v1.0.48.1 September 27, 2020
- Added: A Filter hook in the Setup Wizard steps
- Fixed: External Redirections were not working on some installations
- Fixed: Content analysis was not detecting the content added in the Elementor editor
- Fixed: Hidden Primary Category option in the Classic Editor due to small CSS bug
- Fixed: Breaking of Rank Math metabox after using
rank_math/gutenberg/enabled
filter in the Block editor - Fixed: jQuery Migrate Helper deprecated warning appearing after the last update
v1.0.48 September 26, 2020
- Added: [HUGE] Completely revamped the UI for our Schema module. Introducing tree structure UI, now anyone can easily understand the Schema markup in a visual format. Comes with required field validation.
- Added: [NEW] Entity Graph for the Schema markup. Now all the nodes are connected by edges
- Added: Code to make upcoming PRO version compatible with the free version
- Improved: UI of the export option in the Redirections page
- Improved: Some missing text in the translation file
- Improved: Added a condition to check if a method exists in the
Paper
class - Improved: Use
site_url()
instead ofhome_url()
- Improved: Beta functionality now downloads beta version from the Trunk folder of WordPress.org SVN
- Changed: Time options in the Recipe Schema now need
PT
as a prefix, example: PT1H30M - Changed: Default mode to ‘Advanced’ on new installations
- Fixed: Contact shortcode was not showing some contact info like Email & Phone number
- Fixed:
%name%
variable was not working in the backend of single posts and pages - Fixed:
%name%
variable was showing the wrong user name in the profile edit page - Fixed: Variation Products were showing price mismatch warning in the Google Merchant Centre
- Fixed: PHP warnings related to beta testing functionality on some installations
- Fixed: Schema markup issue when
BankOrCreditUnion
is selected in the Local SEO settings - Fixed: Removed non-archive CPT pages from the breadcrumb’s schema markup code
- Fixed: Shortcodes were not rendering on the frontend for the Category/Taxonomy description text
- Fixed: CPTs created by some third party plugins in the Titles & Meta global settings were not displaying
- Fixed: Datepicker styling issue with the Coupon theme from PremiumPress
- Fixed: Opening Days in the Restaurant Schema were not available for the block editor & Elementor
- Fixed: Minimum required WordPress version notice in the Setup Wizard
- Fixed: Icon styling in the FAQ and HowTo blocks
v1.0.47.1 August 25, 2020
- Added: Proper credits and attribution wherever they were missing. We are incredibly sorry about missing them in the first place. That should not have happened. Please feel free to reach out to us in case the credits are still missing anywhere in the plugin. We would be more than obliged to add.
- Improved: Excluded image caption text from the auto-generated SEO descriptions
- Improved: Added more automation to the Open Graph Image tag(
og:image
) functionality. It can now pick the first external image from the content as well - Improved: Fixed PHPCS warnings throughout the plugin
- Removed: Unused
remove_stopwords
function from the Redirection module - Removed: Some unused
error_log()
calls from the plugin - Fixed: SERP preview section not showing Hindi characters properly
v1.0.47 August 17, 2020
- Improved: WooCommerce products with 100s of variations should load extremely fast with proper Schema data
- Improved: Rank Math won’t add Meta tags on Divi’s frontend page builder area to improve the loading time
- Improved: Redirect Core Sitemap URL(s) to Rank Math’s Sitemap
- Improved: Long focus keyword in featured images should be getting detected properly
- Improved: Added a primary key to
rank_math_internal_meta
table - Improved: Compatibility with MainWP Plugin’s Bulk Settings editor
- Improved: RTL styling for the SERP fields in the preview area of Rank Math
- Updated: Minimum WordPress version supported by Rank Math is 5.2 & PHP 7.0
- Removed: Removed auto-update email notification feature to avoid any conflict with WordPress 5.5’s auto-update email notifications
- Fixed:
OG:Locale
not updating for a couple of languages like Telugu & Urdu - Fixed: A typo in the filter to allow Shortcodes in the product Schema description
- Fixed: AMP Plugin was throwing an Invalid URL error on a page that used
rank_math_contact_info
Shortcode - Fixed: The
%parent_title%
variable was showing the example text in the preview section. Though, the value was printing correctly for the search engine bots - Fixed: The open external links in a new tab option was not working when Nofollow Image Link option was enabled
- Fixed: NoFollow External links option was not working with the AMP pages
- Fixed: In the Classic Editor, Show SEO Score option was disabled even after enabling it in the Options Panel
- Fixed: The exclude post type from the Sitemap option was not working on the sites where a boolean value was stored in an integer format
- Fixed: The import data option from other plugins was not working when not run via the setup wizard
v1.0.46 July 30, 2020
- [NEW] Added: Pixel length counter for the SEO title & description fields (view preview)
- Added: Synced Rank Math’s auto-update feature with the auto-update option introduced in WordPress 5.5
- Added: Rank Math’s blocks are now translation-ready in the WPML plugin
- Improved: The UI of Import/Export settings page
- Improved: Only show the SEO score in post lists when a focus keyword is set and if the post is indexable
- Improved: Show a green indicator for keywords with the first position in the Search Console
- Improved:
Help & Support
link in the sidebar menu now links directly to the Knowledge Base - Improved: Removed the description from the Article Schema code for Google Web Stories as Google no longer requires it
- Improved: Tooltip icon styling and consistency across both the Classic and the Gutenberg (aka Block) editor
- Improved: API error handling for the SEO Analysis functionality
- Improved: Variables with double
%
will not show a preview in the Rank Math’s post preview area as they don’t work on the frontend - Improved: Error handling if an invalid file is uploaded in the settings importer
- Improved: Checkbox styling in the Gutenberg & Elementor sidebar for the upcoming WordPress 5.5
- Removed: Deprecated Structured Data Testing Tool from the admin bar
- Removed: Disabled Core Sitemaps coming in WordPress 5.5 to avoid conflicts with the Rank Math’s Sitemap feature as Rank Math’s Sitemaps are more robust at this time
- Fixed:
twitter:image
tag was not using the image set in the Facebook tab of Rank Math for the newly created posts using the Gutenberg Editor - Fixed: Broken links in the Twitter preview tab for App & Player Card notice
- Fixed: An issue where an extra slash in the Elementor’s Canonical URL option was shown. Though, it was not affecting the output for the search engine bots
- Fixed: Adding a copied link from the clipboard to the block aka Gutenberg editor was breaking the paragraph
- Fixed: Content analysis was not working for the pending posts when the editor user role did not have the capability to
publish_pages
- Fixed: Multiple broken KB links in the Setup Wizard
- Fixed: A PHP error appearing in the post list if ‘Hongo Addon’ plugin was active
- Fixed: A problem where
WP_HOMEURL
was getting used instead ofWP_SITEURL
for the redirect 404 to homepage option