jekyll-seo-tag

Minor Enhancements

• Change pagination message with seo_paginator_message option (#324)
• Make Twitter Summary Card without having Twitter account (#284)
• Prefer site.tagline to site.description for page title (#356)
• Render og:locale meta only when defined explicitly (#388)

Bug Fixes

• Ensure a single leading @ for twitter usernames (#367)

Development Fixes

• chore(deps): require Ruby > 2.4.0 EOL
• test: fix locale specs that use the fallback locale (#360)
• refactor: Replace read-only empty hash with private constant (#418)
• refactor: Mutate hash literals instead of duplicating them (#417)
• refactor: Reduce allocations of instance-agnostic objects (#376)
• refactor: Memoize #author_hash in SeoTag::AuthorDrop (#342)
• refactor: simplify conditional in SeoTag::Drop#date_modified (#343)
• chore(ci): profile seo-tag plugin on a third-party repository (#414)
• chore(ci): Jekyll v4.0 (#372)
• chore(ci): test against current stable Ruby 2.5 and 2.7 (#385)
• style: align with latest jekyll-rubocop (#382)
• fix: Travis builds for Jekyll 3.x (#415)

Documentation

• Structured Data Testing Tool is deprecated (#409)
• Rename Google webmaster tools to Google Search Console (#403)
• Improve documentation on plugin usage (#399)
• remove Google+ from example snippet (#358)
• HTTPS link to https://ogp.me/ (#359)
• HTTPS links to schema.org (#350)
• use example.com for example URL (#351)

• Guard against the author's Twitter handle being Nil when stripping @'s #203
• Guard against empty title or description strings #206

• Convert template logic to a Liquid Drop (significant performance improvement) (#184)
• Fix for JSON-LD validation warning for images missing required properties (#183)

Major Enhancements

• Add author meta (#103)
• Add og:locale support #166
• Add support for Bing and Yandex webmaster tools. Closes #147 (#148)
• Add SEO author and date modified to validate JSON-LD output (#151)

Minor Enhancements

• Use | for title separator (#162)
• Use og:image for twitter image (#174)

Development Fixes

• Style fixes (#170, #157, #149)
• Test against latest version of Jekyll (#171)
• Bump dev dependencies (#172)
• Remove Rake dependency (#180)

Major Enhancement

• Use new URL filters (#123)

Minor Enhancements

• Wraps logo image json data in a publisher property (#133)
• Fix duplicated escape_once (#93)
• Simplify minify regex (#125)
• Don't mangle text with newlines #126

Documentation

• Add front matter default example for image (#132)
• Fix tiny typo (#106)
• add example usage of social profiles (#139)

Development

• Inherit Jekyll's rubocop config for consistency (#109)
• Correct spelling in .travis.yml (#112)

• Added Facebook publisher and admins meta (https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-seo-tag/pull/86, props @miguelfrde)
• Changed: Rel next/previous links now only appear on paginated pages (https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-seo-tag/pull/87, props @tfe)
• Changed: Use SmartyPants (rather than mardownify) to process titles
• Changed: Requires Jekyll 3.1.x

• Ability to support Facebook and Twitter specific images, set image height and width (#78)
• Add support for page images with absolute URLs (#76)

• Use summary_large_image Twitter card when page.image is explicitly set (props @DirtyF)
• Prepend site URL to JSON-LD image property (props @boturnbow)
• Don't prepend / to JSON-LD logo property (props @boturnbow)

• Rely on open graph tags, rather than outputting duplicate Twitter-specific meta (#65)
• Remove extra whitespace in JSON-LD block
• Consistent spacing and use of quotes in metadata fields (props @XhmikosR)
• Check for seo_page_title before outputting og:title
• Use jsonify to output url in JSON-LD for consistency

Fix for uninitiated constant Jekyll::SeoTag::VERSION error

• New: benbalter/jekyll-seo-tag is now jekyll/jekyll-seo-tag 🎉
• New: Require Jekyll ~> 3
• New: Consolidate JSON-LD output into a single block (props @pathawks)
• Fixed: twitter:image now outputs the full url (props @boturnbow)
• Fixed: Output the Jekyll version, not the plugin version in the HTML comment
• Fixed: Support article:publisher without fb:app_id (props @pathawks)

• Support for global author data (props @pathawks)
• Ability to disable <title> tag (props @pathawks)
• Output the plugin version
• Improved automated tests
• Improved documentation formatting (props @yous)

• Add support for Facebook App metadata
• Add support for verifying site's with Google webmaster tools

Breaking changes

• Make page.image url relative to site rather than absolute (#44, props @boturnbow)

Improvements

• Use page.excerpt if the page.description doesn't exist (#34)
• Use site.name if site.title is not present(#25)
• Allow author data as an object (#26)
• Fix HTML5 validation errors (#38, props @CGarces)
• Use seo_description in JSON-LD (#40, props @GCarces)
• Performance optimizations (#22)
• Do not escape smart quotes (#21)

Development fixes

• Update tests to work with Liquid 3 (#43)
• Add default filter to simplify logic (#36)

• Performance optimizations (#13, #16, #20)
• og:title no longer contains site.title (#11)
• Use baseurl to build seo_url (#15)
• Strip trailing /index.html from seo_url (#14)
• Gem version moved to its own file

A very special thanks to @pathawks for all his contributions to this release.

• Properly escape smart quotes in titles and descriptions
• Simplified whitespace-smushing regex

Loosen Jekyll dependency

• Fixed: Properly escape titles and descriptions
• Developer: Validate HTML output via html-proofer

Initial release