--- title: "September 2026 Update: Move Your SEO Data From Yoast Or Rank Math, Multi-Step Forms, And Blocks In Widget Areas" url: https://nexterwp.com/blog/september-2026-update/ date: 2026-10-13 modified: 2026-10-13 lang: en author: "Aditya Sharma" description: "Nexter SEO now imports Yoast, Rank Math, AIOSEO and SureRank data after a full preview, and Form Builder gains multi-step forms and conditional logic." image: https://nexterwp.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/nexter-september-2026-update-og-1024x538.jpg word_count: 1496 --- # September 2026 Update: Move Your SEO Data From Yoast Or Rank Math, Multi-Step Forms, And Blocks In Widget Areas ## Key Takeaways - Nexter SEO imports titles, descriptions, canonicals, social fields, schema and redirects from Yoast, Rank Math, All in One SEO or SureRank, and the preview shows every change before it writes anything. - Nexter Extension 4.7.10 adds a Migrate From Other SEO Plugins tab that detects existing data, previews changes, imports in resumable batches, and keeps anything already set in Nexter SEO. - Nexter Blocks Pro 5.0.5 adds multi-step forms with a progress indicator across the top in six styles: Check, Timeline, Tabs, Icon Tiles, Chevron and Progress Pill. - Form Builder adds conditional logic in Free 5.0.6 and Pro 5.0.5, letting any field watch another field with six operators across 12 field types from the block sidebar with no code. - Nexter Blocks 5.0.7 works in block widget areas under Appearance then Widgets, and a dedicated handler now generates and caches CSS for blocks placed there. If you have ever put off switching SEO plugins because of what you would lose on the way, September is the update to read. Nexter SEO can now import your titles, descriptions, canonicals, social fields, schema and redirects from Yoast, Rank Math, All in One SEO or SureRank, and it shows you every change before it writes anything. Form Builder grew up this month too. Multi-step forms with a progress indicator arrived in Nexter Blocks Pro, and conditional logic landed in both Free and Pro. Nexter blocks also work in block widget areas now. Here is everything that shipped in September, plus what the public roadmap says is next. Table of Contents ## 🎉 What’s New ![New in Nexter for September 2026: SEO data migration from Yoast and Rank Math, cleaner WooCommerce and category URLs, sharper llms.txt and AI-written snippets, multi-step forms, conditional logic, and Nexter blocks in widget areas](https://nexterwp.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/nexter-whatsnew-september-2026-final-768x869.png)What’s new in Nexter, September 2026. - [**Move Your SEO Data From Yoast, Rank Math, AIOSEO Or SureRank**](https://nexterwp.com/nexter-extensions/seo-for-wordpress/) (Nexter Extension 4.7.10): a new Migrate From Other SEO Plugins tab detects your existing data, previews exactly what would change, then imports it in resumable batches. Titles, descriptions, canonicals, social fields, per-page schema type and redirects come across, including Yoast’s Organization name and logo and Rank Math’s custom robots.txt rules. Anything you already set in Nexter SEO is kept, and the other plugin’s data is never deleted. - [**Regex Redirects And Cleaner URLs**](https://nexterwp.com/nexter-extensions/seo-for-wordpress/) (Nexter Extension 4.7.10): redirections now support a Regex match type with `$1` backreferences in the destination. Separate toggles under Advanced shorten `/product/`, `/product-category/` and `/product-tag/` URLs, the old URLs redirect, and a new setting strips the `/category/` base from category URLs. - [**Multi-Step Forms In Nexter Blocks Pro**](https://nexterwp.com/nexter-blocks/builder/wordpress-form-builder/) (5.0.5): break a long form into short steps with a progress indicator across the top, in six styles: Check, Timeline, Tabs, Icon Tiles, Chevron and Progress Pill. Completed, current and upcoming steps each take your own colours. - [**Conditional Logic In Form Builder**](https://nexterwp.com/nexter-blocks/builder/wordpress-form-builder/) (Free 5.0.6, Pro 5.0.5): any field can watch another field and show or hide itself based on the answer. Six operators (is, is not, contains, doesn’t contain, is empty, is not empty) work across 12 field types, set from the block sidebar with no code. - [**Nexter Blocks In Block Widget Areas**](https://nexterwp.com/nexter-blocks/) (5.0.7): drop Nexter blocks into Appearance, then Widgets. Blocks placed there have no parent post, so a dedicated handler now generates and caches their CSS. - [**AI-Written Snippets That Actually Run, And A Clearer llms.txt**](https://nexterwp.com/nexter-extensions/seo-for-wordpress/) (Nexter Extension 4.7.9 and 4.7.10): snippets created by the Code Snippets AI assistant had been saved with a placement name the runtime did not recognise, so they never executed. They run now. Each llms.txt number setting also explains what it does, with a warning that any Freshness Window above 0 leaves older content out. ### Before You Switch SEO Plugins: What The Import Does And Does Not Do The preview is the point of this feature, so read it before you start. It recommends a backup and says plainly that the import writes to your database and cannot be undone from that screen. It also lists what Nexter will leave alone: values you already set, per-author SEO settings (Nexter has no field for them), and the per-post-type and per-taxonomy title templates that Yoast or Rank Math keep, because Nexter uses one template pair for posts and one for archives. On a Polylang or WPML site the per-language settings are flattened, and the preview says so. Imports run in batches, retry a batch that hits a temporary error, and finish with a check of the imported values. Importing categories and tags from Yoast is also much faster on large sites, because each batch now asks only about the terms it is about to take. ### Also Shipped This Month - **Image Optimization On Large Libraries** (Extension 4.7.9): single and bulk optimisation no longer fail with a server error on big media libraries, because the work is now split into small batches, and the bulk screen shows real counts. - **SEO Screens Fully Translated** (Extension 4.7.9): roughly half of their strings sat in bundle files that WordPress was never told to load a translation file for, so they stayed English in every language. That is fixed. - **Safer Snippet Imports** (Extension 4.7.9): importing a snippet that already exists is blocked instead of creating a second copy, since two copies of a snippet that declares a PHP function crashed every page. - **WooCommerce 11.1 Support In Blocks Pro** (5.0.5 and 5.0.7): Single Product Image gains Product Gallery Video, Add to Cart hides the duplicate gallery that WooCommerce 11.1 injects into the variations form, and Post Listing Search List now supports category, tag and pagination options, and Product Listing Search List supports product category and tag options. - **Fixes Across Forms And Search** (Blocks Pro 5.0.7 and Blocks Free 5.0.7): in Pro, the editor no longer crashes on a form with an old saved action value, a required checkbox no longer complains when it is already ticked, and the multi-step progress bar stays on one row on mobile. In Free, Search Bar keeps title-match ranking when Generic Filter or ACF search is on. - **Nexter Extension Pro 4.7.7**: the Code Snippets display-condition post search no longer skips or repeats posts while paging through results, and Settings Import messages now use the Pro plugin’s own text domain so they can be translated. ***Also Read:** [How To Add A Mailchimp Newsletter Signup Form In WordPress With Nexter Blocks](https://nexterwp.com/blog/mailchimp-form-wordpress-nexter-blocks/) if you want a starting point before you split a longer form into steps.* *For everything else this month, [**check the complete changelog here**](https://roadmap.nexterwp.com/updates/changelogs).* ### What’s Coming Up This is straight from the [**public Nexter roadmap**](https://roadmap.nexterwp.com/roadmap), so you can see the status of each item and vote on what matters to you. Nothing here has a release date yet. - **In progress:** Calendar, and a Hello Elementor Theme Whitelabel option for rebranding the Hello theme for your clients. - **Planned for Nexter Extension:** a Custom Post Type Builder and Header Securities. - **Planned AI tools:** AI Writing Assistant, AI Content Creator and AI Image Generator, plus Stock Images. - **Also planned:** Responsive Manager for per-screen-size settings, and Beaver Builder compatibility. ## 📹 Video Tutorials A four-part walk through a complete WooCommerce store, in order: [![How to Customize a WooCommerce Shop Page YouTube tutorial thumbnail](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/YPmSIsI19h8/hqdefault.jpg)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPmSIsI19h8)How to Customize a WooCommerce Shop Page [![How to Create a WooCommerce Single Product Page YouTube tutorial thumbnail](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/K-llQfUAvh4/hqdefault.jpg)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-llQfUAvh4)How to Create a WooCommerce Single Product Page [![How to Customize a WooCommerce Cart Page YouTube tutorial thumbnail](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/bP-nVt1OBNI/hqdefault.jpg)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP-nVt1OBNI)How to Customize a WooCommerce Cart Page [![How to Create a Custom WooCommerce Checkout Page YouTube tutorial thumbnail](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/JDbdsLX5epg/hqdefault.jpg)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDbdsLX5epg)How to Create a Custom WooCommerce Checkout Page ## 🗞️ WordPress And Tech Bytes *The news that mattered in September, and what it means if you build with **Nexter**.* - **WordPress 7.1.2 closed a critical unauthenticated path traversal on September 22.** Wordfence tracked it as CVE-2026-87902, CVSS 9.2: an attacker could make WordPress include a readable PHP file from outside the active theme, which on some setups reached remote code execution. Security backports went out to every branch back to 4.7. If you have not updated, do it today. [**WordPress 7.1.2 release notes →**](https://wordpress.org/news/2026/09/wordpress-7-1-2-release/) [**Wordfence advisory →**](https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2026/09/psa-critical-unauthenticated-path-traversal-vulnerability-patched-in-wordpress-core/) - **WordPress 7.1.1 landed on September 17** with 17 Core bug fixes, 19 Block Editor fixes and 11 security fixes. [**WordPress 7.1.1 release notes →**](https://wordpress.org/news/2026/09/wordpress-7-1-1-maintenance-and-security-release/) - **Gutenberg 24.1 shipped September 30** with roughly 140 PRs on design-tool consistency. Background image, size and gradient, shadow, borders, link, heading and button colours, typography and text columns now reach almost every core block, and a new text-shadow control arrived with them. [**What’s new in Gutenberg 24.1 →**](https://make.wordpress.org/core/2026/09/30/whats-new-in-gutenberg-24-1-30-september/) - **A PHP object injection flaw exposed 100,000 sites running Tutor LMS to remote code execution**, found by Wordfence Argus and disclosed September 17. If you run a course site, check your version. [**Tutor LMS disclosure →**](https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2026/09/100000-wordpress-sites-exposed-to-remote-code-execution-via-php-object-injection-vulnerability-found-by-wordfence-argus-in-tutor-lms/) - **Attackers are actively exploiting a critical flaw in WooCommerce Wholesale Lead Capture** (September 14). Worth checking any client store that runs it. [**Wordfence report →**](https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2026/09/attackers-actively-exploiting-critical-vulnerability-in-woocommerce-wholesale-lead-capture-plugin/) - **WooCommerce published a working Claude commerce agent on September 16**, built on the open-source starter code Anthropic released on September 2 and shipped in Woo’s Agentic Tools repo. [**WooCommerce developer post →**](https://developer.woocommerce.com/2026/09/16/wc-claude-commerce-agent/) - **WordPress now has a Trac MCP server (September 24)**, so AI clients can query core tickets directly. [**Trac MCP server announcement →**](https://make.wordpress.org/core/2026/09/24/wordpress-trac-mcp-server/) ***Also Read:** [WordPress 7.1.1 And 7.1.2 Security Releases: What Was Patched And How To Harden Your Site With Nexter Extension](https://nexterwp.com/blog/wordpress-7-1-2-security-update/) for the practical side of the two security releases.* ## 🔥 Tool Of The Month [**UiChemy**](https://uichemy.com/) gets a design into WordPress without a rebuild. Start from a Figma design, a prompt, a client brief or an AI build, and it turns that into real, editable WordPress you own, in the builder you already use, with no lock-in. Figma to WordPress, AI Website Creator and UiChemy Composer are live on uichemy.com. If your layouts begin in Figma or in a prompt, this is where they land in WordPress. [![UiChemy homepage: Build Anywhere, Own it in WordPress, starting from a prompt, a client brief, a Figma design or an AI build](https://nexterwp.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/nexter-tool-of-month-uichemy.jpg)](https://uichemy.com/)UiChemy, this month’s pick for taking Figma and prompts into WordPress. #### Suggested Reading - [August 2026 Update: WordPress 7.1 Ships, Nexter’s Biggest Security Hardening Pass, and a Customizer Redesign](https://nexterwp.com/blog/august-2026-update/) - [WordPress 7.1.1 And 7.1.2 Security Releases: What Was Patched And How To Harden Your Site With Nexter Extension](https://nexterwp.com/blog/wordpress-7-1-2-security-update/) - [How to Add a Mailchimp Newsletter Signup Form in WordPress with Nexter Blocks](https://nexterwp.com/blog/mailchimp-form-wordpress-nexter-blocks/) - [Nexter Extension Login Security: Setting Up Limit Login Attempts and Login Alerts](https://nexterwp.com/blog/nexter-extension-login-attempt-monitoring/) - [How To Move From Spectra Legacy To Nexter Blocks Without Breaking Your Pages](https://nexterwp.com/blog/migrate-from-spectra-legacy/) #### Stay updated with Helpful WordPress Tips, Insider Insights, and Exclusive Updates – Subscribe now to keep up with Everything Happening on WordPress! Subscribe ## Frequently Asked Questions **Q: How risky is it to switch SEO plugins without losing data?** A: The risky part is the database write, not the preview. Nexter SEO’s import shows exactly what will change before it writes anything, and the page says that write cannot be undone from that screen. It also recommends a backup first. That matters because the import can bring over titles, descriptions, canonicals, social fields, schema and redirects from Yoast, Rank Math, All in One SEO or SureRank, so you want a clean rollback plan before moving anything. **Q: What SEO data can Nexter import from Yoast or Rank Math?** A: Nexter Extension can import titles, descriptions, canonicals, social fields, per-page schema type and redirects from Yoast, Rank Math, All in One SEO or SureRank. The page also calls out Yoast’s Organization name and logo and Rank Math’s custom robots.txt rules. That makes the migration useful when you want to preserve search-facing metadata instead of rebuilding it by hand. The import runs in resumable batches, which helps on larger sites. **Q: Does Nexter keep my existing SEO settings during an import?** A: Yes. Anything you already set in Nexter SEO is kept, and the other plugin’s own data is never deleted. The preview also lists what Nexter leaves alone: per-author SEO settings, because Nexter has no field for them, and the per-post-type and per-taxonomy title templates from Yoast or Rank Math, because Nexter uses one template pair for posts and one for archives. On Polylang or WPML sites, per-language settings are flattened, and the preview says so. **Q: What’s the best way to build a long form in Nexter Blocks now?** A: Multi-step forms are the cleaner choice when a form starts getting long. Nexter Blocks Pro 5.0.5 adds a progress indicator across the top in six styles: Check, Timeline, Tabs, Icon Tiles, Chevron and Progress Pill. Completed, current and upcoming steps can each use their own colours. **Q: Can I hide form fields based on previous answers in Nexter Blocks?** A: Conditional logic works in both Nexter Blocks Free 5.0.6 and Pro 5.0.5, so a field can show or hide itself based on another field’s answer, with no code. It supports six operators (is, is not, contains, doesn’t contain, is empty and is not empty) across 12 field types, set from the block sidebar. **Q: Do Nexter blocks work inside WordPress widget areas?** A: Yes. Nexter blocks now work in block widget areas through Appearance, then Widgets. Blocks placed there have no parent post, so Nexter Blocks 5.0.7 added a dedicated handler that generates and caches their CSS.