Changelog

New Features, updates and fixes

Version 4.7.6

New

  • BuddyPress Integration – You can now granularly control your SEO settings for all Activities, Groups and Members in BuddyPress. We've also added full sitemap support, new DiscussionForumPosting schema and many more features to optimize your BuddyPress content for search results.
  • Author SEO Improvements – We have added new fields to the user profile for Awards/Spoken Languages and the Author Bio URL so you can link to any custom author page that you like!
  • Google Web Stories Integration – Optimize your web stories with AIOSEO just like any other content type and automatically generate new AmpStory schema.

Updated

  • We now output a meta tag for the author in the source code of each post that supports authors.
  • All Author SEO block labels are now filterable.

Fixed

  • PHP notice due to loading translations too early in WordPress 6.7.

Version 4.7.5.1

Fixed

  • XML sitemap not including terms in some cases due to DB error.

Version 4.7.5

Updated

  • XML sitemaps now include parent terms without posts if they have any children with posts.
  • Prevent incorrect parsing of dates when importing a CSV file for additional sitemap pages.
  • Added “View in Google” link for keyword rows in Search Statistics.
  • Removed sitemap ping on post publish due to Google's deprecation of the feature.
  • Various improvements and bug fixes for SEO Email Reports.
  • Various improvements and bug fixes for Keyword Rank Tracker.
  • Added filter to show/hide title and description in AIOSEO Details column for post/term pages.
  • Added filters to enable/disable hyperlinks for phone numbers and email addresses in the Local SEO business info shortcode/block.
  • Semrush keyword integration now remembers the last country you've selected.
  • Added Aria labels for Author SEO blocks.

Fixed

  • Conflict with Learndash Notifications plugin.
  • Conflict with Admin Notices Manager plugin.
  • AIOSEO Details column in Media Library for Image SEO addon no longer highlights irrelevant tags and updates title correctly.
  • Local SEO Map shortcode now renders correctly inside Elementor.
  • Multilingual sitemap does not use correct language code from WPML in rare cases.
  • Breadcrumb block now renders correctly when text contains “>” character.
  • TruSEO generates different results/score when switching between Visual and Code editors.
  • Consecutive sentence errors highlighting different text in Block Editor and Classic Editor.
  • Link format UI breaking for older WordPress versions from 5.3 to 5.9.
  • Priority score not updating for SEO Revisions when the user applies a score of 0.
  • Searching for non-English strings in redirects/404 log tables returned no results.
  • BuddyPress schema markup causing an error in Google Search Console.
  • PHP error due to unpacking an array with string keys.
  • SEO Preview URL character encoding.

Version 4.7.4.2

Updated

  • Compatibility with WordPress 6.7.

Fixed

  • AIOSEO metabox or setting pages sometimes not loading because WAFs or web server block JavaScript files from being loaded due to false-positives.

Version 4.7.4.1

Fixed

  • Post Excerpt tag sometimes not listed in list of available smart tags.

Version 4.7.4

New

  • Writing Assistant + SEOBoost – Elevate Your Content Strategy! Integrate seamlessly with SEOBoost via AIOSEO to supercharge your WordPress content. Harness the power of AI to optimize your content, drive organic traffic, and outrank competitors.

Fixed

  • Post Overview widget sometimes not loading for newer PHP versions.


Version 4.7.3.1

Fixed

  • Link format sometimes causing block errors in WP 6.4.5 and below.

Version 4.7.3

Updated

  • “?replytocom” query parameter for comment reply links now removed by default to optimize crawl quota.
  • Added support for Salient WPBakery plugin.
  • Added new filter to allow users to hide the WooCommerce shop page from the breadcrumbs trail.
  • Improved performance of the SEO Overview widget.
  • Various minor improvements and bug fixes for Keyword Rank Tracker.

Fixed

  • Canonical URLs for term archive pages correctly include the paginated part in the URL again.
  • Headline Analyzer score removed from AIOSEO Details column in post list screen if the Classic Editor is active.
  • Local SEO sometimes not importing all data from other plugins.
  • Activating Pro license on secondary languages sections of WPML powered site no longer counts as a separate, additional activation.
  • Sitemap priority score couldn't be saved as 0.0.
  • Post meta import from other plugins not always importing the correct data.
  • Opening the Notification Center drawer would sometimes freeze the page.
  • Incorrect pagination and total item count in redirect logs when searching.
  • Encoded characters in source URLs for redirects were displayed when selecting posts or pasting in URLs.
  • Redirects compatibility with the TranslatePress Multilingual plugin.
  • Redirect target URL with hash is no longer saved with a trailing slash.
  • PHP warning when using the WPBakery page builder integration.
  • PHP warnings when importing redirects from SEOPress.
  • PHP warning after analyzing the site using the SEO Analyzer.
  • Multisite user query not using the correct table prefix.
  • EEAT reviewer dropdown sometimes not loading correctly.

Version 4.7.2

New

  • SEO Email Reports – Get a weekly or monthly SEO performance report delivered to your inbox so you can dive into your top-performing pages and discover growth opportunities!
  • Bulk CSV Import/Export – Due to popular demand, we've added support for importing/exporting your SEO data via CSV files so you can bulk-edit it in your favourite spreadsheet app and re-upload it to your site.

Version 4.7.1.1

Fixed

  • Addon updates sometimes not displayed on Plugins page.