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20-08-2025 07:59

Enhancements

  • Modifies theme modification progress component to adjust to new design.

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where uninstall page would not update correctly after removing theme modifications.

18-08-2025 07:13

Enhancements

  • Changes one of the feedback texts for the text length assessment to be consistent with the others.
  • Improves the feedback of the competing links assessment by making it clearer.
  • Makes the assessments single title and competing links available from the get-go in the SEO analysis.
  • Renames the link keyphrase assessment to competing links.

Other

  • Improves the translatability of the feedback strings for the text length assessment.

08-08-2025 08:52

Enhancements

  • Adds option to sort blog posts list.
  • Adds option to sort blogs list.

04-08-2025 12:15

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where Page number string would not be correctly translated.
  • Fixes an bug where metafields and data would not be removed when following any of the uninstallation processes.

28-07-2025 07:30

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where some navigation items would not be clickable when the FTC banner was visible.

22-07-2025 09:35

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where the theme modifications banner would not disappear when the theme modifications have just been applied.

15-07-2025 10:48

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where the theme modifications would run into the rate limits of some Shopify APIs.

10-07-2025 09:12

Enhancements

  • Adds first time configuration wizard to help merchants walk through the essential app settings.
  • Improves welcome dialog to guide merchants showcasing app pinning option and premium support.

06-06-2025 08:11

Enhancements

  • Adds a feedback string for the image alt attributes and image keyphrase assessments for when no content and/or image has been added.
  • Makes the keyphrase in image alt attributes assessment available when no content has been added.
  • Renames image keyphrase assessment to keyphrase in image alt attributes assessment.
  • Renames the image alt tags assessment to image alt attributes assessment.

04-06-2025 09:26

Enhancements

  • Adds a feedback string for the image alt attributes and image keyphrase assessments for when no content and/or image has been added.
  • Renames the image alt tags assessment to image alt attributes assessment.

Bugfixes

  • Improves the guidance on using the Shopify SEO title variable in our Full SEO title.

Other

  • Removes the "new" badge from the schema section for products.

26-05-2025 06:49

Enhancements

  • Adds more phrases regarding disability to the inclusive language assessment.
  • Improves the feedback for "lame" in the inclusive language assessment.
  • Makes the following SEO assessments available in the analysis by default, even when no content has been added: keyphrase in introduction, keyphrase in meta description, keyphrase in SEO title, keyphrase in slug.

22-05-2025 10:47

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where the template suffix of pages would be reset to the default when saving optimizations.

14-05-2025 11:40

Enhancements

  • Improves the feedback texts for the passive voice and consecutive sentences assessments in case there is nothing to report.
  • Makes the images, internal links, and external links assessments available when no content has been added.

Other

  • Improves the translatability of feedback strings for the keyphrase length assessment.

08-05-2025 08:40

Bugfixes

  • Fixes issue with theme modifications apply in some stores due to Shopify API limits.

01-05-2025 08:48

Enhancements

  • Adds a learn more link in the schema section of the product editor.
  • Changes the applicability criteria of readability assessments so that they are shown even if there is little or no text.
  • Improves recognition of function words for Farsi. Props to nshayanfar.
  • Improves the recognition of transition words for Farsi.
  • Introduces more robust HTML processing and highlighting for the consecutive sentences assessment.

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where function words with spaces were not recognised in Farsi.

15-04-2025 07:30

Enhancements

  • Adds pregnant women to the potentially non-inclusive phrases targeted by the inclusive language analysis.
  • Improved our Product structured data by specifying the Offer.priceSpecification more specifically with the type UnitPriceSpecification.
  • Improves the inclusive language analysis feedback for the potentially non-inclusive word exotic, and prevents the feedback from appearing when exotic is followed by words common in scientific contexts.

09-04-2025 12:20

Enhancements

  • Adds productGroupID attribute in ProductGroup structured data.

07-04-2025 08:33

Enhancements

  • Adds support for "search" feature in blog posts list.
  • Moves all blog posts to one lists instead of grouped by blog.

02-04-2025 07:51

Enhancements

  • Improves keyphrase recognition for keyphrases that contain verbs in Spanish.
  • Improves the accuracy of assessments measuring character count for Japanese texts by removing common punctuation from the count.
  • Updates “Edit with Shopify” link in editor to follow the move of the Blogs section from the Online Store app to the Content section of the admin.

Bugfixes

  • Fixes an issue where the AI intro modal would keep displaying when going back to the optimization overview.

Other

  • Improves the feedback strings of the subheading distribution assessment for better translatability.