Plugin / SmartCrawl WordPress SEO checker, analyzer, and optimizer

Changelog

2.4.3

• Fix: Fixed post editor conflict with WP 5.3

2.4.2

• Fix: Disabling all sitemap taxonomies doesn’t work as expected

2.4.1

• Fix: Autolink settings affected by robots editor activation

2.4.0

• New: Control how your content is analyzed with the new analysis engine selector
• New: Sitemap can now be split into multiple light-weight sitemaps
• New: High contrast mode for accessibility
• New: Robots.txt editor

• New: New settings in the onboarding modal

• Fix: UI adjustments in checkup reporting tab

• Fix: Removed meta keyword settings due to their negligible SEO impact
• Fix: Added new notice explaining that readability analysis works for English sites only
• Fix: “Keyword used before” warning shown for exact match focus keywords only
• Fix: Added options to reset plugin data and control what is kept/deleted when plugin is uninstalled
• Fix: Removed link titles for keyword links in automatic linking
• Fix: Updated incorrect link to WPMUDev in footer
• Fix: Warning in PHP 7 when post metabox values saved
• Fix: Incorrect examples in description of URL field in custom autolinks modal
• Fix: Deactivating onpage module affecting unrelated functionality
• Fix: Version 3.x of AIOSEO not supported by importer

2.3

• New: New, exciting, mobile-friendly UI in the admin area
• New: Support for whitelabel features
• New: Improved performance and reliability of SEO checkup and sitemap crawler
• New: Code improvements for the display of meta values
• New: New filter for addition of extra SEO and readability content
• New: Yoast importer now less likely to show “No compatible data …” error

• New: New BuddyPress settings on Title & Meta page

• Fix: Redirect attachment settings getting overwritten

• Fix: Errors on Woocommerce shop page
• Fix: Category titles incorrect in certain situations
• Fix: Port matching issues in redirection module
• Fix: Multisite always showing “Homepage set to static page” message
• Fix: Sitewide sitemap settings not applied to network sub-sites
• Fix: Branda not able to change Smartcrawl admin bar text
• Fix: Non-public taxonomies listed on Title & Meta page
• Fix: Autolinks module causing styling issues
• Fix: Readability analysis compatibility issue with PHP 5.3
• Fix: Macros can not be added to term title and description
• Fix: JS console error on WP attachment editor page
• Fix: UI bugs when focus keyword ignored in SEO analysis
• Fix: Autolinking module showing self-links
• Fix: SEO analysis not working with autosaves disabled
• Fix: Sitemap showing invalid timestamps for certain post types
• Fix: Links on Title & Meta page pointing to incorrect tab on the social page
• Fix: Google plus field on social accounts page
• Fix: Visual issue (tooltip getting cut off) on sitemap reporting page
• Fix: Social account URLs with whitespaces not saved
• Fix: Untranslatable string in separator settings on Title & Meta page
• Fix: Fields losing focus while typing
• Fix: Visual issues on small screens
• Fix: Settings pages pointing to old documentation

2.2.6

• New: Support for Yoast v10 and AIOSEO v2.12 in third-party importer
• Fix: Redirects added from sitemap crawl report not converted to absolute
• Fix: Sitemap can’t be removed while SC is active
• Fix: Import not working for Automatic linking settings
• Fix: Metabox conflict in classic editor

2.2.5

• New: New filters for modifying OpenGraph values

• New: Improved accuracy of readability analysis

• Fix: Missing columns on the post list page

• Fix: Certain websites throwing 404 error on redirection
• Fix: SEO metabox shown for non-public posts
• Fix: Better Gutenberg compatibility
• Fix: Warning on sitemap settings page
• Fix: Added ability to increase analysis request timeout
• Fix: Improved autoloader performance
• Fix: Warning in metabox placeholder loader
• Fix: Inaccurate preview when more recent post revision available
• Fix: Update the AIOSEOP importer to include the latest version
• Fix: Stylesheet URL incorrect in sub-site sitemaps

2.2.4.1

• Fix: Show the WP.org rating request to admins only

2.2.4

• New: URL redirection to external domains

• Fix: SEO and readability analysis of password-protected posts

• Fix: sitemap throws error if there’s an image with ampersand sign
• Fix: metabox showing details from other posts when globals modified
• Fix: better autolinks compatibility with unicode languages
• Fix: code improvements for sitemap dashboard
• Fix: twitter and OG issues on static posts page
• Fix: third-party import notice appears for very old data
• Fix: conflicts on woocommerce shop page

2.2.3

• New: created new UI for Yoast and All In One SEO importers
• New: new option to keep existing post meta intact during import
• New: opengraph code optimizations and improvements
• New: made automatic sitemap updates less resource intensive
• New: made macros more extensible through new filters and actions

• New: support for dynamic placeholders prefixed with ‘ct_’ ‘ct_desc_’ and ‘cf_’

• Fix: issues caused by shortcode execution (integration with Divi, Avada, WPBakery and Swift page builders)

• Fix: performance issues due to frequent analysis reruns
• Fix: minor conflict with Gutenberg
• Fix: autolinking module modifying inline scripts
• Fix: outdated meta title and meta description limits
• Fix: metabox conflict on media edit page
• Fix: saving menus taking too much time when analysis active
• Fix: post featured image printed as og:image before more specific images
• Fix: issues in Avada page builder integration
• Fix: log file not being written correctly
• Fix: issues caused by faulty packaging
• Fix: metabox preview showing raw HTML tags
• Fix: search engine update link unnecessarily shown on WP dashboard
• Fix: misnamed translation file
• Fix: missing trailing slash in sitemap home URL
• Fix: dates shown in sitemap dashboard widget not translatable
• Fix: sitemap creation error shows html tags
• Fix: format of date printed through %%currentdate%% placeholder not changeable
• Fix: miscellaneous typos and copy changes
• Fix: twitter placeholders on category edit page not accurate
• Fix: sitemap XSL stylesheet URL/path resolution issue
• Fix: twitter fields displayed unnecessarily on term edit page
• Fix: update plugin version constant to ensure cache busting
• Fix: untruncated title and description shown in Google previews
• Fix: typo in upsell modal
• Fix: metabox preview showing divi shortcodes
• Fix: issues caused by shortcode execution
• Fix: sub-headings check should pass if even one of the sub-headings contains our focus keywords
• Fix: twitter card preview not loading
• Fix: static front page handled as single post page
• Fix: static homepage does not show correct meta values in all scenarios
• Fix: static homepage built with builders shows shortcodes in ‘Title & Meta’ settings
• Fix: metabox preview showing WPBakery shortcodes
• Fix: warnings in autoloader
• Fix: importer support for yoast version 9
• Fix: metabox preview showing raw placeholders

2.2.2.7

• Fix: resolved conflict with swift framework mini product widget
• Fix: resolved styling conflicts with WPBakery and a few other plugins
• Fix: performance improvement for title and meta rewriting

2.2.2.6

• Fix: fixed issue causing WSOD on some sites
• Fix: don’t show raw shortcodes in auto-generated meta description
• Fix: better compatibility of readability and SEO analysis with page builders
• Fix: made Google preview in the SC metabox more accurate

2.2.2.5

• Fix: reverted 2.2.2.4 changes causing WSOD on some sites

2.2.2.4

• Fix: don’t show raw shortcodes in auto-generated meta description
• Fix: better compatibility of readability and SEO analysis with page builders
• Fix: made Google preview in the SC metabox more accurate

2.2.2.3

• Fix: fixed SEO checkup for free version

2.2.2.2

• Fix: fixed edge case autolinks issue

2.2.2.1

• Fix: Allow data import from Yoast 8.x
• Fix: Updated plugin version constant to latest version for cache busting

2.2.2

• New: support for custom post type archives
• New: noindex/nofollow for post types
• New: new OpenGraph tags og:url, og:type, og:image:width and og:image:height
• New: code optimization
• New: integration test suite for quality assurance
• New: link each page to the relevant documentation section on the plugin website
• New: import social profile links from AIOSEOP
• New: dynamically adjust the toggles under “Site Owner Permissions”
• New: update Google result preview when content is changed

• New: prompt requesting reviews on WP.org

• Fix: hide settings for disabled modules from plugin dashboard

• Fix: BuddyPress group titles missing
• Fix: links to enable OpenGraph and Twitter settings pointing to inaccessible pages
• Fix: duplicate text in SEO Checkup section of metabox
• Fix: plugin css conflicting with some WP admin components
• Fix: analysis indicators not displaying correct colors in WP post list
• Fix: settings need to be saved before reports for SEO Checkup are sent
• Fix: on WP dashboard, ‘update sitemap’ link in the sitemap widget not working
• Fix: typo in opengraph settings
• Fix: when new URL scan is run, the URL Crawler section not loaded automatically
• Fix: google/bing verification codes from yoast not imported correctly
• Fix: columns in the post tables take more space then they should
• Fix: google verification meta can’t be removed once added
• Fix: meta description not working on WooCommerce shop page
• Fix: redundant save settings button under URL Crawler report
• Fix: typo in the upgrade popup
• Fix: when import from yoast notice dismissed, it comes back on page load
• Fix: seo column in post list shows wrong color indicator when focus keyword missing
• Fix: google/bing verification tags disappear when sitemap settings saved
• Fix: XML sitemap opened in the current tab
• Fix: when “Upgrade to Pro” clicked, pro version details opened in the current tab
• Fix: values under “Site Owner Permissions” not saved when everything turned off
• Fix: last checked time on SEO Checkup inconsistent
• Fix: if modules disabled by network admin, site admin can still see them in settings
• Fix: autolinks page has “TBC” as the description of a setting
• Fix: author archive meta description not saved
• Fix: dashboard sections display number of issues even if the corresponding module is disabled
• Fix: on network sub-sites, disabled modules not behaving properly
• Fix: previews are not refreshing on title and meta admin page
• Fix: url crawler not always listing the URLs resulting in errors
• Fix: hide SEO Checkup on network sub-sites
• Fix: remove code for old google site verification settings
• Fix: date archive settings not respected
• Fix: admin bar menu should always match the admin menu
• Fix: in url crawler, no message is shown when all missing urls added to sitemap
• Fix: MOZ metabox not styled
• Fix: Redirect Attachments options in Advanced Tools not saved when in off state
• Fix: automatic linking toggle in post metabox displays wrong state
• Fix: redundant MarketPress options
• Fix: autolinks “Exclusions” don’t work when “Case Sensitive Matching” is off
• Fix: autolinks “Min Lengths” setting not working consistently
• Fix: twitter settings for date archives not working consistently
• Fix: meta description settings for search and 404 pages not working consistently
• Fix: google verification meta settings not working consistently
• Fix: quick edit fields not loading values
• Fix: unwanted space before date archive title
• Fix: minor inconsistencies in SEO analysis
• Fix: no error message displayed when default user removed in reporting section under SEO Checkup
• Fix: statistics on dashboard not refreshed when checkup completes in SEO Checkup section
• Fix: MOZ data displayed even when wrong credentials added

2.2.1

• Fix: post list pages performance issue.

2.2

• New: Yoast & All-In-One SEO importers.
• New: ‘Refresh’ button for content & readability analysis modules.

• New: ability to set twitter cards details on post and type level.

• Fix: compatibility with New Blog Templates plugin.

• Fix: spelling and grammar issues.
• Fix: duplicate info text in “No Image Alts” section of seo analysis.
• Fix: support for Themify themes.
• Fix: readability analysis summary outputting html tags.
• Fix: saving draft or publishing posts closes the smartcrawl module.
• Fix: problems in “Add All to Sitemap” button.
• Fix: incorrect number of missing url’s on main dashboard.

2.1.1

• Initial SmartCrawl Free Release
• New: make Analysis dash widget results numeric and items clickable.
• New: add OpenGraph and Twitter options for taxonomies.
• New: exclude full URLs from sitemap.
• New: grey out deactivated modules in site owner permissions.

• New: enable styled sitemap on fresh setups.

• Fix: increase recommended description length from 160 to 230 chars.

• Fix: redirection resolution on archive pages.
• Fix: spelling and grammar issues.
• Fix: UI and styling issues.
• Fix: checkup scan tracking auto-update.
• Fix: update option label copies.
• Fix: update info links.
• Fix: admin menu style issues in Firefox.
• Fix: background color style issues.
• Fix: conflict with Divi theme.
• Fix: configuring links destinations when sitewide mode is active.
• Fix: unifiy analysis status results.
• Fix: BBPress compatibility issue with generated URLs.
• Fix: update error strings on import/export issues.
• Fix: sitemap items listed twice in audit report.
• Fix: title tag on custom post type archives issue.
• Fix: conflict with Movedo theme.
• Fix: do not calculate disabled analysis results.
• Fix: empty ignore URLs list clears sitemaps.
• Fix: user name not shown for reporting.