Added: The left sidebar’s menu items appear instantly when a new module is activated from the Rank Math’s dashboard area
Added: An option to ignore cases when creating a new redirection
Improved: The scoring system in the plugin. You might notice a minor mismatch in the scores. You can revisit your posts/pages and follow this updated guide to score better points
Improved: Removed URL decoding to allow special characters in the redirection’s destination field
Improved: Synced all the default values for the Setup Wizard Options with the Options Panel
Enhanced: If the ‘Rich Media’, ‘Keyword Density’ & ‘Length of Content’ tests do not reach 100%, they will now show different colors so users would know these tests need more work. One can read more about these test in this scoring guide
Enhanced: Streamlined editing workflow for the SEO title using variables while editing posts/pages/CPTs. Previously, when you’d start entering a new meta title, the pre-defined variables would be removed, which made it difficult for some to make changes. This has now been changed so that this is no longer the case
Fixed: Authorization issues when connecting Google Search Console due to permission related inconsistencies
FIXED: A couple of REST API security issues reported by Wordfence team
Fixed: WooCommerce’s Product page was not getting redirected to the new base when Poista kategorian perusta option was enabled
Fixed: URLs with Cyrillic characters were not showing correctly in the permalink field
Fixed: An issue where they were a score mismatch between the Classic & the new Block editor
Fixed: Polylang’s SERP preview URL was not showing language code in term’s edit page
Fixed: A redirection issue on a sub-directory installation, where Rank Math was throwing a 404 error when a user tried to access the admin from the main domain. Fixed it following WordPress’s guidelines
Fixed: A WooCommerce issue where a trailing slash was getting added incorrectly to the product category pages when the ‘Remove Category Base’ & ‘Remove Parent slug’ options were enabled. Though, the Canonical URLs were working fine
v1.0.40.2 maaliskuu 24, 2020
Fixed: Focus Keyword suggestions not working for the connected users
Fixed: Removed destination field for the 410 and 451 Redirection type
v1.0.40.1 maaliskuu 21, 2020
Added: Given the current global situation, more events are going virtual, being postponed, and being canceled every single day. We want to acknowledge that we’re all being affected by COVID-19 🦠 (aka Coronavirus disease) in different ways. Our thoughts and prayers go out to everyone affected, especially those who are in quarantine and have lost loved ones. Let’s follow these precautions religiously. And, on that note, we’re releasing support for the new Structured Data properties as per Google’s latest announcement. The Events that are getting canceled and moving online can now be marked using Rank Math’s Tapahtuma-schema.
Added: An Option to set ‘Event Attendance Mode’ in the Event Schema [Offline/Online/Offline+Online]
Added: [NEW!] A block to add Tutoriaali-schema to a WordPress website using the new Block editor aka Gutenberg
Added: A HTML tab in the Category/Term description field
Added: A warning about the beta version on the plugins’ update page
Added: Compatibility needed for WordPress 5.4
Improved: On a multisite, moved the Version Control’s options to the network admin and now only the super admins can access it
Improved: Removed default values from the Opening Hours in the Paikallinen SEO tab & the Redirect Orphan Attachment option
Improved: Used @graph to combine multiple Schema types in a single JSON-LD tag
Improved: Added IDs to the Schema output of FAQ Block
Improved: Notice’s styling and changed beta changelog link to Rank Math’s changelog page
Changed: The default behavior of Powered by link inside the SEO score option to a follow link due to Google’s recent changes on how they see a NoFollow link. One can change the content of the link by using these filters. This is especially useful for agency owners. The option is turned off by default
Fixed: Rank Math not working with the standalone Gutenberg plugin
Fixed: Import/Export tab missing for the subsite owners in the Multisite installation
Fixed: FAQ Schema not printing when FAQ block was added in the Columns as an InnerBlock
Fixed: Block Editor crashing when someone clicked on the Rank Math Toolbar button while the page was loading on certain web hosts
Fixed: Sort by SEO Score not working in the Posts lists page
Fixed: Import step was showing in the setup wizard even after the import was completed
Fixed: Filter to hide the SEO Score in the frontend not working properly
Fixed: The protected meta was showing in the frontend if the_meta function was used
Fixed: The Bing verification option not working
Fixed: Missing yellow background in the SEO Score of the Classic editor area
Fixed: An undefined variable error in a WooCommerce file
Fixed: A bug that was preventing the translations from showing up inside the Elementor editor
Fixed: Elementor’s save button was greyed out even after changing values in the SEO tab of Rank Math
Fixed: Made Local SEO phone number field translation-ready
