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.
🎉 What’s New
- Move Your SEO Data From Yoast, Rank Math, AIOSEO Or SureRank (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 (Nexter Extension 4.7.10): redirections now support a Regex match type with
$1backreferences 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 (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 (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 (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 (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 if you want a starting point before you split a longer form into steps.
For everything else this month, check the complete changelog here.
What’s Coming Up
This is straight from the public Nexter 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:
🗞️ 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 → Wordfence advisory →
- 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 →
- 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 →
- 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 →
- Attackers are actively exploiting a critical flaw in WooCommerce Wholesale Lead Capture (September 14). Worth checking any client store that runs it. Wordfence report →
- 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 →
- WordPress now has a Trac MCP server (September 24), so AI clients can query core tickets directly. Trac MCP server announcement →
Also Read: WordPress 7.1.1 And 7.1.2 Security Releases: What Was Patched And How To Harden Your Site With Nexter Extension for the practical side of the two security releases.
🔥 Tool Of The Month
UiChemy 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.
Suggested Reading
- August 2026 Update: WordPress 7.1 Ships, Nexter’s Biggest Security Hardening Pass, and a Customizer Redesign
- WordPress 7.1.1 And 7.1.2 Security Releases: What Was Patched And How To Harden Your Site With Nexter Extension
- How to Add a Mailchimp Newsletter Signup Form in WordPress with Nexter Blocks
- Nexter Extension Login Security: Setting Up Limit Login Attempts and Login Alerts
- How To Move From Spectra Legacy To Nexter Blocks Without Breaking Your Pages
