category link and Gutenberg
• FIX Import redirects from Yoast Premium
• FIX Small UI bug for custom automatic schema
• FIX Keywords in permalink
• FIX iOS toggle from Dashboard feature list / Titles and metas page
• FIX Facebook Preview if site title is too long
• FIX Outbound links check from Content Analysis
• FIX Google Suggestions last empty item
• FIX Improve security
• FIX Performance issue with PRO
• FIX Send parameters to redirect URL
• FIX seopress-block-editor.js?ver=3.7.8:36 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property ‘length’ of undefined

3.7.8

• NEW Pixel counter for title and meta description now works with each language / alphabet! Faster, more reliable and universal!
• NEW Facebook Preview!
• NEW Cookie bar customization: change background, color, buttons… from SEO, Google Analytics, Cookie bar / GDPR tab
• NEW Add new checks to content analysis for social networks (Open Graph / Twitter cards) to detect duplicated tags/conflicts
• NEW %%post_thumbnail_url%% global dynamic variable to display post thumbnail URL (https://www.seopress.org/support/guides/manage-titles-meta-descriptions/)
• NEW %%currentmonth_short%% global dynamic variable to display current month in 3 letters (https://www.seopress.org/support/guides/manage-titles-meta-descriptions/)
• NEW ‘seopress_titles_post_thumbnail_url’ hook to filter post thumbnail URL (https://www.seopress.org/support/hooks/filter-seopress_titles_post_thumbnail_url-dynamic-variable/)
• INFO Content analysis now displays duplicate H1 title values for faster identification
• INFO Add Post title and Permalink to the metadata export file (PRO)
• INFO wpForo compatibility with SEOPress
• INFO Improve compatibility with Jetpack CDN (thanks to @jeherve)
• INFO Improve UI in content analysis if transparent / white images
• INFO Remove SEO admin bar for user roles without “manage_options” capability to improve UX
• FIX Facebook OG:Image URL encoding if no featured thumbnail or custom og:image set (thanks to @bitofseo)
• FIX Keywords in permalink was case sensitive

3.7.7.1

• FIX Remove /category/ in permalinks to target “category” taxonomy only by default

3.7.7

• NEW WordPress 4.7 is now the minimum required to use SEOPress (WP 5.3 is recommended)
• NEW Add %%page%% dynamic variable, current page number with context (eg: “Page 1 of 4”)
• NEW Add “Remove hentry post class” option (SEO > Advanced > Advanced tab) to prevent Google from seeing this as a schema
• NEW Add “Remove author website in comments” option (SEO > Advanced > Advanced tab)
• NEW Add “Remove website field in comments” option (SEO > Advanced > Advanced tab)
• NEW Add “Clean manually all your 404 errors” feature (SEO > Tools > Redirections > Clean your 404 errors)
• NEW article:tag meta property on singular post for Open Graph protocol
• NEW article:section meta property on singular post for Open Graph protocol
• NEW Add a notification to alert admin if PHP module DOM is missing from SEO notifications center
• NEW Add “Remove default breadcrumbs JSON-LD structured data (WooCommerce 3+)” option (SEO > PRO > WooCommerce)
• NEW Add ‘seopress_context_paged’ hook to filter %%page%% dynamic variable (https://www.seopress.org/support/hooks/filter-page-dynamic-variable/)
• NEW ‘seopress_social_og_tag’ hook to filter article:tag metas (https://www.seopress.org/support/hooks/filter-article-tag-meta/)
• NEW ‘seopress_social_og_section’ hook to filter article:section meta (https://www.seopress.org/support/hooks/filter-article-section-meta-tag/)
• NEW ‘seopress_titles_template_variables’ hook to filter dynamic variables in meta title / desc… (https://www.seopress.org/support/hooks/filter-dynamic-variables-array/)
• NEW ‘seopress_sitemaps_html_post_date’ hook to filter date in HTML sitemap (https://www.seopress.org/support/hooks/filter-to-enable-disable-post-date-by-post-type-in-html-sitemap/)
• NEW Content analysis: check if one your target keyword is in your slug
• INFO add new characters to content analysis to avoid “NAN” error
• INFO Update Admin Columns PRO compatibility (thanks to Stefan)
• INFO The notification about the license activation is now only show for users with “manage_options” capability
• INFO Improve code design
• INFO Add “ and ” characters to pixels counter
• INFO Improve plugin updater to avoid 403 error on license activation
• FIX Warning count() error if no main menu selected from “Add SiteNavigationElement schema” feature
• FIX Replace category_link (deprecated) by term_link
• FIX a notice on 404 page in specific case
• FIX Incorrect message about PRO version in Configuration wizard (thanks to @Noomia)
• FIX Bulk edit for post types generated by Toolset plugin
• FIX Undefined variable in plugin-licence.php file
• FIX Change CSV separator for Export metadata tool (‘,’ to ‘;’)

3.7.6

• NEW Add SiteNavigationElement schema (SEO > PRO > Structured data types to enable this schema on your main menu)
• INFO Add compatibility to Oxygen Builder for additional tracking code (body tag)
• INFO add new characters to content analysis to avoid “NAN” error
• FIX Change CSV seperator for Export metadata tool (‘,’ to ‘;’) to match import metadata tool seperator
• FIX Export CSV in specific cases
• FIX XML sitemaps if WordPress is located in a subdirectory
• FIX Short description for WooCommerce in Product Automatic schema
• FIX Warning: DOMDocument::loadHTML(): Empty string supplied as input in XML sitemaps

3.7.5

• NEW Review schema: Add item type CreativeWorkSeason, CreativeWorkSeries, Episode, Game, MediaObject, MusicPlaylist, MusicRecording, Organization to solve “Thing is not a known valid target type for the itemReviewed property.”
• NEW Add custom tracking code just before the body closing tag
• NEW Add an option to display/hide any SEO metaboxes for each custom post type
• NEW ‘seopress_custom_footer_tracking’ hook to filter additional tracking code in body footer (https://www.seopress.org/support/hooks/filter-html-additional-tracking-code-in-footer-body/)
• NEW ‘seopress_sitemaps_xml_index’ hook to filter XML index sitemap (https://www.seopress.org/support/hooks/filter-xml-index-sitemap/)
• NEW ‘seopress_sitemaps_xml_single’ hook to filter XML single post type sitemap (https://www.seopress.org/support/hooks/filter-xml-single-post-type-sitemap/)
• NEW ‘seopress_sitemaps_xml_single_term’ hook to filter XML single taxonomy sitemap (https://www.seopress.org/support/hooks/filter-xml-sitemap-single-taxonomy/)
• NEW ‘seopress_sitemaps_xml_author’ hook to filter XML author sitemap (https://www.seopress.org/support/hooks/filter-xml-author-sitemap/)
• NEW ‘seopress_sitemaps_xml_video’ hook to filter XML video sitemap (https://www.seopress.org/support/hooks/filter-xml-video-sitemap/)
• NEW ‘seopress_sitemaps_xml_news’ hook to filter XML news sitemap (https://www.seopress.org/support/hooks/filter-xml-news-sitemap/)
• INFO Support %%sitedesc%% dynamic variable (alias of %%tagline%%’) in title / meta description
• INFO Support %%excerpt%% dynamic variable (alias of %%post_excerpt%%’) in title / meta description
• INFO Support %%date%% dynamic variable (alias of %%post_date%%’) in title / meta description
• INFO Display author meta only if username is not equal to display name
• INFO Improve UI
• INFO Improve content analysis (UX/UI)
• INFO Improve block editor (Gutenberg) compatibility
• FIX XML sitemaps with Polylang
• FIX Add ’59’ value for minutes in LocalBusiness schema to manage stores open 24 hours a day
• FIX Solved undefined in broken link checker bot (log textarea)

3.7.4

• NEW Author meta name for singular page (enabled by default)
• NEW ‘seopress_robots_txt_file’ hook to filter robots.txt file (useful with Polylang and multidomain option https://www.seopress.org/support/hooks/filter-robots-txt-file-seopress-pro/)
• NEW ‘seopress_get_custom_fields’ hook to filter custom fields list in Schemas (https://www.seopress.org/support/hooks/filter-custom-fields-list-in-schemas/)
• INFO Support hierarchical custom post type for breadcrumbs (PRO)
• INFO Improve documentation for robots.txt page
• INFO Improve primary category feature for post
• INFO Breadcrumbs is now matching primary category (if set)
• FIX get_home_url() for XSL sitemap with Polylang
• FIX replace wp_count_posts by pll_count_posts if Polylang activated for XML Sitemap index
• FIX check when applying “rsd_link” option (thanks to @bomalo)
• FIX Site is experience difficulties error after requesting the bot in specific cases

3.7.3

• NEW WordPress 5.3 compatibility
• NEW Export metadata to a CSV file! (PRO)
• NEW Added multi-domain support for XML sitemaps with Polylang (https://www.seopress.org/support/guides/multidomain-xml-sitemap-with-polylang-and-seopress/)
• NEW Import post metadata from Squirrly (https://www.seopress.org/support/guides/import-post-metadatas-from-squirrly-to-seopress/)
• NEW ‘seopress_metadata_query_args’ hook to filter CSV metadata export query (https://www.seopress.org/support/hooks/filter-the-arguments-of-the-metadata-export-query/)
• NEW ‘seopress_post_types’ hook to filter custom post type used by SEOPress
• NEW ‘seopress_sitemaps_single_img_url’ hook to filter standard image URLs in XML image sitemaps (use it inside a mu-plugin)
• NEW ‘seopress_sitemaps_single_shortcodes’ hook to filter execution of shortcodes in XML image sitemaps (use it inside a mu-plugin)
• INFO Improve XML image sitemaps for featured images, product galleries…
• INFO Breadcrumbs options can now be translated from WPML / Polylang (wpml-config.xml)
• FIX Call to undefined function is_product() in /wp-seopress/inc/functions/variables/dynamic-variables.php:97
• FIX JS error in content analysis metabox on Google Suggestions

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)

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