September 2026 Changelog

Changelog
October 1, 2026
Updated October 2026

September 2026 Changelog

This page lists what changed in SEO Content Machine (SCM) from 1 to 30 September 2026. For what SCM does overall, see the homepage.

Key facts

Period covered: 1 to 30 September 2026.
Size of the release: 265 developer changelog entries, listed in full at the bottom of this page.
Biggest change: the SCM MCP server, added in August for searches, can now create and run SCM tasks and edit an SEO Workspace site plan, so Claude Code can drive SCM.
Other main changes: the SEO Workspace chat can run shell commands, the Site plan handles hubs with many pages, task scheduling was rebuilt, and Z.ai GLM models were added.

What changed in SEO Content Machine in September 2026?

In September 2026, SEO Content Machine extended its MCP server so outside AI assistants can create and run SCM tasks, and its SEO Workspace chat gained a shell, image input and a WordPress MCP connection. The Site plan was reworked for large hubs, task scheduling was rebuilt, and Z.ai joined the list of AI services. Smaller fixes covered web search, publishing, saved settings and task logs.

Does SEO Content Machine work with Claude Code over MCP?

Yes. SEO Content Machine has run an MCP server since August 2026, and in September 2026 it grew to cover SCM tasks and the SEO Workspace. Claude Code calls SCM tools, and SCM does the searching, crawling and page work on your machine.

The MCP server has one tool per task action, such as create, run, resume and read results.
Claude Code can add and update pages in an SEO Workspace site plan.
MCP can create Page Pipeline, Static Pages, Site Crawler, Web Archives, Dynamic Pages and URL finder tasks.
Task results come back a page at a time, with each CSV returned as rows, and each run lists which keywords or URLs failed and why.
The task list reports CPU, memory and open browser windows, so the assistant can tell when SCM is busy.
With no API key set, the SCM API and MCP server refuse requests sent by other websites open in your browser.

What can the SEO agent in SEO Content Machine do?

As of September 2026, the SEO agent in the SEO Workspace chat can run shell commands on your computer, read images, and connect to your WordPress site through a WordPress MCP server. It edits your page drafts directly instead of only giving advice.

The chat has a bash tool. It can run Node.js even on computers without Node installed, and it can install npm, yarn and pip packages.
Shell commands can write only to the chat's scratchpad and your SCM files folder, and the chat asks before a command deletes files.
You can paste an image into the chat, and the chat can look at a screenshot it takes.
The chat can connect to a WordPress MCP server, such as Elementor's, when you give it the server address.
Each chat keeps its own AI model and thinking effort, separate from your tasks, and warns you when the chosen model is too small.
Every tool step shows its input and output, and you can save a chat to a file or clear it from the chat menu.

Can SEO Content Machine plan large hub and spoke sites?

Yes. In September 2026, Site plan hubs in SEO Content Machine became free to sit anywhere, large hubs started wrapping their pages into short columns, and the plan began opening with hubs collapsed so it pans and zooms faster.

Add a page to the Site plan by typing a topic, or paste a list of page URLs to import them as pages.
The Pages table has one search box, status tabs, a Has doc filter and columns you can resize.
The page editor saves AI edits at once with version history. You can revert all AI changes, restore the original, or view the HTML behind a document.
A page copied from your live site keeps its lists and captions.

Can SEO Content Machine publish to WordPress?

Yes. In September 2026, SEO Content Machine pages from a site plan began publishing under their hub, at /hub/page/, instead of at the top level of the site.

Pick which document a page publishes. By default SCM uses the newest edit or draft.
Choose the target site in the Brief tab from your saved WordPress blogs.
When you refresh a page, the post address offers the live page slug first.
The chat updates the WordPress post you asked it to change.

Does SEO Content Machine support Z.ai GLM models?

Yes. September 2026 added Z.ai to SEO Content Machine, so you can run GLM models for page writing and chat.

Z.ai's free GLM models are listed under their own heading.
Thinking effort options match the OpenAI model you picked, including models on OpenAI-compatible endpoints.
The workspace chat waits up to 15 minutes for a slow OpenRouter reply, and it costs less to run on OpenRouter.
Stable Diffusion images take a model, an aspect ratio and a style.

Can SEO Content Machine run SEO tasks on a schedule?

Yes. In September 2026, the schedule picker in SEO Content Machine changed from raw cron fields to a simple repeat interval, and a set of fixes stopped tasks from running too often, twice, or never.

Tasks saved as every minute by the old picker now run hourly.
Repeating tasks keep their next run after the app restarts.
A task chain no longer loops forever, and a task already running is not started a second time.
SCM refuses to save a schedule that would never run.

How does SEO Content Machine write pages that follow a client brief?

In September 2026, Page Pipeline in SEO Content Machine began following the Brief and Instructions tabs of the SEO Workspace. The brief now sets the target site, competitors, and the Google search region and language that page research uses.

The brief takes competitor names as well as URLs.
Local SEO pages add the region to each research search.
A page run carries on when one image source fails, and the log says why a page was not written and how to fix it.
AI prompts accept {{ if }} blocks without an {{ else }}, and pages in Chinese are converted to the script you chose.

Does SEO Content Machine search Bing and work through proxies?

Yes. In September 2026, Bing search in SEO Content Machine was reworked and searches through proxies stopped leaking your own IP address.

Bing search uses the whole keyword, skips off-topic result pages, and falls back to DuckDuckGo when needed.
Each proxy keeps its own cookies.
Page opportunities can target every Google region, and you can switch between several saved Google accounts.
The sitemap task follows a sitemap index three levels deep, and Web Archives skips 404 and redirect snapshots.
The YouTube subtitles task gets real captions instead of empty or wrong-language text.

Does SEO Content Machine keep your work safe after a crash?

Yes. Since September 2026, SEO Content Machine saves settings and tasks so they survive a power cut during a save, and it tells you when it had to reset damaged settings.

Settings backups include content filters and video setup, and restoring a backup puts projects in your own cache folder.
Task lists and task settings no longer freeze on a slow disk or a busy app.
Task logs stay after a restart and use less memory.
Long page writing runs keep going instead of stopping at a timeout.

Where can I find earlier SEO Content Machine changelogs?

Every monthly changelog is in the SCM changelog archive. The previous month is the August 2026 Changelog. To try SCM, start a free trial.

Full developer changelog

The summary above is written for you. The original 265 item developer changelog for September 2026 is preserved below for exact release detail.

September 30, 2026

feat: publishing from SEO Workspace now puts site plan pages at /hub/page/ instead of the top level
style: disabled fields across the app no longer show a blue border
fix: the youtube subtitles task now gets real captions instead of empty or wrong-language text
fix: the page pipeline's youtube search now waits 45 seconds for a slow page instead of 25
fix: duplicating a task no longer slows down tasks that are running
feat: the Z.ai model list now includes the free GLM models under their own Free heading
feat: the API logins screen now offers Z.ai so you can run GLM models in the AI writer and chat
fix: long AI writer runs now keep going instead of stopping at a timeout you set in API logins
feat: url finder now saves rank, title and snippet to a CSV and runs over MCP
feat: page pipeline AI prompts now allow {{ if }} blocks without an {{ else }}
fix: page pipeline now converts Chinese pages to your chosen script instead of dropping them
feat: right-click in a text box now offers cut, copy and paste in the app's light or dark theme

September 29, 2026

fix: SEO Workspace chat shell commands on Windows start fast and run pip
feat: SEO Workspace chat asks before a shell command deletes files
fix: With no API key set, the API and MCP server refuse requests sent by other websites open in your browser
feat: SEO Workspace pages can be added and updated over MCP, so Claude Code can edit a Workspace's site plan
feat: SEO Workspace chat can install npm, yarn and pip packages in its bash tool
fix: SEO Workspace chat shows input and output on every tool step
feat: SEO Workspace chat steps show each tool's input and output, click to see it all
feat: SEO Workspace chat can run node in its bash tool, even on computers without Node.js installed
feat: Dynamic Pages now offers innerHTML and textContent, and its MCP tool takes several rules and a thread count
feat: SEO Workspace Brief now sets the Google search region and language
fix: SEO Workspace pages sent to Page Pipeline keep titles with | or =
fix: Task logs now show only the AI model name, not the service
other: SEO Workspace welcome screen demo link now opens the new local SEO video
fix: task lists and task settings no longer freeze on a slow disk or a busy app
feat: SEO Workspace import now turns pasted page URLs into pages
fix: Search Scraper and RSS Sitemaps input boxes now show example text
feat: Page Pipeline pages now use the SEO Workspace Brief tab
other: Page Pipeline no longer supports AI outline template blocks

September 28, 2026

fix: Page Pipeline AI outline+ templates now run their inline AI prompts
feat: Page Pipeline now follows the SEO Workspace Instructions tab
feat: the SEO Workspace chat can connect to a WordPress MCP server, such as Elementor's, when you give it the server's address
feat: MCP create tools take the task's own setting names, and page_pipeline_create can insert images
fix: Site Crawler no longer skips every link when its allow or ignore list has a blank line, and Web Archives trims each domain line and logs the lines it cannot read
fix: an image that fails to resize is now skipped at once with a warning, instead of stalling content generation for 30 seconds
feat: MCP task results now return output files a page at a time, a CSV by rows and other files by lines
feat: MCP task results now return the task's output files, with each CSV as its rows, the same as the task content API
fix: the workspace chat now waits up to 15 minutes for an OpenRouter reply before it times out
feat: the workspace chat now runs shell commands that can write only to the project scratchpad and your SCM files folder
feat: MCP can now create Static Pages, Site Crawler and Web Archives tasks
fix: Web Archives now skips 404 and redirect snapshots instead of saving them
fix: Dynamic Pages now waits and retries page timeouts and network errors

September 27, 2026

fix: the workspace chat now shows the AI timeout error instead of Request cancelled
feat: the MCP server now has one tool per task action and Resume keeps a task's finished results
feat: the settings Utility tab now has a Find crash logs button that opens the crash report folder
feat: the MCP task list now reports CPU, RAM and open browser windows
fix: the DataForSEO search now sends a valid queue priority and stops at once on a rejected request
style: proxy settings now show page retries in their own section at the top
feat: dynamic pages now retry rate-limited servers and list rules that found nothing on a page

September 26, 2026

feat: task results over MCP and the API now match the Message Batches result shape
feat: task runs over MCP and the API now show which URLs or keywords failed and why
style: the dynamic pages Preview tab now shows the rendered page and Html shows the source
style: dynamic pages now shows its steps as Pick Elements and Write Elements sections
fix: opening a deleted task now shows a task not found message and returns to its list
fix: opening a dynamic pages task no longer minimizes or re-maximizes the app window
style: dynamic pages rules now show an item count that turns red when the rule matches nothing
fix: dynamic pages global filters now wait until you stop typing before they rerun the rules
fix: generate url pages now fills in every %page% and warns when the url has none
fix: the dynamic pages CSV preview now shows at most 100 rows as its label says
fix: dynamic pages detect article rules with a range now extract the article from the kept items
fix: radio button and checkbox icons now sit centred with a small gap before their label
fix: the Google sheet fields now match the width of the other form fields
fix: the CSS builder now dims the whole page and every popup has a visible edge
feat: each dynamic pages rule now has a css tag that opens the CSS builder
fix: site plan word vectors now use your settings when you use a custom content folder
fix: task search in the SCM API now ignores case in names and accepts a repeated filter

September 25, 2026

fix: the SCM API and MCP now use your settings with a custom content folder instead of defaults
fix: task content in the SCM API now refuses paths outside the task folder instead of listing them
fix: task content in the SCM API now streams large CSV files instead of freezing the app
fix: tasks saved as every minute by the old picker now run hourly instead of every minute
feat: schedule picker now sets a simple repeat interval instead of raw cron fields
fix: deleted task now skips its queued worker instead of running after removal
fix: task save now refuses an invalid schedule instead of saving one that never runs
fix: schedule typed as every hour now waits an hour instead of running back to back
fix: bulk edit of schedule now updates the repeat instead of changing only the stored text
fix: app boot now restores the next run of repeating tasks instead of leaving them unscheduled
fix: task chain now skips itself and running targets instead of looping forever
fix: task run now refuses while a stop is pending instead of starting a second copy
fix: chain start now skips a job that is already running instead of locking and running it twice
fix: the Schedule picker now saves hourly as minute 0 instead of every minute
fix: a PAA page template now fetches People Also Ask on its own instead of needing the insert
fix: an empty Schedule now clears the repeat on save instead of leaving the old cron running
feat: the sitemap task now follows a sitemap index 3 levels deep instead of only listing it
style: the CSS builder, scheduler and publish popovers now dim the page behind them
feat: the scrape tags field now has a CSS builder that writes selectors from simple picks
style: the article preview page now leaves a small gap below the word count tags
style: sidebar menu tooltips now say what each tool does instead of repeating its name
style: the upload post button uses a clearer upload icon
fix: sitemap and RSS log warnings now end at the error text instead of a trailing ‘…'
fix: welcome screens no longer show an extra scrollbar
fix: local listings fail, when reveiws missing text

September 24, 2026

fix: align task thread settings and simplify recovery
feat: remove OpenAI effort scaffold tests
feat: support effort for OpenAI alt models

September 23, 2026

fix: handle blocked pages and JSON-LD extraction
fix: Refine page content filtering
fix: Google results returning 404
feat: page pipeline simple via mcp

September 22, 2026

feat: support browser extensions in zombie sessions
feat: make local listing review export configurable

September 21, 2026

fix: the Google (free) translator now keeps translating instead of failing with a 429 error
fix: AI hub/page grouping is more reliable

September 20, 2026

fix: the Site plan no longer shows the page filter and Add page button while the plan is empty
style: the SEO Workspace now leaves an even 8px gap around the chat box and the splitter
style: a Site plan hub now wraps its pages into a new column after 15 rows instead of 10
fix: the Delete content cache button now also clears folders left by tasks you deleted
fix: the SEO Workspace no longer leaves a folder behind for every action you run
fix: the Site plan now draws each shared link line once instead of stacking them into a thick line
feat: a Site plan hub at any depth now lays its pages out in short columns
feat: a Site plan hub with many pages now lays them out in short columns with tidy link lines
feat: the Site plan now keeps each hub in its column and tidies the whole plan on request
style: the SEO Workspace chat now shows written files as plain Wrote lines under a dot column

September 19, 2026

feat: the SEO Workspace editor now saves AI edits at once with version history instead of Keep all
feat: the SEO Workspace Site plan can add a new page from a typed topic
fix: the task log no longer jumps when new lines arrive while you are reading older ones
feat: the Site plan now opens with hubs collapsed and pans and zooms much faster
fix: the link graph shape menu now shows a proper arrow in the Chain option and uses shorter labels
style: selected pages in the link graph tree now keep normal text with a colored border
feat: the Brief tab now lets you choose the target site from your saved WordPress blogs
style: the brief tab no longer shows a notice asking you to fill out the brief in chat
fix: importing keywords as one page per keyword no longer runs an AI grouping check
style: the link graph tree now shows hub page titles in regular text instead of bold
style: the link graph tree now shows how many child pages each page has instead of a Hub label

September 18, 2026

fix: search on Bing now keeps good results instead of skipping them as a different search

September 17, 2026

fix: refine workspace pipeline and task displays

September 16, 2026

style: the Google account picker now shows a coloured initial instead of the full email address
fix: the article preview now opens the job you came from instead of the last file you viewed
fix: the trend chart beside a long workspace name now covers fewer days instead of crowding the name
fix: the filter tag above the pages table no longer covers the Create and Publish buttons

September 15, 2026

fix: clean up agent facing prose text, less text.
feat: site plan hubs can float freely, no more homepage in hub
fix: chat now shows a sign-in error within 15s instead of spinning on a failed token refresh

September 14, 2026

fix: search on Bing now skips an off-topic later page instead of stopping at it
fix: page runs with no text now name the language filter instead of thin pages when both tie
fix: search on Bing now skips off-topic result pages and falls back to DuckDuckGo if needed
fix: restarting a task with only one keyword no longer asks you to confirm
fix: the Site plan outline draws its branch lines cleanly again
other: settings now has no debug logging switch because task logs are always saved
fix: undoing a task delete now shows the task's real status instead of running forever
fix: the task log window now uses less memory when you click through many tasks
fix: searches through proxies now keep each proxy and its cookies instead of leaking your own IP
fix: task logs now stay after an app restart without turning on debug logging
fix: the page pipeline log now says why no page was written and how to fix it
fix: typing a space at the end of a Brief field no longer gets erased a moment later

September 13, 2026

style: the SEO Workspace status filter menu now opens when you hover over it
style: the Search Console panel no longer shows a count of queries and pages
other: the settings screen no longer has a Google tab because each task now picks its own account
fix: long Google account emails now end in an ellipsis instead of pushing the layout wide
feat: you can now switch between several saved Google accounts

September 12, 2026

fix: copy from live now stays open and says in plain words why it could not read a page
other: new page pipeline tasks now start with Extra images switched off
feat: Stable Diffusion images now take a model, an aspect ratio and a style
fix: the SEO Workspace Pages table now shows its columns instead of squashing them to nothing
style: the rewrite popup now stacks its labels and fills each box to the same width

September 11, 2026

feat: keep pagination menus inside viewport
feat: add persistent resizable SEO table columns

September 10, 2026

fix: Return page title and headers to topic refresh
fix: sync Codex effort levels with model catalog
fix: refresh current Codex model catalog
fix: improve page logging and add task MCP tools

September 9, 2026

fix: route page pipeline YouTube search through browser scraper
fix: a failed Google sign-in now says what went wrong
fix: guard against antd css surface drift
fix: seo workspace height
fix: a page run now carries on when one image source fails
fix: settings debug window no longer runs code from API error replies

September 8, 2026

fix: article images no longer swap places
fix: connection errors now name the site that timed out
fix: searches now claim the browser version SCM really runs
fix: page inputs now try the next address when a site does not answer

September 7, 2026

style: the SEO Workspace chat now shortens the saved token count to 12K
fix: restore backup now puts your projects in your own cache folder
fix: changing the cache location now moves your content filters too
fix: the settings backup now saves your content filters and video setup
fix: the SEO Workspace chat now completes a half-typed slash command
fix: the SEO Workspace chat now suggests Create pages for many articles
style: the Page Pipeline setup message now lines up with the fields
style: the Rewriter and Translator dropdowns now fade back when Off
style: pages now keep a fixed space for the scrollbar

September 6, 2026

feat: the SEO Workspace chat menu now opens the skills folder
fix: the SEO Workspace chat agent now re-reads its saved results
fix: the SEO Workspace chat now costs less on OpenRouter
style: the SEO Workspace queued messages box now lines up with the input
style: the SEO Workspace document editor now matches the published page
fix: a long SEO Workspace document title now shortens in the middle
fix: a copied page now keeps its list and caption markup
fix: the SEO Workspace tabs and filters now stay put after you leave
feat: the Pages status menu now has a Has doc filter
fix: a link in a document now opens in your browser instead of in SCM
feat: you can now paste an image into the SEO Workspace chat
feat: the SEO Workspace chat AI can now look at a screenshot it takes

September 5, 2026

style: the SEO Workspace chat file tooltip now wraps the path evenly
feat: the SEO Workspace chat menu now has Browse scratchpad
fix: the SEO Workspace chat again gives an open button for saved files
feat: task lists now keep the group you picked when you reopen the app
fix: the post address now offers the live page slug first on a refresh
style: the task list now scrolls to the saved task without a row flash
other: task screens now say task instead of job throughout
style: the task list now uses the standard app table styling
style: the Email Publish job form now lines up in two even columns
style: the WordPress Publish job form now lines up in two even columns
style: the WordPress XML job form now lines up in two even columns
style: the email picker shows Delete selected as a trash button by Add
style: the blog picker no longer leaves a blank strip under the pages
style: dialog buttons now sit apart with the main action on the right
feat: the app now tells you when it had to reset your damaged settings
fix: your settings and tasks now survive a power cut during a save

September 4, 2026

style: the WordPress publish dialog now shows the document column second
feat: the WordPress publish dialog now lets you pick a page's document
fix: publishing now uses the newest edit or draft document of a page
fix: document preview cards now drop the extra blank lines they showed
fix: the AI now finds Search Console rows however the URL was spelled
fix: page search now accepts every standard filter operator
feat: the client brief now takes competitor names as well as URLs
feat: the Local SEO panel now takes a region in place of URL patterns
feat: generated pages now open with a search snippet under the title
feat: local SEO pages now add the region to each research search
fix: Page Pipeline now blocks Save and Run while the page template still needs page inputs
fix: the Local SEO panel now shows the new workspace name right away
feat: the page plan panel now shows a Region box you can edit per page
fix: the Pages toolbar now fits on one line instead of wrapping Publish
fix: the post address slug box no longer logs a console warning
fix: searching with ScrapeOwl now reports a missing API key clearly
feat: the ScrapeOwl API settings now say it does web search only

September 3, 2026

style: the Keywords card now explains its two modes in tooltips
feat: the page opportunities locale now offers every Google region
fix: page intent detection now reads keywords in their own language
fix: the SEO Workspace chat now really updates the WordPress post
fix: Bing search now uses the whole keyword instead of only its first word
fix: the first affiliate page suggestion now sets the page to Planned instead of ticking its row
fix: copying pages in SEO Workspace puts the rows on the clipboard
fix: page trend sparkline tooltip shows impressions for 7 and 14 days

September 2, 2026

feat: pages in SEO Workspace get one search box and status tabs
style: dialogs now stand out from the dimmed page behind them
feat: each agent chat now keeps its own AI model and thinking effort separate from tasks
fix: an agent chat keeps the thinking effort you picked
fix: a task keeps the AI model and thinking effort you picked
fix: the SEO Workspace registers every page selection click
fix: chat in the SEO Workspace copes with a very large file or page
fix: an edit in the SEO Workspace no longer leaves a broken tag
fix: chat in the SEO Workspace edits your page instead of advising
feat: the SEO Workspace chat filters your data more precisely
other: api logins no longer shows max tokens or presence penalty
fix: chat in the SEO Workspace no longer leaves stray \n in an edit
fix: keep or revert popup stays beside its change in the editor
feat: see the HTML behind a document in the SEO Workspace editor

September 1, 2026

fix: chat in the SEO Workspace can read a whole document again
fix: clear chat in the SEO workspace deletes only the open chat
fix: document editor shows AI changes against the text they replaced
style: doc notes box in the document editor now fits its text
fix: chat in the SEO workspace stops answering its own notes
fix: file search and file reading work again in chat
fix: chat stops repeating a lookup that returned nothing
fix: refreshing a page in chat now researches and rewrites it
feat: revert all AI changes or restore the original in the editor
fix: reverting an AI change keeps formatting in the document editor
fix: deleting a document keeps the SEO Workspace document buttons
fix: the SEO Workspace chat shows a thinking time on every thinking step
feat: the SEO Workspace chat warns when the picked AI model is too small
fix: thinking in the SEO Workspace chat keeps spaces and line breaks
fix: the Chat panel picks a matching AI model when you switch service
fix: AI model and thinking effort now stay with each SEO Workspace chat and each task
fix: deleting an AI template now selects the next one in the list
feat: menu in SEO Workspace chat to save a chat to a file or clear it