v1.0.61 April 1, 2021
- Added: [NEW!] Post author schema property prints gravatar, social profile URLs(
sameAs
), author archive URL(if enabled), andworksFor
attribute - Added: [NEW!] Focus keywords as
keywords
attribute in the Article Schema output - Added: Video duration data in the Recipe Schema output
- Added: Width and height data in the
ImageObject
Schema property - Improved: Feedback Messages related to the Rank Math’s Database tools
- Improved: Avoid saving General settings after hitting the enter button while editing any text field
- Improved: Browser title for the KML file in the sitemap
- Improved: Replaced deprecated Javascript functions
- Fixed: PHP notices showing right after installation on some installations
- Fixed: Dashboard widget was throwing PHP errors sometimes due to cache clearing issue
- Fixed: Rebuild Analytics Index tool was not indexing all available posts/pages
- Fixed:
rankmath_google_api_failed_attempts_data
option was becoming too large on some websites - Fixed: Star Rating was not showing correctly on the frontend if a maximum value was more than 5
- Fixed: Settings tab were hidden for a post type that has the word ‘Notice’ in its name
- Fixed: Remove Data fetch scheduled actions if Analytics Module is disabled
- Fixed: Sitemaps were not working with the plain permalinks
- Fixed: Sitemap was not updating when Scheduled posts were published
- Fixed: Analytics Dashboard page was not loading due to console error on some setups
- Fixed: Missing schema markup code on the Static Homepage
- Fixed: Analytics Graphs were showing wrong data when the “7 Days” timeframe was Selected
- Fixed: An error appearing in the PHP 8.0
- Fixed: Title attribute was getting added after the ending slash in
img
tag
v1.0.60.1 March 21, 2021
- Fixed: Fatal PHP Error after updating the plugin where very old PRO version is present
v1.0.60 March 18, 2021
- Updated: Minimum required PHP version is now set to 7.2. Even though the EOL is reached for PHP 7.2 as well. In a few months, we will not support any PHP version that has run out of its EOL cycle. Not only it’s a security risk, but it also affects performance.
- Improved: Analytics module now shows the latest position for keywords and posts instead of the average position for a selected timeframe. You should see better stats overall in the plugin now
- Improved: Calculation method for the difference of keywords and posts positions is updated to reflect more meaningful data
- Improved: Formulas to calculate the total number of keywords for which a site is ranking currently
- Improved: Smallest keyword position will now represent the post position out of all keywords for which that post is ranking
- Improved: Keyword position’s bar graph and filters related to it now show accurate keywords count
- Improved: Removed
noindex
posts from the Analytics reporting for a better understanding of the overall SEO of a site - Improved: Remove all the Schema entities from the post where Schema was not selected
- Fixed: Active tab gets deselected in the Analytics pages when pagination is used
- Fixed: Incompatibility with the Flatsome theme causing issues on some installations
- Fixed: Every WooCommerce product gallery’s images were adding as different
og:image
tags - Fixed: A fatal error in the Sitemap when the timezone was set to UTC-1
- Fixed: Styling issue in the “Mark page as” option of the admin bar
- Fixed: SEO score was changing back to a lower score in the Elementor editor after reloading the page
v1.0.59.1 March 12, 2021
- Fixed: Invalid link attributions after selecting
sponsored
&nofollow
options - Fixed: Unable to change the “Unpublish When Expired” option’s value from No to Yes without changing any other field in the JobPosting Schema
- Fixed: Schema shortcode showing data in the wrong place
v1.0.59 March 8, 2021
- Improved: Compatibility with WordPress 5.7+ by disabling the max-image-preview meta tag added by the core because Rank Math already has the advanced options related to it
- Improved: Inverted Y-Axis in all the position graphs of the Analytics module to make the graphs more accurate
- Improved: Replaced
Cache-Control: One year
header from the XML Sitemap files toCache-Control: no-cache, no-store
- Improved: Added active modules list to the system status page
- Improved: Removed excess whitespace from the Schema values when the variable was returning an empty value
- Improved: Excluded Facebook’s pixel image from the Image ALT test of SEO Analysis
- Removed: Unnecessary debugging data from the system status tab to improve the performance
- Fixed: Install Analytics Code option was not working with the Firefox & the Brave browser
- Fixed: Video Schema shortcode was not outputting any data
- Fixed: Option to delete Recipe Instructions text was missing
- Fixed: Wrong category hierarchy in WooCommerce’s Product Schema
- Fixed: “Unpublish When Expired” option was not working in the JobPosting Schema
- Fixed: Unable to choose a category for the “Brand” value for WooCommerce Product Schema
- Fixed: A bug that was stripping out empty
data-attributes
from the content links - Fixed: A conflict with the FDP plugin and possibly others
- Fixed: Conflict with the other plugins if
access_token
URL param was used in them - Fixed: Enabling Remove Category Base option was generating 404 pages on some installations
- Fixed: Browser console was showing a
400 Bad Request
when saving the general settings - Fixed: After connecting the Rank Math’s account, the page was getting redirected to the wrong page on a Multisite
- Fixed: Fallback redirection to home or URL was deactivating the WordPress’s default redirection to login and dashboard pages
- Fixed: KML XSL file fails to load when special characters were used in the Business name
- Fixed: A JS error on some admin pages