v0.28.0

Features

• IndexNow settings, controls, and a "Submit entire catalog now" action (#534, #540). The IndexNow integration added in 0.27.0 now has a Discovery-tab card: turn it on or off, view and regenerate the ownership key (with a link to the /{key}.txt verification file), and see the last submission result.
  • Now opt-in: IndexNow defaults to off and is enabled from the new card (it was on-by-default in 0.27.0).
  • Force-submit + first-enable seed: a "Submit entire catalog now" button, plus an automatic seed when you first enable it, pushes every published product and category URL at once, so a new or freshly-imported store gets indexed right away instead of waiting for the change feed.
  • Accurate scope: the card names the engines that actually consume IndexNow (Bing, Yandex, Seznam, Naver, Yep); Google does not.

Fixes

• Category and product pages always emit a meta description again (#537). The 0.27.0 Jetpack-coexistence fix suppressed Jetpack's description on commerce pages, but pages whose source text was empty (a category with no term description, a product with no short or long description) were then left with no <meta name="description"> and no og:description at all. Bing Webmaster flagged the missing descriptions on category pages.
  • Categories now fall back to a generated "Shop {category} at {store}." description; products fall back to "{product} at {store}." when they have no authored description.
  • The shop page is unchanged (it already fell back to the store tagline).