3.0.6 – Lionize

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Changelog

Release date:

  • May 6th, 2018

Summarized:

  • TSF now integrates completely with attachment pages.
  • Non-personalized Facebook profile links can now be set via the Social SEO settings and user’s Authorial Info settings.
  • Seven bugs have been fixed, mainly involving descriptions and the sitemap.
  • The plugin now suggests, once, that you can use Focus keywords via the Extension Manager.

For everyone, about the suggestion:

  • We believe not everyone is up-to-date yet with the current progression of the extensions. Some of which can help you out greatly with SEO.
  • So, from this update, all sites will get a one-time-only auto-dismissing suggestion for TSFEM.
  • This suggestion has many conditions attached before being shown. For instance, you’ll only see it when your site can support TSFEM. So, it’s likely you won’t ever see it.
  • We understand that not everyone welcomes this introduction. However, this suggestion is to help this plugin and your site grow, from which we all will benefit.

For developers, about descriptions:

  • If you’re using description-related filters or functions from TSF on your sites, check out the detailed “for developers” log.
  • Many functions have been silently deprecated, and you should now use simple caller functions.
  • No action is needed from your side until the next major release (ETA July 2018).

For developers, about titles ETA July 2018:

  • In the next major release, we’re going to change how we handle titles.
  • This change won’t affect users directly. But it will allow us to manipulate the titles better.
  • For more information, view and subscribe to issue 202.

Detailed log

> View code changes.
> View closed tickets.

  • For everyone:
    • Added:
      • Media (attachment) pages are now truly integrated and compatible with TSF, and all SEO settings and the auto-generation thereof work as intended.
        • v3.0.4 accidentally added support for attachment pages, so this can be seen as a fix.
        • Note that media pages don’t have auto-generated “Canonical URLs”.
          • This is because their post status is always set to inherit via WordPress Core.
          • Although we could technically generate them, they won’t get expected extended support via WP Core filters, which will cause complications.
        • So, if don’t like media pages polluting your business site, get the Origin extension for free.
      • A one-time self-hiding installation notification showing the administrator that focus keywords are available via the Extension Manager.
    • Changed:
      • Canonical URLs, Redirect URLs and Social Image URLs are now allowed to have query arguments by default.
      • Facebook profile URLs now (solely) accept the ‘id’ query parameters when “https://facebook.com/profile.php” is used.
      • Notification’s font-weight isn’t bold by default anymore. This allows for highlighting.
      • Head, Footer and Post Injections is no longer detected as a conflicting Open Graph plugin.
        • But, it still is when using the Open Graph settings thereof.
    • Improved:
      • Description generation has been streamlined, which should result in less performance overhead.
      • On the generation of the sitemap, we gave back control to other plugins when fetching the posts.
        • This means that plugins like WPML can sort out posts better.
        • This also speeds up sitemap generation by twofold, for unknown reasons.
    • Fixed:
      • The social image uploader of TSF no longer hijacks media saving of third party code. Thanks @pandulu!
      • A description input bug that has been around since v2.0.0 where, when the input is emptied, the previously saved description was shown.
        • It now shows the real generated description.
      • Automated descriptions show their original value after being emptied again.
        • Social descriptions were also indirectly affected.
      • The sitemap transient is no longer set when its related caching option is disabled.
      • The character counter option is no longer automatically set to a disabled state, when updating from below 3.0.0.
        • Sites that already use 3.0.0 or later are not affected by this change.
      • When a page builder is used, and when description prefixes are disabled, the auto-generated description no longer returns a “forced” empty title prefix.
  • For translators:
    • Added:
      • Location: The new “get TSFEM” suggesting notification.
        • “Extension Manager”
        • “More information about %s”
          • %s: Plugin name
        • “Looking for %1$s? Try out the %2$s for free.”
          • 1: Feature
          • 2: Plugin name
        • “Install the %s”
          • %s: Plugin name
    • Changed:
      • “But you’ve discouraged archiving for the whole site.”
        • Now is: “%s you’ve discouraged archiving for the whole site.”
        • %s is “but” or “and”.
        • Location: SEO Bar, archive tooltip.
        • Reason: Discrepancy, bug.
  • For developers:
    • Note:
      • We’ve updated the description generation callbacks. See this issue for more information.
    • Added:
      • The plugin’s database version is now updated when users update the options.
        • From future versions, this allows going back and forth in plugin versions, without circumventing the mandatory upgrader; increasing stability.
    • Changed:
      • Notice messages are no longer encapsulated in “strong”.
    • Fixed:
      • When a “time-zone string” can’t be forged from WordPress settings (negative manual UTC offset), no more PHP errors are outputted.
        • This didn’t affect the outcome of the timestamps the plugin generated, they were correct regardless.
    • Removed:
      • autodescription-meta support is no longer used. It’s also no longer introduced on these post types:
        • post
        • page
        • product
        • forum
        • topic
        • jetpack-testimonial
        • jetpack-portfolio
    • Methods notes:
      • Added:
        • get_social_image_url_from_attachment()
          • Returns the social image URL from an attachment page.
        • inattachment_seo_save()
          • Saves the SEO settings when we save an attachment.
        • get_description( $id = null, $escape = true )
        • get_twitter_description( $id = null, $escape = true )
        • get_open_graph_description( $id = null, $escape = true )
        • get_generated_description( $id = null, $escape = true )
        • get_generated_twitter_description( $id = null, $escape = true )
        • get_generated_open_graph_description( $id = null, $escape = true )
        • get_description_from_custom_field( $id = null, $escape = true )
      • Silently deprecated:
        • generate_description()
          • Use get_description() instead.
          • Use get_generated_description() instead.
        • parse_description_args()
        • reparse_description_args()
        • description_from_custom_field()
          • Use get_description_from_custom_field() instead.
        • get_custom_homepage_description()
          • Use get_description_from_custom_field() instead.
        • get_custom_singular_description()
          • Use get_description_from_custom_field() instead.
        • get_custom_archive_description()
          • Use get_description_from_custom_field() instead.
        • generate_description_from_id()
          • Use get_generated_description() instead.
        • generate_home_page_description()
          • Use get_generated_description() in combination with get_custom_field( '_genesis_description' ) instead.
        • description_from_cache()
          • Use get_description() instead.
      • Removed:
        • post_type_support(), it’s no longer used.
    • Filter notes:
      • Changed:
        • (string) the_seo_framework_custom_field_description
          • The second parameter is now only expected to have the 'id' index key.
          • Internally, this filter is now applied to the SEO Bar, too.
        • (array) the_seo_framework_sitemap_pages_query_args, (array) the_seo_framework_sitemap_posts_query_args, (array) the_seo_framework_sitemap_cpt_query_args
          • The suppress_filters argument from the first parameter now defaults to false, instead of true.
        • (bool) the_seo_framework_301_noqueries
          • Now defaults to false, instead of true.
      • Updated:
        • (array) the_seo_framework_og_image_args
          • Now supports return value $args['disallowed']['attachment'] for attachment pages.
      • Deprecated:
        • (array) the_seo_framework_description_args
          • Silently deprecated. There’s no replacement, and no notice (yet).
      • Removed:
        • the_seo_framework_supported_post_types, it’s no longer used.
    • JavaScript notes:
      • Added:
        • window variable:
          • tsfL10n.params.defaultTitle, this variable is needed to capture the fallback title on load, as we manage four title objects.
            • The description doesn’t utilize such value, as it’s “simply” one block.
      • Deprecated:
        • tsfL10n.params.objectTitle, silently.
          • Use tsfL10n.params.defaultTitle instead.
          • The replacement is a carbon-copy, and nothing has changed but the naming to prevent confusion.