v1.0.57 February 3, 2021
- Improved: The overall Schema output and generation to a great level after consulting top Schema consultants
- Added: Undo and Redo now works like a charm inside the Schema Generator popup
- Added: Added an option to send an email when an update is available for the Rank Math SEO plugin
- Added: A way to help the users to easily leave a review, with a dismissible notice
- Improved: The overall speed and security of the plugin
- Improved: Sitelinks search box Schema now prints the data only on the homepage as recommended by Google
- Improved: WooCommerce Product Schema now prints
mainEntityofPage
property in the Schema markup - Improved: The auto-update will not be disabled when installing the latest version using the Rollback feature
- Improved: The Bing Indexing API notices won’t be showing up several times anymore
- Improved: The primary category UI was showing in the Classic Editor, even if the option was disabled
- Improved: Styling in the top admin bar is improved for the dropdown’s options
- Removed:
None
option from the product’s availability dropdown - Fixed:
%term_description%
was not working in the preview area of the taxonomy pages (categories & tags). Nothing was impacted on the frontend to the search engines - Fixed: On multisite, the Rank Math SEO tab in the Elementor plugin was not showing unless the plugin was activated network-wide
- Fixed: A PHP warning with the Bing Instant Indexing module
- Fixed: Several small issues and improve the overall code of the plugin
v1.0.56.1 January 8, 2021
- Added: A badge with
New
text will appear on the blog articles in the dashboard’s widget - Fixed: Some content analysis tests were failing with the Classic Editor plugin
- Fixed: A PHP notice in the errorlog when an incorrect key was entered in the Bing Instant Indexing API field
v1.0.56 January 8, 2021
- Added: [HUGE!] Instant Indexing for Bing! You can enable it from WP Dashboard > Rank Math > Dashboard > Instant Indexing Module
- Added: [HUGE!] Revamped Analytics Module functionality. All small (and big) issues like data importing, data mismatch, data importing, etc., are sorted. Please delete the old data and start a fresh data fetch by following this guide
- Added: [NEW!] Improved Y-Axis behavior for all the Analytics graphs when 2 or more filters are selected. You should see much better graphs in the Analytics module
- Added: Special Open Graph tags for the Video, Product & Local Schema types
- Added: Warning text in the Analytics Settings about GA4 not supported yet. Please follow this guide to create a Google Analytics property alongside GA4
- Improved: Made Schema Generator modal’s footer sticky, so they are visible all the time. If you have not tried the new Schema Generator, then you must, to get a competitive advantage over your competitors
- Improved: All the filters are now selected by default in the Analytics graphs to give a better overview
- Improved: Rebuild Indexing Tool now truncates the flat table before rebuilding it
- Improved: Status & Tools page now shows which Google Account permissions are given to the Analytics Module [reconnection required]
- Improved: SEO Analyzer’s Page Size test now counts the compressed size of the rendered page
- Improved: The Redirection module now prevents adding a duplicate redirection by validating the source URLs
- Improved: As requested by several users, we changed the Dashboard widget’s priority so that the vital SEO stats are seen first
- Improved: On the Author pages, we now print
content="profile"
instead ofcontent="content"
- Improved: Minified JSON-LD Schema markup output on the frontend
- Improved: Styling of the preview section of the Schema Content in the dark-colored themes
- Improved: Sitemaps now honor the forward-slash conditions added to WordPress’s permalink settings
- Updated: List of Local Business types supported by Schema.org
- Fixed: Google Drive connection redirect link was not working in the UpdraftPlus plugin
- Fixed: Mixed content warning related to Open Graph (http://ogp.me)
- Fixed: “Focus keyword used previously” test was not working on the new pages or on the page where the keyword was added from the Quick Edit screen
- Fixed: Notification code was causing errors on some installations
- Fixed: Auto-Generated description in the Google preview was showing the excerpt text instead of the first paragraph from the content
- Fixed: SQL error related to
dbDelta
after the plugin activation on some installations - Fixed: Remove
BreadcrumbList
Schema from the embedded Web Stories - Fixed: Some Analytics tables were saving the
urlencoded
values in the “page” column
v1.0.55 December 22, 2020
- Added: Reset option in the Role Manager
- Added: Compatibility with the Nitro CDN plugin for the Image SEO
- Improved: Randomize Analytics’ cron jobs time instead of resetting on the GMT+0
- Improved: Error reporting in the SEO Analyzer, if the tool does not work on some installation
- Fixed: Taxonomy pages were showing the social preview twice
- Fixed: Conflict with Elementor page builder when ‘Remove Product Base’ option was enabled in the Rank Math’s WooCommerce Settings
- Fixed: Advanced Robots options were not picking the default values set in the Global Settings
- Fixed: Contact & About Page defined in the Local setting were not printing the proper Schema codes
- Fixed:
Undefined index: @type
error on the Product Category pages
v1.0.54.3 December 13, 2020
- Fixed: Classic Editor’s SEO tests were not loading in Firefox on some installations
- Fixed:
Call to undefined function wc_get_product()
in the Google Preview area on some installations - Fixed:
hiringOrganization
field in the Job Posting Schema was showing the wrong description - Removed:
InteractionCount
field from Video Schema as this field is not recommended by Google