Changelog

New Features, updates and fixes

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.

Version 4.1.9

New

  • Track how users interact with your website via Microsoft Clarity and gain valuable insights through heatmaps and sessions recordings.
  • Our brand-new REST API addon allows developers to fetch our SEO data via the WordPress REST API and use it on their headless site.

Updated

  • Link Assistant’s performance has been improved and is now able to scan your site for suggestions significantly faster than before.
  • AIOSEO now displays a solutions page if a JavaScript error occurred or if the browser has been set to block JavaScript from running.
  • Improved the look and feel of the phone number fields.
  • Links in block previews no longer open a new page.
  • Added support for autogenerated title/alt tag attributes for images in the SeedProd Page Builder.
  • Improved RTL styles.

Fixed

  • Special regex characters are no longer stripped from the value of the Taxonomy Title smart tag.
  • tagDiv Opt-in Builder no longer causes AIOSEO’s menu pages to crash.
  • Headline Analyzer no longer causes errors in Block Editor for WordPress Core versions below 5.2.
  • Taxonomy related smart tags sometimes not returning the correct value.
  • Canonical URL for homepage no longer includes query arguments.
  • Canonical URL for homepage of multisite installs with subdirectories no longer includes base path twice.
  • Previous/next links no longer include query arguments.
  • Page number smart tag now returns the correct page number on paginated comment pages.
  • Static homepage now correctly outputs custom schema graphs.
  • Pagination buttons of table component sometimes not vertically aligned.
  • AIOSEO menu not working for Elementor Template posts.
  • Link counts from Link Assistant are no longer shown in AIOSEO Details column for media attachments.
  • Link Assistant tab in the metabox now correctly displays for new posts.
  • “View Post” link for Inbound Internal links now refers to the right page.
  • “All Categories” filter in Links Report no longer triggers a PHP error.
  • Orphaned link suggestions are now correctly removed when their source/target post is deleted.
  • URL in anchor tooltip for Inbound Suggestions now refers to the right page.
  • Keywords from Yoast SEO sometimes not imported correctly.
  • Sitemap indexes now correctly use the deprecated custom filename again.