Changelog

New Features, updates and fixes

Version 4.2.3

New

  • The Redirects URL Slug Monitor prompts you to add a redirect if the page slug has been changed.
  • The Table of Contents block allows you to automatically generate table of contents for your article. The powerful features include custom headings, custom anchors and the ability to hide or reorder the headings.
  • The FAQ block allows you to quickly add frequently asked questions to your article, which are then also automatically output as JSON schema.
  • Added TruSEO support for WooCommerce products.
  • Added support for the Divi Builder plugin.

Updated

  • The image sitemap scan can now extract images from all of Divi’s shortcodes.
  • The WooCommerce Checkout page now defaults to the CheckoutPage graph for new users.
  • Added a new Parent Term smart tag for hierarchical taxonomies.
  • Changed the default for the Twitter Card type to “Summary with Large Image” for new users.
  • AIOSEO’s UI should now be 100% localizable.
  • SEO Overview widget now remembers the last post type you’ve selected.
  • Added back the “Edit SEO” link in our admin toolbar menu on the frontend of the site.

Fixed

  • AIOSEO Details column now reloads correctly after quick-editing a post.
  • Sitemaps now load correctly again when NGINX sites are using plain permalinks.
  • Classic Editor emoji is removed again in WP 6.0 so that emojis can into AIOSEO’s metabox.
  • Redirects now take the Ignore Slash and Ignore Case settings into account.
  • URL is now correctly encoded before sending sitemap ping to Google.
  • PHP error in rare cases when a site doesn’t have the character set stored in the options.
  • PHP warning when open_basedir restrictions are enabled due to an external URL in our admin/toolbar menu.
  • Search results preview in Classic Editor couldn’t fetch the permalink of the static homepage.
  • HTML Sitemap dedicated page now shows a warning when entering a URL/slug that includes a space.
  • Multilingual sitemap including translated versions of pages with blank URLs in some rare cases.
  • AMP plugin detecting a duplicate canonical URL when “Reader” mode is active.
  • JavaScript console error in Block Editor when editing a post as an Author/Contributor.
  • Microsoft Clarity tracking code is now no longer output on AMP pages.
  • Additional Keyphrases can now be correctly deleted.
  • Redirect tests are now excluded from the redirection logs.
  • Custom field smart tag value now displays correctly in the search results preview.

Version 4.2.2

New

  • Added an User Profile Social Tab to allow users to set their individual social URLs. Support was also added for additional social network accounts.
  • Translation API: New developer filter hooks to allow third-party translation plugins to localize AIOSEO’s data.
  • Image sitemap now is able to detect and include images in ACF fields.
  • Pre-publish panel now also includes a check for the social data (Facebook/Twitter).

Updated

  • Improved the performance of our TruSEO content analysis by running it on a separate thread.
  • AIOSEO’s post editor sidebar has been redesigned and is now easier to use.
  • Backwards compatibility with WordPress 5.0.
  • Removed deprecated sitemap ping endpoint for Bing.
  • Sitemap’s ‘Exclude Images’ option now excludes images regardless of third-party code using our sitemap filter hooks.
  • Added a new smart tag for the attachment description.
  • Excluded paths in redirects now account for the homepage.
  • When adding a redirect, the source and target URLs are normalized to prevent errors when redirecting.
  • Significantly improved the performance of our Link Suggestions algorithm, so that we can scan your site for suggestions even faster.
  • View/edit post links now reflect the post type of the relevant post row in Link Assistant.

Fixed

  • Access control for the post’s metabox now shows the correct tab for each capability.
  • Some localizable strings not showing up on translate.wordpress.org.
  • SEO Analyzer image alt attribute tags are now parsed correctly and are no longer blank.
  • SEO title/description are now correctly output for third-party themes that significantly modify the static homepage behaviour.
  • Prevent sitemap and IndexNow pings when the Limit Modified Date setting is enabled for a post.
  • Elementor visual editor not loading sometimes when editing the content of a post.
  • PHP error when the static sitemap is regenerated during a CRON call.
  • SEO title/description now correctly update after editing it in the sidebar modal and closing it.
  • Private terms are no longer included in the articleSection property of our Article schema markup.
  • Inbound link suggestions sometimes linking to the same post.

Version 4.2.1.1

Updated

  • Added support for legacy query arg sitemap generation.

Fixed

  • Issue with some AIOSEO addons not showing updates.
  • Dynamically generated sitemap showing incorrect generated message.

Version 4.2.1

New

  • The Crawl Cleanup section lets you strip query args from your URLs and control which RSS feeds are enabled in order to optimize your crawl quota.
    (Warning: this feature is aimed at advanced users who fully understand the impact these settings have!)
  • You can now bulk-import additional sitemap pages by uploading a CSV file.

Updated

  • Compatibility with WordPress 6.0.
  • Removed sitemap rewrite rules in favor of parsing the URI in order to prevent plugin/theme conflicts.
  • Various multilingual sitemap improvements in accordance to Google’s specifications.
  • Improved multilingual sitemap support for WPML.
  • Added support for the new Full Site Editor to all AIOSEO blocks.
  • Removed unnecessary canonical URL and prev/next links for search results pages.
  • Added support for multiple additional sitemap pages indexes.
  • Added support for reusable blocks to the TruSEO content analysis.
  • Added support for Elementor Pro Video Playlists to the Video Sitemap.
  • Added localization support for the visual breadcrumb trail prefix.
  • Updated notification bubble color to match the user profile color scheme.
  • scheduled AIOSEO Action Scheduler tasks are now removed when AIOSEO is uninstalled.
  • Added additional filter hooks to provide developers with more granular control over the HTML Sitemap.
  • Changed RSS sitemap datetime format to RFC-822.

Fixed

  • Conflict with WooCommerce Polylang Integration where the sitemap failed to load.
  • Changes to the default title/description format sometimes not propagating correctly to individual custom posts that are using the default format.
  • Autogenerated meta descriptions cannot be based on the post content if the post is password protected.
  • Multisite subsites sometimes using the home URL of the network admin for the base of their canonical URL.
  • RSS sitemap not taking the maximum amount of URLs into account.
  • News sitemap no longer sometimes includes posts older than 48 hours.
  • The first sitemap index of an object type can no longer be duplicated and served at multiple URLs.
  • Console error when adding an additional keyphrase when no Focus Keyphrase has been added yet.
  • Local SEO map block sometimes does not load correctly in WordPress 5.9 and above.
  • Video Sitemap video modal now displays thumbnails in a normal size.
  • TruSEO content analysis now considers the separator smart tag as a word boundary.
  • TruSEO content analysis is now able to properly detect when no content has been added yet in page builders.
  • TruSEO content analysis now validates custom field names before using them, preventing console errors if the field that the user specified doesn’t actually exist.
  • Conflict with Elementor Pro where visual editor does not load due to non-normalized CPT name.

Version 4.2.0

New

  • Added a brand new dashboard widget to help you quickly identify pages and posts that can be optimized to help your SEO rankings!
  • Added a second dashboard widget for users who have not yet finished the Setup Wizard.
  • Added an option to strip the category base.
  • Added internal integration with Smash Balloon’s Facebook plugin to automatically bust the Open Graph cache when a page or post is updated.

Updated

  • Disabled shortcode parsing by default for new sites and surfaced the option so users can disable it without filter hooks.
  • Sorted the sitemap posts and pages by priority, then last modified date.

Fixed

  • Setup wizard not always saving every setting.
  • Manually entered person not working in the setup wizard.
  • Conflict with WPBakery’s Visual Composer and our blocks.
  • Clicking the gear icon in the Divi page builder didn’t always work.
  • Redirects modal appearing behind block editor sidebar.
  • TruSEO analysis not running on page load in Elementor.
  • Convert the manifest.json into a manifest.php file to fix loading on unique filesystems.
  • Media title and descriptions not updating.

Version 4.1.10

New

  • Limit modified date now works for revisions.

Updated

  • SEO Analysis score description to be consistent everywhere.
  • Overlapping HTML elements in the taxonomy pages.

Fixed

  • DB errors when limit modified date is disabled.
  • Multisite super admins occasionally unable to save settings.
  • Image filter now runs even if there are no images.
  • HTML sitemap occasionally outputting malformed HTML.
  • Block names not showing correctly in the WordPress.org repo.
  • PHP errors on WordPress versions lower than 5.1 missing the has_errors method.

Version 4.1.9.4

Fixed

  • PHP errors for users with invalid FTP/SSH filesystems.

Version 4.1.9.3

Updated

  • Changed version number to bust WordPress.org plugin cache.

Version 4.1.9.2

Fixed

  • SEO title/description sometimes not saving when editing a post/term.

Version 4.1.9.1

Fixed

  • Link attributes showing undefined when adding an external link.
  • Social images not always saving in the post editor.
  • PHP error when the Redirection Manager addon is out of date.
  • PHP error when updating with a manual zip file.