v1.0.65 June 4, 2021
- Added: [NEW!] [HUGE!] Introducing SEO Performance Reports via Email. Track monthly changes related to website traffic, impressions, total keywords & average position
- Added: Some new Power Words for German
- Improved: The filter to remove Sitemap credits now also remove the Rank Math SEO copyright reference from the page’s source
- Improved: Opengraph tags are self-closing now
- Improved: Contact Shortcode should display Google map only when the map API key is added in the Local SEO Settings
- Removed: Duplicate Power Words from the list
- Fixed: The locations.kml file shows a 404 error when the Sitemap base was changed using the filter
- Fixed: Removed
x-robots
fromlocations.kml
file as it was causing warnings inside Google Search Console - Fixed: The option to open links in a new tab was not working with the IDN domains (Cyrillic)
- Fixed: Kadence Blocks were showing the incorrect size of the link icon
- Fixed: Rank Math SEO was adding click handler to other plugin notices
- Fixed: The Product redirection was not working when the Product permalink was set to
/shop/%product_cat%
- Fixed: Text copied with the link was not showing the Link option modal inside Block Editor
- Fixed: The core
additionalClass
field value was not getting added to the Rank Math Blocks and was causing trouble with the HowTo Schema block
v1.0.64 May 20, 2021
- Added: Now theme authors can enable Rank Math’s Breadcrumbs by default using
add_theme_support( 'rank-math-breadcrumbs' );
- Added: Transliteration functionality to convert diacritics based on the site language. This will ensure that the content tests won’t fail to recognize the number of words for languages other than English
- Added: A warning notice if a user tries to change the permalinks structure on a live website
- Improved: For the keyword density test, the Secondary Focus keywords are also taken into account
- Improved: Bulk Redirects for the 404 links now works on unlimited errors instead of the limitation of 10 links
- Improved: Removed
x-robots
fromlocations.kml
file to avoid Google Search Console warning. It was not affecting the indexing and your Local SEO though - Improved: The error log is not shown in a reverse state anymore in the Rank Math’s System Info page
- Fixed: Analytics data was showing zero values if Persian date format was used using plugins like WP Shamsi
- Fixed:
undefined offset
error in the error log when SVG image was used for the featured image - Fixed: User-Agent was getting logged incorrectly in the Advanced 404 Monitor
- Fixed: Video Schema as default Schema didn’t have fields when editing the post. Too much automation eh. Sorry about that
- Fixed: Autogenerated description was not showing the content from self-enclosing Shortcodes
- Fixed: 404 pages were not getting recorded when the Oxygen Builder plugin was active
- Fixed: Rating option of the Schema types was not accepting decimals in Safari browser
- Fixed:
index
andnoindex
were selectable for the Author’s Archive Meta - Fixed:
data-id
&data-type
attributes added by block editor for the frontend links were getting removed - Fixed: Conflict in the Divi Page & Theme builder when other plugins were trying to use UnderscoreJS library via the underscore character (_), like Event Tickets Plugin
- Fixed: Bulk redirection functionality in the 404 Monitor page was not working
- Fixed: Titles & Meta settings were showing taxonomies in the wrong post type setting group when they were registered in a random order
- Fixed: Remove Category Base option was not working for categories written in the Greek language
- Fixed: New Post defaulting to Publish status after changing the Publish Metabox order in the Classic Editor
- Changed: Filter name to disable the Divi SEO Integration from
rank_math/divi/add_seo
torank_math/divi/add_seo_tab
- Removed: Automatic
ItemList
Schema markup from Taxonomy pages to prevent Google Search Console errors
v1.0.63 April 28, 2021
- Added: [HUGE!] Divi SEO is HERE! Complete Divi Page Builder/Theme integration. Now you can configure all the SEO settings from the frontend
- Improved: Elementor SEO is made better by improving the update button behavior
- Improved: Removed old analytics table as it was not required anymore after we revamped Google Analytics integration in Rank Math SEO
- Fixed: Fatal error happening on some installations when
action_schedular
tables were missing - Fixed: Star rating showing two times in the preview area for the Event Schema
- Fixed: Missing line break in robots.txt after
Sitemap:
rule - Fixed:
Undefined offset: 0
warning when the featured thumbnail didn’t exist - Fixed: Analytics-related database table was not getting removed after the complete uninstallation
- Fixed: The filter to change the Sitemap
http_headers
was not working
v1.0.62 April 14, 2021
- Added: Alt text as a caption property in the Primary Image, Logo, and Author Image Schema entities
- Added: Description property in the Author Schema entity
- Added:
async
loading for the Google Analytics tracking script - Added: Filter to add Analytics stats of different language posts into the main post, examples
abc.com/en/ or abc.com/es/
. Note: Support needs to be added by translation plugins - Improved: Primary image and Author image uses image URL as an ID in the Schema Markup
- Improved: Add
Place
entity in the Schema markup only when address is added in the Local SEO Settings - Improved: Show Database Tools only if the related module is enabled
- Fixed: Analytics stats were not changing on some pages after changing the timeframe
- Fixed:
Undefined index: logo
error if the logo was not set in the Titles & Meta settings - Fixed: Google Search Console table creation issue with the MySQL 8.0
- Fixed: Breadcrumbs Schema was not showing on the Product category/tag archive pages
- Fixed: Missing backgrounds in some of the tabs of Elementor SEO
- Fixed: Custom field analysis was not working when the Divi theme was active
- Fixed: Open Graph image “Icon Overlay” feature was not working
v1.0.61.1 April 3, 2021
- Fixed: Link modal freezes when trying to add a link in the Relation field of ACF
- Fixed: Optimized one Analytics query, which was causing high CPU usage on some setups from the last update
- Fixed: Wrong closing H4 tag in the shortcode