Changelog

New Features, updates and fixes

Version 4.8.5

Updated

  • Author SEO (E-E-A-T) addon and Writing Assistant data are now fully removed when uninstalling the plugin.
  • Product Schema now favours WooCommerce brand field over its own custom field.
  • PHP version notices are now only shown to Administrators.

Fixed

  • Breadcrumbs taxonomy preview now correctly refreshes when user toggles between using the default settings.
  • WooCommerce Brand smart tag not correctly converted to expected value in previews.
  • AIOSEO Details column now correctly reloads after quick-editing a post.
  • Image URLs are no longer forcefully converted to lowercase in the Image Sitemap.
  • Focus Keyword now saves correctly again for Divi built posts.
  • Image SEO no longer breaks Divi built posts in rare cases.
  • Multisite subsites no longer incorrectly inherit the “Block AI Crawlers” and “Block Crawling of Internal Site Search URLs” setting values from the main site in the network.
  • Notifications no longer contain encoded HTML entities
  • Default options for new redirects not localized.
  • PHP error in rare cases when breadcrumb link is a WP_Error.
  • PHP error due to plugin conflict with MasterStudy LMS.

Version 4.8.4.1

Fixed

  • PHP error for multisites when AI credits don't manage to update correctly.

Version 4.8.4

New

  • AI Content – Use our new smart AI features to automatically generate FAQs, Key Points, social media posts and more, that perfectly fit your articles. 🤖
  • LLMs.txt File – The new llms.txt file helps AI engines discover your site's content more easily so your content can rank in AI search results.

Updated

  • Index Status Report now fetches index data from Google on-the-fly when it is missing or expired.

Fixed

  • Image SEO no longer incorrectly encodes HTML in captions.
  • PHP notice when trying to format price of products in Product schema where no price is set.
  • Added back missing $crumb param to aioseo_breadcrumbs_template filter hook for compatibility.

Version 4.8.3.2

Updated

  • Defined purpose of SEO title and meta description so WPML can adhere to character limits when auto-translating these fields.

Fixed

  • Breadcrumbs schema error when homepage crumb link is disabled under Breadcrumb settings.

Version 4.8.3.1

Fixed

  • SEO Site Score widget sometimes not displaying results.

Version 4.8.3

New

  • Custom Breadcrumb Trails – Create custom breadcrumb trails for all your posts and terms to granularly control how they are displayed. 🍞
  • Added multilingual sitemap support for Weglot.

Updated

  • Breadcrumb schema markup is now directly tied to your visual breadcrumb trail.
  • Deprecated Bad Bot Blocker feature has now been fully removed from the plugin.
  • Image Sitemap now stores locally hosted images as relative URLs in order to facilitate seamless site migrations.
  • AIOSEO autoloaded option no longer stores SEO Analyzer results in order to improve performance.
  • Improved performance by no longer storing Writing Assistant's country and language data in user metadata.
  • Minor performance improvements for General, HTML, and RSS sitemaps by removing unnecessary fields from database queries.
  • Added additional caching to prevent sites from sending redundant concurrent requests to AIOSEO servers to check for new updates.
  • Added support to TruSEO for Elementor's Optimized DOM feature.
  • Added support to import post/term level redirects from the Rank Math SEO plugin.
  • Added support for Bluesky and Threads to Social Networks settings.
  • Unified the “Last Modified Date” checkbox design across WooCommerce Products and Classic Editor posts.
  • Improved UX for the AIOSEO Overview widget by showing TruSEO scores for all posts, regardless of whether they have a Focus Keyword.
  • “Keyword in URL” TruSEO check is now disabled when WordPress permalinks are not enabled.
  • Improved sitemap validation to only allow “inherit” post status for attachments.

Fixed

  • Dynamic backup for temporarily deregistered post types and taxonomies now works correctly again.
  • Add redirects bulk action within the 404 Logs tab now works correctly again.
  • Cache issue in multisite when sub-site is not network activated.
  • Additional Pages sitemap index no longer shows the image column.
  • SEO revision now shows the correct name for taxonomies other than category.
  • AIOSEO popup overlap in Divi.
  • News Sitemap title now outputs encoded versions of special characters (&, >, <, ‘, etc.).
  • When deleting the modified date for an additional sitemap record, it now shows as empty instead of invalid.
  • Sitemap would sometimes throw an error if another plugin/theme added content to the output, causing it to be parsed incorrectly.
  • TruSEO would sometimes not be able to read Elementor's post content.
  • Tumblr URL format in the social meta and schema markup are now always the same.
  • Book schema markup now correctly outputs the book format.
  • Fact Check schema now correctly outputs the claim author.
  • Google Rich Results Test link now appears again in the toolbar menu.
  • URL input validation no longer shows an error for empty values.
  • Improved Link Assistant's ability to handle large amounts of text by increasing the text size limit for paragraphs and optimizing how text content is processed.
  • SEO settings now properly update when switching between pages in the Elementor editor.
  • SEO Title and Meta Description compatibility with Astra Pro Site Builder and SureForms plugins.
  • Link Assistant Inner post report would sometimes fail to refresh.
  • Compatibility with LearnDash Notifications while using Redirect's Advanced 404 feature.
  • Resolved duplicate DB queries when loading notifications for the Notification Center.
  • URLs in the sitemap are now properly encoded for non-English languages when using WPML.
  • TruSEO settings not being updated depending on the content.
  • PHP deprecation warning for PHP 8.4 in Action Scheduler.
  • PHP warning for taxonomy sitemap indexes.
  • PHP warning when using Divi and custom schema markup.
  • PHP notice in Author SEO (E-E-A-T) addon due to translations loaded too early.

Version 4.8.2

New

  • Index Status Report – Quickly identify which posts are indexed by Google and why others aren’t—with granular details on crawl status, fetch results, robots.txt and structured data.

Updated

  • Improved Table of Contents block rendering performance.
  • Hardened limit and order clauses in database queries.

Fixed

  • WP 6.8 deprecation warning for default Table of Contents and FAQ block styles.
  • Potential page freeze issue when converting Table of Contents block from Group to Columns via block toolbar.
  • Console error in Table of Contents block when switching between Visual and Code Editor in Block Editor.

Version 4.8.1.1

Fixed

  • CSS style conflict with Woocommerce Memberships and Abandoned Carts.

Version 4.8.1

Updated

  • DiscussionForumPosting schema is now output for bbPress forum topics and replies as well.
  • Improved the SEO Email Report header layout for dates in different languages.
  • Expiration date format in AIOSEO General Settings now reflects WordPress date format setting.
  • Various Keyword Rank Tracker UI/UX improvements.
  • The LinkedIn field in the Setup Wizard is now shown by default.
  • “Show post type archive link” setting for products has been removed from their breadcrumb template.
  • AIOSEO no longer loads its page builder integration for non-public Thrive Architect post types.

Fixed

  • Removed support for sitelinks schema as it is no longer supported by Google.
  • YouTube embedded videos with additional parameters in the URL not being detected by the Video Sitemap addon.
  • Uninstalling AIOSEO did not remove user role entries from the database as intended.
  • Limit Modified Date feature sometimes not working for WooCommerce Products.
  • Load admin bar assets on the frontend when logged in only if the admin bar is enabled for that user.
  • Prevent unneeded popup warning on the user profile edit page when leaving without making edits.
  • Restoring SEO revisions now updates meta keys to ensure localization.
  • WPML translation to support admin pages in addition to Author/Reviewer Blocks.
  • Additional keyphrases tooltip cutting off in page builders.
  • Category in the permalink and breadcrumb did not match when the primary category is removed.
  • “See Full Bio” link not correctly displaying for reviewers without posts, even when a custom author bio URL is set.
  • Keyphrase in URL analysis didn't update correctly for auto-draft posts.
  • Search Statistics now disconnects automatically if there's an authentication error.
  • Phrase text missing from the Link Assistant's Link Suggestions table.
  • SERP Preview update when changing primary term for a WooCommerce product.
  • Updated SERP title to reflect selected primary term for the category when changed.
  • SiteOrigin integration style conflict to prevent overlap with other modals.
  • Images using the Post SEO Title smart tag were sometimes not parsed correctly.
  • URL count for the root sitemap sometimes not entirely accurate.
  • Robots.txt settings not correctly synced between multisite network and main site.

Version 4.8.0

Crawl Optimization Improvements banner

New

  • Crawl Optimization Improvements – We've added even more features to Crawl Cleanup to help you block unwanted bots from indexing your site and prevent spammers from abusing your internal site search results.

Fixed

  • TruSEO Highlighter not always working correctly when post content contains an empty or reusable block.