2.2.7 – Nearly Perfect SEO API Extended

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Changelog

For everyone:

  • Added: If no excerpt (content) is found, the separator in the description is now removed.
  • Added: Taxonomy titles now have a new identification, e.g. ‘Tag: My Tag’, ‘Month: October 2015’, etc. if the title is left empty (applicable to Tags and Categories).
  • Added: If there’s no post title found anywhere in all checks, the title will become ‘Untitled’ instead of empty. This also works for themes which are doing it wrong.
  • Added: When the Site Description (tagline) is deactivated for the home page, the example in the SEO Settings page will now not show that part on page refresh. (JavaScript)
  • Added: Noindex on Date and Search archives are defaulted to active on new installations/sites. For those archives could have a negative impact on SEO value in almost all cases.
  • Changed: This update allows other plugin Authors to easier extend this plugin.
  • Changed: Recommended description length lowered from 150-160 to 145-155. This is because Google looks at character width (e.g. Mom is wider than Illy).
  • Fixed: If the Home Page is a blog, the automated description now matches the one shown as a placeholder in the SEO Settings page.
  • Fixed: If the Home Page is static, the description is now correctly fetched from the Home Page SEO Settings.
  • Fixed: og:title/twitter:title now is “right” when Themes are doing it “wrong”.
  • Refreshed: Text domain, now complying with the WordPress standards to be translatable through WordPress.org.
  • Unchanged: We still include the Dutch translation file until the WordPress.org translation is up to date.
  • Added: .POT file.

For developers:

  • Added: Generic API functions are now made publically accessible (PHP protected to public keywords).
  • Added: Plugin example. Will soon be uploaded to the WordPress.org repository if it passes the guidelines.
  • Added: Function title_from_cache() now parses parameters.
  • Fixed: Function the_seo_framework() now won’t run this plugin twice. We advise you to run a version compare check as per example found here: The SEO Framework Generator Example
  • Fixed: Unregistered checkbox settings no longer return as a registered True Default when called through default_is_checked().
  • Fixed: Removed the cache from default site options, so you can now filter them properly after the plugins_loaded action.
  • Fixed: PHP notice when on the home page which is a blog and shortlinks are active.
  • Removed: Unused rewrite function used for testing purposes in 2.2.5.
  • Removed: Deprecated function from 2.1.6 (close_the_box())
  • Cleaned up code.