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 toadmin/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
v1.0.42.1 April 16, 2020
- Added: One can add the permalink to a new post/page in Rank Math without saving it as a draft first
- Improved: The output code of Recipe Schema now includes more data
- Fixed: Classic Editor’s content analysis wasn’t working when an apostrophe was used in the focus keyword field
- Fixed: An issue with Gutenberg plugin’s latest version, v7.9.0
- Fixed: Some tests were missing in the newly created pages
- Fixed: An inability to add a hyphen at the end of the permalink
- Fixed: Social previews were not showing the auto description. Though, the social media sites were picking them just fine
- Fixed: Incorrect word-count when the text from the main content was copied into WooCommerce product’s short description field
- Fixed: Missing save/cancel buttons in the SEO details post-column when using the bulk editing feature
- Fixed: HTML code was not stripped from the SEO title in the Classic Editor
- Fixed:
Trying to get property 'slug'
error on the Post list page when there was no category set, and debug was turned on - Fixed: Added missing arguments in the
save_post
v1.0.42 April 14, 2020
- Added: HUGE! Classic Editor now uses Gutenberg aka Block Editor’s content analysis library to avoid test mismatch
- Added: Dedicated SEO tests for the static page set as a homepage
- Added: Text explanations in few areas to help understand options better
- Added: A way to detect if a site was compromised and remove any data related to it in the redirections
- Added: A filter to decode Shortcodes in the Schema data
- Updated: List of German power words. Props to Peter Schieche
- Improved: Sitemap’s code by adding new filters and hooks. Check all the Sitemap filters and hooks here
- Improved: SEO score on the homepage won’t show up by default even if the option is turned on. One has to add a Shortcode in the homepage’s content to show the SEO score
- Improved: Schema Pro plugin’s import now imports the default settings strategically
- Improved: Strengthened the plugin security further
- Improved: If a newer stable version is detected, the Beta update does not show anymore
- Improved: Excerpt preview trims properly in the Titles & Meta options in the options panel
- Improved: Changed ALT text’s default value to use the filename instead of the post’s title. One can change the setting to any other variable
- Fixed: Address field not getting saved in Job Posting Schema in the Block Editor
- Fixed: An issue where the redirection type wasn’t allowed to be changed on saved posts using the dropdown. Though, the redirections were getting saved correctly
- Fixed: Schema auto description not matching with the Custom SEO Meta description set in the WooCommerce products
- Fixed: A problem with WooCommerce’s
Remove Category Base
&Remove Parent slug
options where an extra slash was getting added into the product’s category URL. Though, the canonical URL was printing correctly - Fixed: An error related to SEO Score Shortcode in the frontend
- Fixed: Quick edit save breaking Rank Math columns
- Fixed: The Schema data is not updating unless the default value is changed in the Block Editor options
- Fixed:
How To
Section of the Recipe Schema not saving the data in the block editor - Fixed:
wp_rank_math_internal_meta
related error appearing in the Query Monitor on some installations - Fixed: Sitemap showing a blank page if Query Monitor and Debug is enabled
- Fixed: A PHP Error on the Help & Support Page
- Fixed: Small visual issue related to the Search form in the Add Link popup
v1.0.41.2 March 31, 2020
- Added: A new auto-update test in the SEO Analyzer tool
- Improved: The performance of the option to edit the
.htaccess
file inside the WordPress admin area - Improved: It should now be easier to locate the tests that require further improvements. Such tests would now display an orange color
- Improved: Removed rotating effect from the beta warning. Now users can manually update to a beta version if they rolled back to an older version
- Improved: Removed ‘Schema Type’ select dropdown from the Elementor Editor for WooCommerce products
- Improved: ‘Category’ taxonomy in the Sitemap step of the Setup Wizard now shows the correct state, matching the value from the database
- Fixed: Newly published posts showing 404 error on some installations due to default value set in the Global Redirections setting
- Fixed: Social image was not getting fetched by Facebook on some installations
- Fixed: ‘Author’ role was unable to save/edit Focus Keywords in the Gutenberg and Elementor editor
- Fixed: Social tab not working in the Elementor editor
- Fixed: Missing Schema tab icon in the Block editor when
No Schema
type was selected in the global settings - Fixed: Permalink field was not accepting a hyphen or space in the Block Editor and Elementor
- Fixed: The
%category%
variable was not working in the new Block Editor - Fixed:
Software Application Schema's
rating was not displaying on the frontend - Fixed: A problem with the
Auto Post redirect
option where it was throwing an error - Fixed: A glitch with the rolled-back versions where an update notice was showing even if someone was on the latest version of the plugin
- Fixed: An edge-case where forcing an update check inside WordPress was throwing a warning on some servers