Changelog
New Features, updates and fixes
Version 4.8.2

New
- Index Status Report – Quickly identify which posts are indexed by Google and why others aren’t—with granular details on crawl status, fetch results, robots.txt and structured data.
Updated
- Improved Table of Contents block rendering performance.
- Hardened limit and order clauses in database queries.
Fixed
- WP 6.8 deprecation warning for default Table of Contents and FAQ block styles.
- Potential page freeze issue when converting Table of Contents block from Group to Columns via block toolbar.
- Console error in Table of Contents block when switching between Visual and Code Editor in Block Editor.
Version 4.8.1.1
Fixed
- CSS style conflict with Woocommerce Memberships and Abandoned Carts.
Version 4.8.1
Updated
- DiscussionForumPosting schema is now output for bbPress forum topics and replies as well.
- Improved the SEO Email Report header layout for dates in different languages.
- Expiration date format in AIOSEO General Settings now reflects WordPress date format setting.
- Various Keyword Rank Tracker UI/UX improvements.
- The LinkedIn field in the Setup Wizard is now shown by default.
- “Show post type archive link” setting for products has been removed from their breadcrumb template.
- AIOSEO no longer loads its page builder integration for non-public Thrive Architect post types.
Fixed
- Removed support for sitelinks schema as it is no longer supported by Google.
- YouTube embedded videos with additional parameters in the URL not being detected by the Video Sitemap addon.
- Uninstalling AIOSEO did not remove user role entries from the database as intended.
- Limit Modified Date feature sometimes not working for WooCommerce Products.
- Load admin bar assets on the frontend when logged in only if the admin bar is enabled for that user.
- Prevent unneeded popup warning on the user profile edit page when leaving without making edits.
- Restoring SEO revisions now updates meta keys to ensure localization.
- WPML translation to support admin pages in addition to Author/Reviewer Blocks.
- Additional keyphrases tooltip cutting off in page builders.
- Category in the permalink and breadcrumb did not match when the primary category is removed.
- “See Full Bio” link not correctly displaying for reviewers without posts, even when a custom author bio URL is set.
- Keyphrase in URL analysis didn't update correctly for auto-draft posts.
- Search Statistics now disconnects automatically if there's an authentication error.
- Phrase text missing from the Link Assistant's Link Suggestions table.
- SERP Preview update when changing primary term for a WooCommerce product.
- Updated SERP title to reflect selected primary term for the category when changed.
- SiteOrigin integration style conflict to prevent overlap with other modals.
- Images using the Post SEO Title smart tag were sometimes not parsed correctly.
- URL count for the root sitemap sometimes not entirely accurate.
- Robots.txt settings not correctly synced between multisite network and main site.
Version 4.8.0

New
- Crawl Optimization Improvements – We've added even more features to Crawl Cleanup to help you block unwanted bots from indexing your site and prevent spammers from abusing your internal site search results.
Fixed
- TruSEO Highlighter not always working correctly when post content contains an empty or reusable block.
Version 4.7.9.1
Updated
- Removed the Search Statistics menu item under the Dashboard menu.
Version 4.7.9
Updated
- Schema product suggestedMinAge/suggestedMaxAge properties to conform with Google's structured data merchant listing requirements.
- Added a button to apply new headlines directly to the post title inside the Headline Analyzer.
- TruSEO now supports additional ACF Custom Field types.
- Exported JSON/CSV files now include the post title and term name columns.
- Improved handling of Focus Keyphrase errors from Semrush API.
- Turned off autoloading by default for a number of AIOSEO options to improve performance.
Fixed
- Access control role check to properly verify if the role has edit_post permissions.
- Existing additional sitemap pages with different priority, frequency, or last modified values were not getting updated when importing a CSV file.
- Tabs were not displaying active status correctly when using RTL due to CSS conflicts.
- Image title sometimes duplicated when using Elementor page builder.
- Alt text settings were not applied to images when showing latest posts on the homepage.
- Excluded posts/terms would sometimes not be correctly excluded from sitemaps.
- SERP Preview disappearing when using numeric custom fields in ACF.
- Filenames duplicated in rare cases when Strip Punctuation is enabled in Image SEO.
- Adding links to WordPress Gallery Block would sometimes not work when Strip Punctuation is enabled in Image SEO.
- Trailing slash added to a redirect's target URL even if the URL is external.
- Orphaned Posts filter not working correctly in the Link Assistant.
- Table of Content block's heading could sometimes break when adding a link from Link Assistant.
- “Don't update the modified date” checkbox now works properly in post's quick edit screen.
- Missing tooltip for the AI Title/Description Generator modal.
- Headlines that couldn't be analyzed would sometimes break the Headline Analyzer UI.
- Automatic 404 redirects no longer affecting the dedicated HTML sitemap page.
- Canonical URL sometimes missing a slash for paged taxonomy terms.
- Canonical URL for a term could sometimes fail if the global query changed.
Version 4.7.8

New
- Keyword Rank Tracker Improvements – Import your best performing keywords directly from Google Search Console and explore Related Keywords to discover new keyword opportunities!
- WooCommerce Product Attributes Support – Per popular demand, you can now control the SEO of your product attributes and include them in your sitemap to increase discoverability.
Updated
- Added filter to control maximum number of additional keywords per post.
Version 4.7.7.2
Fixed
- PHP error due to race condition when Writing Assistant fails to fetch default user options.
Version 4.7.7.1
Updated
- Updated: Added localization for default options for Writing Assistant.
Fixed
- Fixed: Writing Assistant no longer sends consecutive requests to get default user options.
- Fixed: Cache class tries to recreate the cache table if it doesn't exist.
Version 4.7.7
Updated
- Writing Assistant now supports logins per site/subsite, allowing users to use different SEOBoost logins and workspaces.
- Added support for importing additional Knowledge Graph settings from Yoast SEO.
- Added support for importing additional SEO settings from SEOPress, including robots meta, X (Twitter) metadata and advanced redirection rules.
- BreadcrumbList schema semantic properties updated to align with Schema.org specifications.
- Performance improvements to speed up Action Scheduler.
- Added support for the “Analyze This Page” toolbar menu inside the post/term editor
- Removed discontinued helpful links under “Analyze This Page” toolbar menu.
- SEO Email Reports have been disabled for all users and are now disabled by default.
- Added filter hook to disable SEO Email Reports.
Fixed
- CSS conflict for the Thrive WordPress Content field.
- Twitter meta tags output for CPTs that do not support authors.
- TruSEO Highlighter was not highlighting sentences found in the “Custom HTML” block, although the eye icon indicated their presence.
- Image SEO sometimes could not find images and captions within the post content.
- TruSEO now limits additional keyphrases to prevent high page loads ( maximum 10 ).
- CSV import/export file naming, primary category import and miscellaneous fixes.
- Reviewer selector conflict with Secure Custom Fields plugin and switching between tabs in the Post Editor sidebar.
- Focus keywords that are already being tracked in Keyword Rank Tracker are no longer displayed in the “Import Keywords” modal.
- Inconsistency in TruSEO score color across different sections of the plugin.
- SEO Statistics panel sometimes displayed incorrect upward/downward trend when clicks increased/decreased.
- Conflict with Savoy theme where the side cart was automatically popping up on product pages.
- Conflict with ARVE plugin.
- Social profile URLs are now correctly imported from Yoast SEO.
- Home URL was automatically appended to canonical URLs without scheme.
- Homepage link and prefix were sometimes not working in the WooCommerce Product breadcrumb template.
- 404 log entries with URLs containing special characters could not be deleted.
- Redirects to file URLs or URLs with a hash were saved with a trailing slash.
- AIOSEO Metabox no longer closes when opening the Media library in Divi/Extra page builders.
- PHP deprecation warning related to sitemap image scan.
- PHP warning when importing locations from Yoast SEO Local plugin.
- PHP fatal error occurring when attempting to access a non-existent additional sitemap index.
- PHP deprecation warning in PHP 8.3 for PHP PCRE functions.