2.2.8 – Social Business SEO

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Changelog

For everyone:

  • Added: (Google) Knowledge Graph support. Connect personal or business (social) sites to be (sometimes) shown in the widget of Google search.
  • Added: Options for the Knowledge Graph.
  • Added: The Business SEO also takes your Site Icon (WordPress 4.3 and up) for an automatically generated Logo for the Knowledge Graph. This is optional.
  • Added: Automatic noindex for empty categories. There are no plans for making this optional as these empty pages always hurt your site’s SEO value.
  • Added: This new feature also reflects on The SEO Bar.
  • Added: An Open Graph alternative for Post/Page modified time if both Open Graph Tags and article:modified_time are active (og:updated_time).
  • Added: Automated description prefix ‘Latest posts:’ for the Posts Page if the Home Page is static.
  • Added: Automated Description now uses the Custom Post/Page title if set.
  • Added: Link to options page from plugin dashboard (single site only).
  • Added: Link in the plugin’s activation page to The SEO Framework’s homepage (single site only). This is the only and final link we’ll ever place.
  • Fixed: The SEO Bar now determines the real length of the title if it’s manually set.
  • Fixed: Page description placeholder for pages which are assigned to the Posts Page through customizer now represent what they output on the front-end.
  • Fixed: Page description placeholder for pages which are assigned to the Front Page through customizer now represent what they output on the front-end.
  • Fixed: Page description input for pages which are assigned to the Posts Page through customizer now correctly render the input.
  • Fixed: Page title for pages which are assigned to the Posts Page through customizer now aren’t empty on the front-end.
  • Fixed: Untitled pages now correctly render the “Untitled” title in the automated Description.
  • Fixed: The Dutch translation files now work again (accidentally left capitalized).
  • Fixed: Added missing quotes in the LD+Json search helper. Shouldn’t have had any impact on SEO.
  • Fixed: Highly unlikely bug: On the SEO Bar for the Home Page, if you disabled indexing for the Home Page through Genesis Settings and Archiving is allowed, it would show that Noarchive is active.
  • Removed: Genesis Home Page description from the SEO settings output (because it isn’t accessible anymore).
  • Removed: Genesis Post Type Archive SEO output rendering, since it’s replaced with this plugin’s.
  • Removed: The (AutoDescription) addition in the plugin’s title on the plugin page.
  • Other: Made the icon of this plugin sharper :).
  • Updated: Language files.

For developers:

  • Added: New filters.
  • Changed: The AutoDescription_Generate::title() function is now split up into multiple functions. Useage and output stays the same.
  • Fixed: PHP Notice when adding a tag or category through AJAX.
  • Removed: Deprecated hmpl_og_image filter from 2.0.5
  • Cleaned up code.