Release Date: August 26, 2024
- Fix: Fixed a bug that caused a license error
- Update: Updated plugin header information
Important notes from v2.0.0:
Please review the update notes carefully before proceeding with the update.
In this version, there are several potential breaking changes if you have integrated the helper functions for breadcrumbs or reading time into your theme.
- Tweak: Updated plugin description
- Update: Removed AI image generation because of the low value it provided
- Update: Renamed default sitemap name to swift-sitemap.xml
- Update: Removed old AI models and added GPT 4o mini for faster and cheaper responses
- Update: Added more AI options to customize meta generation
- Update: Added brand new global analyses
- Update: Added new design for per page analyses
- Update: Skip IndexNow check for not published posts
- Update: Heavily reduced per page schema settings
- Update: Simplified SEO and reading analysis - both global and per page
- Update: Finetuned the analyzing engine for all analyses
- Enhancement: Updated schema markup to use extensive relational graph
- Enhancement: Made a fresh light admin design
- Enhancement: Auto refresh per page analyses on save
- Enhancement: Enhanced category handling for a smoother experience
- Enhancement: More consistent meta placeholders
- Performance: Refactored database interactions for reduction in query times
- Performance: Refactored all files to prevent redundancy and improve overall performance
- Performance: Added sitemap caching and adjusted default number of pages per sitemap for the best performance
- New: Added SEO overview widgets on the WP dashboard
- New: Added Readability overview widgets on the WP dashboard
Breaking Changes:
- The swiftBreadcrumbs(); helper has been replaced with SwiftBreadcrumbs::render();
- The shortcode [wpsseo-breadcrumbs] has been replaced with [swift-breadcrumbs]
- The shortcode [wpsseo-reading-time] has been replaced with [swift-reading-time]
- Changed default sitemap name to sitemap-index.xml - this should only affect new websites