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Import Rank Math settings, SEOPress REST API enhanced & More! – SEOPress 8.8

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Import Rank Math settings, SEOPress REST API enhanced & More! – SEOPress 8.8

SEOPress 8.8 is now available. We encourage you to update your site as soon as possible to take advantage of the latest features, improvements, and fixes.

🎉 New – Import Rank Math global settings

With this new update, we are also taking care of migrating your global settings from Rank Math to SEOPress.

Now, our import tool, migrates:

  • Global settings (SEOPress 8.8 required)
  • Title tags
  • Meta description
  • Facebook Open Graph tags (title, description and image thumbnail)
  • Twitter tags (title, description and image thumbnail)
  • Meta Robots (noindex, nofollow, noarchive, noimageindex)
  • Canonical URL
  • Focus keywords
  • Primary category
  • Redirect URL

Another time saver!

Import tools - SEOPress
Import tools – SEOPress

🎉 User experience enhanced

When you add a dynamic variable from the global Titles and metas settings, it’s now possible to search to quickly found the desired variable.

Dynamic variable searchbox - SEOPress
Dynamic variable searchbox – SEOPress

We now automatically add the @ character for the X social account entered from SEO, Social Networks, Your social accounts settings page when you save the settings.

Finally, you can now quickly enable or disable the universal SEO metabox right from the SEOPress dashboard page.

Universal SEO metabox card - SEOPress dashboard
Universal SEO metabox card – SEOPress dashboard

🎉 Other news

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

  • Redirections from our manager added to our SEOPress REST API
  • Google Page Speed report added to the SEOPress REST API
  • Google Analytics 4 and Matomo Analytics stats added to our REST API
  • an action hook to do something after a 404 error is added to your database
  • an issue with Google Merchant Center
  • compatibility with Enfold and the7 themes
  • and more!

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Changelog

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

* NEW Import global settings from Rank Math
* NEW Quickly enable the universal SEO metabox from the SEO Dashboard
* NEW Add search field to dynamic variables dropdown list
* NEW Add Redirections from the manager to our REST API
* NEW Add Google Page Speed report to our REST API
* NEW Add Google Analytics 4 stats to our REST API
* NEW Add Matomo Analytics stats to our REST API
* NEW Hook 'seopress_after_create_404' to run an action after a 404 error is logged (https://www.seopress.org/support/hooks/run-action-after-a-404-error-is-inserted/)
* INFO Update Tagify library
* INFO Automatically adds "@" for X account if missing when saving social settings
* INFO Email template refactoring
* INFO Site Audit: Content marked as noindex will not be analyzed by default (you can change this from SEO, Audit, Settings tab)
* FIX the7 theme notification for OG tags
* FIX Admin bar "noindex" context with Bricks
* FIX Dismiss SEO notifications
* FIX Enfold compatibility issue with our Notifications Center
* FIX Product variable URL for product schema / Google Merchant Center
* FIX FAQ block schema "answerCount" property
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.