New: Added a brand new dashboard widget to help you quickly identify pages and posts that can be optimized to help your SEO rankings!

New: Added a second dashboard widget for users who have not yet finished the Setup Wizard.

New: Added an option to strip the category base.

New: Added internal integration with Smash Balloon’s Facebook plugin to automatically bust the Open Graph cache when a page or post is updated.

Updated: Disabled shortcode parsing by default for new sites and surfaced the option so users can disable it without filter hooks.

Updated: Sorted the sitemap posts and pages by priority, then last modified date.

Fixed: Setup wizard not always saving every setting.

Fixed: Manually entered person not working in the setup wizard.

Fixed: Conflict with WPBakery’s Visual Composer and our blocks.

Fixed: Clicking the gear icon in the Divi page builder didn’t always work.

Fixed: Redirects modal appearing behind block editor sidebar.

Fixed: TruSEO analysis not running on page load in Elementor.

Fixed: Convert the manifest.json into a manifest.php file to fix loading on unique filesystems.

Fixed: Media title and descriptions not updating.

Fixed: PHP errors for users with invalid FTP/SSH filesystems.

New: Manage redirects directly from any post/page to temporarily redirect to another post/page.

New: Prevent updating the modified date on a page or post when making changes that you don’t need search engines to re-index.

Updated: Image sitemap now includes images from Divi.

Updated: Smart tags now add a space in front of them if there isn’t one yet.

Updated: Post editor social tab now displays an alert when Facebook/Twitter is disabled in the settings.

Updated: Additional link format options no longer displayed for ACF link fields since they aren’t supported there.

Updated: Added aioseo_multisite_subdomain filter to allow users to indicate which type of configuration their multisite uses.

Updated: Disabling “Show in Search Results” option sets robots meta back to default settings if no other robots settings were previously changed.

Updated: Removed QAPage graph in favour of FAQPage graph.

Updated: Updated score description for the SEO Analyzer to better reflect SEO recommendations.

Fixed: Facebook/Twitter previews now always display the right image for the active image source.

Fixed: Link Format styles have been readded after they were removed in WP 5.9.

Fixed: Local SEO metabox missing some styles.

Fixed: Canonical URL of the latest post sometimes used for the homepage.

Fixed: Canonical URL and OG:URL missing from attachment pages.

Fixed: Custom canonical URL no longer alters the schema of the OG:URL.

Fixed: Headline Analyzer sometimes not correctly identifying some uncommon words, power words, etc.

Fixed: Image sitemap now includes the correct amount of images if the post content contains an invalid post gallery shortcode.

Fixed: Image sitemap scan sometimes interferes with the V3 post meta migration.

Fixed: Miscellaneous Webmaster Verification field is now trimmed before being output into the HEAD, preventing blank spaces.

Fixed: PHP error after deleting a post from a post type that does not support trashing.

Fixed: SEO Title field no longer has extra trailing spaces.

Fixed: Meta Description field no longer has an extra trailing new line.

Fixed: TruSEO now runs correctly if the visual editor in the Classic Editor is disabled.

Fixed: Sitemap Priority/Frequency dropdowns now correctly display in the sidebar.