Changelog

New Features, updates and fixes

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

Version 4.0.11

Fixed

  • Issue with additional sitemap indexes returning 404

Version 4.0.10

New

  • Added task to cleanup all unnecessary action scheduler items to keep the DB trim
  • Filter to modify the home page schema breadcrumbs title aioseo_schema_breadcrumbs_home

Updated

  • Link to documentation for filters and hooks
  • Documentation regarding schema still being output for unlicensed users

Fixed

  • Performance issues when using TruSEO analysis on very long posts
  • Event Espresso compatibility which didn’t allow AIOSEO settings to load
  • Suppressed continued errors with the WP FileSystem
  • Schema breadcrumbs not using the proper post titles
  • PHP error when install routine has not finished running
  • Stripping of sitemap URL’s in robots.txt
  • Issue where static sitemaps were always being regenerated on save
  • Issue where non-latin characters would cause the meta box to grow wider

Version 4.0.9

New

  • Added a filter to disable title rewrites via aioseo_disable_title_rewrites
  • Added a filter to modify the social network meta tags via aioseo_social_meta_tags

Updated

  • Performance enhancements for the V3 migration to prevent large sites from slowing down
  • Performance enhancements when loading any AIOSEO settings page as well as the post editor
  • The display of the archive title when on a CPT

Fixed

  • Bug that prevented editors and authors from editing SEO titles and descriptions
  • TruSEO support in the classic editor URL not fully working on extra long URLs
  • Issue where the closing head tag did not always display
  • Issue on a few remaining sites where the title tag would strip out a $ and any numbers after it
  • PHP error related to missing array during the migration
  • Issue where AIOSEO would not remove the trailing /amp from canonical URLs
  • Issue where notices would appear in the log when trying to access our log file
  • Conflict with WP Shop plugin

Version 4.0.8

New

  • Added filter to allow altering meta box priority

Updated

  • Default options for auto updates

Fixed

  • Issue with regex escaping smart tags incorrectly
  • CSS conflict with Revive Old Posts plugin