Changelog

Release date:

• February 25th, 2018

Did you know?

• We’re working on an extension for keyword and subject analysis, named Focus.
• In its current state, it’s already on par with other solutions, but we are going to take it even further.
• More details will follow in a blog post, which we’ll link to on our Twitter page when the features are ready.

Summarized:

• This is a maintenance release with over 10 bugs fixed. Most notoriously were pixel guideline calculation errors and home page title errors.
• Open Graph and Twitter custom title and description options have been added to every post, page, and CPT.
• The description character count and pixel length guidelines have been updated.
• All publicly queryable CPT posts and pages now support SEO settings and are included in the sitemap. No more messing with filters is needed.

About the new description guidelines:

• Google increased their SERP’s description length a few months ago, so we’ve updated the upper-limit guidelines.
• We recommend enforcing these new guidelines for new pages, cornerstone pages, and the home page.
• Although the description lengths have been updated, the transient cache isn’t invalidated.
• Over time the cache will refresh itself, this is done automatically by WordPress, or via your caching plugin’s transients handler (if applicable).

About the social meta input:

• There are new Open Graph and Twitter inputs in the SEO Settings.
• The Twitter settings, when left empty, will use the Open Graph output.
• The Open Graph settings, when left empty, will use the SEO meta output.
• As always, auto-generated Open Graph and Twitter descriptions won’t use prefixes.

Found unwanted links in the sitemap?

• If you find posts in the sitemap that shouldn’t be there, please refer to our renewed FAQ.
• The FAQ entry title is “The sitemap contains unwanted links”.

For developers, a filter change:

• The get_the_archive_title filter is a WordPress filter, and it’s used for theming, but not for metadata.
• Because it’s used for theming, it may expect HTML. Therefore, this is something TSF shouldn’t use, yet it did.
• We could’ve “simply” stripped all HTML tags, but that would break instances where tags are expected to be shown as-is.
• So, if you’ve used the filter before to adjust archive titles in TSF, consider replacing it with the_seo_framework_generated_archive_title.

Detailed log

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• Added:
  • For Open Graph and Twitter, custom title and description fields have been added to the in-post Social tab.
    • The social titles, when filled in, will exclude additions (like the site name) automatically.
    • Twitter, by default, uses what Open Graph uses.
    • Open Graph, by default, uses the fallback social meta.
  • Focus extension support, including:
    • New hidden fields have been added for titles and descriptions which inherit the expected output.
  • WPML translation editor support. Thanks Vuk!
• Changed:
  • The SEO settings now show up on every publicly queryable post type. Title and editor fields are no longer required.
  • The Visibility and Social in-post-edit SEO settings tabs have switched places.
  • The character counter is enabled by default again.
• Improved:
  • The in-post SEO settings tabs are correctly switched on-load when necessary, improving UX on slow networks.
  • It’s now stated that the authorized presence options don’t affect social/open graph settings. Those options are unrelated.
  • When the in-post SEO Settings meta box is placed in the sidebar, with TSFEM 1.5 (next release), the tabs no longer overflow the page before the page is loaded, causing unnecessary painting reflows.
  • When the blog page is pending, password protected, or private, it’s no longer included in the sitemap.
• Fixed:
  • The pixel counter had a calculation error of plus/minus 1~3% (estimated via Chrome 64, Windows 10), because the wrong font and weight was used.
  • For the home page, when there’s no tagline set for the site nor a title tagline are set, and then the tagline additions are enabled, the correct title is used now.
  • Some text colors in the sitemap are no longer incorrectly calculated. Your sitemap may look slightly different now.
  • The text colors in tooltips are now correctly assigned and calculated.
  • On IE, Edge, and Firefox, in-post navigational texts no longer align to the top on adjacent-item overflow; instead, they’re now vertically centered.
  • When the sitemap lastmod option is disabled, no more PHP notices will appear when debugging is enabled.
    • This didn’t affect the output logic, so without debugging there we no issues.
  • Auto generated term titles no longer show used HTML.
  • In the sitemap, entries without an URL no longer occur, for any reason whatsoever.
  • The SEO title placeholder no longer removes expected HTML tags when updated.
  • The cursor on question links now defaults to pointer again, instead of the wrapper’s.
  • When the term selection box is closed on load, no more JS errors occur when correcting the primary term selection’s helper position.
• For translators:
  • Added:
    • Location: In-post SEO Settings Social Tab
      • “Open Graph Title”
      • “Open Graph Description”
      • “Twitter Title”
      • “Twitter Description”
    • Location: SEO Settings -> Schema Settings -> Presence Tab
      • “These settings do not affect sharing behavior with the social networks.”
• For developers:
  • Added:
    • Four new custom post fields:
      • _open_graph_title,
      • _twitter_title,
      • _open_graph_description,
      • _twitter_description,
  • Improved:
    • Term label name determination is now cached.
    • On-AJAX filter adjustment for "manage_{$screen->id}_columns", with callback method the_seo_framework()->add_column(), now uses action 10 instead of 1 to be in par with the non-AJAX version.
      • This means the bar won’t suddenly appear on AJAX when it should’ve been filtered out on non-AJAX.
  • Changed:
    • Post types no longer check for autodescription-meta support.
      • Instead, they now completely rely on filter the_seo_framework_custom_post_type_support.
  • Fixed:
    • manage_{$this->screen->taxonomy}_custom_column is a filter, not an action. This didn’t really matter, as it’s called on output (sequentially: print bar, print empty).
      • With this, the calling names have been adjusted on terms:
        1. Method seo_bar_ajax has been exchanged for get_taxonomy_seo_bar_ajax.
        2. Method seo_bar has been exchanged for get_taxonomy_seo_bar.
  • Method notes:
    • Added:
      • get_open_graph_title()
      • get_open_graph_description()
      • get_generated_open_graph_description()
      • get_twitter_title()
      • get_twitter_description()
      • get_generated_twitter_description()
      • output_js_title_elements()
      • output_js_description_elements()
    • Removed:
      • output_floating_title_elements(), use output_js_title_elements() instead.
  • Filter notes:
    • Added:
      • (bool) the_seo_framework_show_primary_term_selection, this allows you to disable the primary term selection fields.
      • (string) the_seo_framework_generated_archive_title, this allows you to change the auto-generated archive title.
    • Changed:
      • (array) the_seo_framework_admin_color_css now has an extra parameter, passing the used scheme colors.
      • (array) the_seo_framework_custom_post_type_support default parameter is now [], instead of [ 'title', 'editor' ].
    • Fixed:
      • (string) the_seo_framework_generated_description now shows its presence in the admin fields.
    • Removed:
      • WordPress Core filter get_the_archive_title is no longer used.
        • Use the_seo_framework_generated_archive_title instead.
  • Legal:
    • Copyright years have been increased from 2017 to 2018.