Changelog

New Features, updates and fixes

Version 4.1.1

New

  • Visual breadcrumb trails with block, widget and shortcode support

Updated

  • Added support for WooCommerce Variable Products to Product schema and WooCommerce smart tags
  • Added support for Duplicate Post plugin
  • Added new block to list Location Categories
  • Added support for additional macros when importing data from other SEO plugins
  • Added support (via filter hook) for using cover block images as the autogenerated social meta image
  • Added support for VideoPress shortcodes
  • Added support to control the business type for each Location

Fixed

  • TruSEO score shown on All Posts/Pages screen when metabox is disabled
  • V3 migration now also stores migrated data as localized post/term data for WPML
  • Phone/fax numbers in Local Business schema weren’t stripped of formatting
  • JavaScript console error when editing an ACF field group
  • JavaScript console error when adding a Focus Keyphrase when there is no post content yet
  • Text heart emoji stripped from title/description
  • Missing server redirects notification is now automatically dismissed after adding the redirect files to the server configuration

Version 4.1.0.2

Updated

  • UI enhancements for Redirection Manager
  • Added support for searching for posts by slug when adding a redirect
  • Timestamps for redirect/404 hits are now localized to user’s timezone
  • Added more caching for title/description
  • Added some security hardening recommended by Vincent Michel

Fixed

  • Redirect tables and Local SEO posts/terms not dropped when plugin is uninstalled
  • Hide server exports when using PHP redirects
  • All Posts/Pages screens time out when user has high post display count
  • Conflicting REST API header
  • Deleting redirect in paginated results refreshes back to first page
  • Plugin sends requests to Semrush after user denied authorization
  • Incorrect “plugin is already on the latest version” notice when bulk updating plugins

Version 4.1.0.1

Fixed

  • Redirection Manager strips double slashes from URLs
  • AMP for WP pages trigger fatal error
  • PHP notice when editing a private post type in the Classic Editor
  • Social meta not output on term pages

Version 4.1.0

New

  • Redirection Manager to create and manage redirects for 404s or modified posts

Updated

  • Smoother UX when editing fields with smart tags
  • Added filter to disable shortcode parsing for title/description

Fixed

  • Titles for custom terms not always imported during v3 migration
  • Metadata not always being output for “AMP for WP” homepage
  • Incorrect autogenerated URL for Wikipedia social profile + LinkedIn group/school URLs flagged as invalid
  • Setup wizard sometimes reappearing after exiting
  • Software Application graph not outputting review headline and content
  • Trailing slashes not removed for sitemap indexes with two or more digits
  • Translated variants (WMPL) of static homepage not shown as alternative links in sitemap

Version 4.0.17

New

  • Support for noindexing RSS feed pages

Updated

  • Schema now uses author’s public display name instead of first & last name

Fixed

  • Noindexed custom post archives are no longer included in the sitemap
  • Default title/description format sometimes not populated on post/term creation
  • Post Excerpt tag no longer is blank in the preview snippet
  • Addons sometimes can’t be installed after installing Pro
  • Social Meta profile URLs fields sometimes show warning when valid URL is entered
  • Social Meta profile URLs sometimes don’t save
  • Invalid data in v3 .ini export file stops entire import

Version 4.0.16

New

  • Semrush integration for keyphrase suggestions

Updated

  • Change default meta description to Post Excerpt for post types that support it
  • Added support for importing CPT archive settings from competitor plugins
  • Output brand graph instead of plain text for Product schema
  • Added filter to disable our custom link format attributes
  • Added filter to prevent output buffering conflicts
  • Disabled new wp_robots filter in WP Core 5.7

Fixed

  • Paged format repeated in meta description
  • Incorrect language code in multilingual WPML post sitemap
  • Post descriptions not imported from competitor plugins
  • Sitelinks schema markup output on other pages besides the homepage
  • Organization logo not output in schema if set to an external URL
  • RSS sitemap settings sometimes not saving correctly
  • Deleting default title/description sometimes failed
  • Dollar symbols in post titles not migrating correctly
  • FAQ Page and Recipe textarea blocks not expanding in height
  • Schema dropdown menu in editor sidebar opening in wrong direction

Version 4.0.15

Updated

  • Performance enhancements for sitemap integration with WooCommerce

Version 4.0.14

Fixed

  • PHP notices caused by plugin conflicts

Version 4.0.13

New

  • Schema Pro updates to include support for Products, FAQ Pages, Courses, Recipes and more!
  • Added a filter for schema aioseo_schema_graphs

Updated

  • Minimum capabilities on certain admin notices
  • Moved filter hook for title rewrites to wp to allow for accessing the query
  • Cache all references to attachment_url_to_postid functions
  • Refactored image scan interval for performance
  • Refactored the sitemap query to include post type
  • Add dismissible option to robots.txt alert

Fixed

  • Exporting settings including unnecessary data
  • Transients not always being set correctly
  • AIOSEO details column appearing on private post types/taxonomies
  • Admin notice conflicts with plugins that disable admin notices
  • Bug with title rewrites when multiple head tags exist in the page
  • Unnecessary div element being added to the front-end of the site
  • Issue with duplicate post records being inserted into custom tables
  • Adding null entries to the custom tables
  • Missing space in page format appended to titles/descriptions
  • Output broken for keywords using languages that have multibyte characters
  • Default settings for paged home pages not being set to noindex
  • Shortcodes not being properly parsed on titles and descriptions
  • Boolean values in database not being added in strict MySQL environments
  • Breadcrumb labels for authors, archives, search, and 404 pages
  • Adding additional pages now work even when we don’t output a sitemap index by default
  • rel=”next” links not always working
  • Use fullsize image for OG image with filter to modify aioseo_thumbnail_size
  • Remove OG HTML attribute if OG is disabled
  • Default OG object type for home page is now ‘website’ instead of ‘article’
  • Undefined index error in apache in regards to $_SERVER[‘REMOTE_ADDR’]
  • Conflict with custom permalinks plugin
  • Sitemap adding language=”” when not needed
  • Page titles not always migrating properly
  • Keywords not always migrating properly

Version 4.0.12

New

  • Add support for dashes in custom field names

Updated

  • aioseo_disable filter now disables title rewrites

Fixed

  • Completely remove auto updates wrapper to let WordPress handle updates
  • Refactor sitemap rewrite rules to account for WordPress sitemaps
  • Support for taxonomies and custom post types that use ‘type’ as the slug
  • Options backup not always working for custom post types
  • Console error related to WooCommerce tags
  • Additional plugin conflicts