FV Simpler SEO · Version history
FV Simpler SEO changelog and version history
- Latest version
- 1.9.8
- Oct 13, 2026 (28 days ago)
- Releases
- 27
- since 2010
- In the last year
- 1
- Tested up to
- WordPress 7.1.4
Releases each year
- 20103 releases
- 20114 releases
- 20121 release
- 20133 releases
- 20143 releases
- 20153 releases
- 20162 releases
- 20172 releases
- 20182 releases
- 20191 release
- 20231 release
- 20251 release
- 20261 release
20261 release
FV Simpler SEO 1.9.8Latest
20251 release
FV Simpler SEO 1.9.5
- StatCounter – no longer using the tracking pixel by default as it won’t capture the referring page in modern browsers and the standard tracking code has no impact on page load speed
- StatCounter – updated the tracking code to the latest version with async and without document.write()
- Canonical links – Discard out of bounds post comment pages
- Genesis – Improve Genesis SEO disabling
20231 release
FV Simpler SEO 1.9.1.1
20191 release
FV Simpler SEO 1.9
- Fix for no title and no description warnings positioning
- Removing deprecated function calls
20182 releases
FV Simpler SEO 1.7
- Statcounter – using a more basic tracking method, but faster – not increasing DOM Content Loaded at all
- Statcounter – some projects come without security number, making it optional
FV Simpler SEO 1.6.36
- AMP – plugin won’t put in the Google Analytics tracking code if you use AMP for WP plugin as it would result in duplicate code
- Easy Digital Downloads – support for Downloads (products) added
- Statcounter – setting deferred loading for its script
- WooCommerce – support for Products added
20172 releases
FV Simpler SEO 1.6.35
- Bugfix for old PHP versions
FV Simpler SEO 1.6.32
- Fixed exclusion from search for SearchWP plugin
- Fix for category in title for custom post types
20162 releases
FV Simpler SEO 1.6.31
- Fix slug shortening for new version of WordPress.
- Advanced -> Disable Ads option added – use !get_option(‘fv_seo_ads_disabled’) in your Widget Logic conditions to make all ad widgets disappear at once when enabled
FV Simpler SEO 1.6.28
- Admin CSS – fixes for WP 4.4
20153 releases
FV Simpler SEO 1.6.26
- Bugfix – qTranslate tags fix for OG and Twitter Cards tags
FV Simpler SEO 1.6.25
- Feature – Category SEO title option added
- Feature – Custom post type title rewritting
- Feature – use this plugin to insert your Google Analytics, Statcounter and custom HTML in header and footer
- Feature – WordPress Seo by Yoast import function
- Feature – XML Sitemaps & Google News feed plugin support – use our plugin to include/exclude categories and authors from XML sitemap
- Improvement – hAtom microformats (.hentry element class inserted by WordPress) removed by default. hEntry is a microformat declaration which makes sure Google reads your post tags better, but we turn it off by default to keep the site structured data clean – only add what you really need.
- Improvement – Open Graph – added checking for duplicate images in og:image tag
- Improvement – Open Graph – only featured image and 2 widest images from content will be used (Facebook only picks the biggest images from Open Graph)
- Improvement – WordPress shortlink – removed by default as they are bit against the concept of permalinks where the link doesn’t change. Shortlinks can change as they are using post ID, so then you loose the link to your blog. Twitter has its own link shortening service.
- SEO – get rid of /?attachment_id={attachment_id} and /year/month/post-name/attachment-name kind of pages. Creates 301 redirections and replaces such links in content – enabled by default!
- Bugfix – meta description hint outputted by javascript was saved to postmeta if custom excerpt was set
FV Simpler SEO 1.6.24
- Improvement – all images from content are available for Facebook Open Graph now
20143 releases
FV Simpler SEO 1.6.23
- Bugfix – “Use Categories for META keywords” option couldn’t be turned on
- Bugfix – PHP warnings
FV Simpler SEO 1.6.22
- Feature – added support for translations
- Feature – Facebook Open Graph support added (on by default)
- Feature – setting for custom post archive titles
- Feature – Twitter Cards support added (on by default)
FV Simpler SEO 1.6.21
- Feature – Google Authorship and Publisher support. Visit Settings -> FV Simpler SEO -> Social Networking
20133 releases
FV Simpler SEO 1.6.20
- Feature – better settings screen
- Feature – noindex feature now also excludes from YARPP related posts plugin
- Feature – option for post short title (on by default)
- Feature – Search Engine Results Preview box counts on post excerpt too
- Bugfix – extra DB queries when using page menu label in WP Nav Menus
- Bugfix – missing localization hook for title rewrite for posts
- Bugfix – URL shortening when doing Quick Edit
- Bugfix – tag archives in some templates – title rewrite function is counting less on using wp_title()
FV Simpler SEO 1.6.19
- Added option for noindex and nofollow. Enable in plugin settings extra options first! This option also removes the page from link rel prev/next attributes and WP search.
- Fix for replacing of menu item labels
FV Simpler SEO 1.6.18
- Fixed warnings from incomplete WP filter calls
20121 release
FV Simpler SEO 1.6.14
- fix for Menu Label in WordPress 3.3
20114 releases
FV Simpler SEO 1.6.13
- Bing site verification tag support added
- Yahoo site verification tag support added
- qTranslate for menu labels and titles
- page number support in Description Format.
- Bugfixes
FV Simpler SEO 1.6.12.1
- Bugfix release – slashes in title templates
FV Simpler SEO 1.6.12
- Search Engines Results Page preview
- WordPress post title now appears in Long title field if no Long title is specified for easier editing
- Bugfix – less db queries on wp_list_pages menus
- Bugfix – is_static_posts_page bug (used for title instead of is_static_front_page)
- Experimental – optional custom canonical link field
FV Simpler SEO 1.6.11
- WordPress 3.0 warning message removed
20103 releases
FV Simpler SEO 1.6.10
- small bug fix
FV Simpler SEO 1.6.9
- fix to support hosts without Multibye Support in PHP
FV Simpler SEO 1.6.8
- total core rewrite, with the help of Mark Jaquith to overcome XSS cross scripting dangers in the original All in One SEO Pack plugin
- completely simplified user interface
- intelligent, non-intrusive defaults created. No need to configure advanced options. WordPress and FV Simpler SEO plugin will take care of all fundamental SEO out of the box.
- please excuse the lag between updates. Someone started deleting All in One SEO plugin forks and competitors from the WordPress plugin directory so we were unable to release our improvements properly until now. You will see a hole in the WordPress.org downloads on account of these mysterious disappe…
Questions about FV Simpler SEO’s releases
What is the latest version of FV Simpler SEO?
1.9.8, released on Oct 13, 2026 (4 weeks ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4.
How often is FV Simpler SEO updated?
One release in the last year. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from March 2010.
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