3.7.1 – Released on September 23, 2020
- NEW – various tests and debug info for All in One SEO under the Site Health area
- Removed the Additional Headers settings and Unprotect Post Meta setting in the General Settings menu. You will see a notice with more details if you are affected by this change
- Fixed an issue where the meta description for terms falling back to the term description was being wrapped in an HTML paragraph tag
- Fixed an issue where the Image SEO module didn’t strip punctuation properly
- Readded a missing RTL stylesheet for our font icons
- Fixed a minor conflict with WP Bakery where shortcodes weren’t executed on the 404 page
- Fixed a minor conflict with the WP Debug Bar plugin that triggered a deprecated function warning
3.7.0 – Released on August 18, 2020
- NEW feature: RSS Content – allows users to append/prepend data to their site’s RSS feed so that search engine can identify their site as the original publisher of an article if it is scraped and posted elsewhere
- Added a notice to inform users that the Local Business SEO module requires the general schema markup to be set to “Organization”
- Improved user sanitization plugin-wide
- Improved the Importer/Exporter module with a few QoL changes
- Fixed a number of styling issues introduced in WordPress 5.5
- Fixed an issue where the plugin couldn’t extract images from the post content for our Article schema markup
- Fixed an issue where the Google News sitemap triggered a notice while it is disabled
- Fixed an issue that threw a PHP undefined index notice
3.6.2 – Released on July 15, 2020
- Fixed an issue where a PHP undefined index notice was triggered
- Improved the output of SEO meta fields + added additional sanitization for security hardening
- Fixed an issue where the Image SEO module threw a few notices when an image is embedded in the content that wasn’t uploaded through the Media Library, but still resides in a /wp-content/ subdirectory
3.6.1 – Released on July 9, 2020
- Added a Notifications menu page in our toolbar to notify users of new notifications
- Fixed an issue where the Local Business structured data triggered a notice if the postal address isn’t filled in
- Fixed an issue where our gear logo no longer appeared in our toolbar menu
- Updated the URL for the Google Structured Data Test tool in our list of external SEO tools
3.6.0 – Released on July 8, 2020
- NEW Pro feature (Business Plan and above): Local Business SEO module
- Added Publication Name setting for Google News sitemap
- Added default thumbnail as fallback for oEmbed & self-hosted videos that don’t have one
- Added LinkedIn Post Inspector to our external SEO tools list in the toolbar
- Fixed an issue where AIOSEO broke off subsequent plugin updates after being updated itself
- Fixed an issue where nested categories listed themselves as their parent in their schema breadcrumb trail
- Fixed a conflict with WPML where we deleted the meta of translated posts/terms after updating the original post/term
- Fixed conflict with WooCommerce where we included pages in the sitemap that WooCommerce noindexes
- Fixed an issue where the plugin ignored external image URLs for the schema organization logo and instead fell back to the site logo
- Fixed an issue where the sitemap included resized images instead of their full-sized version
- Fixed an issue where the external SEO tools in the toolbar used the URL of the latest post instead of the homepage
- Fixed an issue where the default filename of the video sitemap wasn’t set in the database
- Fixed a JavaScript console issue where the preview snippet tried to get the content of the excerpt for CPTs that don’t have an excerpt
- Fixed an issue where the quick-edit columns for terms didn’t have a maximum height
- Fixed an issue where one of our upsells caused a minor CSS conflict with ACF Extended
- Improved the CSS of the link format modal for the Classic Editor on mobile devices
- Updated the URL for the Facebook Debugger tool in our list with external SEO tools
- Added a URL version param to the autotrack.js script for GA to prevent it from being cached
- We’re now restricting our toolbar CSS to administrators so that it doesn’t load for other site users or visitors
- We’re now deregistering the upcoming built-in WP Core sitemap feature when the XML Sitemap module is activated to prevent conflicts
3.5.2 – Released on May 27, 2020
- Fix for Google News sitemap options appearing in Video Sitemap module
- Fix for PHP error with schema
- Fix for bad CSS in WP Link format modal
3.5.1 – Released on May 20, 2020
- Fix PHP error with schema
3.5 – Released on May 19, 2020
- NEW Pro feature (Business Plan and above): Added News Sitemap
- Added last change date to Author sitemap
- Improved performance of sitemap
- Fix for duplicate links when inserting a link in Text editor with Classic Editor plugin
- Fix for schema breadcrumb error on multisite installs
- Fix for incorrect date archive URLs in schema breadcrumbs
- Fix for missing & duplicate images on sitemap
- Fix for title attribute in Gutenberg
- Fix for schema context timeouts with large sites
- Fix for sitemap date archive missing yearly archives
- Change URLs to have UTM params in the plugin settings Support sidebar
3.4.3 – Released on April 21, 2020
- Fix for non-dismissible notices
- Fix for XML Sitemap rewrite rules interfering with alternative sitemap solutions
- Fix for conflict with Make theme & conflict with Toolset Types plugin
- Fix for i18n issue with qTrans
- Fix for quickedit column cells no longer having max. height
- Fix for multiple PHP notices
- Fix for missing closing bracket in CSS file
- Fix for mistranslated string in Turkish translation
- Improvement to toolbar menu stylesheet. We now only load it for users that are logged in
- PRO – Fix for Video Sitemap no longer correctly including VideoPress & WordPress.tv videos
3.4.2 – Released on April 1, 2020
- Fix for Breadcrumb schema missing name value.
- Fix for various PHP 5.3 errors. (Please note that we will soon increase the minimum required PHP version to 5.4)
3.4.1 – Released on March 25, 2020
- Fix for sitemap indexes all linking to first index
3.4 – Released on March 25, 2020
- NEW Pro feature (Business Plan and above): Image SEO module
- NEW Pro feature: Control XML Sitemap priority and frequency on individual posts/terms
- NEW Pro feature: Added Schema markup for Attachment pages
- NEW: Control your link title attribute, nofollow attribute and sponsored attribute
- NEW: Link to SEO tools from the SEO menu on the Admin Bar
- Schema: Added Schema breadcrumbs markup
- Social Meta: Default Open Graph image now uses site logo
- XML Sitemap: Taxonomies and terms set to noindex are excluded from sitemap
- XML Sitemap: Images in NextGen galleries are included in the image sitemap
- XML Sitemap: Images in Jetpack galleries are included in the image sitemap
- Video Sitemap: Improvements to scanning of videos
- New About page
- Improvements to Preview Snippet
- Improvements to notices throughout the plugin
- Improvements to inline help and documentation
- Improvements to how external scripts are handled
- Added new API filter hooks
- Added a review request
- Removed banner advertising
- We now display a security notice if you’re on PHP < 5.4
- Translation updates
- Various code refactoring and improvements
- Fix for XML Sitemap on WordPress multisite installs
- Fix for character counter on category / tag screens
- Fix for conflict with Wholesale for WooCommerce plugin
- Fix for HTML output in Gutenberg Screen Options
- Fix for notice output incorrectly on XML Sitemap
- Fix for priority and frequency override in XML Sitemap
- Fix for incorrect date for taxonomies in XML Sitemap
- Fix for character encoding in Schema markup
- Fix for incorrect Schema markup on WooCommerce shop page
3.3.5 – Released on February 07, 2020
- PRO – Improved the scan behaviour of the Video Sitemap module. We now schedule consecutive partial scans instead of one full scan to improve performance. The scan is now also recurring (only checks new & modified posts) and is triggered on plugin and module activation.
- Fixed an issue where the preview snippet code was executed too fast on page load for users with slow a computer or internet
- Fixed an issue where the preview snippet caused Internet Explorer 11 to freeze due to a bug in the browser
- Fixed a conflict with WooCommerce shortcodes and the Square add-on plugin for WooCommerce
- Fixed a bug that caused the addl-sitemap file to return a 404 Not Found error in a niche situation
- Prevent password manager extensions from auto-filling settings
- Fixed a bug where one robots meta tag was nested inside another
- Removed a dead link in the Social Meta menu
- Fixed a PHP undefined index notice
3.3.4 – Released on December 20, 2019
- Improvements to the Preview Snippet and Description field placeholder
- Fixed a bug with Edit Post screen hanging for posts with long content
- Fix for JavaScript errors with the Classic Editor
- Fixes hidden fields in advanced Google Analytics settings
- Fix for JavaScript errors with front page editors
- Fix for Cannot declare class WP_oEmbed error
- Fix for bug where locally hosted videos are no longer detected
- Backwards compatibility for WP_oEmbed
3.3.3 – Released on November 18, 2019
- Bugfix for editor conflict
- PRO – Video SEO Module uses new oEmbed
3.3.2 – Released on November 13, 2019
- Improved WordPress 5.3 support for Snippet Preview and character counter
3.3.1.1 – Released on November 12, 2019
- Fixed PHP warning on paged archives
3.3 – Released on November 11, 2019
- WordPress 5.3 support
- PRO – Improve performance of Video Sitemap
- PRO – Add support for Google Tag Manager
- PRO – Add support for additional video embed shortcodes
- Improved support for the Gutenberg editor
- Schema.org – Added ability to manually enter schema person info
- Schema.org – New option to add more company contacts
- Schema.org – Add JSON-LD Schema for AMP
- Schema.org – Add API filter hook to set type
- Social Meta – Improvement for Pinterest Rich Pins
- Refactored Preview Snippet code
- Refactored Character Counter code
- Bugfix for Google Analytics
- Bugfix for reflecting autogenerated title/description in character counter
- Accessibility improvements
- Improved compatibility for AMP pages
- Improvement for the Safari web browser
- API – New filter hook for custom Person markup
- Documentation improvements
- Performance enhancements
- Various under the hood code improvements
- Translation improvements
- Improvements to in-app documentation