Changelog for WP SEO 1.2

changelog-1.2.md

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= 1.2 (development version) =

Major improvements: all sorts of fixes to suggest and keyword check functionality which now should allow for non-ascii stuff, like Greek, Arabic, but even "weird" chars in western-European languages.

• Bugs fixed:
  • ereg_replace != preg_replace ; in other words: alt and title tags for images in xml sitemap fixed.
  • Image size for OpenGraph now defaults to medium for thumbnail image.
  • Selecting a Facebook App as the admin of your site now actually works.
  • Saving the SEO -> Dashboard settings no longer makes you loose the SEO -> Social settings.
  • Tweaks to clean slug functionality.
  • Fix for UTF-8 terms in titles and descriptions.
  • Fixed bug where empty but saved title template settings could lead to empty homepage title on blogs with a static front page.
  • Fixed several bugs around page numbers in titles and descriptions.
  • Prevented an error in the opendir functionality for WP SEO modules.
  • Allow ';' in focus keyword.
  • Don't double encode characters in suggest functionality.
  • Don't remove non-alphanumeric values for keyword checks.
  • Fixed a bug in snippet preview occurring when content was shorter than max snippet length.
  • Fixed keyword count in content for cases where keyword was surrounded by parentheses and some other characters.
  • Loads of Regex Fu to improve keyword bolding.
  • Activation and deactivation handlers properly specified.
  • WP Super Cache now properly emptied on update of settings.
  • Fixes to OpenGraph images for homepage.
  • Fixed a notice in OpenGraph class on 404 pages.
  • Fixed notices in OpenGraph admin when selecting Facebook app as admin.
  • Fixed a bug where half the Linkdex analyses wouldn't work when the visual editor is disabled.
• Enhancements:
  • Upon activation, XML sitemaps are automatically enabled.
  • Upon activation, title templates are pre-filled with sensible defaults.
  • On activation, W3 Total Cache or WP Super Cache cache gets cleared automatically.
  • Added an uninstall handler, deleting the plugin through the WP backend will now delete options from the DB too.
  • Added the option to display custom taxonomy in titles and descriptions, use %%ct_<custom-taxname>%% for a comma separated list or %%ct_<custom-taxname>%%single%% for only one taxonomy term.
  • Allow for 'Page x of x' to be localized too.
  • Force the query for the current page to be used instead of the query that a bad plugin or even theme was using by calling wp_reset_query before the header functionality.
  • If you're a Woothemes user and you activate WordPress SEO, the "use 3rd party plugins data" checkbox will be checked on upon activation.
  • Non front page blog pages now have a title template: %%title%% %%page%% - %%sitename%% if they don't have a specific SEO title and there is no page template.
  • Pinging search engines on post of new content now moved to cron to prevent lag.
  • Only embed images in the XML sitemap that match the main domain, subdomains should not matter but images from other domains are now ignored.
• API Improvements:
  • Added a filter to allow adding URLs to specific XML sitemaps, see this thread. The filter is wpseo_sitemap_<$post_type>_content.
  • Added a filter for the meta keywords, wpseo_metakey.
  • Added a filter to allow disabling rel="next" and rel="prev" links, use wpseo_<prev|next>_rel_link.
  • Added a filter wpseo_xml_sitemap_img_src to allow changing the hostname of images, most common use case is to force them to the CDN.
  • See the new WordPress SEO API docs.