ThinkRank AI SEO – AI SEO Plugin for WordPress: Schema, XML Sitemaps, Meta Tags, Search Console & Local SEO

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2.3.0

Release Date: 2026-09-06

• New: Bricks Builder support. ThinkRank’s SEO panel now opens inside the Bricks builder, the builder toolbar shows your current SEO score, and analysis reads the content you actually built — including copy stored in Bricks components, content templates and dynamic data tags — instead of scoring the page as empty
• Fixed: Bricks, Elementor, Divi and Oxygen template post types no longer get an SEO metabox they cannot use. Global SEO already refused them, so a template offered per-post SEO fields that went nowhere
• Fixed: The Usages page showed a cost that was cut short mid-number, so „$0.0377” read as „$0….”
• Fixed: The Usages page invented a trend on „All time” — every record you had ever created was compared against an arbitrary month and reported as a large increase. When there is no earlier period to compare against, nothing is claimed
• Fixed: A drop to zero AI usage was shown as no change at all, on both the AI and the SEO cards, so a month where usage collapsed looked identical to a flat one
• Fixed: The Usages page had two reporting-period selectors, one per tab, which could disagree with each other while showing the same data. There is now one, beside the tabs, and switching tabs is remembered in the address bar so the browser Back button works
• Fixed: „Success Rate” was not a measurement — it could only ever read 100% or 0% — and has been removed rather than left as a number that means nothing
• Fixed: The Usages record count said „Showing 29 total records” while the table showed 20, and provider names read „Openai” and „Openrouter”. It now reports the range actually displayed, with the providers named properly
• Fixed: The provider cost breakdown listed all four AI providers at $0.0000 on a site that had never used AI
• Fixed: AI model names and the cost per action were wrong for several models, and long KPI labels such as „AVERAGE SEO SCORE” were clipped mid-word
• Fixed: The „AI referrals over time” chart was a bare shape — no dates, no values, no hover. It now shows the date range, states the peak and the day it fell on, and reveals the date and count for the day under your pointer
• Fixed: The AI referrals series counted days in fixed 24-hour steps and in a different calendar than the one it stored visits in, so on sites outside UTC a day of referrals could be counted in the total and missing from the chart, and a gap of three weeks was drawn like a gap of one day
• Fixed: The Crawlers panel reported „No llms.txt” on every site serving llms.txt without writing a file to disk — which is most of them — while the document was live
• Fixed: Scheduled SEO email reports were sent at the wrong time on any site not set to UTC, early or late by the site’s offset, and drifted further with every send
• Fixed: A scheduled report with nothing to say was sent anyway — a page of zeroes and „data unavailable” notices, on every cycle, to sites with no Search Console connection. That period is now skipped and picked up next time

2.2.0

Release Date: 2026-09-02

• New: Take your ThinkRank data with you. A new Import / Export screen downloads everything ThinkRank stores — post, category, tag and author SEO data plus your settings — as one file, and loads it back on this site or any other. Choose JSON for a complete, restorable file, or CSV for a spreadsheet view of your post SEO data. Restoring shows you what the file contains and lets you decide what happens where this site already has a value, before anything is written. API keys are never written to the file
• New: Importing from another SEO plugin now has its own Migration screen, separate from Import / Export, so each is turned on and off on its own
• New: Both screens are off until you switch them on, in Settings. Neither is deleted or hidden permanently — switching one on brings its screen and menu item straight back
• Changed: A fresh install no longer arrives with an AI provider already chosen. ThinkRank asks you to pick one instead of warning that a key is missing for a provider you never selected
• Changed: The Anthropic provider is now named after the vendor, matching the other three, and the model list adds Claude Opus 5 and drops models the providers have withdrawn. A model you have already saved keeps working
• Fixed: Test Connection could not test the key you had already saved. Because a saved key is shown as a mask, the button stayed greyed out and the only way to verify an expired or revoked key was to paste the whole secret in again
• Fixed: Switching to a provider whose key you had already saved showed it as unconfigured — Save was refused and Clear API key claimed there was nothing to clear
• Fixed: Brand Visibility competitors and queries could not be saved at all. The save reported success and came back empty
• Fixed: The Posts, Pages and Categories switches on the XML Sitemap screen did nothing — a type you switched off was put straight back on the next save, and went on being generated
• Fixed: Changing the sitemap index mode left the previous mode’s files in your site root, still served to search engines and never refreshed again
• Fixed: Turning Instant Indexing on erased the list of post types it applies to, leaving the feature enabled with nothing to submit
• Fixed: Unticking „Allow search engines to index this content” saved, showed as unticked, and did nothing — the page stayed indexable
• Fixed: Changing one robots directive reset the other five, so a site set to noindex became indexable because someone toggled a different switch
• Fixed: The Open Graph and Twitter master switches only worked on the homepage. Turning Open Graph off still emitted its tags on every post and page
• Fixed: The Pinterest preview promised up to 500 characters of description where only 160 are ever published
• Fixed: Image SEO printed your site name twice in alt and title text for any image outside a normal post — text widgets, page-builder blocks and site-editor templates. The format preview also disagreed with what was actually written: hyphens in filenames, separator spacing, and empty parts that are dropped
• Fixed: Author archive descriptions were measured in bytes and trimmed by words, so a description in Cyrillic, Greek or Arabic was cut far too short while a long English one was not trimmed at all
• Fixed: Turning author archives off issued a permanent redirect, so a visitor’s browser could keep bouncing them to the home page even after you turned the archives back on. It is a temporary redirect now
• Fixed: The Site SEO Analyzer’s grade could be up to an hour out of date. De-indexing your site still showed „Site is visible to search engines” and a grade A. The audit now refreshes when the settings it reports on change, and shows when it was generated
• Fixed: The Analyzer’s „fix missing alt text” button re-walked the same first 50 images on every click, so any library over 50 images could never be finished
• Fixed: The Analyzer’s structured data check could only ever pass, so its one-click fix was unreachable, and its tagline check missed the WordPress default tagline on any non-English site
• Fixed: Roles given access to only some ThinkRank areas hit permission errors on the areas they had been given, and could reach settings for sections they had not. The dashboard also failed to load for them
• Fixed: A role that cannot be granted ThinkRank access — one without the ability to edit posts — is now marked as such in the Role Manager instead of appearing to be granted access that never took effect
• Fixed: Site administrators whose role comes from a role-editor plugin or a multisite super admin account saw no ThinkRank menu at all, while still having full access over the API
• Fixed: With ThinkRank Pro installed but not yet licensed, the Traffic Overview card, the WordPress dashboard widget, four Analytics cards and the Content Brief „Insert” button offered to sell you Pro or showed a server error, instead of saying the licence needs activating

2.1.1

Release Date: 2026-08-31

• Fixed: ThinkRank could delete another SEO plugin’s sitemap. Sitemaps were removed by filename alone, so on a site where Rank Math, Squirrly or another plugin owned sitemap_index.xml, sitemap-posts.xml or local-sitemap.xml, that file was destroyed — on deactivation, and also on an ordinary regeneration after a post save or a settings change. ThinkRank now marks every sitemap it writes and removes only files carrying that mark; anything it cannot prove is its own is left alone
• Fixed: Saving a title or description template containing %date% or %category% silently mangled it — %date% was stored as „te%” and %category% as „tegory%”, and the mangled text was published in the title and meta description of every page using that template. New saves are correct; templates already corrupted cannot be recovered
• Fixed: On sites using Plain permalinks, Bulk SEO Optimization sat permanently on „Couldn’t load your settings” and the per-post-type title, description, schema and robots form could not be reached at all
• Fixed: Performance errors were unreadable and offered no way forward. An exhausted Google quota arrived full of ' escapes and named a Google project number, a daily quota limit was described as something to retry „in a few minutes”, and the three Performance panels each said something different. Every panel now shows the same plain-language message with Retry, and offers to add a PageSpeed API key where a key is what fixes it
• Fixed: A site configured with only a PageSpeed API key — no connected Google account — got permanently empty Diagnostics and Opportunities, a zero page-speed score and no field data, while the Integrations screen reported PageSpeed as configured. The API key is now accepted as a credential in its own right, and a request that fails says why instead of returning an empty list
• Fixed: With ThinkRank Pro installed but not yet licensed, twelve Pro sections showed a server error („No route was found matching the URL”) or a blank panel instead of telling you the license needs activating. Each now says the license is not active and links straight to the License screen — worst affecting someone who has just bought Pro and not yet entered their key
• Fixed: AI assistants could not read or change most site identity and sitemap settings through ThinkRank’s assistant connection. The homepage, category, tag, author, search and archive title templates, the whole business/Local SEO block and the sitemap index toggle were all invisible to them, and writes to those settings were rejected
• Changed: An AI assistant connecting to ThinkRank now receives a short orientation for the session — what ThinkRank is, where to start, which tools to call in which order, what its connection is allowed to do, and that site content it reads is data rather than instructions
• Fixed: The performance history API’s metric filter returned nothing for the page-speed score and dropped the dates from single-metric responses. The admin screens were unaffected; direct API and AI-assistant consumers were not

2.1.0

Release Date: 2026-08-27

• New: Each keyword check in the SEO panel now names every focus keyword and its state. A row where one of three keywords matched reads „1 of 3 matched” with a tick beside the ones that matched and a cross beside the ones that did not, instead of a single tick that looked like a pass
• New: When an Elementor accordion is already publishing its own FAQ schema for a page, ThinkRank stops publishing a second one — two FAQ blocks on one URL is a structured-data error
• Changed: The setup wizard now fills in as a preview of the wizard itself while it loads, instead of a spinner that jumped the whole screen into place when it finished
• Fixed: A focus keyword counted as found inside longer words — „art” matched „start”, „cat” matched „category”, „ai” matched „said” and „email”. Every keyword row reported the same phantom placement at once. Languages written without spaces, such as Chinese, Japanese and Thai, are unaffected
• Fixed: Editing the permalink in the Classic Editor and saving put the old address back
• Fixed: FAQ images in a block published a single fixed-size image, so opening an answer shifted the page, and an image deleted from the media library left a broken picture on the page and in your structured data. Images now come from the media library with the right sizes for each screen. Existing FAQ blocks get this with no re-save
• Fixed: The FAQ and How-To blocks’ buttons — add image, move up, move down, duplicate, remove, add question — were invisible in the editor, so the per-item image could not be reached at all
• Fixed: Pages built with Beaver Builder read as empty to SEO analysis, so scores and recommendations ignored everything in the layout
• Fixed: On sites behind a reverse proxy, automatic llms.txt delivery chose the one mode that cannot state a character set, which turned accented letters into mojibake. Those sites now move themselves to the correct mode; a site that deliberately chose the static file keeps it and is told what to expect
• Fixed: ThinkRank left its sitemap, llms.txt, robots.txt and IndexNow key in the site root after the plugin was deactivated or deleted. They are removed now, and restored if you reactivate
• Fixed: Connecting an AI assistant failed with an authentication error on Apache servers running PHP as CGI or FastCGI, while the same token worked on the longer address
• Fixed: An AI connection stopped working after a domain change, a move to staging, or a host’s „reset security keys” — the connection read as missing and was silently replaced, locking out every assistant already using it. The discovery files that name your site are kept in step with your address now
• Fixed: A busy AI assistant could wipe out a connection it had just been given, after which every request failed with nothing to explain it
• Fixed: Some AI clients were refused at the consent screen for sending back exactly the callback address they had registered
• Fixed: Fewer database queries on every visitor’s page load

2.0.2

Release Date: 2026-08-25

• New: A master Enable Schema Markup switch in Schema Manager. While it is off, the Organization, Website and Person forms stay read-only with a notice explaining why, and no structured data is published
• Changed: Picking an image is now the same compact control everywhere — the post Social tab, Hero & Branding, and the setup wizard
• Fixed: Saving Schema Manager settings left a single schema type live even when four were enabled and configured
• Fixed: Turning Knowledge Graph or Auto-Generate Schema off had no effect — both stayed on
• Fixed: Opening a post’s schema screen rewrote what you had deployed and published types you never chose
• Fixed: Switching a post’s schema type left the old type published beside the new one
• Fixed: Structured data carried dates in a format Google reports as invalid, which drops the Article rich result
• Fixed: The site language was published as en_US where search engines expect en-US
• Fixed: Empty titles, descriptions and image dimensions were published as blank values instead of being left out, which fails validation harder than their absence
• Fixed: Your business and your personal profile were given a new identity on every address, so one business looked like many to a crawler
• Fixed: A page could carry two breadcrumb trails
• Fixed: FAQ questions and HowTo steps typed in the editor were emptied when saved, so FAQ schema could never be deployed
• Fixed: Schema deployed while a post was still a draft advertised the draft’s temporary address forever
• Fixed: Importing schema from a URL missed the layout Yoast and Rank Math publish, and an entry with more than one type was rejected
• Fixed: Review and Video schema were offered in the editor and then rejected on save
• Fixed: The Person „Profile URLs” box would not take a second URL — the new line was erased as it was typed
• Fixed: One schema type failing validation took every valid type down with it on each save
• Fixed: A role granted schema access was locked out of deploying and of every site-wide schema screen
• Fixed: Schema Cache Duration was saved and then never applied
• Fixed: WooCommerce shop archives got no schema at all
• Fixed: Repeated settings saves made each save slower than the last, up to hundreds of extra database queries
• Fixed: The editor’s schema preview showed raw stored data after a reload, and deleting one saved schema could overwrite another
• Fixed: An AI provider declining a request was retried, doubling the cost of a request that was never going to succeed
• Fixed: An AI assistant sending an unexpected field to ThinkRank got a server error instead of a clear message
• Fixed: The WordPress admin menu’s fly-out panels were cut off at the bottom of the screen when opened from a low menu item such as Settings or Tools

See changelog for all versions.