Changelog

• 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

• Fix for undefined index
• Improve tooltip text for XML Sitemap module
• PRO – Improve tooltip text for Video Sitemap module

3.2.9 – Released on September 26, 2019

• Fix for sites running old versions of PHP

3.2.8 – Released on September 23, 2019

• Resolved bug conflict between Chrome 77 and Gutenberg which overlapped metaboxes with the edit post screen
• Added filter hook to disable schema.org markup programmatically
• Minor UI improvements
• Some code cleanup

3.2.7 – Released on September 10, 2019

• Security Fix: escape HTML before outputting meta description. (Props to Tobias Fink of SBA Research)
• New: added og:video:secure_url tag
• Improved support for older version of PHP. (Please update your PHP!)
• Translation improvements

3.2.6 – Released on September 8, 2019

• Fix for undefined index during version updates
• Fix for missing closing tag in certain edge cases for robots meta
• Enable Schema.org markup by default

3.2.5 – Released on August 29, 2019

• Fix for sites running old versions of PHP

3.2.4 – Released on August 19, 2019

• Bugfix for XML Sitemap creating phantom addl-sitemap file
• Bugfix for Noindex on paginated homepages

3.2.3 – Released on August 8, 2019

• Fixed compatibility issue for old versions of PHP < 5.5 (Update your PHP versions!)
• PRO – Fixed issue in Video SEO module

3.2.2 – Released on August 6, 2019

• Fix conflict between schema.org autogenerated descriptions and some shortcodes
• Don’t output default robots meta tag value
• Fix broken Help link for Google Settings
• Fix for PHP warning
• Fix another PHP warning

3.2.1 – Released on August 2, 2019

• Fix for users running old versions of PHP (< 5.5)

3.2 – Released on August 1, 2019

• Read our release post for All in One SEO Pack 3.2.
• NEW Schema.org structural data. Read our post here to learn more.
• XML Sitemap – improvements to last changed date
• XML Sitemap – fix where certain pages were included twice
• XML Sitemap – add API Filter Hook to exclude taxonomy terms by ID
• XML Sitemap – add noopener/noreferrer to sitemaps.org link
• Preview Snippet – fix where % in title can break things
• Preview Snippet – double site title on posts page
• WooCommerce – fix for noindex/nofollow on WooCommerce Shop Page
• WooCommerce – fix warning when setting memory to 256
• Titles – Add current_month title format
• RSS Feed – add filter to remove noindex
• Bugfix for a pesky undefined variable
• Bugfix where noindex for paginated posts/pages was being applied to archives incorrectly.
• Bugfix for PHP notice when no posts are on homepage
• Bugfix where noindex/nofollow for post types were incorrectly affecting taxonomies
• New translations
• Accessibility improvements
• Under the hood code improvements
• Documentation improvements
• HTML/CSS markup improvements
• Much more (61 total issues resolved!)

3.1.1 – Released on June 15, 2019

• Minor CSS Fixes.

3.1 – Released on June 10, 2019

• XML Sitemap – changed file naming convention. Read our blog post for more details.

3.0.4 – Released on June 7, 2019

• Fix for Users behind the Great Firewall of China
• Translation/localization updates
• Bugfix in admin notices not dismissing

3.0.3 – Released on June 6, 2019

• Make notices less intrusive (restricted to AIOSEOP screens).

3.0.2 – Released on June 5, 2019

• Bugfix for sites on old versions of PHP (older than PHP 5.3.6)
• Bugfix where the social tab was missing in a plugin conflict on some sites.
• Bugfix where we accidentally changed the font in the text editor of the Classic Editor
• Bugfix where upgrade to Pro notice for WooCommerce users wasn’t staying gone
• Bugfix for conflict with the Divi theme’s classic editor
• CSS fix

3.0.1 – Released on June 4, 2019

• Bugfix – PHP Warning
• XML Sitemap – improve exclusions based on noindex for large indexed sites.

3.0 – Released on June 3, 2019

This is a pretty massive update, containing a total of 117 resolved issues.

Read the release post.

• PRO ONLY – Improvements to Video SEO Module.
• PRO ONLY – Add columns to taxonomy SEO screens.
• PRO ONLY – Add filter to control which description to use for WooCommerce products.
• PRO ONLY – Improvements for excluding custom taxonomies from XML Sitemap
• PRO ONLY – Improvement to %tax_term% title format.
• XML Sitemap – index now in reverse chronological order.
• XML Sitemap – bugfix for nonexistent URLs.
• XML Sitemap – now defaults to indexes.
• XML Sitemap – now defaults to 1000 posts per page.
• XML Sitemap – Removed gzip compression
• XML Sitemap – remove from sitemap when noindex is enabled.
• Removed Google+.
• Removed exabot from Bad Bot Blocker.
• Facebook SSL for OG Images
• Add %current_year% title format.
• Bugfix for WooCommerce.
• Added character counter for Homepage OG title & Meta Description.
• Removed “Set Preferred Site Name” option.
• “blog” macros now deprecated in favor of “site” macros
• Improved behavior of help text area.
• Optimized images to improve performance and reduce file size.
• API – New Filter Hook for custom title formats
• API – New Filter Hook to disable OG meta truncation
• API – New Filter Hooks to generate descriptions from content.
• Added Baidu and Yandex verification
• Localization/Translation improvements for non-English users
• Adjusted size of Opengraph and Twitter meta descriptions
• Removed option to disable XML Sitemap URL in robots.txt
• Removed Custom Canonical URLs option (now enabled for all)
• Schema.org now uses HTTPS
• Fixed undefined variable bug.
• Bugfix – invalid arg warning
• Many UI/UX improvements.
• CSS improvements.
• Lots of improvements to both in-app documentation and website docs.

• Support for WordPress 5.2
• Improvements for Gutenberg compatibility

2.13 – Released on February 21, 2019

• Support for WordPress 5.1 for rel=next and prev
• Minimum WordPress version supported is now 4.6
• Add back in missing debug form
• Remove i18n since we’re using .org hosted translations
• String changes
• Fixed bug where unchecking schema.org didn’t actually remove all of it
• Fixed bug in homepage character counter
• Fixed problem in XML sitemap caused by rsquo; character
• Documentation improvements
• Improved PHP 7.3 support
• Improved PHP 7.0 support
• Grunt
• Fixed metabox styling when editing taxonomies
• Various other under the hood improvements

2.12 – Released on January 31, 2019

• XML Sitemap – improved special characters encoding
• XML Sitemap – massive performance optimizations
• XML Sitemap – fix for missing sitemap name in sitemap indexes
• Fix for incorrect default Open Graph object type on taxonomies
• Fix for Japanese language
• Additional automated testing
• Various other bug fixes

2.11.1 – Released on December 16, 2018:

• Resolved a couple undefined index warnings when running debug mode
• Resolved an undefined variable warning when running debug mode

2.11 – Released on December 6, 2018: IMPORTANT SECURITY UPDATE

• Security Fix: Properly escape image upload variables (Props to RIPStech for reporting it)
• XML Sitemap – encode characters for image:caption
• RSS Sitemap is now optional and disabled by default
• Bugfix for SEO not showing up on homepage when there are no posts
• Improvements for Facebook sharing debuging
• Improvement for SEO sections missing in 2.9 for some people
• Removed obsolete option “SEO for Content Types”
• Update sitemap ping URLs
• Video Sitemap – Performance improvements
• Improvements to Preview Snippet
• Add templates for custom fields for title
• Bug with video sitemap when added to XML Sitemap indexes
• WordPress Coding Standards improvements

2.10.1.1 – Released on December 5, 2018:

• Update for WordPress 5.0

2.10.1 – Released on October 24, 2018:

• Fix for shortcodes in OpenGraph descriptions
• Changed “custom post type” language to “content type” for clarity
• Resolved issue where large sites using static sitemaps could time out
• Resolved conflict with LearnDash plugin
• Corrected contributor name

2.10 – Released on October 18, 2018:

• XML Sitemap – Option to hide “hidden” WooCommerce products
• Video XML Sitemap – Remove the Scan button (it’s now automatic)
• Use WooCommerce Product Image for OG Image
• Fix for nofollow not working under certain conditions
• Schema.org fixes
• Social Media Meta – use full size image
• Fix for JS conflict in media dropdown
• Fix for post title format template macros
• Robots.txt – Add an Edit Rule feature
• Compatibility fix for Fusion Builder
• Compatibility fix for Fusion Builder and WooCommerce
• Remove SEMRush from Bad Bot Blocker
• XML Sitemap – add title and caption for images
• XML Sitemap – Add support for RSS/Atom updates
• API Filter Hook to change sitemap filename
• Fix for using certain special characters in SEO meta
• Compatibility fix for bbPress
• XML Sitemap – use full size image
• Fix to ensure that disabling SEO really disables SEO for all post types
• Improve shortcode handling in manually entered meta descriptions
• Apply pagination to custom canonical URLs
• Fix for Canonical URLs subpages
• Apply URL variables to custom post type archive canonical URLs
• API filter hook for get_tax_args() function
• In-app Documentation improvements
• CSS improvements
• Various under the hood improvements

2.9 – Released on September 10, 2018:

• Video XML Sitemap – Add column for video count to sitemap
• XML Sitemap – fixed bug where custom XML Sitemap filenames could be deleted on updating to 2.7.3.
• XML Sitemap – added support for post type archive pages
• XML Sitemap – require properly formed URLs
• XML Sitemap – don’t include content from trashed pages
• API – added new filter hook to allow images from Jetpack (and other external images) in XML Sitemap
• API – added new filter hook to exclude post type archives from XML Sitemap
• Performance – massive optimizations for Google XML Sitemap
• PHP 7.2 compatibility update for parse_str()
• WooCommerce – Add product gallery images to XML Sitemap
• WPML compatibility update – bugfix where we were loading options too soon
• Advanced Custom Fields compatibility update for meta descriptions
• added new automated testing
• Fix for servers with poor filesystem settings
• Fix for using page title in meta description
• Fixed cosmetic issue where attached image was still selected even with a custom social image
• Bugfix – images at the top of content was breaking auto-generated meta descriptions
• Bugfix – SEO News feed was still trying to reach out in the background when disabled via screen options
• various CSS improvements
• various under the hood improvements

2.8.3 – Released on August 13, 2018:

• minor under the hood code improvement

2.8.2 – Released on July 30, 2018:

• Robots.txt module now only uses dynamic virtual file instead of a physical file
• Complete overhaul of Robots.txt module
• Multisite network admins can now create network-wide robots.txt rules for each site
• Fix for title/description field UI
• JQuery fix for help icons
• Fix for XML Sitemap module date picker
• Removed FTP support from filesystem
• Improvements to documentation

2.7.1 – Released on June 7, 2018:

• Fix for noindex for categories overriding nofollow checkbox on individual category
• Improvements for translations
• XML Sitemap – Removed the option to rename the sitemap file
• Bugfix for metabox showing when it shouldn’t
• Bugfix for dates
• Optimizations for settings code
• LOTS of improvements to the code under the hood
• minimum WP required is now 4.4
• improvements to automated unit testing
• Fix – javascript conflict with Pirate Forms plugin
• Google search once again changed their SERPs description length

2.6 – Released on March 29, 2018:

• Improved PHP 7.2 support
• Improved Gutenberg support
• Bugfix for Advanced Custom Fields
• XML Sitemap – fixed some errors some users experienced in Google Search Console
• XML Sitemap – support external images (such as from a CDN)
• XML Sitemap – better handling of schemeless URLs
• XML Sitemap – corrected order of tags for indexed pages
• Fix for title counter color
• API – Added aioseop_format_date filter hook for date format
• Performance – refactored various code under the hood to make sure we’re running at optimum efficiency

2.5.6.1 – Released on March 15, 2018:

• Quick fix for an issue with a JavaScript file when using Google Analytics

2.5.6 – Released on March 15, 2018:

• Fixed bug in CPT settings where certain fields don’t display until you click update
• Improved inline documentation and help
• We now use grunt to ensure 100% compliance with the WordPress Coding Standards

2.5.5.1 – Released on February 14, 2018:

• Minimum required WordPress version increased from 4.0 to 4.4
• XML Sitemap – resolved XML Parsing compatibility issue for WP versions < 4.7
• XML Sitemap -fixed issue where some subscribers were seeing XML Sitemap notices
• XML Sitemap -fixed bug where mandatory fields could cause settings not to save
• XML Sitemap – fixed compatibility issue with WPML
• XML Sitemap – fixed bug with adding additional pages to sitemap
• Improve Snippet Preview encoding for url
• API – new filter hook to add to header
• API – new filter hook to load Google Analytics autotrack.js from CDN

2.5.4.1 – Released on January 18, 2018:

• Fix for meta description filter

2.5.4 – Released on January 11, 2018:

• Support longer meta descriptions
• Fix for auto-generated meta descriptions which start with an image

2.5.3 – Released on November 17, 2017:

• Workaround for Jetpack bug which causes fatal error in some cases

2.5.2.1 – Released on November 15, 2017:

• Update for WordPress 4.9

2.5.2 – Released on October 4, 2017:

• XML Sitemap – support relative URLs for images
• XML Sitemap – ignore external images
• XML Sitemap – reduce duplicate images
• XML Sitemap – added option to remove images (helpful for Yandex users)
• XML Sitemap – fix validation errors for Google Search Console in certain situations
• Bugfix – for compatibility with the Divi theme
• API – improvements to filter hook to remove images from XML Sitemap

2.5.1.1 – Released on October 2, 2017:

• Bugfix for embeds being picked up as images causing parsing errors for some sitemaps
• Check if PHP dom module exists
• Better check for images in galleries
• Added notice for sites with >1000 URLs to using indexing

2.5 – Released on September 28, 2017:

• Video XML Sitemap – Add support for videos embedded using JS
• Video XML Sitemap – Fix for including embeds as videos
• Video XML Sitemap – Fixed bug with WordPress.TV videos
• XML Sitemap – Include Video XML Sitemap URL in sitemap index
• Added support for Images in XML Sitemap
• Fix for Track Outbound Links
• Fix for character counter
• Fix for auto-Shorten Long Descriptions option not working in some cases
• Added xml sitemap URL API filter hook
• Improved documentation
• Translation improvements
• UI improvements to the options screen and post metabox, snippet preview, etc
• Code cleanup for WordPress Coding Standards
• Various other under the hood improvements and bug fixes