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 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.
🎉 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.
🎉 New Feature – Import Global Settings from SmartCrawl
We continue to enhance our migration tool. It now supports full migration of data from the SmartCrawl plugin.
Following requests from multiple users, this feature is now available. You can switch to SEOPress confidently, without losing any of your SEO settings or data.
🎉 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):
* 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
