7.9
Release Date: July 24th, 2018
Enhancements:
- Introduces the collapsible sections to all the tabs in Search Appearance.
- Improves accessibility of the collapsible sections in Search Appearance.
Bugfixes:
- Fixes a bug where archive settings for post types aren't shown on the search appearance page when the
has_archivefor that post type contains an archive slug. Props to nesinervink, schurig. - Fixes a bug where a notice ("Notice: Trying to get property of non-object") is given when the
$term->taxonomyisn't set before it is used. Props to bainternet. - Fixes a bug where an uppercased encode URI isn't redirected to the category. Props to dawnbirth.
- Fixes a bug where HTML entities were not always decoded in the Snippet Variables.
- Fixes a bug where custom field labels would be separated by spaces in the classic editor, but in Gutenberg they would be separated by underscores instead.
- Fixes a bug where the conversion of
', which is PHP's HTML entity for the apostrophy, did not happen. - Fixes a bug where the same notification is shown multiple times when trashing multiple posts.
- Fixes a bug where a possibly non-existent key would be retrieved when generating the
article:sectionOpenGraph tag. Props to mikeschinkel. - Fixes a bug in the UI that happend when
do_shortcodewas run on category descriptions in the admin list. Additionally, fixes rendering of shortcodes in category descriptions on the frontend. - Fixes a bug where saved templates in Search Appearance would be saved incorrectly into the database, resulting in them never being loaded when editing a post, page, etc. This meant that the default template would always be used.
- Fixes a bug where the "Tagline" /
%%sitedesc%%snippet editor variable was not selectable in the Search Appearance settings. - Fixes a bug where the newsletter signup in the configuration wizard would not work.
Other:
- Moves some snippet variables to only appear within specific editors. Adds a filter
wpseo_editor_specific_replace_varsto make this pluggable. - Adds the white background to the template of media on the Search Appearance page.
- Changes feedback in the keyword density assessment to make it more explicit that synonyms are not taken into consideration when calculating the score.
- Shows a notification with the message that you should check your post type archive settings when these are possibly reset to their defaults in 7.7 or 7.8.