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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"
andrel="prev"
links, usewpseo_<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.
- Added a filter to allow adding URLs to specific XML sitemaps, see this thread. The filter is