2.6.5 – Systematic Support

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Changelog

Release date:

  • June 8th 2016

Summarized:

  • Another maintenance release for The SEO Framework 2.6 is coming right at you!
  • While Polylang creates Taxonomies from Pages without acknowledging it being an Archive, I have found a workaround for the Title not to show up correctly.
  • Also, bbPress’ Original Post within a topic is now shown correctly, although the bbPress 2.6.0 update will resolve this as well.
  • On special pages like the Forum page of bbPress, no more cache key conflicts will be present, this makes it a recommended update.
  • WPML Multilingual domains are now also fully supported. So instead of just adding a subdomain, this plugin now also takes whole new domains into consideration.
  • The URL generation has also been improved once more. It now contains Canonical Pagination support, and expanded Plain Permalink structure support.
  • And just when you thought new options were available, now you won’t be fooled again.
  • For developers it’s now much easier to debug, and there are also three (actually four) brand new filters.
  • And last but not least, 404 pages and Search Pages now have a Canonical URL, right towards your Homepage.

SEO Tip of the Update – Skyscraper Technique:

  • Have you found something that greatly interests you, and do you think you can write a better article than you’ve found?
  • Go write it, in your own words and style. Don’t forget to make it much longer, better and more detailed. Don’t forget to add images.
  • Finally, share the content, reach out to the public, and of course your public. This will increase your rankings significantly.
  • This method is known as the Skyscraper Technique; it’s used for and as this SEO tip, minus the images, details or length.

Detailed Log:

For everyone:

  • Added:
    • WPML multi-domain compatibility.
    • Pagination support for the Canonical URL on the Home Page and Singular Pages.
    • Pagination support for the Shortlink when using the Plain permalink structure.
    • 404 and Search page Canonical URL.
  • Improved:
    • Some sentences were weird or incorrect. These have been improved.
    • Redirect URL now has more expected behaviour upon sanitizing on WordPress versions lower than 4.1.
    • The Open Graph URL now isn’t sanitized twice.
  • Updated:
    • POT translation file.
  • Fixed:
    • bbPress Topic Starter’s first post is now visible on bbPress 2.5.9 and lower. bbPress 2.6.0 has included its own fix.
    • Search Query alteration is now only done on actual Search Queries.
    • When saving the Site SEO Settings, the Homepage Schema.org output transient and the Description transient are now flushed correctly again.
    • Taxonomial transients keys are now correct on the front-end, this should lighten up the database entries.
    • Unregistered Taxonomies’ transient keys now have an expected outcome, like on bbPress Forums.
    • Transient key generation static cache now works on terms and taxonomies.
    • New Settings Update notification now really doesn’t pop up when no New Settings have been found.
    • Plausible incorrect root Canonical URL when no path is given.

For developers:

  • Added:
    • When generating a cache key with an unknown given type, a “doingitwrong” notice is emitted.
    • Debugging can now be done on the front-end as well.
    • Debugging now shows variable type information and has better indentation.
    • When The SEO Framework debugging is enabled, the whole output will be shown within the footer, even the ones that shouldn’t be output.
  • Improved:
    • AutoDescription_Query::is_archive() now also checks other Archive Types rather than only relying on WordPress core is_archive().
    • AutoDescription_Search::search_filter() now also checks for the s query variable requests being present prior to filtering.
    • Hidden debug output is now more readable.
    • Relative URL generation for the Default Permalink structure is now incorporated within AutoDescription_Generate_Url::build_singular_relative_url(), using WordPress core functions.
  • Fixed:
    • Plausible PHP warning when using CPT in the admin area when trying to look for a category.
    • The Frontpage can now correctly be recognized by the ID parameter on AutoDescription_Query::is_front_page()
  • Filter Notes:
    • New:
      • (bool) the_seo_framework_ldjson_plugin_detected
      • (bool) the_seo_framework_json_knowledge_output
      • (string) the_seo_framework_rel_canonical_output
    • Fixed:
      • (bool) the_seo_framework_twittercard_plugin_detected now doesn’t listen to (bool) the_seo_framework_og_plugin_detected.
      • (bool) the_seo_framework_og_plugin_detected now doesn’t apply detection for Twitter Card.
  • Deprecated:
    • AutoDescription_Generate_Url::get_relative_url(), use AutoDescription_Generate_Url::build_singular_relative_url() instead.
    • AutoDescription_Generate_Url::the_url_path_default_permalink_structure(), use AutoDescription_Generate_Url::build_singular_relative_url() instead.
  • Other:
    • Cleaned up code.