Changelog

New Features, updates and fixes

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

Version 4.0.7

New

  • Added aioseo_keywords filter

Fixed

  • Issue with a CSS file returning a 404
  • Issue where not all GA scripts were being output to the page
  • Conflict with Avada when using the Slider shortcode
  • PHP Fatal error that affected a small subset of users during migration from version 3

Version 4.0.6

New

  • Integration with MonsterInsights for Google Analytics
  • Added Default Title/Description Meta for display in Page/Posts
  • Notice to inform users when title formats were broken in V3 after a migration
  • Smart tags (Categories, Parent Title, WooCommerce SKU/Price/Brand)
  • Option to display additional twitter meta (written by/reading time)
  • Dismissible notice to let inform users where they can find meta keywords
  • Notice to let give users info on adding keyphrases

Updated

  • Twitter meta does not default Open Graph any more
  • TruSEO tests to give more valuable information
  • Added “SEO” to test names in TruSEO to avoid confusion with Page Title
  • Added locale to TruSEO tests
  • SEO Analyzer error messages to give more helpful information

Fixed

  • Custom tables not always being created
  • Invalid help docs URL
  • Scheduled actions not always completing when importing from other SEO plugins
  • Incorrect TruSEO test logic
  • WooCommerce Products page only showing the shop page title/desc for all Products
  • PHP errors on home page when no images are set
  • GTM script not always being output in the source code
  • Parsing of meta tag in the Pinterest section of the social networks page

Version 4.0.5

New

  • Added helpful notices when description format is used incorrectly
  • Added support for pasting in a string of keywords to automatically parse
  • Allow pasting in the entire meta tag in Webmaster Tools for Google/Bing/etc.
  • Post Excerpt Only smart tag

Updated

  • Improved UX when importing settings from other SEO plugins
  • Improved sitemap scanning of images with caching to increase performance
  • Competitor Site Analysis results content
  • Truncate post content in meta descriptions to WordPress default lengths
  • Allow other TLD’s in social network URL’s

Fixed

  • Performance issues on sites with millions of WordPress user accounts
  • Setting SEO titles/descriptions from the all posts page not consistently working
  • Sitemap compatibility issues with GoDaddy CDN
  • Performance issues with static sitemaps being generated on large sites
  • Static sitemap generating even when disabled
  • Home Page Open Graph/Twitter images revert to the defaults if not set
  • Properly display errors when an addon is not installed correctly
  • Text editor in the Classic Editor now works with TruSEO
  • URL’s switching to http in Competitor Site Analysis
  • PHP error when loading the help modal in the settings pages
  • Missing import fields from other SEO plugins
  • Page titles not displaying properly when themes hardcode titles
  • White screen in settings when SSL is not configured properly on specific hosts
  • Swapped options on the system status page
  • Conflict with shortcodes that break meta description parsing
  • Conflict with plugins and themes that reset the WP Query
  • Issue with person graph not being displayed in the schema

Version 4.0.4

Fixed

  • Title formats not always migrating correctly

Version 4.0.3

Updated

  • Moved all action scheduler items into the aioseo group

Fixed

  • SEO data occasionally not saving while using the Classic Editor in Pages/Posts/Terms
  • Migrations not fully completing when upgrading from V3
  • Weglot injecting language switcher into sitemap stylesheets
  • Genesis Theme outputting duplicate SEO data
  • Paged numbers appearing in the AIOSEO Details column when navigating through the posts table
  • Post/page titles not migrating with the proper format
  • Social profile urls failing when they are valid
  • Twitter and Facebook images not displaying in the preview
  • Focus keywords not being added when first creating a page
  • AIOSEO Settings section not always displaying on Edit Post screen in classic editor in WP 4.9 – 5.1

Version 4.0.2

Fixed

  • Display of Titles and Descriptions while migration is running
  • Post/Term meta not always saving because of using PUT requests instead of POST
  • Social Profile urls not validating with subdomains or trailing slashes
  • Social Profile urls were not all being output if some were using the same username
  • Memory leak on certain sites with thousands of transients
  • PHP 5.2/5.3 notice compatibility

Version 4.0.1

Fixed

  • Issue with sites using different database engines

Version 4.0.0

New

  • Complete rebuild of the plugin for better performance and SEO enhancements
  • Onboarding wizard to streamline SEO setup for your site
  • Centralized dashboard to provide you with your current SEO status
  • TruSEO Analysis for posts and pages
  • SEO Analyzer with competitor site analysis
  • Customizable access control
  • Internal settings backup and restore
  • 100+ enhancements and bug fixes

Updated

  • Minimum PHP version compatibility to 5.4

Version 3.7.1

  • 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

3.3.4 – Released on December 20, 2019 

3.3.3 – Released on November 18, 2019

3.3.2 – Released on November 13, 2019

3.3.1.1 – Released on November 12, 2019

3.3 – Released on November 11, 2019