Changelog

Release date:

• June 14th 2016

Summarized

• Page builders are great for if you want to style your website, and when you want to do it fast.
• So from this update the Divi Builder, Visual Composer, Beaver Builder, and the Page Builder by SiteOrigin are now fully supported.
• Various bugs have also been fixed, to improve your experience. One particular bugfix is related to Polylang; this bugfix should improve performance and reduce other bugs from happening as well.
• The Automated and Manual description output has been improved in several ways as well.
• For developers, a class has been removed. All functions within have been moved to more suitable classes. This change will reduce server resource usage and increase overall performance.

SEO Tip of the Update – Know your Keywords:

• To know how your website is found, sign up for Google Search Console. Over a couple of days (or weeks), elegant data has been accumulated about your website.
• When you go to the Search Analytics within the Search Console, you’ll see a list of queries people have used to find your website.
• The queries can be used as keywords, they are excellent starting points for new post titles and subjects. Go ahead, use them!

For developers – About the class removal:

• Because the plugin makes use of a “Facade pattern“. And through class extending, all functions within the plugin are available at all times.
• In trade for increased resource usage this does make the plugin very compatible, faster, and easier to work with.
• This plugin serves one single responsibility: Outputting SEO data, and determining the reason why. Therefore, although it looks like a “God object“, it’s not.
• Please keep in mind that all functions from any class are available through the “Facade object”. Because of this, the class removal shouldn’t cause issues for developers.
• You can call this “Facade object” through a single cached function (rather than a global variable), this cached function is the_seo_framework().
• If you wish to extend this plugin, feel free to ask me for any details or suggestions at the Support forums.

Detailed Log:

For everyone:

• Added:
  • Page Builder detection, so no more incorrect descriptions can be created when a page builder. The following page builders are now supported, and when detected, the found content will be omitted from the description generation:
    • Divi Builder by Elegant Themes
    • Visual Composer by WPBakery
    • Page Builder by SiteOrigin
    • Beaver Builder by Fastline Media
• Improved:
  • Automated Term SEO Descriptions from WordPress Core Term Descriptions no longer allows for line breaks and are instead replaced with spaces.
  • Automated Author SEO Descriptions from WordPress Core Author Biography no longer allows for line breaks and are instead replaced with spaces.
  • The Automated Description Excerpt now has one extra trimming parse for removing leading spaces.
  • When multiple spaces are found subsequently within the description, they’re now converted to a single space.
• Updated:
  • Because of the page builder detection, all previous description transients have been invalidated and will be cleaned out from the database automatically within 7 days.
• Fixed:
  • Incorrect descriptions were parsed in The SEO Bar on Taxonomies and Terms when a custom description is filled in.
  • On update, this plugin no longer flushes the WordPress Rewrite Engine to prevent missing rewrite data.
  • No more Custom Fields will be produced by this plugin on singular post types.
  • Polylang can no longer cause an incorrect query cache, this means that incorrect data is no longer being output on the front page.
• Note:
  • From this update, in theory, when not flushing the rewrite data on plugin update, it’s possible that the sitemap will not be outputted correctly.
  • In practice, this won’t be the case; unless you’re updating the plugin with SEO Settings saved prior to The SEO Framework 2.2.9.

For developers:

• Added:
  • The cache key base is now shown within the debugger title on the front-end and edit pages.
  • The cached query output is now shown within the debugger.
  • AutoDescription_Query::get_the_real_ID() now also works on Terms and Taxonomies within the term edit screens.
• Improved:
  • The static functions related to plugin (de-)activation have been moved outside of their class, into (marked private) functions to reduce memory usage on.
  • Slightly reduced memory usage of AutoDescription_Load::call_function() by reusing variables.
  • Replaced seconds calculations with predefined WordPress constants.
  • AutoDescription_Generate_Url::get_paged_url() third parameter $post_id now also fetches the content for <!--nextpage--> accordingly, rather than what’s determined through the loop.
  • Removed the saved_flag singular post meta, as it’s redundant and caused a Custom Field to show up.
  • The expected/current meta output doesn’t add onto debug values.
  • The term data is now injected late at get_header or current_screen.
  • AutoDescription_Generate_image::get_image_from_post_thumbnail() now re-parses arguments when none are supplied.
• Changed:
  • AutoDescription_Generate_Description::trim_excerpt() is now public.
  • AutoDescription_PostData::fetch_post_by_id() has gained an $output parameter, default ARRAY_A. All linked functions now fetch the post data as an object instead of an array.
  • AutoDescription_TermData::get_admin_term_id() has been moved to class AutoDescription_Query.
  • get_term_filter(), get_terms_filter(), taxonomy_seo_save() and term_meta_delete() have been moved to class AutoDescription_TermData from class AutoDescription_PageOptions.
  • inpost_seo_save() and save_custom_fields() have been moved to class AutoDescription_PostData from class AutoDescription_PageOptions.
• Removed:
  • Public static function AutoDescription_Sitemaps::flush_rewrite_rules_activation, not deprecated as access was private.
  • Public static function AutoDescription_Sitemaps::flush_rewrite_rules_deactivation, not deprecated as access was private.
  • Class AutoDescription_PageOptions has been removed and unloaded to save memory.
  • Variable The_SEO_Framework_Load::debug_time, it was never used.
• Deprecated:
  • AutoDescription_Load::the_seo_framework_version(). It’s no longer used within the plugin and serves no purpose.
• Fixed:
  • Plausible PHP warning on terms and taxonomies when fetching data.
  • LD+Json transient state is now correctly reflected in the debug output when the output is an empty string.
  • AutoDescription_Query::is_feed()‘s first parameter no longer crashes site when supplying an array to determine state.
• Filter Notes:
  • New:
    • (bool) the_seo_framework_detect_page_builder
    • (bool) the_seo_framework_do_shortcodes_in_description
    • (bool) the_seo_framework_do_shortcodes_in_title
• Other:
  • Cleaned up code, quite a lot.