GPL SEOPress PRO: the best on-site search engine optimization WordPress plugin V8.7

= 8.7 (10/04/2025) =

• NEW Migrate Yoast (Free version) global settings to SEOPress with our import tool
• NEW Automatic Product schema updated to use native GTIN WooCommerce fields
• NEW Composer for SEOPress PRO
• NEW AI-powered alt text generation for images with missing alt attributes
• NEW WP CLI command to generate alt text for missing ones only
• NEW Notifications counter in WP admin bar
• NEW ‘seopress_adminbar_counter’ hook to filter the notification counter (https://www.seopress.org/support/hooks/filter-the-admin-bar-counter/)
• INFO Cleaning some CSS
• INFO Video XML sitemaps performance optimization
• INFO Automatically exclude some post types for Instant Indexing feature
• INFO Automatically enable the 404 cleaning option on plugin activation (new site only)
• INFO Improve support for PHP 8.4
• FIX Regression with Wizard/Import tool
• FIX Display settings from SEOPress admin bar
• FIX False positive “Noindex” alert from WP admin bar
• FIX Duplicated meta robots with ?replytocom parameter
• FIX Improve UI
• FIX i18n and wpml-config.xml file

= 8.7 (10/04/2025) =​

• NEW Migrate Yoast (Free version) global settings to SEOPress with our import tool
• NEW Automatic Product schema updated to use native GTIN WooCommerce fields
• NEW Composer for SEOPress PRO
• NEW AI-powered alt text generation for images with missing alt attributes
• NEW WP CLI command to generate alt text for missing ones only
• NEW Notifications counter in WP admin bar
• NEW ‘seopress_adminbar_counter’ hook to filter the notification counter (https://www.seopress.org/support/hooks/filter-the-admin-bar-counter/)
• INFO Cleaning some CSS
• INFO Video XML sitemaps performance optimization
• INFO Automatically exclude some post types for Instant Indexing feature
• INFO Automatically enable the 404 cleaning option on plugin activation (new site only)
• INFO Improve support for PHP 8.4
• FIX Regression with Wizard/Import tool
• FIX Display settings from SEOPress admin bar
• FIX False positive “Noindex” alert from WP admin bar
• FIX Duplicated meta robots with ?replytocom parameter
• FIX Improve UI
• FIX i18n and wpml-config.xml file

= 8.6.1 (05/03/2025) =​

• FIX Complianz compatibility issue
• FIX OpenAI language issue
• FIX Yoast SEO migration issue with old focus keywords
• FIX Post type archive metadata if no posts exist

= v8.6 (19/02/2025) =

• NEW Update AI models (now available: GPT-4o Mini, GPT-4o, GPT-4, GPT-3.5-Turbo)
• NEW Enhancements for Table of Contents block
• NEW Wizard enhancements for a better user experience
• NEW “seopress_titles_paged_rel” hook to filter the paged rel links in the head section (https://www.seopress.org/support/hooks/filter-rel-nextprev-link-in-head-of-paginated-archive-pages/)
• INFO Remove noarchive meta robots tag as it’s not longer supported by Google
• INFO Ask AI to respect the grammar and typing of the language
• INFO Add error handling for Google Analytics stats in dashboard widget (SEO, Analytics, Google Analytics tab, Stats in dashboard section)
• INFO Increase timeout for Page Speed Insights API (from 30 to 120 seconds)
• FIX i18n POT file
• FIX Default OG:IMAGE for Shop page
• FIX Default settings for term taxonomies meta title / description
• FIX No /product-category/ in URL when using WooCommerce and WPML Multilingual CMS + WooCommerce Multilingual & Multicurrency
• FIX User meta tags for author
• FIX AI: Alt text for images uploaded from Gravity Forms
• FIX undefined $language with AI in specific cases
• FIX JS error attachment when using AI
• FIX Incorrect meta title/desc counters between classic SEO metabox and Universal one
• FIX Bricks builder compatibility issue with SEOPress PRO
• FIX PHP Warning: Attempt to read property “display_name” Author on null in Breadcrumbs
• FIX Internal linking suggestions JS error
• FIX Google Analytics / Matomo widgets if no data
• FIX Fatal error on plugin deactivation

= v8.5.1 (30/01/2025) =

• NEW Update translations automatically during inline update
• NEW Add PageSpeed Insights logs to the settings page
• NEW Import Breadcrumb Title from Yoast SEO
• INFO Improve requirement notices in wizard
• INFO Remove title field in TOC block for more flexibility
• FIX Table of Contents block warning
• FIX Matomo / Google Analytics Dashboard widgets to improve performances
• FIX Missing alt text column in media library

= v8.5.0.2 =

• FIX WP Editor term taxonomy description field
• FIX AI from the SEO metabox not working (PRO)

= 8.5.0.1 (21/01/2025) =

• FIX Compatibility with SEOPress PRO 8.5.0

SEOPress Pro Changelog v8.4 (11/12/2024)

• 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)

SEOPress Pro Release Note version 8.3 (28/10/2024)

• 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”

SEOPress Pro Release Note 8.2.2 (07/10/2024)

• INFO Update updater for PRO users
• FIX PHP Warning related to Google News