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.
π New β 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.
π New β 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.

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.

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

π 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 π
* 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