This minor update improves image processing, reducing TSF’s load impact by roughly 20% when generating metadata. We also added WordPress 6.0 support for image filesizes, making social sharing even more robust.

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For everyone

• Added:
  • Image filesize support (brought in WordPress 6.0). When a processable image is found to be larger than 5MB, a smaller version will be considered for social sharing. This makes it more likely for the social network to use your images.
  • Added a quick extensions overview link to the settings page.
    • We figured that when $1 400 phones and $8 000 TVs add links to related services, we too can add one whilst asking you $0 and a “thanks.”
      • No, this is not a slippery slope; we’re not testing waters. We’ll explain our intentions in a blog post soon™.
      • Several conditions must be met before the link is displayed.
      • Add define( 'TSF_DISABLE_SUGGESTIONS', true ); in wp-config.php to permanently block all (current and future) hints that help us sustain this project.
• Updated:
  • Helpful links are now more helpful: We’ve updated outdated links so they point to more actual information.
• Improved:
  • The SEO query detection now faults when detecting AJAX, WordPress cron, a JSON, or REST request.
    • This mitigates some issues where plugins try to parse data from WordPress using query-reliant functions (like wp_get_document_title()), and then filtering those because the query cannot be resolved (like Events Calendar does for document_title_parts), and then strip the parts, instead of just fetching data internally… which all makes no sense.
  • Updated the Sitelinks Searchbox structured data output to be more in line with Schema.org (from Google’s old “implicit” to “explicit” recommendations). This change offers more widespread support for other platforms.
  • Image dimension calculations are now processed far more rapidly (60 to 110x improvement on SATA SSD, 5~9x improvement when processing the same image repeatedly).
• Changed:
  • Robots’ copyright setting for max-image-preview now defaults to large, from standard, matching WordPress’s default.
    • This affects new sites only.
  • Removed the “Reset Settings” button at the bottom of the settings page.
    • If someone scrolls all the way to the bottom, they probably have painstakenly adjusted some settings. It would be a waste to accidentally reset them.
• Fixed:
  • Resolved a regression where rendering the sitemap flushed all caches of WP Super Cache or Comet Cache (among some other caching plugins untested).
  • Resolved a regression where title prefixes weren’t rendered on the front-end for protected content (Protected: Post Title and Private: Post Title).

For developers

• Option notes (constant THE_SEO_FRAMEWORK_SITE_OPTIONS, name autodescription-site-settings):
  • max_image_preview now defaults to large, from standard.
• Object notes:
  • For object \The_SEO_Framework\Load (callable via tsf() and the_seo_framework()):
    • The following methods are no longer used internally and are marked for deprecation. They devolved (evolved?) to becoming aliases of WordPress’s identically titled functions.
      • is_404()
      • is_admin()
      • is_customize_preview()
      • is_date()
      • is_day()
      • is_month()
      • is_year()
      • is_feed()
      • is_robots()
    • Methods added:
      • get_image_filesize(), allows you to get the filesize for an image given a registered image size name.
        • This method requires WP 6.0+ to return useful data.
    • Methods changed:
      • get_ld_json_breadcrumbs() now uses is_post_type_hierarchical() instead of is_single()
      • query_supports_seo() now returns false when detecting AJAX, WordPress cron, or REST request.
      • merge_title_protection() now actually works.
      • merge_extra_image_details()
        1. Now returns filesizes under index filesize.
        2. No longer processes details when no id is given in $details.
      • get_image_dimensions()
        1. No longer relies on $url to fetch the correct dimesions, improving performance significantly.
        2. Renamed $url to $depr, without a deprecation notice added (because this is a minor update).
      • get_largest_acceptable_image_src() added parameter $max_filesize that filters images larger than it.
      • s_image_details() and s_image_details_deep() now accept, process, and return filesizes under index filesize.
• Filter notes:
  • the_seo_framework_receive_json_data $data (first) parameter for $key == 'website' (second parameter) ['potentialAction']['target'] is now an array by default instead of a string (either type are still valid and accepted).
• Other:
  • Cleaned up code, it got rusty and dusty.
    • Also replaced all instances of outputting \r\n for simply \n. Reading/transforming functions still consider \r.
    • And replaced all instances of PHP_EOL for \n as well. PHP_EOL is archaic since \n achieves the same on most modern Windows applications.