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Support for WordPress 6.6, import redirects from SmartCrawl, Fediverse creator tag – SEOPress 8.0

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Support for WordPress 6.6, import redirects from SmartCrawl, Fediverse creator tag – SEOPress 8.0

SEOPress 8.0 is now available. We encourage you to update your site as soon as possible to take advantage of the latest features, improvements and security fixes.

πŸŽ‰ New – Support for WordPress 6.6

By updating to SEOPress 8.0, you’re sure to be fully compatible with WordPress 6.6.

Some issues have been fixed by us, others are WordPress related and should be patched in version 6.6.1.

As usual, at SEOPress, we systematically anticipate major WordPress updates so that everything goes smoothly.

πŸŽ‰ New – Import redirects from SmartCrawl plugin

Requested by several users, it’s now possible to migrate your redirects from SmartCrawl to SEOPress PRO.

Now, we support imports from Yoast, Redirections, Rank Math, AIOSEO, SmartCrawl and CSV files.

Read our guide to migrate redirects from SmartCrawl

πŸŽ‰ New – Improve sharing on Mastodon

By adding the fediverse creator tag to your source code, users will be able to quickly see all the article published by this author from Mastodon in one click.

Go to SEO, Social Networks, Fediverse tab to enable this.

πŸŽ‰ Other news

This new version of SEOPress also brings its share of improvements and fixes including:

  • an issue for our Matomo stats in dashboard widget if you use a secured token ;
  • our UI has been updated to improve user experience, your workflow, responsive on mobile, better integrated with block editor, etc (details on our changelog).
  • an issue with Open Graph image tag ;
  • a compatibility issue with Bricks builder ;
  • some PHP errors ;
  • and many more!

For developers, we have added 3 new hooks:

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Changelog

This update contains the following changes (full changelog here):

* NEW Support for WordPress 6.6
* NEW Import your redirects from SmartCrawl plugin
* NEW Add fediverse:creator tag to improve sharing on Mastodon
* NEW Support secured authentification token in Matomo to get stats in dashboard
* NEW Set a primary category directly from the Block Editor > Category panel
* NEW 'seopress_schemas_website_html' hook to filter the HTML of the website schema (https://www.seopress.org/support/hooks/filter-website-schema/)
* NEW 'seopress_social_fv_creator' hook to filter the HTML of the fediverse tag (https://www.seopress.org/support/hooks/filter-fediverse-creator-tag/)
* INFO Improve compatibility with Bricks Builder: their CPT / Taxonomies are no longer listed from SEOPress settings
* INFO Metaboxes now match admin color scheme
* INFO Display a notice if the GA4 property ID to get stats in dashboard is equals to the GA4 measurement ID to avoide confusion
* INFO Add a missing notice to Universal SEO metabox if you're editing your WC shop page
* INFO Strengthened security
* FIX Duplicated hook name 'seopress_rgpd_full_message' / new hook created 'seopress_rgpd_edit_message' (https://www.seopress.org/support/hooks/filter-the-message-for-managing-the-choice-of-cookies/)
* FIX Quick edit redirects for 410/451
* FIX OG:image if not attachment ID set
* FIX Instant Indexing in specific cases
* FIX Fatal error on internal linking suggestions if $post is null
* FIX Article automatic schema with additional social accounts
* FIX "Read more" is not a descriptive link for our cookie bar
* FIX Some PHP warnings with SEO Alerts feature
* FIX Some translations
By Benjamin Denis

CEO of SEOPress. 15 years of experience with WordPress. Founder of WP Admin UI & WP Cloudy plugins. Co-organizer of WordCamp Biarritz 2023 & WP BootCamp. WordPress Core Contributor.