# Freeze Post Modification Date, SmartCrawl Settings Import, Facebook Domain Verification Meta Tag – SEOPress 9.6

> SEOPress 9.6 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 Feature - Freeze Post Modification Date We’re introducing a new feature that lets…
> URL: https://www.seopress.org/newsroom/product-news/seopress-9-6/
> Last modified: 2026-03-31T08:50:03+00:00

**SEOPress 9.6 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 Feature – Freeze Post Modification Date

We’re introducing a new feature that lets you **freeze the modification date of any post, page, or custom post type when saving**.

This means you can update your content without WordPress automatically changing the modification date—a crucial benefit for SEO, as this date is used in the [XML sitemap](https://www.seopress.org/features/sitemaps/) and in meta tags like `article:modified_time` and `og:updated_time`.

Google and other search engines recommend not updating this date for minor content changes. Doing so also helps reduce your crawl budget.

To enable this option, go to the **SEO metabox**, under the **Advanced** tab.

[](https://www.seopress.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/freeze-modification-date-seopress.png)New option to freeze the post modification date on save – SEOPress

## 🎉 New Feature – Add Facebook Domain Verification Meta Tag

We’ve added an easy way to **add the Facebook domain verification meta tag directly from SEOPress**.

This option allows you to verify ownership of your site on Facebook in seconds, without manually editing your code or theme files.

A huge time-saver to secure your domain and ensure your social shares and campaigns work correctly.

You can add it under **SEO, Advanced, Advanced **tab.

[](https://www.seopress.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/search-engines-validation-seopress.png)New option to validate your domain for Facebook – SEOPress

## 🎉 New Feature – Import Global Settings from SmartCrawl

We continue to enhance our migration tool. It now supports **full migration of data from the [SmartCrawl](https://www.seopress.org/support/guides/import-post-and-terms-metadata-from-smartcrawl-to-seopress/) plugin**.

Following requests from multiple users, this feature is now available. You can [switch to SEOPress](https://www.seopress.org/pricing/) confidently, without losing any of your SEO settings or data.

[](https://www.seopress.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/smartcrawl-to-seopress-import-tool.png)Import global settings and metadata from SmartCrawl to SEOPress

## 🎉 Other Updates

This release also includes:

- Updated AI models

- Fixes for importing settings from Yoast

- Fix for a regression affecting XML sitemaps with WPML in multi-domain setups

- Various fixes in the site audit tool

- Addition of a “Schema” column in the post list to quickly identify schemas added by SEOPress

- Fix for canonical URL on the homepage in specific cases

- And much more!

More details in the changelog.

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## Changelog

This update contains the following changes ([full changelog here](https://www.seopress.org/support/changelogs/seopress-free-pro/)):

```
* NEW Added option to freeze the post modification date, preventing WordPress from updating it when a post is saved 🎉
* NEW Import global settings from SmartCrawl
* NEW Ability to add your Facebook meta domain verification tag
* NEW Add a schema column (SEO, Advanced, Appearance, Columns to activate it)
* INFO Remove useless notifications
* INFO Improved migration process from Yoast for greater accuracy and ease
* INFO Remove deprecated AI models
* INFO Flushing XML sitemaps enhanced
* FIX Improved handling of taxonomy notice conditions
* FIX An issue with WPML causing XML sitemap errors in multidomain environments
* FIX An issue with WPML to translate the primary category ID
* FIX Empty canonical URL on homepage with "Your latest posts" setting
* FIX A compatibility issue with Elementor on save
* FIX Resolved an issue where GPT5.2 Vision failed to generate alt text correctly
* FIX A fatal error when user cancels the site audit
* FIX PHP Warnings
```