Release date: December 4th, 2018

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon. – Jane Austen

Feature highlights

• A new editor (codename Gutenberg) will launch in just two days with WordPress 5.0. This release makes the plugin fully compatible with it.
• Description prefixes have been removed. Descriptions aren’t used as a ranking factor anymore, and gaming the system via repeating the title isn’t beneficial.

Did you know?

We recently relaunched a plugin for The SEO Framework. It’s called the Extension Manager.

Detailed log

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For everyone:

• Added:
  • In the new editor:
    • You can now select a primary term.
    • The example title now updates accordingly.
    • The save-state changes are now detected correctly.
    • New: The canonical URL example is now forged on-the-fly.
• Removed:
  • Automated description additions and all related options are no longer available.
    • They’re still used on the front page and blog page; however, these weren’t optional.
    • They’re not helping with SEO anymore as Google ignores them and Facebook strips them.
    • Since 3.1.0 this feature was automatically turned off for new websites.
    • They were also a source of unnecessary complexity and bugs.
• Fixed:
  • A typo in the Social Settings meta box has been rectified.

For translators:

• New translations are available.

For developers:

• Added:
  • View: inpost/seo-settings-singular-gutenberg-data.php
    • It’s an abstract and intermediate placeholder to hold cloned SEO input data obtained via the Gutenberg editor.
    • We’re still planning to move The SEO Framework’s interface into Gutenberg. From then, these fields will be removed. So, don’t rely on this.
  • Gutenberg: A new a data dispatcher via jQuery events is now available.
    • This might be a permanent solution, but it’s treated as an intermediate step. So, don’t rely on the API.
• Changed:
  • Method is_gutenberg_page() now detects the new WordPress 5.0 block editor.
  • The property value of inpost_nonce_name now has the _nonce suffix, to prevent future collisions.
  • HTML Element ID title-prefixes-toggle is now tsf-title-prefixes-toggle.
  • Element tabs in the SEO settings are now prefixed with tsf-.
• Other:
  • We now check for the PSR2.ControlStructures.SwitchDeclaration.SpaceBeforeColonCASE coding standard.
• Fixed:
  • convert_markdown() links now support the character 1 in the content.
• Option notes:
  • Removed:
    • description_additions
    • description_blogname
    • description_separator
• JavaScript notes:
  • Removed:
    • tsfL10n.params.descriptionSeparator
• Filter notes:
  • Changed:
    • (array) the_seo_framework_available_sanitizer_filters
      • Removed the s_description_separator index.
    • (array) the_seo_framework_default_site_options
      • Removed the description_additions, description_blogname, and description_separator indexes.
  • Removed:
    • (string) the_seo_framework_description_separator
    • (bool) the_seo_framework_add_description_additions
    • (array) the_seo_framework_description_settings_tabs
• Method notes:
  • Added:
    • is_gutenberg_page(), this used to be a protected method.
  • Removed:
    • add_description_additions()
    • get_description_separator()
    • s_description_separator()