Changelog
New features and fixes, newest first.
- v1.2.5
The full RankKit SEO name everywhere
•The plugin uses its full name, RankKit SEO, in every menu, screen, block and message.
- v1.2.4
SpeedRank SEO is now RankKit SEO
•The plugin has a new name, RankKit SEO, and a new home at rankkitseo.site. Your settings, SEO data and agent connections are kept.
- v1.2.3
SEO plugin warning, posts list SEO column and new pages
•A warning when another SEO plugin (Yoast SEO, Rank Math, All in One SEO and others) is active alongside RankKit SEO, with a one-click deactivate button for each and a link to import its settings first
•An SEO column on the posts and pages lists with each post's SEO score and focus keyword
•AI Writer and Image SEO have their own pages in the RankKit SEO menu; Image SEO adds a switch for automatic alt text on new uploads
•Markdown versions of pages have their own tab in Settings
•The block editor toolbar button uses the full-colour RankKit SEO logo, and the Change Log is an icon in the RankKit SEO header so the menu fits on one line
•The Permalink field shows the slug WordPress will use for a draft, made from its title
•Fixed the RankKit SEO logo on the opt-in and pricing screens
- v1.2.2
Unlimited focus keywords and safer AI agents
•The free plugin has no limit on focus keywords per post
•The free plugin keeps 90 days of AI crawler history, with 7, 28 and 90-day views
•Site-wide changes requested by AI agents (settings, redirects, robots.txt, backups) always wait for an administrator to approve them in the Change Log
•Sitemap links in robots.txt, llms.txt and the dashboard work on sites without pretty permalinks
•The "Disable the file editor" hardening switch takes effect and turns off immediately
•Deactivating your previous SEO plugin after an import needs your confirmation
- v1.2.1
File editor and Site Kit by Google
•File editor in RankKit SEO → Tools: edit robots.txt (the generated file, or a real robots.txt in your site folder) and, on Apache and LiteSpeed servers, .htaccess
•.htaccess safety: the last five versions are kept for one-click restore, and the previous file is put back automatically if your home page stops loading after a save
•Site Kit by Google: if Site Kit is connected, RankKit SEO can use its Google connection for Search Console and GA4 instead of a separate sign-in
•A Bulk editor shortcut on the Tools page for editing SEO titles and descriptions of many posts at once
- v1.2.0
A new SEO panel in the editor, with AI writing and schema
•The RankKit SEO panel in the block editor now slides up from the bottom of the screen, with General, Analysis, Schema, Social, Advanced and Write with AI sections
•AI assistant: pick the content type and tone, then generate the SEO title, meta description and focus keywords in one click, or get a review of the content with a quality score and concrete improvements
•Write with AI: write a complete, SEO-ready article with your own AI provider, review it, then insert it into the post
•Schema: generate the page schema or a rich-result type, import schema from any live page, and validate it
•Advanced: redirect a post, hide it from your site search or archive pages, and override robots meta (noindex, nofollow, noarchive, nosnippet, noimageindex)
•A new, empty post shows "Not analysed yet" instead of a low SEO score
- v1.1.3
The new RankKit SEO logo
•The new RankKit SEO logo in the admin menu, the RankKit SEO header, the editor sidebar button and the agent connection screen
- v1.1.2
Safer exports, clearer Google sign-in and small fixes
•Exports and backups no longer include the PageSpeed API key or the IndexNow key
•Messages about a missing AI key now point to Settings → AI provider
•The Pro Opportunities report no longer shows twice on the Analytics page
•The Google sign-in steps warn that Google ends sign-ins after 7 days while the OAuth consent screen is in Testing, and the error says how to fix it
- v1.1.1
Fixes for title templates, excerpts and uninstall
•Title and description templates keep variables such as %category% and %date% intact when saved
•%excerpt% now puts a space between paragraphs and headings
•/llms-full.txt returns "not found" when the feature is off, instead of redirecting
•Redirects waiting for approval are labelled with their paths, not "Redirect #0"
•Deleting the plugin now always removes its data, also after deactivating it with WP-CLI
- v1.1.0
The biggest free update yet
•claude.ai and ChatGPT now connect by URL in the free plugin, and the MCP server has 101 tools (128 with Pro)
•Schema manager on every post with 16 types and custom JSON-LD, a schema validator and schema import from any URL
•FAQ, How-to and Table of contents blocks and Elementor widgets, up to 5 focus keywords, social previews and "Explain with AI"
•AI content briefs and full article drafts, a bulk editor, a duplicate titles report and external link rules
•Local SEO, full WooCommerce Product schema, and WPML, Polylang and TranslatePress support
•Google Analytics 4 reports with visits from AI assistants, PageSpeed Insights and competitor comparison
•Role manager, backups with one-click restore, JSON export and import, and Squirrly SEO import
•Pro: rank tracker, AI insights, Traffic Recovery, Focus Pages, index status, schema templates and custom fields, news and video sitemaps, broken link checker, 404 catch-all, audit history and AI referral revenue
- v1.0.5
Ready for WordPress.org
•Free and Pro builds are now fully separate: the free plugin contains no locked Pro code
•Authors and editors only see change-log entries for content they can edit
•Stricter escaping, input sanitizing and prepared database queries
•AI alt text checks you can edit the image
•Scheduled jobs are cleared on deactivation
•New readme with an External services section
- v1.0.0Pro
RankKit SEO Pro 1.0
•AI Visibility tracker for ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini answers
•Search Console opportunities with one-click fixes
•claude.ai and ChatGPT connectors over OAuth 2.1
•Weekly SEO email report
- v1.0.0
RankKit SEO 1.0
First release.
•Titles, meta, schema graph, sitemaps, robots.txt, llms.txt and Markdown pages
•Redirects, site audit, bulk editor and importer from six SEO plugins
•MCP server with dry runs, approval queue and one-click undo
•Bring-your-own-key AI and the WordPress AI Client
•Google Search Console and GA4