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Releases: marcelbest/essential-seo

v1.2.2

05 Jun 17:04

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What's New in v1.2.2

Code cleanup, a live character counter and informal "du" translations

This release is mostly reliability and polish: the SEO meta description field
now shows a live character counter, the German translations switched to the
informal "du", and several bugs were fixed under the hood.

  • Added a live character counter to the SEO meta description field
  • German translations now use the informal "du" form
  • Fixed double-escaping of special characters (&, quotes) in meta and Open Graph descriptions
  • Fixed admin notices not showing on the settings page
  • Description length limit is now multibyte-safe (umlauts count as one character)
  • Various code cleanup and reliability improvements under the hood

v1.2.1

29 May 10:51

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What's New in v1.2.1

Removed Polylang integration

The Polylang integration has been removed. The plugin now has no external
dependencies besides the built-in Plugin Update Checker.

v1.2.0

29 May 05:34

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What's new in v1.2.0

Features

  • noindex — Posts and pages can now be marked as noindex directly in the SEO meta box; automatically excluded from the WordPress sitemap as well
  • Translations — noindex field translated for de_DE and de_CH

v1.1.9

28 May 11:33

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What's New in v1.1.9

Screenshots tab — plain text URLs

The Screenshots tab in the plugin details popup now lists plain text URLs
pointing directly to the screenshots on GitHub. Copy any URL into your browser
to view it. (Previous attempts with linked or embedded images were stripped by
WordPress before display.)

v1.1.8

28 May 11:05

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What's New in v1.1.8

Screenshots tab: attempting to display links to screenshots.

v1.1.7

28 May 10:59

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What's New in v1.1.7

Attempting to display screenshots in the plugin details popup.

v1.1.6

28 May 10:07

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What's New in v1.1.6

The plugin details popup in the WordPress dashboard now correctly shows the Description, Screenshots and Changelog tabs.

v1.1.5

28 May 09:14

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What's New in v1.1.5

The plugin details popup in the WordPress dashboard now shows a banner, screenshots and a full description — making it easier to understand what the plugin does before installing or updating.

Also updated: the meta description character count guidance now reflects current best practices (recommended 150–160 chars).

v1.1.4

28 May 07:36

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What's New in v1.1.4

Updated the bundled Plugin Update Checker library to v5.7. No functional changes to the plugin itself — safe to update.

v1.1.3

25 May 09:22

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What's New in v1.1.3

Important fix: automatic updates via the WordPress dashboard now work correctly for the first time.

All previous versions (1.0 – 1.1.2) could never be installed through the WordPress update mechanism — the update checker was downloading the wrong ZIP from GitHub (an auto-generated source archive with an incorrect folder structure). This has been fixed. From v1.1.3 onwards, updates install cleanly through the WordPress dashboard.

Recommended action: Install this update manually (download ZIP, upload via Plugins → Add New → Upload), then all future updates will work automatically.