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1.4.12

Bugfixes​

  • Submit button displays again on Titles & Metas page.
  • SEO Title now calculates length correctly.
  • Force rewrite titles should no longer reset wrongly on update.

1.4.11

  • i18n
  • Updated de_DE, ru_RU, zh_CN.

Bugfixes​

  • Make rel="publisher" markup appear on every page.
  • Prevent empty property='article:publisher' markup from being output .
  • Fixed twitter:description tag should only appears if OpenGraph is inactive.
  • og:description will default to get_the_excerpt when meta description is blank (similar to how twitter:description works).
  • Fixes only 25 tags (and other taxonomy) are being indexed in taxonomy sitemaps.
  • Fix lastmod dates for taxonomies in XML sitemap index file.

Enhancements​

  • Changed Social Admin section to have a tab-layout.
  • Moved Google+ section from Homepage tab of Titles & Metas to Social tab.
  • Make twitter:domain use WordPress site name instead of domain name.
  • Added more output filters in the Twitter class.

1.4.10

  • Fixes
  • Caching was disabled in certain cases, this update fixes that.

Enhancements​

  • Added option to disable author sitemap.
  • If author pages are disabled, author sitemaps are now automatically disabled.

1.4.7

  • Properly fix security bug that should've been fixed in 1.4.5.
  • Move from using several $options arrays in the frontend to 1 class wide option.
  • Instead of firing all plugin options as function within head function, attach them to wpseo_head action, allowing easier filtering and changing.
  • Where possible, use larger images for Facebook Opengraph.
  • Add several filters and actions around social settings.

1.4.6

  • Fix a possible fatal error in tracking.

1.4.5

  • Bug fixes:
  • Fix security issue which allowed any user to reset settings.
  • Allow saving of SEO metadata for attachments.
  • Set the max-width of the snippet preview to 520px to look more like Google search results, while still allowing it to work on lower resolutions.

Enhancements​

  • Remove the shortlink http header when the hide shortlink checkbox is checked.
  • Added a check on focus keyword in the page analysis functionality, checking whether a focus keyword has already been used before.
  • Update how the tracking class calculates users to improve speed.

1.4.4

  • Fix changelog for 1.4.3

Bugfixes​

  • Fix activation bug.
  • i18n
  • Updated es_ES, id_ID, he_IL.

1.4.3

Bugfixes​

  • Register core SEO menu at a lower than default prio so other plugins can tie in more easily.
  • Remove alt= from page analysis score divs.
  • Make site tracking use the site hash consistently between plugins.
  • Improve popup pointer removal.

1.4.2

Bugfixes​

  • Made the sitemaps class load in backend too so it always generates rewrites correctly.
  • Changed > to /> in class-twitter.php for validation as XHTML.
  • Small fix in metabox CSS for small screens (thx Ryan Hellyer).
  • Load classes on plugins_loaded instead of immediately on load to allow WPML to filter options.
  • i18n
  • Updated bs_BA, cs_CZ, da_DK, de_DE, fa_IR, fr_FR, he_IL, hu_HU, id_ID, it_IT, nl_NL, pl_PL, pt_BR, ru_RU and tr_TR

1.4.1

  • i18n:
  • Updated .pot file
  • Updated bg_BG, bs_BA, cs_CZ, fa_IR, hu_HU, pl_PL & ru_RU

Bugfixes​

  • Focus keyword check now works again in all cases.
  • Fix typo in Video SEO banner.

Enhancements​

  • Don't show banners for plugins you already have.

1.4

  • i18n & documentation:
  • Updated Hebrew (he_IL)
  • Updated Italian (it_IT)
  • Updated Dutch (nl_NL)
  • Updated Swedish (sv_SE)
  • Updated some strings to fix typos.
  • Removed affiliate links from readme.txt.

Bugfixes​

  • Fixed a bug in saving post meta details for revisions.
  • Prevent an error when there are no posts for post type.
  • Fix the privacy warning to point to the right place.

Enhancements​

  • Slight performance improvement infunctionality by not resetting query when its not needed (kudos to @Rarst).
  • Slight performance improvement in options call by adding some caching (kudos to @Rarst as well).
  • Changed inner workings of search engine ping, adding YOAST_SEO_PING_IMMEDIATELY constant to allow immediate ping on publish.
  • Changed design of meta box, moving much of the help text out in favor of clicking on a help icon.
  • Removed Linkdex branding from page analysis functionality.

1.3.4.4

  • Bug with revisions in XML sitemap for some weird combinations.
  • Improved logic for rel=publisher on frontpage.
  • Allow variables in meta description for post type archive.
  • Improved counting of images for page analysis.
  • updated Turkish (tr_TR)
  • updated Russian (ru_RU)
  • updated Indonesian (id_ID)
  • updated French (fr_FR)
  • updated Czech (cs_CZ)
  • added Japanese (ja)

1.3.4.3

  • Regex annoyances anyone? Sigh. Bug fixed.

1.3.4.2

  • Added missing filter for meta box priority.
  • Fixed bug in JS encoding.

1.3.1.1

  • Some of that escaping was too aggressive.

1.3.1

  • Fix somewhat too aggressive escaping of content.
  • Added notice text for non-existing .htaccess file / robots.txt file.

1.3

  • Long list of small fixes and improvements to code best practices after Sucuri review. Fixes 3 small security issues.
  • Updated .pot file
  • Updated Danish (da_DK), Indonesian (id_ID), Chinese (zh_CN), Russian (ru_RU), Norwegian (nb_NO), Turkish (tr_TK), Hebrew (he_IL) and Persian (fa_IR).
  • Added Arabic (ar), Catalan (ca) and Romanian (ro_RO).

1.2.8.7

  • Fixed %%category%% and %%tag%% and some other variables that weren't working since 1.2.8.6.

1.2.8.6

  • Revert gplus changes in 1.2.8.5 that were causing issues.
  • Fix a tracking timeout.
  • Fix a bunch of notices throughout variables functions.

1.2.8.5

  • Fixed a bug for MultiSite due to a missing attribute in calling get_admin_url.
  • Updated Hebrew (he_IL), Dutch (nl_NL) French (fr_FR), Czech (cs_CZ), Italian (it_IT), Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR).
  • Added Norwegian (nb_NO) and Portuguese (pt_PT).
  • Added a wpseo_robots filter for the robots meta tag.
  • Fixed integration with the Facebook plugin.

1.2.8.4

  • Fix for double title issues with themes that filter wp_title, by having WP SEO filter a bit later in the process (but no too late because the genesis