GEO Plugin by Squirrly SEO

Journal des modifications

14.2.5

• New: Connect Claude or OpenAI Codex to your site from Technical SEO – Connect Tools – AI Tools. No separate program to install and no Application Password to create by hand.
• New: AI assistants can now read your Automation patterns, so they can point at the pattern behind a wrong title instead of overriding a single page.
• Fix: Squirrly’s SEO tools are now visible to AI assistants. Until now an assistant could connect and find none of them.
• Fix: Titles and descriptions no longer keep the spacing and separator of a placeholder that resolved to nothing, which published titles such as « Site Name | « .
• Fix: The tagline WordPress installs with, « Just another WordPress site », is no longer published in your home page title.
• Fix: Information from Squirrly Cloud is reduced to plain text before an AI assistant reads it.

14.2.4

• Fix: The Inner Links suggestions no longer include WordPress menu items. Menu items are stored as posts and have an address of their own, but that address is not a real page and returns « not found » when opened, so they were being suggested as pages to link from and then reported as broken links in the Inspect report.
• Fix: The WebSite structured data now publishes your WordPress Site Title as the name of your site – the short name Google shows above your results – instead of the SEO title of the home page. The SEO title is a sentence written for the search result and was being cut short when Google read it as the site name.
• Fix: The home page SEO title and meta description are now published in the JSON-LD properties they belong in – headline and description – instead of the description being published as the headline.
• Fix: Company and personal brand names written with characters like « & » are no longer published with the HTML entity inside the structured data.
• Fix: The Rich Snippets settings now describe correctly what is published when the company or personal brand name is left empty.
• Fix: The description in your Rich Snippets Schema now follows the Meta Description you wrote for the page, instead of falling back to the raw page content. The {{excerpt}} pattern in a Schema field behaves like the {{title}} pattern already did with your SEO title, so an optimised Meta Description no longer has to be copied into the Rich Snippets by hand and kept in sync there.
• Fix: The headline in your Rich Snippets Schema no longer repeats your site name when the Automation title pattern already ends with it – « Post Title | Site Name | Site Name » is now published as « Post Title | Site Name ».

14.2.3

• Security: General security hardening in the WordPress admin screens. Recommended update for all sites.
• Improvement: Additional output escaping in the admin scripts, with no change to how your keywords, patterns and snippets are displayed or saved.

14.2.2

• Fix: In the Squirrly Snippet, the « JSON-LD is disabled for this Post Type » notice no longer covers the Refresh and Save buttons on the Rich Snippets tab.
• Fix: AI assistants connected through an MCP plugin can now see and use the Squirrly abilities.

14.2.1

• Improvement: Strengthened data escaping across the admin screens and the front-end SEO tags for safer, standards-compliant output.
• Improvement: Hardened how Squirrly Cloud messages are displayed in the dashboard and refined role-based permission checks for Inner Links and Focus Pages.
• Fix: Link Opportunities in Inner Links now returns results correctly for Editor-level users.
• Fix: Minor stability and compatibility improvements.

14.2.0

• New: Connect AI assistants such as Claude and ChatGPT directly to Squirrly. On WordPress 6.9 and above, Squirrly now registers its own WordPress Abilities, so an AI tool can read and update your SEO titles, meta descriptions, keywords, social previews and Schema types, switch Squirrly features on or off, and look up your Briefcase keywords, rankings, Focus Pages and Live Assistant tasks – all with your normal WordPress login and user role, without sharing any Squirrly password or API key.
• New: The same abilities are available to any app or script over the WordPress REST API and to WP-CLI, so agencies and developers can automate Squirrly across sites. Also requires WordPress 6.9 or newer; the plugin itself still runs on WordPress 5.3 and up and every other feature is unchanged there.
• Improvement: What an AI tool is allowed to do follows the WordPress user you connect it as – an Editor can update the SEO of the articles they can edit, and only an Administrator can change site-wide Squirrly settings.
• Fix: Pages requested by the Squirrly Crawler or by the Pinterest bot are no longer stored in the page cache, so LiteSpeed Cache, WP Rocket and similar plugins can’t serve a bot-specific version of the page to your visitors.
• Fix: The Squirrly Snippet now reports an error when a save is refused – for example when your user role can’t edit that article – instead of showing it as saved.

14.1.1

• Fix: Pages are now submitted to LLM Indexing only when their content actually changes in the post editor – moving a post to trash, restoring it, or using Quick Edit / Bulk Edit no longer triggers a submission.
• Improvement: LLM Indexing (IndexNow) now submits to the api.indexnow.org hub by default, which forwards your URLs to every participating engine (Bing, Yandex, Seznam, Naver, Yep and more) – fewer requests and fewer rate-limit errors.
• Improvement: The same URL is no longer re-submitted more than once per 24 hours, and repeated errors now pause submissions with an escalating backoff (60s, 5min, 30min) to avoid 429 Too Many Requests.
• Improvement: Automatic IndexNow submissions run after the page loads and record the real response code instead of always showing « 0 (Submitted) », without slowing down saving posts.
• Improvement: The LLM Indexing log now lists every URL from a bulk submit and, when you click a status, shows the exact IndexNow endpoints each request was sent to.
• Fix: Manual IndexNow submits now show a clear warning instead of silently failing when a URL was already sent in the last 24 hours or while submissions are paused.

14.1.0

• New: Auto-generate many more JSON-LD Schema types from your content – Person, Organization, Product, Event, How-To, Course, Book, Job Posting, Podcast, Music, Service, Software Application, Video Game, Real Estate, Accommodation, About, Contact and Collection pages.
• New: Google-validated Schema types (Event, Job Posting, and others) are only output when their required fields can be filled in, so the markup passes the Rich Results Test.
• Improvement: Adding a new Schema over an automatic one now keeps the automatic Schemas instead of replacing them.
• Improvement: Schema Types are now listed in alphabetical order for easier searching.
• Improvement: Capped the height of the Schema Types list and added a shortcut to the Advanced Pack.
• Fix: The Squirrly Snippet close button no longer overlaps the Assistant sidebar.
• Fix: The Breadcrumbs link in the Snippet now opens the correct Rich Snippets settings tab.

14.0.2

• Fix: Output the country as a valid ISO 3166-1 code in Organization and Local Business structured data.
• Fix: Corrected the Robots message and the Automation link in the Bulk SEO visibility snippet for post types managed by the Custom automation.

14.0.1

• Fix: Smoother Live Assistant loading inside page builders.
• Fix: Tidied up navigation to the AI Visibility page.

14.0.0

• New: Rebranded to the GEO Plugin by Squirrly SEO – SEO, AEO and GEO in one plugin.
• New: GEO/AEO Audit that scores each page for answer-readiness (direct-answer block, question-style headings, lists and tables, content depth, freshness) and AI crawler access, llms.txt and answer-ready schema.
• New: LLM Indexing (formerly Auto-Indexing) – submit URLs to the IndexNow API and the Google Indexing API.
• New: llms.txt and llms-full.txt – generate, edit or upload and serve them at your site root. Large content is stored outside the main options row for performance.
• New: AI crawler control for GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended and more.
• New: Link Opportunities for Inner Links – find published posts that mention a keyword and link them to a target page in a few clicks.
• Improvement: Modernized Audit UX and Inner Links.
• Fix: Bulk actions on audited pages, compare-audits warning for older audits, and timezone display on the LLM Indexing log.

12.4.18

• Fix – Restore the secure HMAC-signed API connection that could fail with « invalid_signature » after the 12.4.17 update
• Fix – Automatically reconnect to the Squirrly API with the per-site key, without needing to disconnect and reconnect the website
• Fix – Keep the website connected during Squirrly Cloud maintenance or downtime instead of dropping the connection
• Fix – Show a clear « reconnect this site » message when a website is cloned, staged or moved, instead of a generic « can’t load data » error
• Update – Add a one-click reconnect for cloned, staged or moved websites

12.4.17

• Security – Stop exposing master API tokens in the Live Assistant frontend config
• Security – sla_customcall restricted to a fixed allowlist of research endpoints
• Security – savePost whitelists post meta keys and validates JSON-LD data as JSON
• Security – JSON-LD output always re-encoded from validated JSON to block stored XSS
• Security – Settings backup and restore exclude per-site auth credentials
• Update – HMAC-signed API requests with a per-site key
• Update – Signed cloud callbacks via /wp-json/squirrly/v1/identity for clone detection
• Update – Detect cloned installs and require a fresh handshake on duplicates
• Update – Replace sqQuery JS global with sqAdmin; use the default WordPress ajaxurl
• Update – Redact tokens and signatures from local debug output

12.4.16

• Update – default LLMS to reflect the AI crawlers requirements
• Fix – Correct the automation patterns for publish time
• Fix – Focus Pages to identify the keyword in image files for the German language
• Fix – Add Nofollow on external links including subdomains if not added on exceptions list
• Fix – Prevent clearing the third party cache by default when the plugin settings are updated
• Fix – Showing the correct subscription plan when the server connection is lost
• Fix – JSON-LD author link to use the native author archive URL with correct special character handling instead of a broken relative URL

12.4.15

• Update – Google Ranking filters and stats
• Update – LLMS & Robots to avoid translation PHP warning
• Update – Add the option to manually clear the sitemap cache
• Update – Compatibility with WPML
• Fix – Javascript error on automation patterns
• Fix – Tag, category and author pages details to show the correct language

12.4.14

• Update – Add the Llms.txt feature to configure rules for AI crawlers
• Fix – Sitemap cache directory creation issue on multilingual sites
• Fix – Daily progress and optimization in Rankings
• Fix – Compatibility with Divi pagination to show the correct canonical meta

12.4.12

• Update – Added the option to recheck a ranking keyword in Rankings
• Update – Compatibility issue when $post->id is false
• Update – Compatibility with TranslatePress URLs on Sitemap URLs
• Update – Canonical link identification in Focus Pages
• Update – Add language path support for sitemap cache directory
• Fix – Issue when adding suggested inner links
• Fix -Remove suggested inner links after added
• Fix – Warning in API calls on line 278 for grabbing post content
• Fix – WooCommerce error on Snippet product URL
• Fix – Popup layout and style in Squirrly > Overview

12.4.11

• Update – The option to recheck the ranking keyword
• Update – Compatibility issue with other SEO plugins when $post->id is false
• Update – TranslatePress on Sitemap URLs
• Fix – WooCommerce error when calling get_sample_permalink in Squirrly Snippet
• Fix – Function _load_textdomain_just_in_time was called incorrectly error.

12.4.10

• Update – Compatibility with WP 6.8
• Fixed – Main Keyword change in SLA
• Fixed – Briefcase rows and pagination when searching for a keyword
• Fix – Google Analytics 4 connection

12.4.09

• Update – Correct the issue when multiple pages are selected in Innerlinks
• Update – The nonce referrer on search forms
• Fix – The strict parameter on rankings
• Fix – Add the Squirrly FontAwesome class in Audit and Focus Pages
• Fix – Pagination in Briefcase and Rankings

12.4.08

• Update – Plugin security on api and searches

12.4.07

• Update – Update the Bulk SEO Page to load only from Optimize > Bulk SEO
• Update – Add the Item ID in Review Schema to identify the reviewed item
• Fix – Keyword Research competition info on Briefcase
• Fix – Small layout bugs

12.4.06

• Update – Squirrly Live Assistant to prevent too many ajax triggers on Gutenberg saving process
• Update – Compatibility with Polylang plugin
• Update – Security updates on search parameter in Focus Pages, Audits, Bulk SEO

12.4.04

• Fix – Sitemap path validation when multilingual plugins are activated
• Fix – Robots TXT files customization issue
• Fix – Sanitization warning on different type of search input
• Fix – Rest Api calls warnings when no keywords found in a post
• Fix – Javascript error on SEO Links when open in external tab

12.4.03

• Update – Add the option to add noindex with dofollow in metas for search engines to follow all the links on the page
• Update – Display publish date and modify date on translation language
• Fix – Focus Pages notification on limit reached per website and per entire account.
• Fix – Invalidate Sitemap cache on Automation settings update
• Fix – Hide post type sitemap when the post type is set as noindex in Automation
• Fix – Robots.txt customization issue
• Fix – Sitemap load issue on websites with paths
• Fix – Bulk SEO title and description fields sanitization error

12.4.02

• Update – Add sanitization on Focus Page search params to increase security
• Update – Show the date and month in local language
• Fix – Correct Next Goals notification counter
• Fix – Fontawesome on Post Editor and Squirrly Live Assistant
• Fix – On keywords import from postmeta, avoid error when stored as array and not string

12.4.01

• Update – Ensured compatibility with WordPress 6.7.
• Update – Improved plugin layout and improves plugin security.
• Update – Reorganized the menu for a more streamlined and user-friendly navigation experience.
• Update – Grouped related sections like Automation and Bulk SEO under a new Optimize section for better organization.
• Update – Renamed IndexNow to Auto-Indexing to clarify its functionality.
• Update – Added a Visibility column to the Posts and Categories tables, highlighting all noindex and nofollow URLs.
• Fix – Addressed minor bugs for smoother performance.

12.3.24

• Update – Add Squirrly permalink hook sq_permalink for dev use
• Update – Add the options to select the IndexNow Endpoints

12.3.23

• Update – Compatible with WP 6.6.2
• Update – Add the option to remove Posts from Sitemap News in Google News
• Update – Add the option to set SEO Automation for each language with WPML plugin
• Fix – Clear the optimized keyword when deleted from SLA

12.3.22

• Update – Sitemap Compatibility with WPML
• Update – Update plugin security on SEO Snippet
• Update – Add the option to remove Posts from Sitemap News in Google News
• Update – Add the option to set SEO Automation for each language with WPML plugin

12.3.21

• Update – Compatibility with EWWW Image Optimizer
• Update – Compatible with WP 6.6.1
• Fix – Prevent loading the same optimized keyword on cloned posts/pages

12.3.20

• Update – Compatible with WP 6.6
• Fix – API security on innerlinks check and keywords check
• Fix – Sitemap compatibility with WordPress sitemap wp-sitemap.xml path
• Fix – Live Assistant to reload resources when network connection is low
• Fix – Sitemap to add only videos with thumbnails for google validation

12.3.19

• Update – Compatible with WP 6.5.3
• Update – SLA compatibility for Chinese chars
• Update – SLA compatibility with last version of Elementor
• Update – Compatibility with WPML when post type is not translatable.
• Fix – Focus Page > Platform Health tasks to not create confusion about the current URL
• Fix – Location coordinates kml in sitemap
• Fix – Prevent loading the sitemap.xml on subcategories
• Fix – Adjust settings layout on scale resolution
• Fix – Sitemap to use the /wp-content/cache as the default directory
• Fix – Favicon size in config to load on all mobile devices

12.3.18

• Update – Compatible with PHP 8.3 & WP 6.5
• Update – Search by URL in Focus Pages and Audit
• Update – Search term by URL in Focus Pages and Audit
• Update – Added more compatibility with WooCommerce variation products
• Update – Add specific notification in Ranking Sync page when GSC token expires
• Update – Language in Dublin Core for more compatibility with WeGlot plugin
• Update – Compatibility with SEO Generator plugin from AppSumo
• Update – Keyword load in SLA when added in wp_postmeta with meta_key sq_keywords
• Update – Advanced SEO Pack to work better with Polylang for WooCommerce when No Category path is activated

12.3.17

• Compatible with WP 6.4.3
• Update – Sitemap compatibility for JetEngine
• Update – SLA compatibility with Avada, add support for Fusion Builder
• Update – Notification message in Focus Pages and Audits when a crawling error is received
• Update – Added the option to select multiple pages as inner link source
• Update – Inner linking order to show the recent added links
• Update – Show all WP hidden patterns in the list when « sq_show_hidden_patterns » is active
• Update – Innerlinks API query in posts to find relevant links
• Fix – Sitemap Custom Posts loading issue
• Fix – IndexNow submit from Bulk SEO
• Fix – Inner link add button in popup when accessing multiple pages
• Fix – Keywords import in Briefcase

12.3.16

• Compatible with WP 6.4.2
• Update – Add the option to select the label for the Keyword Research
• Update – Add the option to select the label for the Research > History
• Update – Add the option to select the label for the Research > Suggestion
• Update – GA properties to show only the domain mathing domains
• Update – SLA for Divi not to take the header and footer in LP optimization
• Fix – SLA loading issue for Oxygen Builder
• Fix – Stop loading any resource from Squirrly when Page builder in preview
• Fix – Keyword Sync on Rankings
• Fix – Bulk keyword deletion in Briefcase
• Fix – Bulk label deletion in Briefcase

12.3.15

• Compatible with WP 6.4.1
• Update – Integrated the SEO Automation with Polylang and WPML for each Post Type
• Fix – Canonical link on Polylang and WPML for the Home Page
• Fix – Post Title in Focus Pages and Audits when the Feature Image is set

12.3.14

• Compatible with WP 6.4 & PHP 8.3
• Update – Language support on WPML when website language different from user language
• Fix – Local posts/custom posts search on Inner Links
• Fix – Compatibility with Frontend Builders when used in Third Party plugins/themes
• Fix – Bulk action on Briefcase when adding labels to keywords
• Fix – Bulk action on Briefcase when sending keywords to rankings
• Fix – Patterns warning when postmeta value is not string
• Fix – Compatibility with WPML when adding Rich Snippets for {search_term_string} param on WebPage Schema

12.3.13

• Fix – Local posts/custom posts search and pagination in Squirrly Live Assistant
• Fix – Silent installation of Advanced SEO Pack on websites with WPML
• Fix – Show original posts title when searching in Focus Pages and Audits Pages
• Fix – Language option in keyword research to find keywords in a specific language for a specific country

12.3.12

• Update – Added the language option in keyword research to find keywords in a specific language for a specific country
• Update – Added the option to add custom post meta title, description and keywords _sq_title, _sq_description, _sq_keywords
• Update – Search on SLA for extra posts
• Update – Jsonld compatibility with woocommerce products with variables
• Update – Added the custom fields pattern in Squirrly for sanitized fields in postmeta like {{customfield(field_name)}} & {{customfields(array_key|array_value)}}
• Update – Added the caching option in Sitemap XML for faster loading and saving server resources
• Update – Show keywords from other SEO plugins in SLA and Post List if there are none set in Squirrly SEO
• Fix – Set NoWrap on table columns with numbers

12.3.11

• Fix – Show the custom JsonLd code if already set in Squirrly SEO Snippet
• Update – Add Patterns support for customfield data like {{customfield(field_name)}}
• Update – Automation to load the reusable schema from Advanced SEO Pack
• Update – Show connect tool on Connect Tools as it needs Google Auth
• Update – Add Company URL in Rich Snippets
• Update – Better URL detection on Archives, Custom Post Type taxonomy
• Fix – Hide the Squirrly SEO Snippet close button on categories and tags to avoid folding the snippet
• Fix – Plugin typos
• Fix – Customer support phone details in Rich Snippets
• Fix – Loading dependency with jQuery on resources
• Fix – Change the twitter icon with X twitter
• Fix – Pagination links on table pages for the first page and previous page

12.3.10

• Fix – Security and Vulnerability issue on pagination in Focus Pages > Inner Links.
• Fix – Squirrly SEO Snippet visibility error when post type was not added in Automation
• Fix – Remove db table alter on plugin load
• Fix – View layout and typos
• Fix – Don’t show image width and height on Advanced Rich Snippets when can’t load them
• Fix – Multiple URLs submit issue on IndexNow feature
• Update – The option to load add image width and height in Advanced Rich Snippets

12.3.05

• Update – Metas, Open Graph, Twitter Card, Rich Snippets, layout in SEO Snippet section
• Update – Inner Links suggestions to load when suggestions are found on server
• Update – Added support for sq_question and sq_answer classes to automatically add them in FAQ Rich Snippet
• Fix – Increased the loading speed on Briefcase, Suggestions, History, Labels, Rankings
• Fix – Switch on/off SEO on Automation to work better
• Fix – Compatibility with Schema & Structured Data for WP & AMP showing query error

12.3.04

• Update – Add related questions to Research > Suggestions with the option to write focus page related articles
• Update – Add the option to add Inner Link directly from Research > Suggestions for the optimized articles
• Update – Add the suggested keywords found by the Cloud in Inner Links section
• Update – Security on Inner Links section
• Fix – Bugs and Types

12.3.03

• Update – More bugs fixed and competibility with Squirrly SEO – Advanced Pack

12.3.02

• New – Inner Links feature available in Squirrly SEO > Focus Pages
• New – Redirects feature available in Squirrly SEO – Advanced Pack
• New – 404 Monitoring feature available in Squirrly SEO – Advanced Pack
• New – Custom Schemas feature available in Squirrly SEO – Advanced Pack
• New – Advanced Rich Snippets feature available in Squirrly SEO – Advanced Pack
• Update – Added the option to insert custom inner links based on keywords
• Update – Added the option Inner Links for custom nofollow & open in new tab
• Update – Added the option to create DevKit packages in Squirrly Cloud for DevKit accounts
• Update – Compatibility with Divi theme when header templates are created
• Update – Added the option to install Squirrly SEO – Advanced Pack plugin for Redirects, 404 Monitoring, Custom JsonLD Schemas, Rich Snippets
• Fix – Small Bugs

12.3.01 – 08/14/2023

• Update – Compatibility with WP 6.3
• Update – Added API calls for Innerlinks and Contextual Keywords with links
• Fix – Reset the SLA box position when is outside the window. Firefox compatibility.

12.2.04 – 08/07/2023

• Update – Remove twitter support from SLA for the moment
• Update – Automation types based on Ecommerce website
• Update – Frontend snippet for tags, categories and taxes
• Update – The onboarding video
• Update – Compatibility with Polylang and the tags
• Fix – Set the home URL when the URL is missing from post
• Fix – Loading of Squirrly SEO Live Assistant based of dependencies
• Fix – Api call on inner links to avoid long DB queries
• Fix – Handle the styles and scripts differently for more compatibility with other plugins
• Fix – Sitemap URL validation to not allow cloud URLs
• Fix – Woocommerce offer expire date in Schema

12.2.03 – 05/22/2023

• Update – Compatibility with WP 6.2.2
• Fix – Frontend SLA for Divi & Zion Builder

12.2.02 – 05/17/2023

• Update – Compatibility with WP 6.2.1
• Update – New Snippet layout using hooks for each section
• Update – Loading CSS and JS function to load js dependencies in frontend
• Update – Compatibility with Beaver Builder
• Update – JsonLD schema autodetects video schema on post/page
• Update – Added more countries and languages on Google Ranking section
• Fix – z-index style of Media Library for Frontend editor
• Fix – Show notifications in Squirrly SEO when limits are reached
• Fix – Country ranking check issue for countries with Google prefix « com. » & « co. »

12.2.01 – 04/24/2023

• Update – Compatibility with Polylang & TranslatePress plugins
• Update – Frontend SLA to work better with Media Library and detect the Title in Elementor when a text is changed in H1
• Update – Search post query in Squirrly SEO Focus Pages, Bulk SEO and SEO Audits to work with the Theme Incubator
• Fix – Sitemap to load the archive on post type when the category archive is not added in the sitemap
• Fix – Sitemap to not include data:image from post contents
• Fix – Feedback & Cloud Disconnect option on uninstall
• Fix – Frontend SLA for Thrive plugin javascript warning
• Fix – Add language slug on home url for TranslatePress plugin
• Fix – Prevent showing the white space at the beginning of the sitemap
• Fix – Show Rich Snippets Profile info on Dublin Core and OG when it’s selected as global showing in settings
• Fix – Crawler server to load the website faster
• Fix – UI small bugs

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