* NEW Huge performance improvements on backend / frontend 🎉
* NEW Show the list of URLs using the same target keyword to quickly edit them from the Content Analysis metabox
* NEW Toggle simple / default view on dashboard for SEO management section
* NEW Japanese language added for the UI (PRO soon available)
* NEW "seopress_seo_alerts_homepage_args" hook to filter the SEO alerts homepage args (https://www.seopress.org/support/hooks/filter-the-homepage-alert-arguments/)
* NEW "seopress_seo_alerts_robots_args" hook to filter the SEO alerts robots args (https://www.seopress.org/support/hooks/filter-the-robots-alert-arguments/)
* NEW "seopress_seo_alerts_sitemap_args" hook to filter the SEO alerts sitemap args (https://www.seopress.org/support/hooks/filter-the-xml-sitemap-alert-arguments/)
* INFO Improve notification if a custom taxonomy is not excluded from the XML sitemap
* INFO Improve robots.txt file editor UI
* INFO Add a new wizard to migrate from other SEO plugins
* INFO Important performance improvements
* INFO Exclude post types with archive set to false from OG image global settings
* INFO Remove site navigation element from structured data types (not used anymore by Google)
* INFO Update GPL license to v3
* INFO Exclude CPT from other plugins to Site Audit
* FIX Remove useless notification if SEOPress PRO is not activated
* FIX Exclude non public CPT from News XML sitemaps settings
* FIX Compatibility issue with Final Tiles Grid Gallery - Image Gallery plugin
* FIX Target keywords count
* FIX Canonical URL for WPML if the post is not translated / duplicated with fallback to default language
* FIX Missing posts in HTML sitemap in specific cases
* NEW Site Audit #3: automatically fix missing alt text on images with AI (PRO)
* NEW Add a button to block Claude bot in robots.txt (PRO)
* NEW Table of Contents block for the Full Site Editing (PRO)
* NEW FAQ Block using the detail block: better reliability and better user experience
* NEW 'seopress_elementor_integration_enabled' hook to disable our Elementor integration (https://www.seopress.org/support/hooks/disable-seopress-elementor-integration/)
* INFO Improve security
* INFO Add all missing columns to CSV export redirects file
* INFO Bring back the last modification date column in XML index sitemaps
* INFO Add "Automatically set alt text on already inserted image" setting to the wizard installation
* INFO Remove sitelinks searchbox in Google search results to follow their new guidelines
* INFO Remove deprecated load_plugin_textdomain
* INFO Improve our Elementor integration
* INFO Update Google APIs
* INFO Improve White Label for Dashboard by removing SEO Suite, Ebooks, and Latest News sections if the feature is enabled
* INFO Admin bar: show a noindex notice if the current post/term is set to noindex (individually or globally)
* INFO Improve license status display in the Dashboard
* FIX WPML compatibility: WooCommerce Shop archive page URL in XML sitemaps
* FIX Refresh textarea with tabs in backend
* FIX PHP notices / warnings in specific cases
* FIX Encoding with OpenAI integration
* FIX Rendering dynamic variables for the Local Business schema (SEO, PRO, Local Business tab)
* FIX Custom capability to export broken links as a CSV file
* FIX Stop words for internal linking suggestions in other languages than English and French
* FIX PHP Deprecated: strtotime(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($datetime)
* FIX Deprecation warning for PluginPrePublishPanel with the Block Editor
* FIX Permissions for Site Audit
* FIX Google Preview encoding issue
* FIX Compatibility with Avada Fusion Builder and our universal SEO metabox
* FIX Compatibility with Surecart (universal SEO metabox is required to handle SEO metadata)
* NEW Site Audit #2 iteration 🎉 (PRO)
- Improved CSV export functionality
- Option to select which post types to scan from the settings
- Added an "Ignore" button for each issue
- Receive an email alert when the site audit task is completed
- Added site audit scan duration
- Enhanced user interface
- Improved column ordering and sorting
- Enhanced the seopress_site_audit_query hook
- Fix false positives
* NEW Automatically set alt text on already inserted image (SEO, Advanced, Image SEO tab) 🎉
* NEW "seopress_dashboard_site_overview_tabs" to filter the tabs of the Dashboard Site Overview block (https://www.seopress.org/support/hooks/filter-tabs-in-the-dashboard-site-overview-block/)
* NEW Add new default WooCommerce rules button to robots.txt tab (PRO)
* NEW 'seopress_instant_indexing_permalink' hook to filter URL sent automatically to IndexNow API (https://www.seopress.org/support/hooks/filter-post-object-sent-automatically-to-indexnow-api/)
* NEW 'seopress_site_audit_after_processs' hook to run action after site audit is completed (https://www.seopress.org/support/hooks/run-action-after-site-audit-is-completed/)
* INFO The notification “You don’t have an XML sitemap!” can now be ignored
* INFO Improve compatibility with Malcare plugin
* INFO Add a notice for The7 theme to invite users to disable SEO settings to avoid any compatibility issue
* INFO Improve redirects import tool from a CSV file by cleaning original URL if first character is a slash
* FIX Slug change notice with the Block Editor
* FIX PHP Warning "new_url"
* INFO Update updater for PRO users
* FIX PHP Warning related to Google News
* NEW Add a notice to the Block Editor on slug changes to quickly create a redirection to keep your SEO (PRO)
* INFO Table of contents Block: allow "paragraph" / "div" for the title of the block
* INFO Add notice to robots.txt settings tab if a physical file is already present on your server
* INFO Support robots.txt file for WP multisite (subdirectories installation with custom domains)
* INFO Strengthened security
* FIX Wizard redirect when updating SEOPress PRO
* FIX Internal links list in standard content analysis metabox
* FIX Fatal error undefined function
* FIX GA4 / Matomo stats in dashboard widgets (PRO)
* FIX Bricks compatibility with WPML
* FIX Prevent a fatal error if both plugins are deactivated at same time
* FIX Universal SEO metabox / Content Analysis
* FIX An issue with Instant Indexing feature
* NEW Support for WordPress 6.6
* NEW Import your redirects from SmartCrawl plugin
* NEW Add fediverse:creator tag to improve sharing on Mastodon
* NEW Support secured authentification token in Matomo to get stats in dashboard
* NEW Set a primary category directly from the Block Editor > Category panel
* NEW 'seopress_schemas_website_html' hook to filter the HTML of the website schema (https://www.seopress.org/support/hooks/filter-website-schema/)
* NEW 'seopress_social_fv_creator' hook to filter the HTML of the fediverse tag (https://www.seopress.org/support/hooks/filter-fediverse-creator-tag/)
* INFO Improve compatibility with Bricks Builder: their CPT / Taxonomies are no longer listed from SEOPress settings
* INFO Metaboxes now match admin color scheme
* INFO Display a notice if the GA4 property ID to get stats in dashboard is equals to the GA4 measurement ID to avoide confusion
* INFO Add a missing notice to Universal SEO metabox if you're editing your WC shop page
* INFO Strengthened security
* FIX Duplicated hook name 'seopress_rgpd_full_message' / new hook created 'seopress_rgpd_edit_message' (https://www.seopress.org/support/hooks/filter-the-message-for-managing-the-choice-of-cookies/)
* FIX Quick edit redirects for 410/451
* FIX OG:image if not attachment ID set
* FIX Instant Indexing in specific cases
* FIX Fatal error on internal linking suggestions if $post is null
* FIX Article automatic schema with additional social accounts
* FIX "Read more" is not a descriptive link for our cookie bar
* FIX Some PHP warnings with SEO Alerts feature
* FIX Some translations
* FIX OpenAI integration
* FIX Product Global Identifiers type & Product Global Identifiers for variable products if WooCommerce feature is globally disabled
* FIX Google News XML sitemap in specific cases
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* NEW Allow to generate alternative text with AI directly from the media modal (PRO)
* NEW Export slug changes to a CSV file (SEO, Tools, Redirections) - PRO
* INFO Bump required PHP version to 7.4 (recommended 8.2+)
* INFO We no longer use the first image of your post content for social media to improve performances
* INFO Strengthened security
* INFO Improve UX to generate alt text for media from filename
* FIX Remove Home item from Breadcrumbs JSON-LD
* FIX Redirection test link in specific cases
* FIX Compatibility issue with WP Rocket in rare cases
* FIX Headings analysis
* FIX Social OG and X title on default archive pages if global settings are empty
* FIX Redirect other XML sitemap URL with WordPress subdirectory setup
* FIX Remove help links to SEOPress if White label is enabled
* FIX Remove a deprecated function