SEOPress 7.3 is now available. We encourage you to update your site as soon as possible to take advantage of the latest features and security enhancements.
🎉 New – Pre-published checks for the Block Editor
When you click on Publish with the Block Editor, SEOPress will notify you whether or not it is compliant with 4 important points for your SEO:
- a custom meta title has been set,
- a custom meta description has been set,
- your post content has a minimum of 300 words,
- your content is NOT set to noindex.
This will allow you to quickly check essential points before it is too late.
We also want to remind you that you can edit all of your SEO directly from the interface of your favorite editor or page builder thanks to our universal metabox.
Finally, we have many SEOPress blocks for the block editor, to discover here.
🎉 Optimized HTML sitemap
We have added a new option to let user choose to display posts and products by categories / product categories or not when displaying the HTML sitemap.
Go to SEO, XML / HTML sitemap settings page, HTML sitemap tab to change this option (see below):
🎉 Other news
This new version of SEOPress also brings its share of improvements and fixes including:
- improve security (nothing to worry about),
- we now exclude a large number of post types used by page builders (Elementor, Beaver Builder, Brizy, Zion Builder, Breakdance, Oxygen…) from the redirection automatic suggestions,
- fix compatibility issues with Polylang, Oxygen and Themify Builder,
- fix an issue with PHP 8.3 (we still recommend to wait before updating to this new version as WP Core and many themes and plugins are not yet compatible),
- user interface has been enhanced for the AI tab,
- and many other things!
For developers, we have added 2 new hooks:
- seopress_ai_openai_request_args_alt hook to filter the arguments sent to OpenAI for alt texts,
- seopress_pro_breadcrumbs_json hook to filter the JSON Breadcrumbs
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Changelog
This update contains the following changes (full changelog here):
* NEW Add pre-published checks to the Block Editor * NEW Disable hierarchical display for posts and products in HTML sitemap (SEO, XML - HTML Sitemap, HTML Sitemap tab) * NEW 'seopress_ai_openai_request_args_alt' hook to filter the arguments sent to OpenAI for alt texts (https://www.seopress.org/support/hooks/filter-the-arguments-sent-to-openai-to-generate-alternative-texts/) * NEW 'seopress_pro_breadcrumbs_json' hook to filter the JSON Breadcrumbs (https://www.seopress.org/support/hooks/filter-breadcrumbs-json/) * INFO Remove very old deprecated functions * INFO Strengthening of security * INFO Refactoring some code * INFO Exclude specific custom post types generated by page builders for the redirect suggestions feature (Elementor, Beaver Builder, Brizy, Zion Builder, Breakdance, Oxygen...) * FIX Fatal error in XML sitemaps if no timezone associated to post * FIX Oxygen compatibility: PHP Warning: Undefined variable $oxygen_metabox_enabled * FIX 403 error with Inspect URL with Google Search Console in specific cases * FIX PHP 8.3 compatibility: Fatal error: Duplicate declaration of static variable * FIX Compatibility issue with Themify builder * FIX Fatal error: Uncaught TypeError: property_exists() on $tax * FIX Internal linking suggestions * FIX Google Preview regression * FIX Compatibility issue with Polylang and XML sitemaps * FIX Target keywords with dashes
