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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 of WP_SITEURL for the redirect 404 to homepage option

v1.0.45 July 6, 2020

Added: [New!] Support for Google Web Stories by integrating with the Web Stories plugin for WordPress
Added: An option to enable/disable update emails in the Auto Update option as well as the ready step of the setup wizard
Added: Facebook & Twitter meta fields in the WPML config file
Added: Some missing text in the translation file
Added: A filter to remove rank-math-link class from the content links on the frontend
Added: A dismiss button in the Auto-post Redirect notice that was missing accidentally. Sorry about that
Improved: Single post editor’s performance by removing some unnecessary Focus Keyword related combinations
Improved: Validating the Robots data before using them on the frontend
Improved: Hiding the Attachment Options in the Titles & Meta setting if the ‘Redirect Attachments’ option is turned on
Improved: Set attachments to noindex after importing settings from Yoast and if the Redirection Attachment option was set to on
Improved: Renamed ‘Media’ tab in the Sitemap settings to ‘Attachments’
Improved: Compatibility with WordPress 4.9 and the users will see a notice in the backend requesting them to update their WordPress to the latest version if someone wants to use the future releases of Rank Math (they might not be compatible)
Improved: Product In Stock value in the Product Schema shortcode will now show Available or Not Available instead of a boolean value
Improved: Enhanced security in some places in the plugin
Replaced: A third-party useragent checking API in the advanced 404 Monitor with a native library
Removed: Missing description tag HTML comment notice from the frontend for admins
Changed: Dropdown labels to filter the post by SEO Scores
Changed: Sitemap cache directory from plugin folder to wp-content/rank-math
Fixed: Few users were not able to connect their Google Search Console & Rank Math account
Fixed: The status of Elementor’s update button was not updating in some cases which were causing confusion
Fixed: An issue where the AMP plugin by Google was throwing errors for admin-related scripts. Even though it was working fine on the frontend
Fixed: Block Styling was not loading in the backend with the Gutenberg v8.4+ Plugin
Fixed: An issue where using a spacebar while adding a meta description was throwing the cursor to the end of the description entered
Fixed: Compatibility with the Duplicate Post plugin
Fixed: Getting an invalid argument supplied error in class-cmb2.php file on some installations
Fixed: Russian focus keywords were not getting detected in the URL in Rank Math’s tests
Fixed: An error was generating in the backend when the post thumbnail image was removed from the media folder
Fixed: In some cases, invalid was getting added to the Focus Keyword field after updating the post
Fixed: Guided Recipe Schema was throwing an invalid value in the field itemtype when a HowtoSection value was added
Fixed: A PHP warning for missing constant if WordPress version requirement was not met

v1.0.44.1 June 17, 2020

Added: In the WPML config file, added Breadcrumb’s homepage link option
Improved: Hardened security further. Props to Tanner Hodges
Fixed: An issue with the Recipe Schema where the Recipe Instructions field was not respecting the line breaks upon saving a post
Fixed: The Primary Category feature was not working properly when someone changed the default category in the WooCommerce
Fixed: The TOC test was failing on multisite installations when a plugin was activated on the entire network
Fixed: A problem where the custom rewrites were not displaying correctly inside the Canonical URL field in the backend. Though, it was working fine for the search engines
Removed: The sourceMap comments from the CSS files so users won’t get 404 warnings on their site

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