SEOPress 6.8 is now available. We encourage you to update your site as soon as possible to take advantage of the latest features and improvements.
🎉 New – Google Search Console widgets for our SEO dashboard
In this fourth Google Search Console iteration, we have added two widgets to the SEO Dashboard:
- The first lists the 5 keywords that have generated the most traffic to your site and their positions.
- The second lists the 5 most clicked content from Google search results to your site.
All according to the defined date range (last 3 months by default).
This will allow you to know a little more about your SEO without leaving your WordPress administration.
For more advanced metrics, we invite you to discover SEOPress Insights.
🎉 New – Automatic redirect suggestions now for term taxonomies
This feature was already available for posts. Each time a slug is edited or a post / page or post type is deleted, we notify you via a notification to create a redirect in one click.
It’s now working for term taxonomies too like post categories, product categories etc.
Handy, right?
🎉 New – OpenAI enhancements
Many users have pointed out to us that the metas generated were not always in the correct language. We have therefore modified our prompts sent to OpenAI to specify the language of your content and thus significantly increase our chances of obtaining the response in the correct language. No configuration is required.
Be aware that this is a known issue on their end, and according to the latest keynote, version 4 of the GPT model should fix this. As soon as it will be available, we’ll include this model in SEOPress PRO.
🎉 New – Bulk actions for Instant Indexing
Tired of copy and pasting URLs to the Instant Indexing textarea to submit to Google?
Now with the dedicated bulk action, it’s super easy as you can see in this screenshot below.
Plus, it automatically handles duplicates, no need to worry about if I already sent a URL or not.
🎉 New – WP-CLI and Application Passwords for developers
Developers will love this new release! First, application passwords to authenticate with our REST API. This solution is extremely easy to use and much more convenient.
All the details in our updated guide.
And we have added our first WP CLI commands! Using a terminal you can now:
- export
- import
the global settings of SEOPress to / from a JSON file.
We also have good news about our REST API that will provide soon contextual values for metadata. More to come soon in the upcoming months.
🎉 Other news
This new version of SEOPress also brings its share of improvements and fixes including:
- performance improvements for index xml sitemap,
- notifications center user experience especially the hidden ones,
- a capability issue with instant indexing for user roles different than administrators,
- and many other things!
About Universal Analytics (GA3)
As you probably know, GA4 has replaced GA3 (ie Universal Analytics) definitely since July 1. As this version no longer works, we have also removed every line of code related to this in SEOPress 6.8. Remember that we propose two solutions for tracking website statistics: Google Analytics 4 and Matomo (cloud or self-hosted).
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Changelog
This update contains the following changes (full changelog here):
* NEW Google Search Console widgets (PRO) 🎉 * NEW OpenAI: we now pass the post language to improve results when generating meta title / description 🎉 * NEW Application passwords for SEOPress REST API 🎉 (https://www.seopress.org/support/guides/get-started-with-the-seopress-rest-api/) * NEW Semi-automatic redirection notifications on term slug deletion / edition to prevent 404 errors (PRO) 🎉 * NEW Add bulk actions to send to instant indexing post / page / post type URLs 🎉 * NEW WP CLI SEOPress commands: import / export SEOPress global configuration to a JSON file (https://www.seopress.org/support/guides/seopress-wp-cli/) * INFO Remove pre_get_posts filter for XML index sitemap * INFO Improve XML index sitemap performance * INFO Improve UI/UX * INFO GA3 (Universal Analytics) has been removed from SEOPress as this version has been deprecated / removed by Google * INFO Delete all schemas / redirects / broken links entries on uninstallation * FIX Test redirection link button in a multisite network * FIX Fatal error with Broken links checker * FIX Warning if no visits for Matomo widget * FIX Instant Indexing capability issue
