Changelog

• NEW – various tests and debug info for All in One SEO under the Site Health area
• Removed the Additional Headers settings and Unprotect Post Meta setting in the General Settings menu. You will see a notice with more details if you are affected by this change
• Fixed an issue where the meta description for terms falling back to the term description was being wrapped in an HTML paragraph tag
• Fixed an issue where the Image SEO module didn’t strip punctuation properly
• Readded a missing RTL stylesheet for our font icons
• Fixed a minor conflict with WP Bakery where shortcodes weren’t executed on the 404 page
• Fixed a minor conflict with the WP Debug Bar plugin that triggered a deprecated function warning

3.7.0 – Released on August 18, 2020

• NEW feature: RSS Content – allows users to append/prepend data to their site’s RSS feed so that search engine can identify their site as the original publisher of an article if it is scraped and posted elsewhere
• Added a notice to inform users that the Local Business SEO module requires the general schema markup to be set to “Organization”
• Improved user sanitization plugin-wide
• Improved the Importer/Exporter module with a few QoL changes
• Fixed a number of styling issues introduced in WordPress 5.5
• Fixed an issue where the plugin couldn’t extract images from the post content for our Article schema markup
• Fixed an issue where the Google News sitemap triggered a notice while it is disabled
• Fixed an issue that threw a PHP undefined index notice

3.6.2 – Released on July 15, 2020

• Fixed an issue where a PHP undefined index notice was triggered
• Improved the output of SEO meta fields + added additional sanitization for security hardening
• Fixed an issue where the Image SEO module threw a few notices when an image is embedded in the content that wasn’t uploaded through the Media Library, but still resides in a /wp-content/ subdirectory

3.6.1 – Released on July 9, 2020

• Added a Notifications menu page in our toolbar to notify users of new notifications
• Fixed an issue where the Local Business structured data triggered a notice if the postal address isn’t filled in
• Fixed an issue where our gear logo no longer appeared in our toolbar menu
• Updated the URL for the Google Structured Data Test tool in our list of external SEO tools

3.6.0 – Released on July 8, 2020

• NEW Pro feature (Business Plan and above): Local Business SEO module
• Added Publication Name setting for Google News sitemap
• Added default thumbnail as fallback for oEmbed & self-hosted videos that don’t have one
• Added LinkedIn Post Inspector to our external SEO tools list in the toolbar
• Fixed an issue where AIOSEO broke off subsequent plugin updates after being updated itself
• Fixed an issue where nested categories listed themselves as their parent in their schema breadcrumb trail
• Fixed a conflict with WPML where we deleted the meta of translated posts/terms after updating the original post/term
• Fixed conflict with WooCommerce where we included pages in the sitemap that WooCommerce noindexes
• Fixed an issue where the plugin ignored external image URLs for the schema organization logo and instead fell back to the site logo
• Fixed an issue where the sitemap included resized images instead of their full-sized version
• Fixed an issue where the external SEO tools in the toolbar used the URL of the latest post instead of the homepage
• Fixed an issue where the default filename of the video sitemap wasn’t set in the database
• Fixed a JavaScript console issue where the preview snippet tried to get the content of the excerpt for CPTs that don’t have an excerpt
• Fixed an issue where the quick-edit columns for terms didn’t have a maximum height
• Fixed an issue where one of our upsells caused a minor CSS conflict with ACF Extended
• Improved the CSS of the link format modal for the Classic Editor on mobile devices
• Updated the URL for the Facebook Debugger tool in our list with external SEO tools
• Added a URL version param to the autotrack.js script for GA to prevent it from being cached
• We’re now restricting our toolbar CSS to administrators so that it doesn’t load for other site users or visitors
• We’re now deregistering the upcoming built-in WP Core sitemap feature when the XML Sitemap module is activated to prevent conflicts

3.5.2 – Released on May 27, 2020

• Fix for Google News sitemap options appearing in Video Sitemap module
• Fix for PHP error with schema
• Fix for bad CSS in WP Link format modal

3.5.1 – Released on May 20, 2020

• Fix PHP error with schema

3.5 – Released on May 19, 2020

• NEW Pro feature (Business Plan and above): Added News Sitemap
• Added last change date to Author sitemap
• Improved performance of sitemap
• Fix for duplicate links when inserting a link in Text editor with Classic Editor plugin
• Fix for schema breadcrumb error on multisite installs
• Fix for incorrect date archive URLs in schema breadcrumbs
• Fix for missing & duplicate images on sitemap
• Fix for title attribute in Gutenberg
• Fix for schema context timeouts with large sites
• Fix for sitemap date archive missing yearly archives
• Change URLs to have UTM params in the plugin settings Support sidebar

3.4.3 – Released on April 21, 2020

• Fix for non-dismissible notices
• Fix for XML Sitemap rewrite rules interfering with alternative sitemap solutions
• Fix for conflict with Make theme & conflict with Toolset Types plugin
• Fix for i18n issue with qTrans
• Fix for quickedit column cells no longer having max. height
• Fix for multiple PHP notices
• Fix for missing closing bracket in CSS file
• Fix for mistranslated string in Turkish translation
• Improvement to toolbar menu stylesheet. We now only load it for users that are logged in
• PRO – Fix for Video Sitemap no longer correctly including VideoPress & WordPress.tv videos

3.4.2 – Released on April 1, 2020

• Fix for Breadcrumb schema missing name value.
• Fix for various PHP 5.3 errors. (Please note that we will soon increase the minimum required PHP version to 5.4)

3.4.1 – Released on March 25, 2020

• Fix for sitemap indexes all linking to first index

3.4 – Released on March 25, 2020

• NEW Pro feature (Business Plan and above): Image SEO module
• NEW Pro feature: Control XML Sitemap priority and frequency on individual posts/terms
• NEW Pro feature: Added Schema markup for Attachment pages
• NEW: Control your link title attribute, nofollow attribute and sponsored attribute
• NEW: Link to SEO tools from the SEO menu on the Admin Bar
• Schema: Added Schema breadcrumbs markup
• Social Meta: Default Open Graph image now uses site logo
• XML Sitemap: Taxonomies and terms set to noindex are excluded from sitemap
• XML Sitemap: Images in NextGen galleries are included in the image sitemap
• XML Sitemap: Images in Jetpack galleries are included in the image sitemap
• Video Sitemap: Improvements to scanning of videos 
• New About page
• Improvements to Preview Snippet
• Improvements to notices throughout the plugin
• Improvements to inline help and documentation
• Improvements to how external scripts are handled
• Added new API filter hooks
• Added a review request
• Removed banner advertising
• We now display a security notice if you’re on PHP < 5.4
• Translation updates
• Various code refactoring and improvements
• Fix for XML Sitemap on WordPress multisite installs
• Fix for character counter on category / tag screens
• Fix for conflict with Wholesale for WooCommerce plugin
• Fix for HTML output in Gutenberg Screen Options
• Fix for notice output incorrectly on XML Sitemap
• Fix for priority and frequency override in XML Sitemap
• Fix for incorrect date for taxonomies in XML Sitemap
• Fix for character encoding in Schema markup
• Fix for incorrect Schema markup on WooCommerce shop page

3.3.5 – Released on February 07, 2020

• PRO – Improved the scan behaviour of the Video Sitemap module. We now schedule consecutive partial scans instead of one full scan to improve performance. The scan is now also recurring (only checks new & modified posts) and is triggered on plugin and module activation.
• Fixed an issue where the preview snippet code was executed too fast on page load for users with slow a computer or internet
• Fixed an issue where the preview snippet caused Internet Explorer 11 to freeze due to a bug in the browser
• Fixed a conflict with WooCommerce shortcodes and the Square add-on plugin for WooCommerce
• Fixed a bug that caused the addl-sitemap file to return a 404 Not Found error in a niche situation
• Prevent password manager extensions from auto-filling settings
• Fixed a bug where one robots meta tag was nested inside another
• Removed a dead link in the Social Meta menu
• Fixed a PHP undefined index notice

3.3.4 – Released on December 20, 2019 

• Improvements to the Preview Snippet and Description field placeholder
• Fixed a bug with Edit Post screen hanging for posts with long content
• Fix for JavaScript errors with the Classic Editor
• Fixes hidden fields in advanced Google Analytics settings
• Fix for JavaScript errors with front page editors
• Fix for Cannot declare class WP_oEmbed error
• Fix for bug where locally hosted videos are no longer detected
• Backwards compatibility for WP_oEmbed

3.3.3 – Released on November 18, 2019

• Bugfix for editor conflict
• PRO – Video SEO Module uses new oEmbed

3.3.2 – Released on November 13, 2019

• Improved WordPress 5.3 support for Snippet Preview and character counter

3.3.1.1 – Released on November 12, 2019

• Fixed PHP warning on paged archives

3.3 – Released on November 11, 2019

• WordPress 5.3 support
• PRO – Improve performance of Video Sitemap
• PRO – Add support for Google Tag Manager
• PRO – Add support for additional video embed shortcodes
• Improved support for the Gutenberg editor
• Schema.org – Added ability to manually enter schema person info
• Schema.org – New option to add more company contacts
• Schema.org – Add JSON-LD Schema for AMP
• Schema.org – Add API filter hook to set type
• Social Meta – Improvement for Pinterest Rich Pins
• Refactored Preview Snippet code
• Refactored Character Counter code
• Bugfix for Google Analytics
• Bugfix for reflecting autogenerated title/description in character counter
• Accessibility improvements
• Improved compatibility for AMP pages
• Improvement for the Safari web browser
• API – New filter hook for custom Person markup
• Documentation improvements
• Performance enhancements
• Various under the hood code improvements
• Translation improvements
• Improvements to in-app documentation

• Fix for undefined index
• Improve tooltip text for XML Sitemap module
• PRO – Improve tooltip text for Video Sitemap module

3.2.9 – Released on September 26, 2019

• Fix for sites running old versions of PHP

3.2.8 – Released on September 23, 2019

• Resolved bug conflict between Chrome 77 and Gutenberg which overlapped metaboxes with the edit post screen
• Added filter hook to disable schema.org markup programmatically
• Minor UI improvements
• Some code cleanup

3.2.7 – Released on September 10, 2019

• Security Fix: escape HTML before outputting meta description. (Props to Tobias Fink of SBA Research)
• New: added og:video:secure_url tag
• Improved support for older version of PHP. (Please update your PHP!)
• Translation improvements

3.2.6 – Released on September 8, 2019

• Fix for undefined index during version updates
• Fix for missing closing tag in certain edge cases for robots meta
• Enable Schema.org markup by default

3.2.5 – Released on August 29, 2019

• Fix for sites running old versions of PHP

3.2.4 – Released on August 19, 2019

• Bugfix for XML Sitemap creating phantom addl-sitemap file
• Bugfix for Noindex on paginated homepages

3.2.3 – Released on August 8, 2019

• Fixed compatibility issue for old versions of PHP < 5.5 (Update your PHP versions!)
• PRO – Fixed issue in Video SEO module

3.2.2 – Released on August 6, 2019

• Fix conflict between schema.org autogenerated descriptions and some shortcodes
• Don’t output default robots meta tag value
• Fix broken Help link for Google Settings
• Fix for PHP warning
• Fix another PHP warning

3.2.1 – Released on August 2, 2019

• Fix for users running old versions of PHP (< 5.5)

3.2 – Released on August 1, 2019

• Read our release post for All in One SEO Pack 3.2.
• NEW Schema.org structural data. Read our post here to learn more.
• XML Sitemap – improvements to last changed date 
• XML Sitemap – fix where certain pages were included twice
• XML Sitemap – add API Filter Hook to exclude taxonomy terms by ID
• XML Sitemap – add noopener/noreferrer to sitemaps.org link
• Preview Snippet – fix where % in title can break things
• Preview Snippet – double site title on posts page
• WooCommerce – fix for noindex/nofollow on WooCommerce Shop Page
• WooCommerce – fix warning when setting memory to 256
• Titles – Add current_month title format
• RSS Feed – add filter to remove noindex
• Bugfix for a pesky undefined variable
• Bugfix where noindex for paginated posts/pages was being applied to archives incorrectly.
• Bugfix for PHP notice when no posts are on homepage
• Bugfix where noindex/nofollow for post types were incorrectly affecting taxonomies
• New translations
• Accessibility improvements
• Under the hood code improvements
• Documentation improvements
• HTML/CSS markup improvements 
• Much more (61 total issues resolved!)

3.1.1 – Released on June 15, 2019

• Minor CSS Fixes.

3.1 – Released on June 10, 2019

• XML Sitemap – changed file naming convention. Read our blog post for more details.

3.0.4 – Released on June 7, 2019

• Fix for Users behind the Great Firewall of China
• Translation/localization updates
• Bugfix in admin notices not dismissing

3.0.3 – Released on June 6, 2019

• Make notices less intrusive (restricted to AIOSEOP screens).

3.0.2 – Released on June 5, 2019

• Bugfix for sites on old versions of PHP (older than PHP 5.3.6)
• Bugfix where the social tab was missing in a plugin conflict on some sites.
• Bugfix where we accidentally changed the font in the text editor of the Classic Editor
• Bugfix where upgrade to Pro notice for WooCommerce users wasn’t staying gone
• Bugfix for conflict with the Divi theme’s classic editor
• CSS fix

3.0.1 – Released on June 4, 2019

• Bugfix – PHP Warning
• XML Sitemap – improve exclusions based on noindex for large indexed sites.

3.0 – Released on June 3, 2019

This is a pretty massive update, containing a total of 117 resolved issues.

Read the release post.

• PRO ONLY – Improvements to Video SEO Module.
• PRO ONLY – Add columns to taxonomy SEO screens.
• PRO ONLY – Add filter to control which description to use for WooCommerce products.
• PRO ONLY – Improvements for excluding custom taxonomies from XML Sitemap
• PRO ONLY – Improvement to %tax_term% title format.
• XML Sitemap – index now in reverse chronological order.
• XML Sitemap – bugfix for nonexistent URLs.
• XML Sitemap – now defaults to indexes.
• XML Sitemap – now defaults to 1000 posts per page.
• XML Sitemap – Removed gzip compression
• XML Sitemap – remove from sitemap when noindex is enabled.
• Removed Google+.
• Removed exabot from Bad Bot Blocker.
• Facebook SSL for OG Images
• Add %current_year% title format.
• Bugfix for WooCommerce.
• Added character counter for Homepage OG title & Meta Description.
• Removed “Set Preferred Site Name” option.
• “blog” macros now deprecated in favor of “site” macros
• Improved behavior of help text area.
• Optimized images to improve performance and reduce file size.
• API – New Filter Hook for custom title formats
• API – New Filter Hook to disable OG meta truncation
• API – New Filter Hooks to generate descriptions from content.
• Added Baidu and Yandex verification
• Localization/Translation improvements for non-English users
• Adjusted size of Opengraph and Twitter meta descriptions
• Removed option to disable XML Sitemap URL in robots.txt
• Removed Custom Canonical URLs option (now enabled for all)
• Schema.org now uses HTTPS
• Fixed undefined variable bug.
• Bugfix – invalid arg warning
• Many UI/UX improvements.
• CSS improvements.
• Lots of improvements to both in-app documentation and website docs.

• Support for WordPress 5.2
• Improvements for Gutenberg compatibility

2.13 – Released on February 21, 2019

• Support for WordPress 5.1 for rel=next and prev
• Minimum WordPress version supported is now 4.6
• Add back in missing debug form
• Remove i18n since we’re using .org hosted translations
• String changes
• Fixed bug where unchecking schema.org didn’t actually remove all of it
• Fixed bug in homepage character counter
• Fixed problem in XML sitemap caused by rsquo; character
• Documentation improvements
• Improved PHP 7.3 support
• Improved PHP 7.0 support
• Grunt
• Fixed metabox styling when editing taxonomies
• Various other under the hood improvements

2.12 – Released on January 31, 2019

• XML Sitemap – improved special characters encoding
• XML Sitemap – massive performance optimizations
• XML Sitemap – fix for missing sitemap name in sitemap indexes
• Fix for incorrect default Open Graph object type on taxonomies
• Fix for Japanese language
• Additional automated testing
• Various other bug fixes

2.11.1 – Released on December 16, 2018:

• Resolved a couple undefined index warnings when running debug mode
• Resolved an undefined variable warning when running debug mode

2.11 – Released on December 6, 2018:  IMPORTANT SECURITY UPDATE

• Security Fix: Properly escape image upload variables (Props to RIPStech for reporting it)
• XML Sitemap – encode characters for image:caption
• RSS Sitemap is now optional and disabled by default
• Bugfix for SEO not showing up on homepage when there are no posts
• Improvements for Facebook sharing debuging
• Improvement for SEO sections missing in 2.9 for some people
• Removed obsolete option “SEO for Content Types”
• Update sitemap ping URLs
• Video Sitemap – Performance improvements
• Improvements to Preview Snippet
• Add templates for custom fields for title
• Bug with video sitemap when added to XML Sitemap indexes
• WordPress Coding Standards improvements

2.10.1.1 – Released on December 5, 2018:

• Update for WordPress 5.0

2.10.1 – Released on October 24, 2018:

• Fix for shortcodes in OpenGraph descriptions
• Changed “custom post type” language to “content type” for clarity
• Resolved issue where large sites using static sitemaps could time out
• Resolved conflict with LearnDash plugin
• Corrected contributor name

2.10 – Released on October 18, 2018:

• XML Sitemap – Option to hide “hidden” WooCommerce products
• Video XML Sitemap – Remove the Scan button (it’s now automatic)
• Use WooCommerce Product Image for OG Image
• Fix for nofollow not working under certain conditions
• Schema.org fixes
• Social Media Meta – use full size image
• Fix for JS conflict in media dropdown
• Fix for post title format template macros
• Robots.txt – Add an Edit Rule feature
• Compatibility fix for Fusion Builder
• Compatibility fix for Fusion Builder and WooCommerce
• Remove SEMRush from Bad Bot Blocker
• XML Sitemap – add title and caption for images
• XML Sitemap – Add support for RSS/Atom updates
• API Filter Hook to change sitemap filename
• Fix for using certain special characters in SEO meta
• Compatibility fix for bbPress
• XML Sitemap – use full size image
• Fix to ensure that disabling SEO really disables SEO for all post types
• Improve shortcode handling in manually entered meta descriptions
• Apply pagination to custom canonical URLs
• Fix for Canonical URLs subpages
• Apply URL variables to custom post type archive canonical URLs
• API filter hook for get_tax_args() function
• In-app Documentation improvements
• CSS improvements
• Various under the hood improvements

2.9 – Released on September 10, 2018:

• Video XML Sitemap – Add column for video count to sitemap
• XML Sitemap – fixed bug where custom XML Sitemap filenames could be deleted on updating to 2.7.3.
• XML Sitemap – added support for post type archive pages
• XML Sitemap – require properly formed URLs
• XML Sitemap – don’t include content from trashed pages
• API – added new filter hook to allow images from Jetpack (and other external images) in XML Sitemap
• API – added new filter hook to exclude post type archives from XML Sitemap
• Performance – massive optimizations for Google XML Sitemap
• PHP 7.2 compatibility update for parse_str()
• WooCommerce – Add product gallery images to XML Sitemap
• WPML compatibility update – bugfix where we were loading options too soon
• Advanced Custom Fields compatibility update for meta descriptions
• added new automated testing
• Fix for servers with poor filesystem settings
• Fix for using page title in meta description
• Fixed cosmetic issue where attached image was still selected even with a custom social image
• Bugfix – images at the top of content was breaking auto-generated meta descriptions
• Bugfix – SEO News feed was still trying to reach out in the background when disabled via screen options
• various CSS improvements
• various under the hood improvements

2.8.3 – Released on August 13, 2018:

• minor under the hood code improvement

2.8.2 – Released on July 30, 2018:

• Robots.txt module now only uses dynamic virtual file instead of a physical file
• Complete overhaul of Robots.txt module
• Multisite network admins can now create network-wide robots.txt rules for each site
• Fix for title/description field UI
• JQuery fix for help icons
• Fix for XML Sitemap module date picker
• Removed FTP support from filesystem
• Improvements to documentation

2.7.1 – Released on June 7, 2018:

• Fix for noindex for categories overriding nofollow checkbox on individual category
• Improvements for translations
• XML Sitemap – Removed the option to rename the sitemap file
• Bugfix for metabox showing when it shouldn’t
• Bugfix for dates
• Optimizations for settings code
• LOTS of improvements to the code under the hood
• minimum WP required is now 4.4
• improvements to automated unit testing
• Fix – javascript conflict with Pirate Forms plugin
• Google search once again changed their SERPs description length

2.6 – Released on March 29, 2018:

• Improved PHP 7.2 support
• Improved Gutenberg support
• Bugfix for Advanced Custom Fields
• XML Sitemap – fixed some errors some users experienced in Google Search Console
• XML Sitemap – support external images (such as from a CDN)
• XML Sitemap – better handling of schemeless URLs
• XML Sitemap – corrected order of tags for indexed pages
• Fix for title counter color
• API – Added aioseop_format_date filter hook for date format
• Performance – refactored various code under the hood to make sure we’re running at optimum efficiency

2.5.6.1 – Released on March 15, 2018:

• Quick fix for an issue with a JavaScript file when using Google Analytics

2.5.6 – Released on March 15, 2018:

• Fixed bug in CPT settings where certain fields don’t display until you click update
• Improved inline documentation and help
• We now use grunt to ensure 100% compliance with the WordPress Coding Standards

2.5.5.1 – Released on February 14, 2018:

• Minimum required WordPress version increased from 4.0 to 4.4
• XML Sitemap – resolved XML Parsing compatibility issue for WP versions < 4.7
• XML Sitemap -fixed issue where some subscribers were seeing XML Sitemap notices
• XML Sitemap -fixed bug where mandatory fields could cause settings not to save
• XML Sitemap – fixed compatibility issue with WPML
• XML Sitemap – fixed bug with adding additional pages to sitemap
• Improve Snippet Preview encoding for url
• API – new filter hook to add to header
• API – new filter hook to load Google Analytics autotrack.js from CDN

2.5.4.1 – Released on January 18, 2018:

• Fix for meta description filter

2.5.4 – Released on January 11, 2018:

• Support longer meta descriptions
• Fix for auto-generated meta descriptions which start with an image

2.5.3 – Released on November 17, 2017:

• Workaround for Jetpack bug which causes fatal error in some cases

2.5.2.1 – Released on November 15, 2017:

• Update for WordPress 4.9

2.5.2 – Released on October 4, 2017:

• XML Sitemap – support relative URLs for images
• XML Sitemap – ignore external images
• XML Sitemap – reduce duplicate images
• XML Sitemap – added option to remove images (helpful for Yandex users)
• XML Sitemap – fix validation errors for Google Search Console in certain situations
• Bugfix – for compatibility with the Divi theme
• API – improvements to filter hook to remove images from XML Sitemap

2.5.1.1 – Released on October 2, 2017:

• Bugfix for embeds being picked up as images causing parsing errors for some sitemaps
• Check if PHP dom module exists
• Better check for images in galleries
• Added notice for sites with >1000 URLs to using indexing

2.5 – Released on September 28, 2017:

• Video XML Sitemap – Add support for videos embedded using JS
• Video XML Sitemap – Fix for including embeds as videos
• Video XML Sitemap – Fixed bug with WordPress.TV videos
• XML Sitemap – Include Video XML Sitemap URL in sitemap index
• Added support for Images in XML Sitemap
• Fix for Track Outbound Links
• Fix for character counter
• Fix for auto-Shorten Long Descriptions option not working in some cases
• Added xml sitemap URL API filter hook
• Improved documentation
• Translation improvements
• UI improvements to the options screen and post metabox, snippet preview, etc
• Code cleanup for WordPress Coding Standards
• Various other under the hood improvements and bug fixes

• Video XML Sitemap – Improve appearance of thumbnails
• Video XML Sitemap – AddXML tags for Facebook videos embedded using oEmbed
• Video XML Sitemap – Add support for Facebook videos embedded using iFrame
• Fix for custom canonical URLs
• Fix for social tab on edit post screen
• Fix for pasting an image URL in custom image field
• Fixed admin bar link for editing SEO on taxonomies
• Fixed incorrect link to Social module right after activation
• Fix for entry field bug in general settings
• Fix for noindex on category and tag pages
• Fixed bug where social settings tab wasn’t active by default for posts/pages on new installs
• Improvements to UI styling
• Improvement to incorrect description of new date templates
• Improvements to site documentation and helptext links
• Optimization – Reduce overall plugin filesize by ~35%
• API – Added filter hooks aioseop_post_metabox_context and aioseop_post_metabox_priority
• Various other under the hood improvements

2.4.15.3.1 – Released on August 16, 2017:

• PHP 7.1 support

2.4.15.3 – Released on August 5, 2017:

• Fix for minor bug with PHP notice

2.4.15.2 – Released on August 5, 2017:

• Fix for bug with running certain shortcodes

2.4.15.1 – Released on August 4, 2017:

• Fix for autogeneration of meta descriptions when then content has certain shortcodes

2.4.15 – Released on August 3, 2017:

• Video XML Sitemap – Add support for query strings in video URLs
• Video XML Sitemap – Display thumbnails for all videos in a post
• Video XML Sitemap – Fixed missing XML tags for Flickr
• Video XML Sitemap – Add support videos in post excerpts
• Video XML Sitemap – Add support for videos in custom fields
• Added placeholder text to category, tags, and taxonomy titles
• Video XML Sitemap: clean up options and various other bugfixes and enhancements
• Social Meta Module – Add social meta to taxonomies
• Added new date formats for title and description %post_date% %post_month% %post_year% in addition to the %current_date% we already had
• API Added filter hook for Google Analytics attributes
• Fix for title character encoding
• Fix for shortcode sanitization for titles
• Fix for opengraph meta on static posts page
• Remove capitalize categories functionality
• Remove capitalize tag and search titles option
• Remove option for Facebook Object Type and default to website on homepage
• Remove Home Tag option
• Remove support and filter hook for Classic Asynchronous Google Analytics
• Translation fixes
• Improved documentation
• Various under the hood improvements, code cleanup, and performance enhancements

2.4.14.2 – Released on July 19, 2017:

• Fixed a bug encoding hyphens in Doc title

2.4.14.1 – Released on July 17, 2017:

• Fixed encoding bug for apostrophes in document titles
• Fixed bug in meta description API filter hook
• Added bug report links

2.4.14 – Released on July 12, 2017:

• Video XML Sitemap – Now detects multiple videos in a post or page
• Video XML Sitemap – Support for YouTube and Vimeo videos added via iFrame
• Video XML Sitemap – Support for VideoPress and WordPress.TV videos
• Video XML Sitemap – Support for Viddler videos
• Video XML Sitemap – Improvements to detection of videos in WooCommerce products
• Video XML Sitemap – Improvements to video thumbnail detection
• Fix for escaping of quotes characters used in meta descriptions and Open Graph descriptions
• Fix for manually entered hyperlinks stripped from meta descriptions and Open Graph descriptions

2.4.13.2 – Released on June 2, 2017:

• Fix for user on old outdated PHP versions 5.4 and older. (PSA: TELL YOUR HOST TO UPDATE PHP OR ELSE FIND A NEW HOST)
• Remove extra URL showing up for some admins.
• Add Stanislov and Ashish as new contributors to the credits. Congrats!

2.4.13 – Released on June 1, 2017:

• More fixes for themes that do queries wrong
• Various improvements to auto-generated descriptions
• WooCommerce – improvements for WC OpenGraph meta
• Social Module – strip oEmbed videos from auto-generated descriptions
• Social Module – strip manually entered HTML from OpenGraph description
• Social Module – strip blank spaces from OpenGraph descriptions
• Improvements to Importer/Exporter when someone tries to import a hacked file
• Import/Export Module – added Media SEO
• Performance Module – moved send button to a more logical place
• Performance Module – improve the debug information
• Bad Bot Blocker – strip blank lines from custom lists
• Help text documentation improvements
• Various other boring/geeky under the hood stuff

2.4.12.5 – Released on May 2, 2017:

• Fixed rare media uploader conflict with certain themes
• Various minor under-the-hood improvements

2.4.12.4 – Released on May 1, 2017:

• Support for the very old PHP 5.2

2.4.12.3 – Released on May 1, 2017:

• Hide new internally used custom fields
• Increased support for loading XML Sitemaps over HTTPS when using WPML
• Translation improvements

2.4.12.1 – Released on March 13, 2017:

• Resolved false positive for PHP 7 compatibility. All in One SEO Pack Pro is 100% PHP 7 compatible.
• NOODP joins NOYDIR in history as the Open Directory Project shuts down. All settings, options, and functionality have been removed.
• Added API filter hook to remove meta description on AMP pages
• Added API filter hook to remove Facebook and Twitter social meta on AMP pages
• CSS improvements
• Translation improvements
• Additional support for themes and plugins that incorrectly use wp_query
• Improvements and additions to documentation
• Cleaned up some menu settings
• Various other bug fixes, optimizations, and improvements

2.4.12 – Released on March 4, 2017:

• Social (Open Graph/Facebook/Twitter) descriptions now autogenerated by default when Social Meta module is activated
• New option to default to content instead of excerpt for autogenerated social descriptions
• Add meta descriptions to AMP pages
• Add OpenGraph and Twitter social meta to AMP pages
• Added API filter hook to noindex password protected posts
• Added support for multiple fb:admins (Facebook Admins) on separate lines
• Added better support for themes and plugins that incorrectly use wp_query
• Translation improvements
• Improvements and additions to documentation
• Replaced deprecated WooCommerce functions
• Cleaned up some menu settings
• Various other bug fixes, optimizations, and improvements function

2.4.11.4 – Released on February 1, 2017:

• Fix for media uploads in Social Module
• Fixed issue breaking updates for certain users
• Added additional inline documentation

2.4.11.3 – Released on January 23, 2017:

• Fixed rare media uploader conflict with certain themes
• Added API filter hook to disable our disabling of official Twitter plugin meta
• Fix for Video XML Sitemap not always showing thumbnail in browser

2.4.11.2 – Released on January 19, 2017:

• Modernized media code and UI for social sharing images
• Javascript improvements
• CSS improvements
• Optimizations to better handle caching
• Improvements to the importer
• Fixed a rare bug in the Social Module
• Added filter to exclude password protected content from the XML Sitemap
• Twitter compatibility improvements
• Removed blocking via .htaccess from Bad Bots module (blocking via http only now)
• Various other bug fixes for the Bad Bots module
• New translations

2.4.11.1.1 – Released on January 16, 2017:

• Fixed compatibility issue with some premium plugins under certain circumstances
• Translation updates

2.4.11.1 – Released on November 8, 2016:

• WordPress Version 4.7 compatibility
• Fixed issue where blank lines in custom referrer list caused bugs
• Stripped whitespace and double linebreaks from custom Bad Bot list
• Enhancement for bots logging
• Various other behind the scenes changes and performance improvements

2.4.11 – Released on November 2, 2016:

• Improvements to update code
• Advanced Custom Fields can now be used in Meta Description format
• Add support for today’s date in SEO Title
• Add support for today’s date in SEO Meta Description
• New and updated Documentation
• Now using new FaceBook debug tool
• Improvements to the Snippet Preview
• Improved support for Google AMP
• Force Facebook to refresh cache on post update or publishing a scheduled post #414
• Enhancements to permissions checking
• Resolved mixed content issues for SSL
• Removed donation request (cleaner wp-admin)
• Removed legacy title attribute and menu label functionality #628
• Canonical URLs – Auto set SSL protocol
• XML Sitemap – Improved handling of excludes for blog page
• XML Sitemap – excluding via either post slug or ID
• SEO Columns for the Media Library
• Schema.org and OG Prefix are back for non-AMP pages
• CSS fixes
• Improvements to contextual documentation
• Code improvements for WordPress Coding Standards
• Improvements to inline PHP Documentation for developers
• API – Canonical URLs – Added filter hook to change protocol
• Various other developer API hooks
• Fixed minor conflict with Edit Flow plugin
• Fix for OpenGraph and Twitter images for SSL
• Various other behind the scenes changes and performance improvements

2.4.10.2.1 – Released on October 18th, 2016

• Fix for update issue
• Performance improvements

2.4.10.2 – Released on October 13th, 2016 – Read the release blog post. This release includes 2.4.10 and 2.4.10.1.

• Fixes for hosts with overly aggressive backend caching
• Various Performance improvements/Optimizations
• Streamlined various options pages… fewer options, more functionality!
• Getting started with XML Sitemaps module is easier and quicker than ever
• Enhancements to code that automatically pings Google/Bing with XML Sitemap updates
• Fix for when old static externally produced XML Sitemap files aren’t detected for deletion in certain cases
• Fix for the final PHP 7 warnings
• Improvements to make Preview Snippet more accurate
• CSS and other UX fixes
• Improvements for sites using HTTPS/SSL
• Improvements for non-English sites
• Improved inline documentation
• Additional documentation in the Help Center
• Enhancements for logging
• Improvements to update code
• New API filter hook to modify search engine XML sitemap ping URLs
• Many more API hooks
• Improvements to translation management
• Much, much more! (80+ total changes)

2.4.9.2 – Released on September 8th, 2016 – Read the release blog post.

• Confirmed 100% PHP 7 compatibility
• Universal Google Analytics is now used by default
• New API filter hook to continue to use classic asynchronous Google Analytics
• New API filter hook for to use different featured image sizes for social sharing
• New API filter hook for to use different attachment image sizes for social sharing
• Optimizations for Google Analytics codebase
• Fix Edit SEO shortcut link in admin bar for dynamic homepages
• Improved schema.org validation
• Fixed capitalization of category titles
• Various other under the hood improvements to the codebase

2.4.9 – Released on August 15th, 2016

• New! Redirect attachments to post parent
• New! Custom Twitter image separate from Opengraph.
• New! Import from Add Meta Tags
• New! Translations into more languages.
• Reduced plugin size from 2.4MB to 1.3MB!
• Updated documentation and help links
• Improvement for bad bots list
• WordPress Coding Standards improvements for Feature Manager
• Various behind the scenes improvements to the code

2.4.8 – Released on July 12th, 2016

• Patched a security vulnerability in the sitemap module. Credit to WordFence.

2.4.7 – Released on July 8th, 2016

• Reduced plugin download size by ~half using language packs instead of shipped mo files
• Sanitize Bad Bots module referer and user agent
• API – action hook to add additional Google Analytics code (compliments our existing filter hook)
• Better webmaster tools site verification compatibility with Jetpack

All in One SEO Pack Pro version 2.4.6.1 – Released on July 4th, 2016

• Fix for calling get_home_path outside of wp_admin in certain situations
• Buxfix for Update Script
• Disable Jetpack’s sitemap only if ours is being used
• Various performance enhancements and other general under-the-hood improvements to the codebase
• Improvements to both inline documentation and contextual help

All in One SEO Pack Pro version 2.4.6 – Released on June 30th, 2016

• Various under the hood performance improvements
• CSS improvements on edit post screen
• Fixed issue with settings pages not loading in certain rare instances for a poorly configured server
• Documentation – Updated Help Documentation
• Documentation – Added and updated inline docblocks
• Fix issue where sometimes menus wouldn’t show on a new install until after the first pageload
• Follow RSS feeds
• Fix error with Really Simple SSL plugin
• XML Sitemap – dynamic generation of XSL file
• XML Sitemap – API hook to filter XSL file
• XML Sitemap – Improve handling of loading XSL over SSL
• XML Sitemap – follow XML Sitemap (removed option to disable noindex for sitemap)
• XML Sitemap – enhanced validation of additional sitemap pages
• XML Sitemap – improve XML schema formatting
• XML Sitemap – improve styling of human-readable sitemap
• XML Sitemap – resolve conflicts with Jetpack sitemap generation
• XML Sitemap – improve reliability of Chinese sitemap
• XML Sitemap – add sitemap URL to our robots.txt
• XML Sitemap – improve updating of sitemap when posts are published, modified, or deleted
• Resolved various undefined indexes
• API hook for plugin updates
• Improvements to WordPress Coding Standards

All in One SEO Pack Pro version 2.4.5.1 – Released on June 19th, 2016

• Increased support for WordPress versions older than 4.4

All in One SEO Pack Pro version 2.4.5 – Released on June 13th, 2016

• Enhancements for processing Twitter Opengraph meta
• CSS fixes
• RTL CSS improvements
• Added additional PHP Documentation
• Improvements to help text
• Increased reliability for custom HTTP protocol for custom canonical URLs
• Improved sanitization of config file imports (thanks to fortinet.com for reporting the issue)

All in One SEO Pack Pro version 2.4.4.2.1 – Released on May 10th, 2016

• Minor fixes for version 2.4.4.2

All in One SEO Pack Pro version 2.4.4.2 – Released on May 9th, 2016

• Fix for bbPress compatibility
• Deprecated get_currentuserinfo
• Minor update of wording on main settings page

All in One SEO Pack Pro version 2.4.4.1 – Released on April 20th, 2016

• Fix for jQuery for compatibility issue with WordPress v4.5
• Removed Yandex from Bad Bot Blocker
• Deprecated add_utility_page as per WordPress v4.5
• Fix for missing checkboxes in Noindex Settings with certain languages
• Minor CSS fix

All in One SEO Pack Pro version 2.4.4 – Released on April 12th, 2016

• Important updates for WordPress v4.5
• Update for taxonomy SEO meta
• Improved RTL support
• New placeholder text for auto generated Open Graph meta

All in One SEO Pack Pro version 2.4.3.2 – Released on April 2nd, 2016

• Patch for conflict with SEO Data Transporter plugin

All in One SEO Pack Pro version 2.4.3.1 – Released on April 1st, 2016

• Patch for bug with Bad Bot Blocker module

All in One SEO Pack Pro version 2.4.3 – Released on April 1st, 2016

• NEW! SEO data importer for importing SEO data from other plugins and themes
• Significant improvements to the codebase and performance
• Important localization improvements
• Updated translation files for over 57 languages
• Social Meta Module – Added support for Facebook App ID
• Social Meta Module – Update for Facebook’s Admin App ID
• Added a warning message when Search Engine Visibility is enabled in WordPress Reading Settings
• Improvements to the behavior of the per post overrides for NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW, NOODP and NOYDIR
• Changed when Noindex Settings are displayed in relation to Custom Post Type Settings
• Improved support for WooCommerce when the Home page is also set as the Shop page
• New custom capability for managing SEO options (aiosp_manage_seo)
• New filter hook for managing SEO options capability
• The Custom Canonical URL field in the All in One SEO Pack meta box is now hidden unless Enable Custom Canonical URLs is checked
• Improvements to the Bad Bot Blocker module
• Improvements to right-to-left support
• Improvement to auto-generated meta description for single character languages such as Chinese
• Term meta data added pre-WordPress v4.4 is now migrated to the new database table
• Change to the default robots.txt file in accordance with recommendations from Google
• Various styling improvements to the user interface
• Various bug fixes for issues reported by users in the support forums

All in One SEO Pack Pro version 2.3.7.5 – Released on January 6th, 2016

• Updated for WordPress 4.4
• Category capitalization fixes
• Futureproofing for PHP v7 and 8
• Important localization improvements
• Update to Social Meta Module – Remove Photo Twitter Card which was deprecated by Twitter
• Add support for additional Twitter meta tags
• Bug fixes for issues reported by users in the support forums

All in One SEO Pack Pro version 2.3.7.2 – Released on September 9th, 2015

• Updated for WordPress 4.3
• New Spanish language translation – Thanks to Fernando Tellado
• Bug fixes for issues reported by users in the support forums

All in One SEO Pack Pro version 2.3.7.1 – Released on July 14th, 2015

• XML Sitemap Module – Added an option for specifying the schedule for ping notifications to Google and Bing
• Bug fixes for issues reported by users in the support forums

All in One SEO Pack Pro version 2.3.7 – Released on June 4th, 2015

• NEW Bad Bot Blocker Module – Block known bad bots and referrers from crawling your site
• Social Meta Module – Added a Default OG:Image width and height fields to comply with Facebook’s new image pre-caching guidelines
• Social Meta Module – Added a Facebook Debug button to the Social Settings tab of the Edit Post screen so administrators can debug Open Graph meta and force the re-crawling of a post
• XML Sitemap Module – Added an option for scheduling daily updates to notify Google and Bing (as per new guidelines from Google for the submission of XML Sitemaps)
• Added support for using taxonomy names in custom post type title tags
• Added support for Google Knowledge Graph
• Added support for new structured data required by Google for better presentation of URLs in search results
• Improved checking and support for themes that use output buffering
• Bug fixes for issues reported by users in the support forums

All in One SEO Pack Pro version 2.3.6.2 – Released on April 20th, 2015

• Patched security vulnerability with use of add_query_arg (https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_query_arg) reported by Joost de Valk
• Added support for Taxonomy Term Splitting (https://make.wordpress.org/core/2015/02/16/taxonomy-term-splitting-in-4-2-a-developer-guide/) in readiness for WordPress v4.2
• Fixed bug with All in One SEO Pack meta box being displayed on custom post types when not enabled in Custom Post Type Settings
• Fixed bug with priorities being formatted incorrectly when using German locale

All in One SEO Pack Pro version 2.3.6.1 – Released on March 24th, 2015

• Fixed bug reported with incorrect Home Title when latest posts is set on the front page.
• Fixed warning appearing when no post types are set.

All in One SEO Pack Pro version 2.3.6 – Released on March 23rd, 2015

• Added a new option for using the static home page to control SEO for the homepage instead of the Home Page Settings section
• Improved the layout of the Custom Post Type Settings section by reorganizing the options into a more logical order
• Improvements to the Quick Edit feature to make quick edit for long titles and descriptions easier
• Improvements to deliver better integration with popular translation plugins
• Updates to help and documentation
• Social Meta Module – Added options for running shortcodes in the OG Title and OG Description fields
• Bug fixes for issues reported by users in the support forums
• Fix for a security vulnerability with autogenerated meta descriptions revealing content on password protected pages and posts – Thanks to JPCERT/CC

All in One SEO Pack Pro version 2.3.5.1 – Released on January 30th, 2015

• Fixed bug reported with Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in aioseop_class.php on line 3029
• Fixed bug reported with Undefined property: WP_Query::$is_front_page

All in One SEO Pack Pro version 2.3.5 – Released on January 23rd, 2015

• Social Meta Module – Added options for using Meta Keywords, categories and tags as Facebook article tags
• Added a character counter to the Homepage Title and Homepage Description fields
• Added a visual indicator to alert when a title or description is reaching or exceeding the recommended length
• Added an option to not use the excerpt for autogenerated descriptions
• Added an option to set noindex on the 404 page
• Bug fixes for issues reported by users in the support forums

All in One SEO Pack Pro version 2.3.4.1 – Released on January 2nd, 2015

• Fixed bug reported with get_post_title_format not found
• Fixed bug reported with noindex incorrectly added as nonoindex
• Fixed bug reported with Advanced Custom Fields usage in title format fields
• Fixed bug reported with Exclude from Sitemap checkbox not working

All in One SEO Pack Pro version 2.3.4 – Released on December 19th, 2014

• Added new options for customizing individual canonical URLs
• Added new option to support Google’s Sitelinks Search feature
• Added placeholder text to show auto generated titles and descriptions on the edit post/page screen
• Added new Advanced Google Analytics Options
• Added support for Google Analytics Enhanced Link Attribution code
• Added support for Google Analytics Enhanced Ecommerce code
• Added support for Google Analytics cross domain tracking code
• Added post type controls for setting defaults for the NOODP and NOYDIR meta tags
• Added new option for setting the preferred protocol for canonical URLs
• Added support for Schema.org product rich snippets code
• Improved support for Facebook XMLNS code
• XML Sitemap Module – Added options to control priorities and frequencies by post type and taxonomy
• XML Sitemap Module – Added option to request search engines not display XML Sitemap in search results
• Social Meta Module – Added option to set Facebook article tags for the homepage
• Improved documentation and help
• Bug fixes for issues reported by users in the support forums

All in One SEO Pack Pro version 2.3.3 – Released on September 29th, 2014

• Social Meta Module – Added author image as an option for the OG:Image
• Social Meta Module – Added support for Facebook Article:Section tag
• Social Meta Module – Added support for OG:Video
• Robots.txt Generator/Validator Module – This module now deactivates when ether DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT or
• DISALLOW_FILE_MODS are set to true in wp-config.php
• Added global settings for NOODP and NOYDIR
• Autogenerate Descriptions now has an option to run shortcodes within content to provide a more accurate Meta Description
• Bug fixes for issues reported by users in the support forums

All in One SEO Pack Pro version 2.3.2 – Released on July 29th, 2014

• Social Meta Module – Added support for Article:Publisher and Article:Author tags for Facebook
• Social Meta Module – New screen layout to separate out options on the Social Meta screen
• Social Meta Module – Added correct markup for Facebook XMLNS (props to Carlos Umanzor)
• Added an option to All in One SEO, General Settings to remove pagination from canonical URLs
• Added an option to All in One SEO, General Settings to display/remove Schema.org markup
• Added support for using %post_title% in the Description Format field in All in One SEO, Title Settings
• File Editor Module – Added support to disable the File Editor module if DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT or DISALLOW_FILE_MODS are set to true in wp-config.php
• Bug fixes for issues reported by users in the support forums

All in One SEO Pack Pro version 2.3.1 – Released on July 16th, 2014

• Added a hook for controlling pagination display on canonical links
• Added a hook for language attributes in sitemap (xmlns, prefix, etc)
• Renamed *_tax_meta() functions used for hooks so they don’t conflict (does not affect *_term_meta() functions)
• Defer loading functions and main class until plugins_loaded hook
• Bug fixes for category page exclusion and detection
• JavaScript fixes for versioning and sitemap checkboxes

All in One SEO Pack Pro version 2.3 – Released on July 11th, 2014

• NEW MODULE – Video XML Sitemap generator, now you can generate video XML sitemaps using All in One SEO Pack
• NEW – Support for managing the SEO for Categories, Tags and Custom Taxonomies just like you manage your SEO for Posts, Pages and Custom Post Types
• NEW – Control the Title Format for Custom Taxonomies
• Added Schema.org itemprop=”description” to Meta Descriptions
• Improvements to the Title Format for 404 pages
• Social Meta Module – Automatically add the @ symbol for Twitter usernames if they aren’t entered
• Bug fixes for issues reported by users in the support forums

All in One SEO Pack Pro version 2.2.6 – Released on June 17th, 2014

• Social Meta Module – New options for setting the Twitter:Domain, Twitter:Site and Twitter:Creator for Twitter Cards
• Social Meta Module – New option for setting Article:Tags for use by Facebook
• The character counter on the Snippet Preview now includes the length of the Site Title to calculate the actual length of the Title tag
• Added options to set NOINDEX and NOFOLLOW on paginated content
• Added an option to turn of truncation of Meta Descriptions
• Improved support for HTTPS as per changes by Google
• Bug fixes for issues reported by users in the support forums

All in One SEO Pack Pro version 2.2.5 – Released on May 31st, 2014

• Google Settings – Improved Google Analytics code for tracking outbound links
• Google Settings – New option for Anonymize IP addresses for Google Analytics
• XML Sitemap Module – New controls for setting the frequency and priority of individual post types
• XML Sitemap Module – New controls for setting the frequency and priority of individual taxonomies
• XML Sitemap Module – Additional integration with SimplePress
• Social Meta Module – New option for setting the Twitter Card Type
• Added integration with the Advanced Custom Fields plugin so that you can use ACF fields in titles and descriptions
• Live preview snippet on the Edit Post screen now displays the Site Title
• Security patch for vulnerabilities which might trigger privilege escalation and cross site scripting issues on WordPress administration panel reported by Sucuri (props to Marc at Sucuri)
• Bug fixes for issues reported by users in the support forums

All in One SEO Pack Pro version 2.2.4.1 – Released on April 18th, 2014

• Minor release to fix a bug with fatal error occurring when viewing Tags

All in One SEO Pack Pro version 2.2.4 – Released on April 17th, 2014

• XML Sitemap Module – Added pagination to taxonomy sitemaps when using Sitemap Indexes
• XML Sitemap Module – Added controls for XML Sitemap Pagination when using Sitemap Indexes
• Social Meta Module – Added option to fall back to Default OG:Image when no other image is found
• Social Meta Module – Added a field to upload and set the OG:Image for the homepage
• Google Settings – Added support to only display rel=”publisher” on the first page of paginated homepages
• Google Settings – Added support for new Google Analytics “Display Advertising” code
• Added a new hooks (aiosp_sitemap_addl_pages and aiosp_sitemap_addl_pages_only) to the All in One SEO
• Pack plugin API for adding custom URLs to an XML Sitemap (props to anduriell)
• Bug fixes for issues reported by users in the support forums

All in One SEO Pack Pro version 2.2.3 – Released on February 25th, 2014

• Add new advanced options for controlling and fine tuning authorship (rel=”publisher” and rel=”author”)
• Bugfix for issue with removing JetPack OG Meta when using JetPack version 2.8
• Bugfixes for issues reported by users in WordPress.org support forums
• Added new Turkish translation

All in One SEO Pack Pro version 2.2.2 – Released on January 30th, 2014

• Bug fix for Social Meta description generation
• Bug fix for Description length
• Updated plugin updater library

All in One SEO Pack Pro version 2.2.1 – Released on January 24th, 2014

• Bug fix for Universal Analytics tracking
• Fix for cleaning up Social Meta description formatting
• Fix for Sitemap post counts

All in One SEO Pack Pro version 2.2 – Released on December 19th, 2013

• NEW MODULE – File Editor: Edit your Robots.txt and .htaccess files within All in One SEO Pack
• NEW MODULE – Robots.txt Generator/Validator: Generate a Robots.txt file and/or validate your Robots.txt file
• Added support for Google Analytics display advertising / demographics
• Added settings to limit Google Analytics tracking of logged-in users by role
• Added a new filter to the plugin API for removing rel=”prev” and rel=”next”
• Removed empty child XML Sitemap files when using Sitemap Indexes
• Added code to flush the authentication token when you click the Connect to Analytics button
• Various bug fixes

All in One SEO Pack Pro version 2.1.4.1 – Released on November 1st, 2013

• Open Graph Images – Added new option to control the image used for OG:Image on Posts, Pages and custom post types
• Added/changed some Help links to new plugin documentation
• Various bug fixes

All in One SEO Pack Pro version 2.1.4 – Released on October 9th, 2013

• Open Graph Titles – If no OG:Title is specified, All in One SEO Pack Pro will fall back to the SEO Meta Title if one is specified and then to the Page/Post title if no SEO Meta Title has been entered
• Open Graph Descriptions – If no OG:Description is specified, All in One SEO Pack Pro will fall back to the SEO Meta Description if one is specified and then to the excerpt or first 160 characters of a Page/Post if Autogenerate OG Descriptions is enabled.  If Autogenerate OG Descriptions is not enabled the no OG:Description will be displayed
• Added the ability to set the OG:Image width and height per Page/Post
• Added the Social Settings tab to Media if checked in Social Meta, Enable Facebook Meta for
• Added a link to the changelog for All in One SEO Pack Pro
• Dynamically hide/show the Home Title and Home Description fields when you check/uncheck the Use AIOSEO Title and Description box in Social Meta
• Now you can select the OG:Image from any image in the Media Library or attach a new image via the upload feature
• Added an option to select the Default Image as the OG:Image on each Page/Post. The Default Image is used by default if no OG:Image has been specified
• Security improvements – better data sanitization
• Improved inline documentation with links to help resources
• All new Google Analytics connector with support for the new Universal Analytics
• Improved Russian translation
• Various bug fixes

All in One SEO Pack Pro version 2.1.3 – Released on August 27th, 2013

• Remove old meta import/upgrade code
• Check for CPTs and remove Custom Titles checkbox if none exist
• Dynamically update the Preview Snippet when someone types in the Meta Title and Description
• Add Edit Current Page SEO and Edit Current Post SEO to AIOSEOP on Admin Bar
• Add separate Title Format field for Author archives
• Add options to add meta tags NOODP and NOYDIR
• Support mb_strlen and mb_substr
• Support for mapped domains in XML Sitemap
• Save settings in the Feature Manager without a refresh
• Add date format options for Title Format field for Date archives
• Add option to set the defaults for NOINDEX and NOFOLLOW by post type
• Separate options for NOINDEX Date Archives and NOINDEX Author Archives
• Support for quote marks in descriptions
• Check wp-config for FTP credentials if AIOSEOP can’t write an XML sitemap to the web root
• Add rel=”next” rel=”prev” to paginated content
• Strip protocol string from entry in Google Analytics Tracking Domain field
• Add option to disable Jetpack OG meta
• Ability to set default OG types for each content type
• Enable pasting of image URLs into default OG:Image field in Social Meta settings
• Add the ability to select a custom field for OG Image
• Add the ability to select which image in a post or page to use for OG:Image
• Fixed multiple bugs reported

All in One SEO Pack Pro version 2.1.2 – Released on May 22nd, 2013

• Bug Fix – Performance module visible to site admins in WPMU
• Bug Fix – Category descriptions are being taken from last post
• Bug Fix – Fix canonical URLs on paginated content
• Bug Fix – Tag archives are showing description from latest post on paginated pages when auto-generate descriptions is disabled
• Bug Fix – All archives are showing description from latest post when auto-generate descriptions is enabled
• Bug Fix – Character counters on Edit Post / Edit Page no longer counts as you type
• Add /page/#/ to canonical URL for author and date archives
• Rename the Admin Bar entry from AIOSEOP to SEO
• Better handling of attachment pages and images
• Add a Disable option for Google+ profile
• Add an option to Remove meta descriptions from paginated content
• Add Upgrade to Pro to the AIOSEOP dropdown on the Admin Bar
• Add a character counter for Social Meta to the AIOSEOP meta box

All in One SEO Pack Pro version 2.1.1 – Released on May 10th, 2013

• Bug Fix – Blog page title same as homepage title
• Bug Fix – Conflict reported with bbPress
• Bug Fix – Author and date archive titles missing
• Bug Fix – CSS naming conflict reported with meta box styles
• Bug Fix – Conflict reported with Easy Table Plugin
• Bug Fix – Google Plus author on homepage
• Bug Fix – get_current_screen() doesn’t exist pre WordPress 3.1
• Add an option move the AIOSEOP menu to the bottom of the WP menu
• Add in new Russian translation files
• Move the Mailchimp signup form back to the top

All in One SEO Pack Pro version 2.1 – Released on April 22nd, 2013

• Search results preview
• No index on page or post
• Follow / No follow on page or post
• Exclude from Sitemap on page or post
• Webmaster tools verification
• Import / Export settings
• Add AIOSEOP to Admin Bar with the ability to turn on/off
• Facebook, Twitter and Google+ Meta module