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Performance and user experience improvements – SEOPress 8.5

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Performance and user experience improvements – SEOPress 8.5

SEOPress 8.5 is now available.Β We encourage you to update your site as soon as possible to take advantage of the latest features, improvements, and fixes.

πŸŽ‰ New – significant performance improvement

We have refactored a large number of lines of code to reduce our RAM consumption, disk access and processors.

Result: an impact on the backend and frontend reduced to a minimum!

We will continue our optimization efforts in the next versions to come.

πŸŽ‰ New – an ever more practical user interface

Duplicate target words

SEOPress content analysis automatically detects if a target keyword has been used x times on content other than the one currently being edited.

With version 8.5, we also display the list of posts concerned with the possibility of editing them in one click.

A real time saver to avoid content cannibalization.

Easily know which posts have the same target keywords - SEOPress
Easily know which posts have the same target keywords – SEOPress

robots.txt

The robots.txt file editor for PRO users is equipped with comments when adding quick directives.

This makes it easier to understand what they correspond to.

Installation Wizard / Migration Tool

The interface of our migration tool from competing SEO plugins has been redesigned for ease of use.

New user interface to migrate your SEO data from other plugins - SEOPress
New user interface to migrate your SEO data from other plugins – SEOPress

Dashboard

It is now possible to display the SEO modules listed in the dashboard in a simplified grid view to reduce the page height.

Simplified grid view for our SEO Dashboard - SEOPress
Simplified grid view for our SEO Dashboard – SEOPress

πŸŽ‰ Other news

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

  • UI translated into Japanese (PRO version coming in a few days);
  • Compatibility fixes with WPML and Final Tiles Grid Gallery;
  • Switching to GPLv3 license;
  • Automatic exclusion of post types for Google News XML sitemap and site audit feature;
  • And much more!

For developers we added 3 additional hooks to filter SEO alert arguments:

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Changelog

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

* NEW Huge performance improvements on backend / frontend πŸŽ‰
* NEW Show the list of URLs using the same target keyword to quickly edit them from the Content Analysis metabox
* NEW Toggle simple / default view on dashboard for SEO management section
* NEW Japanese language added for the UI (PRO soon available)
* NEW “seopress_seo_alerts_homepage_args” hook to filter the SEO alerts homepage args (https://www.seopress.org/support/hooks/filter-the-homepage-alert-arguments/)
* NEW “seopress_seo_alerts_robots_args” hook to filter the SEO alerts robots args (https://www.seopress.org/support/hooks/filter-the-robots-alert-arguments/)
* NEW “seopress_seo_alerts_sitemap_args” hook to filter the SEO alerts sitemap args (https://www.seopress.org/support/hooks/filter-the-xml-sitemap-alert-arguments/)
* INFO Improve notification if a custom taxonomy is not excluded from the XML sitemap
* INFO Improve robots.txt file editor UI
* INFO Add a new wizard to migrate from other SEO plugins
* INFO Important performance improvements
* INFO Exclude post types with archive set to false from OG image global settings
* INFO Remove site navigation element from structured data types (not used anymore by Google)
* INFO Update GPL license to v3
* INFO Exclude CPT from other plugins to Site Audit
* FIX Remove useless notification if SEOPress PRO is not activated
* FIX Exclude non public CPT from News XML sitemaps settings
* FIX Compatibility issue with Final Tiles Grid Gallery – Image Gallery plugin
* FIX Target keywords count
* FIX Canonical URL for WPML if the post is not translated / duplicated with fallback to default language
* FIX Missing posts in HTML sitemap in specific cases

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.