Faster Sitemaps, Smarter Code, Better SEO – SEOPress 9.3

SEOPress 9.3 is now available. We encourage you to update your site as soon as possible to take advantage of the latest features, improvements, and fixes.

🎉 New – Massive Performance Boost for XML Sitemaps

We’ve completely redesigned how SEOPress generates XML sitemaps, with a special focus on large-scale websites containing more than 30,000 posts, pages, or products.

Thanks to this deep optimization, sitemap generation is now up to 9 times faster, delivering an average performance gain of 800%.

In practice, this means drastically reduced loading times, and faster, more efficient indexing of your content by search engines, even for the biggest websites.

🎉 New – A New Step Toward a Stronger, More Reliable SEOPress

SEOPress 9.3 marks the beginning of a major long-term project: the standardization and progressive refactoring of our codebase. Our goal is simple: to deliver an even more reliable, high-performance, and future-proof SEO solution for all our users.

This update lays the foundation for that effort by introducing PHPCS/WPCS (PHP CodeSniffer / WordPress Coding Standards) to the free version of SEOPress. This ensures our code fully aligns with official WordPress development standards, improving overall quality and long-term compatibility.

Next, we’ll extend this work to SEOPress PRO, and then to SEOPress Insights, gradually unifying our development practices across the entire SEOPress ecosystem. It’s a behind-the-scenes evolution, one that might go unnoticed day-to-day, but is essential for building an even stronger foundation for SEOPress’s future.

🎉 Other news

This new update also includes:

• a multitude of user interface fixes
• various PHP errors
• significant improvements to the cookie consent bar
• improved performance for the SEOPress dashboard
• fixed the product type for the og:type tag
• and much more

More details in the changelog.

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Changelog

This update contains the following changes (full changelog here):

* NEW Significant performance improvements for XML sitemaps (800% faster)
 * NEW PHPCS/WPCS standards implemented for the free version
 * INFO 'seopress_sitemaps_cache_duration' hook to filter cache duration ( * INFO Enhanced default design for the cookie bar
 * INFO Changed the default value of the cookie bar’s close button to "Decline"
 * INFO Added support for user consent with Microsoft Clarity
 * INFO Block wizard is now hidden if it has already been run
 * INFO Added a notice to term taxonomy pages if global title and meta description settings are not defined
 * INFO Improve compatibility with the7 theme
 * FIX JavaScript error with the cookie bar
 * FIX Responsive UI issues
 * FIX Performance enhancements for the RSS feed in the SEO dashboard
 * FIX API request issue with WooCommerce and the Universal SEO metabox
 * FIX CSS issues in the notification center
 * FIX Display formatting for Google Search Console metrics
 * FIX Image previews for missing alt texts when using lazy loading or CDNs
 * FIX PHP errors when editing a custom term taxonomy
 * FIX SiteSEO import tool
 * FIX Incorrect Open Graph type tag for products
 * FIX UI consistency issues

By Benjamin Denis

CEO of SEOPress. 15 years of experience with WordPress. Founder of WP Admin UI & WP Cloudy plugins. Co-organizer of WordCamp Biarritz 2023 & WP BootCamp. WordPress Core Contributor.