August 2026 Changelog

Changelog
September 1, 2026
Updated September 2026

August 2026 Changelog

You can now choose pages to create, edit their drafts, and publish them to WordPress without leaving the SEO Workspace. Your page plan then shows which pages are live and links to each published post.

Image and video searches are easier to use. Google Maps results include more reviews. Fixes to sign-in, searches, and running jobs help you finish your work without getting stuck.

Read this if you

Write or publish pages with SCM.
Use the chat to help plan or edit pages.
Find images, videos, or local businesses for your work.
Keep several jobs running at once.

Publish pages from the SEO Workspace

You can now send a draft to one of your saved WordPress sites from the workspace or straight from the draft editor. Before you publish, SCM shows what will happen to the page. Afterward, your plan shows the published link and marks the page as live.

Choose a WordPress category when you publish.
Open the writing job for a page from your plan, or go back to the workspace from that job.
When you create pages, SCM uses the ones you selected. If a page needs more details before it can be written, you can add them there.

Work on your pages with less backtracking

The Pages tab now has an Add keywords button, so you can bring in your own list. You can also remove a page or topic from the plan. If you delete a page by mistake, you can undo it.

The chat notices which pages you selected and remembers results it already found. It also warns when an earlier result may be out of date.
Add images and videos to a draft from the editor.
Previews keep the file you opened and no longer stall on long text.

Find images and videos more easily

Image search works again and filters out adult results. Image and video searches are easier to use, and you can stop either one while it runs. Video results show how long each video is, and searching a YouTube channel by its @name works again.

You can also make images with a ComfyUI server on your own computer. Web searches now give clearer messages when a site blocks them, and fixes help Bing and Baidu return results again.

Collect better local business results

When you find businesses on Google Maps, SCM can collect more reviews per place and choose them by star rating. Extra reviews are saved in a separate file next to your results. If two searches find the same business, it is saved once.

Results again include review tags and a map you can add to a page.
Stopping a search stops it sooner.
You can also let an AI assistant use SCM to search the web and Google Maps.

Fewer interruptions

SCM now opens while it loads your saved work. Sign-in problems and failed article requests give clearer explanations, and stopping or deleting one running job no longer holds up the others.

The plan is easier to read in light and dark mode. If you build pages for several places, you can now import a spreadsheet of locations into the local SEO workspace.

Related SCM guides and product history

Full developer changelog

The summary above is written for you. The original 126 item developer changelog is preserved below for exact release detail.

August 21, 2026

fix: place actions sit under the unassigned box, not the canvas edge

August 20, 2026

other: scraper speed moved to settings, clearer speed labels
fix: sign-in problems show a clear message instead of error code
fix: page pipeline pulls the old page only when the template needs it
fix: writing an article no longer fails with a connection error
fix: login no longer hangs on some networks

August 19, 2026

feat: app opens instantly while the database loads in background
feat: delete a page from the page plan editor, undo from a toast

August 18, 2026

style: clearer row and button hover in dark mode
feat: open a page's page pipeline task from the page plan table
fix: create pages always builds exactly the pages you selected
fix: overview no longer flags pages that have a template
other: the model picker links to help for the model you pick
feat: delete a researched topic from the page plan
fix: local seo pages no longer list titles and meta as topics
style: pages to create table sorted by importance, better tooltips

August 17, 2026

feat: local seo workspace, import csv files to build locations

August 16, 2026

feat: add keywords button on the pages tab imports your keyword list
fix: page pipeline task created from a workspace stays in the task list
feat: search scraping looks like a normal Chrome, fewer bot checks

August 15, 2026

fix: image search finds images again

August 13, 2026

feat: insert images and videos into a document from the editor toolbar
feat: video search remembers your last keyword
style: image and video scraper popups titled find images and find videos
fix: selected image and video keep their marker while hovered
feat: pipeline tasks from a workspace get a back to workspace button
fix: find and replace floats over the editor without shifting text
fix: article preview panes match and keep the open file
style: find and replace panel lines up on a lighter editor
feat: article preview opens markdown files
style: video embed modal buttons use a consistent gap
fix: long text no longer stalls article preview, email and import forms
fix: dark mode tooltips use the theme grey, not a stray blue
fix: youtube embeds use modern iframe attributes
feat: shortcodes stand out in the document editor
feat: pick a WordPress category when publishing pages

August 12, 2026

other: straico is no longer available as an AI service
fix: adding a local SEO page no longer fails
feat: new page pipeline name shows the source workspace
feat: page pipeline row links back to its source SEO workspace

August 11, 2026

style: app title bar sits on its own darker band
feat: draft editor publish shows the coming status change
style: page plan sections grouped into cards
fix: page plan refreshes right after publishing
feat: publish button added to the draft editor
feat: published posts remember their link on the page plan
feat: page status changes to published after upload
style: cleaner wordpress blog manager and menus
feat: publish drafts to your wordpress blog from the workspace
fix: SEO Workspace chat sees the pages you tick right away

August 9, 2026

fix: image search no longer returns adult results
fix: google maps test button no longer fails on read-only install folder
other: search test buttons show pass or fail with each step
fix: close and abort buttons work on the progress popup
fix: app notifications show their title as well as the message
fix: search checks for challenges and reports instead of silent error
fix: bing search with current region returns results again
fix: baidu search returns results again
fix: search browser reports real chrome version, fewer bot checks
fix: proxy with username and password works again

August 8, 2026

fix: the glow on a focused input in dark mode matches the app palette
fix: the bug report intro text is visible in light mode
fix: stray off-theme colours across the app follow light and dark now
style: drop trailing periods from single-sentence tooltips
fix: the map directions insert stops reacting after you close it

August 7, 2026

fix: Google Maps results include review keyword tags for every place again
fix: Google Maps results now include the map embed code again
feat: MCP browser tools let AI clients open and drive a page
fix: stopping a local listings job stops it now, instead of finishing every place first
fix: google maps reads reviews and about from the feed only, failing loudly when it cannot
fix: about column no longer fills with a place's reviews
feat: email blacklist skips junk addresses found during website crawl
fix: stopping the scheduler frees the task slots it was using
fix: deleting a running task no longer stops the scheduler from starting any others
fix: places whose about text spans lines read back as one place with their reviews
feat: google maps collects reviews by star rating and skips places outside a rating range
fix: smtp port field sits beside the server input in settings
fix: Google Maps MCP results include each place's collected reviews
style: reviews get their own section in the local listings form
style: accent button labels and solid tags stay readable in dark mode
fix: google maps picker shows the map instead of a blank panel on linux

August 6, 2026

fix: a place found by two searches is saved once
style: dark mode buttons read with a light label on the accent fill
fix: clearing csv data also clears saved reviews and place history
fix: review scrolling stops when reviews run out, not at a round count
fix: reviews go to the reviews file however they were collected
feat: local listings collects as many reviews as you ask for
style: local listings form groups settings under headings
fix: every place writes its reviews to the same file
fix: paid results no longer break a local listings run
feat: reviews past twenty per place go to their own file beside the csv
fix: result limit stops at the 200 places google maps will return
fix: google maps reads places, reviews and about from its own data feed
fix: SEO Workspace chat stops re-reading an unchanged site plan
fix: the sitewide search trend appears in the table header right after a sync
fix: the site plan keeps rebuilding after the first edit of a session
fix: a changed heading count no longer logs a site scan import that changed nothing
style: page plan source tags match on the topic and URL rows
style: image source chips stand out against the toolbar
fix: pages imported from search console get their search intent
feat: add page inputs a template needs instead of a line to copy
feat: fill in missing page inputs from the template with one click
fix: searching a youtube channel by @handle returns its videos again
fix: youtube results read from the page data instead of the rendered cards
style: video results fill the width, with duration on the thumbnail
feat: stop a running image or video search
style: images and videos share one command bar style and spacing
style: video page gets the same search bar, command bar and embed preview
style: phosphor icons line up with the text beside them
style: images page gets a search bar, source chips and a command bar
style: icons in checkbox labels sit clear of the text
feat: generate images with a local ComfyUI server
fix: pexels image search sends its own api key instead of the pixabay one

August 4, 2026

style: planned and refreshing statuses get colours you can tell apart at dot size
style: search stats read as words instead of icons, impressions lead with clicks and position below
style: status bar keeps empty statuses in a filter menu and page template tags drop the repeated Topic prefix
fix: status dots in the page plan panel follow the theme instead of staying vivid
style: tags and status dots use the theme palette so colours stay readable in both light and dark
feat: MCP server lets Claude, Codex and other AI clients run Google Maps and web searches in SCM
fix: delete all removes every job, stop all only stops jobs you can see

August 3, 2026

style: progress bar label readable on both themes

August 2, 2026

feat: SEO Workspace chat remembers earlier results and flags stale ones
style: SEO Workspace agent stops repeating the same lookups every turn
feat: legacy suggested links removed, links you draw get one clear name

August 1, 2026

style: local listings log shows clickable place names, one save line and an end total
feat: local listings results limit counts kept places and feed discovery scrolls the whole list faster

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