v1.57.0

What's Changed

Added

• SocialImage::FEATURED ('@featured') in $social_image_fields places the
  featured image at that position in a post type's chain:
  'post' => array( '@featured', 'image' ) tries the featured image before the
  field. Without the token the featured image stays last, so no existing map
  changes.

Changed

• The AIOSEO bridge no longer treats the automatic image sources (featured,
  content, attach, author, auto) as an editor's choice. A post left on default is decided on AIOSEO's global source for posts, as the plugin itself resolves it. AIOSEO's Yoast
  importer writes one onto every post, so on a migrated site the bridge stood
  aside almost everywhere, and content on block content rendered no
  og:image at all. The bridge now keeps the featured image under featured
  (supplying only where the post has no featured image that resolves, which
  includes an assigned ID whose attachment is gone) and supplies the
  preview under the other automatic sources, which pick
  an arbitrary body image. custom_image and custom still defer, and so does
  any source it cannot name. Affects sites that already set $social_image_bridge.
• With the bridge on and "Use Data from Facebook Tab" off for a post,
  twitter:image now takes the resolved Open Graph image instead of a separate
  preview. A post whose editor chose the Open Graph image no longer shares a
  different picture on X. The Twitter side reads AIOSEO's own global Twitter
  source for a post left on default, and defers to a source it cannot name,
  so an editor's card image is never overwritten. Affects sites that already
  set $social_image_bridge.

Pull Requests

• #199 — feat(social-image): featured-first token, and a bridge that survives an AIOSEO import

Full Changelog: v1.56.0...v1.57.0