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v1.0.44 June 12, 2020

Added: [NEW!] Added Social share buttons in the Gutenberg publish flow, now you will see the share buttons after publishing the post
Added: Title attribute for the sidebar tabs for better usability
Added: Full compatibility with the WPML plugin [WPML String Translation Plugin is required]
Added: Some missing strings in the translation file
Improved: The variable Product Schema output by replacing Offer with AggregateOffer
Improved: Made the registration step simpler to understand as to why a FREE account is needed and the benefits
Improved: The new UI’s checkbox styling was getting applied in the Classic Editor’s sidebar
Improved: We’ve tinkered with the internal workings and polished some rough edges. The plugin is now better & secure than it was
Removed: The usage tracking option is not needed as the data received was not stored on the servers or utilized
Removed: Unused JS files
Fixed: Option to set custom data in Twitter’s social tab was not working in the Classic Editor
Fixed: Open links in a new tab and nofollow options were not working if the Image SEO module was deactivated
Fixed: The strip category base option was not getting imported from Yoast
Fixed: The option to select multiple Employment Types in the JobPosting Schema was not working in the Gutenberg
Fixed: Sitemap was not working when a custom permalink structure with index.php was used before the %postname% variable
Fixed: Content analysis not working on the taxonomy pages when quotes were used in the title
Fixed: A redirection conflict with BuddyPress when the Redirect 404 to Homepage option was enabled in the General Settings
Fixed: The Gutenberg editor was incorrectly displaying the Icon Overlay in the Social preview when the overlay option value was set to off. This was not affecting the frontend output
Fixed: Redirections were not working from the advanced tab of the category/term edit page
Fixed: The URL preview in the Classic Editor was incorrect for languages like Arabic but the output, for the search engines, was correct
Fixed: An issue with the Members plugin where the general settings were not accessible when creating a new role using that plugin

v1.0.43.1 May 29, 2020

Added: Check for the MBstring PHP extension in the Setup Wizard
Improved: Right to Left(RTL) language support with the new design
Fixed: Synced the SEO Score’s color in the posts’ list view with the single post editor view
Fixed: A PHP warning showing up on some installations related to WP_Screen
Fixed: A fatal error occurring on some sites where translation plugins like TranslatePress, Polylang, WPML, etc. were used
Fixed: openssl_decrypt error showing on some websites. You might need to reconnect the Search Console account if you still see the error

v1.0.43 May 27, 2020

Added: [NEW & HUGE!] A completely new design with best in class user experience. Setting and using the plugin can never be more comfortable. Check the preview here
Added: Easy & Advanced modes for better option handling. One can choose between the two to make the interface simpler or advanced. Easy mode is what we would recommend to 99% of the users
Added: A brand new Image SEO module by moving all the image SEO-related options into it
Added: An On/Off toggle for the Role Manager in the setup wizard
Added: If error logging is turned on a site, the error log’s data shows up inside the System Status page of Rank Math. Will come in handy when debugging issues
Added: A new filter is added to show NoIndexed posts/pages in the Sitemap. It is only for advanced users having an edge-case. For normal users, it is not recommended to use
Improved: Strengthened the plugin’s SECURITY further
Improved: The performance by removing the FontAwesome library from the backend and from the posts where ratings were shown on the frontend. Use any of the Schema types from here to show star ratings on the search results
Improved: The working of the focus keyword field. Now, as soon as you paste the keyword or click outside the focus keyword area, the keyword gets registered. No more requirement to press the enter key
Improved: The styling of the focus keyword area with long keywords not fitting perfectly in the Gutenberg sidebar
Improved: The confusing layout of the Search Console related options to make it easier to follow by showing just a single button on the first instance
Improved: Added a tutorial link in the Search Console step of setup wizard to let users use their Google App. It is highly recommended to the Agency owners. Read here
Improved: Updated the text inside the options panel to make them easier to understand
Improved: Schema Markup output now limits the title characters to 110. Props to Saijo George
Improved: Query performance related to the Rank Math Variables by running it on only required pages
Improved: Allow only one Focus keyword in the Taxonomy pages(Category/Tag etc.), as there are no tests for the secondary keywords
Improved: Internal linking SEO test now considers relative URLs as well when assigning a score to the page
Improved: Compatibility with the WPML plugin
Improved: Score calculating formula in the SEO Analyzer, you will see the slight score difference on the next run
Improved: Breadcrumbs code by adding better support for accessibility
Improved: SEO Meta can be changed even if a post is set to noindex
Improved: By default, the Elementor page builder’s templates are now set to noindex, this will not affect the posts/pages created using Elementor
Improved: As soon as someone deactivates the plugin, the site connected to the Rank Math’s account also gets removed
Improved: Recipe Schema to include contentURL as a required field in the Recipe Video
Improved: The options panel search is much more meaningful now and shows the options from all the Rank Math related settings
Improved: The Schema type for pages like Home, Contact Us, About Us, etc. will now have None selected by default
Improved: For the page set as the Blog page from the WordPress ‘Reading’ settings, there won’t be any content related tests. They made no sense on that page and users were finding it impossible to get a good score on that page
Removed: Stopwords functionality completely, as it is not relevant anymore due to the updates like BERT
Removed: Multiple Social meta options, as they are not required anymore for the Knowledge Graph by Google & Bing. You should only see the needed options in the Global Social Meta settings page
Removed: Social tests from the SEO Analyzer as those are not needed anymore
Removed: isSimilarTo Schema code from the single WooCommerce products to comply with Google’s demands
Fixed: Score was not updating immediately after adding new Focus Keyword in some cases
Fixed: Keyword density test not working when diacritics were used in the focus keyword
Fixed: URL count was not updating immediately and correctly. It should be displaying the count as expected
Fixed: Text in the contact info Shortcode was not translation-ready
Fixed: Filter to disable Gutenberg Sidebar works fine again. Sorry about this and we would recommend to try and get used to the sidebar version as that is more productive
Fixed: An issue with the lazy loading image scripts, where the automatic ALT & Titles tags were adding gibberish characters instead of the proper values
Fixed: Bulk image ALT edit was not working properly in the Media page[List View]
Fixed: Missing timezone error in onlineEvent Schema Markup
Fixed: The preview section was showing In Stock status for WooCommerce products even though products were out of stock. Frontend Schema Markup was printing correctly. They should be in sync now
Fixed: For WooCommerce, when the Remove Product Category Base option was enabled, double slashes were incorrectly getting added to the URLs
Fixed: Wrong homepage URL was showing in the Elementor Editor’s preview if the static page was set as the homepage
Fixed: Phone Number label in the Contact Info shortcode was not localized
Fixed: Score and color of the secondary keyword in the Classic Editor was not matching with the Gutenberg Score
Fixed: Yoast’s HowTo Block importer not working from the Status & Tools page. it was working fine from the setup wizard
Fixed: OG & Twitter description tags were missing on the archive pages
Fixed: Conflict with the WPML plugin and Remove Product Category Base option
Fixed: Rank Math was not detecting videos added using the Divi Builder because the builder adds video tag instead of embed tag
Fixed: The output of the %excerpt% variable in the SEO Description field will use custom post excerpt before creating an auto-generated description
Fixed: Some strings were not translating in the Gutenberg(block Editor)
Fixed: Importing the settings via a TXT file was throwing an illegal string error
Fixed: The filter to change the Sitemap’s base URL was not working
Fixed: The Classic Editor was not responding when special characters were used in the Permalink field
Fixed: Missing forward slash in the preview area if WPML plugin was active
Fixed: An issue where diacritics were not getting detected in the Power Words test
Fixed: Missing twitter:site tag in single posts added from the Twitter Profile URL was not working
Fixed: Ignore Case option in the Redirection module where it was getting selected automatically for the last source when two or more sources were added
Fixed: Elementor’s preview wasn’t displaying the category slug even though the URL after publishing an article was generating correctly
Fixed: Added some missing strings in the translation file. Please help in translating the plugin by contributing here

v1.0.42.3 April 20, 2020

Improved: Styling of the focus keyword field in the Classic Editor if keywords expanded to 2 rows
Improved: Strengthened security further
Improved: New posts where custom titles are not used, will now be generating the titles on the fly using the global variable template
Improved: Auto-update emails won’t contain the site name anymore
Improved: Removed Rollbar’s library from the plugin to make the plugin much smaller and faster
Fixed: Single posts’ Schema type was not honoring the global settings and needed a manual selection. That should not be the case now

v1.0.42.2 April 18, 2020

Changed: primary_term filter to admin/disable_primary_term
Improved: Strengthened security further
Fixed: A security issue that allowed deactivation of the conflicting plugins added inside the importer of Rank Math (AIO SEO, Yoast, Redirection, SEOPress, Schema Pro, All In One Schema Rich Snippets, etc.) even if user kept them enabled. Props to WordPress plugins team for notifying
Fixed: Rank Math meta box stopped working in WordPress 4.9 and ClassicPress
Fixed: An issue with TinyMCE script when the visual editor was disabled
Fixed: A problem with the previews in the backend when accented letters like, â, î or ô, etc., were used
Fixed: Social image set in the Author Profile was not working