Changelog
New Features, updates and fixes
Version 4.5.5
Updated
- Various AI Title/Description Generator improvements for more reliable results and better foreign language support.
- Removed Search Statistics Index status background scan in favour of loading results on-the-fly to prevent quota from running out.
- Added a survey that triggers when users deactivate the plugin.
- Added WooCommerce Shop page to the breadcrumb trail for WooCommerce Products and related taxonomies.
- Added Broken Link Checker as an installable plugin to the Setup Wizard and About Us page.
Fixed
- Block settings sidebar not re-expanding after user closed it previously.
- Primary term not included in canonical URL for WooCommerce products.
- Schema not correctly reflecting Out of Stock status for variable products in WooCommerce.
- Schema Generator graph/template search box disappeared when certain special characters were entered.
- SEO Revisions not created for attachments.
- Plugin conflict with WPBingo Core where AIOSEO setting tabs are collapsed.
- Conflict between AIOSEO Redirects and Divi page builder.
- Redirection plugins are no longer marked as conflicting when AIOSEO Redirects isn’t installed.
- AIOSEO Details column on post list page would sometimes load unnecessarily.
Version 4.5.4
New
- Author SEO (E-E-A-T) Addon – Optimize your site for Google’s E-E-A-T ranking factor by proving your writer’s expertise through author schema markup and new UI elements. ✍️
Fixed
- Plugin conflict where post content sometimes disappeared in the post editor when using AIOSEO, Avada and the Classic Editor.
- Taxonomy title smart tag not outputting proper value when archive page has no posts.
Version 4.5.3.1
Fixed
- AIOSEO Settings modal sometimes opening in Divi visual editor when user performs unrelated action.
Version 4.5.3
New
- Added support for importing Locations from Yoast SEO into Local SEO.
- Added support for LiteSpeed servers to Redirection Manager.
Updated
- Numerous performance updates under the hood.
- SEO Revisions now tracks changes to the Cornerstone Content setting.
- Redirect’s manual 404s now load a 404 WP template instead of just sending a 404 header to the browser.
- Added post status badges to the Links Report in Link Assistant to show the post status of non-published posts.
- Improved style compatibility between AIOSEO and the Extra theme.
Fixed
- Paged Format now uses the global separator tag.
- Product schema is no longer output when the product does not have a valid price set.
- Various schema graphs now consider timezones when outputting dates and no longer output incorrect timestamps.
- Redirect modal UI now works correctly when a post is trashed.
- Redirects no longer prevent the use of WP CLI.
- Redirect’s HTTP Headers table no longer disappears after inserting a value in the field.
- When editing a redirect the edit screen no longer closes after selecting a value.
- Error when importing robots.txt rules with certain regex patterns.
- File structure issue that caused some localized strings from being excluded in language files.
- Cornerstone Content setting removed for attachment pages.
- Setup Wizard sometimes showing wrong step count.
- Snippet preview showing incorrect preview for Taxonomy Title smart tag when no primary category is selected.
- Search Statistics now correctly syncs the homepage with what is selected under Settings > Reading.
- Plugin conflict with the Autoptimization plugin where the frontend of the site shows a whitescreen when logged-in users are using Russian as their locale.
- Conflict with block-based themes in WP 6.0+.
Version 4.5.2.1
Fixed
- Conflict with Avada where some Avada elements cause the post editor to load the wrong data.
Version 4.5.2
New
- Integrations with Avada & WPBakery – Control your SEO and optimize your content directly from the Avada and WPBakery visual page builders.
- Added support for the Limit Modified Date setting to Elementor, Divi and SeedProd.
Updated
- Improved shipping details schema logic for WooCommerce to better prevent plugin/theme conflicts.
Fixed
- PHP error in Tools menu when using WP 5.4 or lower.
Version 4.5.1.1
Fixed
- Plugin conflict with Jetpack.
Version 4.5.1
Updated
- Added support for the Performant Translations plugin.
- Added support for schema validation for AIOSEO’s schema supported blocks (FAQ block).
- Added support for WooCommerce grouped products to Product schema.
- Updated our icons for X (formely Twitter).
- Removed support for Google Analytics V3 as it has been discontinued by Google.
- We now hide the TruSEO score for static blog pages.
- Added emoji picker to the 404 breadcrumb template.
Fixed
- Rare issue where site could use more memory due to circular cache reference.
- Conflict with Safe Redirect Manager.
- Conflict between AIOSEO and the Presto Player and Product Tabs Manager plugins by Sparks.
- Schema Generator custom schema and validator editors not rendered on smaller screens.
- Default date value for datepicker in Event schema graph settings.
- Default schema not added to new SeedProd landing pages.
- Post column makes the post title column too small on smaller screens.
- Spaces stripped when searching for a post in the source/target URL field in Redirects.
- Feature inside Feature Manager would sometimes appear as active even when it is disabled.
- Fixed a number of strings that weren’t localized before.
- PHP 8.2 deprecation warnings in Setup Wizard when using WP 6.4+
- PHP error when fetching WooCommerce Product Categories through REST API when AIOSEO REST API addon is active.
- PHP notice when using a custom multi-type JSON schema graph.
- Console error in Link Assistant when attempting to add a link through an Outbound Internal Suggestion.
Version 4.5.0
New
- Post Index Status – Check whether your posts have been indexed by Google inside our Search Statistics reports and revamped AIOSEO Details column.
- AIOSEO Details Column Revamp – We’ve redesigned our post/term column to give it a fresh lick of paint. You can now add smart tags to the title & meta description inside the column and see your headline score.
Fixed
- Search Statistics no longer considers URLs with query args or HTML anchors.
Version 4.4.9.2
Fixed
- Widgets page not loading due to JavaScript error.