In this release, the Local extension has been added, the extensions are now loaded much faster, we’ve fixed scrolling performance issues inside the administrative boxes, and the plugin now works as intended on Windows servers.
30,000 active installations | A rising star
In April 2017 The SEO Framework reached 20,000 installations within 1.5 years and now only 4 months later the next milestone is there. The developers of another 10,000 websites/blogs gave their trust to this free and no-ads plugin, which is seen as the go-to alternative for the market leaders “Yoast SEO” and “All in One SEO Pack”. Sybre Waaijer as the creator of The SEO Framework is very proud, that his SEO plugin is now in the top 2% of most-used WordPress plugins. During the recent months, he worked hard on his new achievement Local SEO, which will go to market at the end of August 2017 as part of The Extension Manager.
SEO Tip: Geo Targeting
Annotating your local business will massively increase your search presence, through structural data results.
2.9.3 – Assiduous Substratum
Social images can now scale up to 4K resolution. This means (manual and automated) forced cropping no longer initiates at 1500px but at 4096px.
A new option has been added for every taxonomical post type in the Visibility tab. It allows you to prevent the annotated pages from showing up in Archives.
Structured Data output has been revisited. This includes merging of output, removal of misplaced output, and performance improvements.
When your home page is a blog, pages without an ID (404, search, date archives, etc.) had output and caching issues. These issues have been resolved.
Several security concerns have also been addressed. Although, none of them could be verified as the coding environment is already well protected.
SEO Tip: Image Descriptions
When you display images within your content, you should describe them.