v16.5 - Release Date: June 15th, 2021
Yoast SEO 16.5 is out today! This release comes with a number of fixes and enhancements. For instance, easier social media settings, better understanding of the Turkish and Czech languages and improvements to the breadcrumbs schema output. Read all about it in our release post!
Enhancements:
Improves passive voice recognition for Turkish.
Improves accuracy of the Czech passive voice assessment by separating clauses based on punctuation marks, and by expanding the list of stopwords.
Changes the breadcrumbs schema output so Google can understand it better.
Moves the social settings for the homepage from the Social > Facebook tab, to Search Appearance > General.
Improves the organization of the Search Appearance > General tab, with distinct collapsibles for the Title Separator, the Homepage settings and the Schema.org settings.
Introduces a notice to be displayed in Search Appearance > General in place of the Social settings for the Homepage when Open Graph is disabled.
Introduces an image validation warning for the Homepage social image and the Default social image to warn about unsupported file extensions.
Improves spacing, headings and toggle labels in the Search Appearance settings, and makes the forms more consistent.
Less is more: removes a whole bunch of ads from the Yoast SEO admin screens.
Optimizes subscription validations made by Premium add-ons.
Improves the truncation of the primary_focus_keyword field in the database to handle multibyte characters. Props to rickhurst.
Introduces a partial integration of the Yoast SEO meta box in the Web Stories WordPress editor. Props to swissspidy.
Bugfixes:
Fixes a bug where max-image-preview:large would be output in the robots meta tag in combination with noimage.
Other:
Moves the ‘Force rewrite titles’ toggle into a separate paper in the General Search Appearance settings.
Changes the deactivation prevention text on the Plugins page from ‘Deactivate Yoast SEO Premium first’ to ‘Required by Yoast SEO Premium’ to avoid confusion.
v15.4 - Release Date: December 2nd, 2020
It’s here: Yoast SEO 15.4! In this release, you’ll find a seamless, easy-to-use integration of Yoast SEO with Elementor. Building websites and optimizing content for the search engines now in one workflow! Read more about what’s new in Yoast SEO 15.4 in our release post!
Enhancements:
Introduces a seamless integration of Yoast SEO content analysis into the Elementor editor.
Makes it possible to recognize forms of keyphrases in Arabic when they are preceded by certain multi-letter prefixes, e.g. والقبعة ,فسحرية, or وبالمفتاح.
Bugfixes:
Fixes a bug where post-sitemap.xml would cause a fatal error when the filter post_link required a WP_Post object. Props to stodorovic.
Fixes a bug where the core default_hidden_columns filter would be broken. Props to thomasmb.
Fixes a bug where memory could be exhausted on the page overview for users with a large number of pages.
Fixes a bug where an ArgumentCountError would be thrown on the Search Appearance settings page when using PHP 8.0.
Fixes a bug where disabling the tracking network-wide in a multisite environment did not automatically disable tracking on the sites in the network.
Fixes a bug where tracking would send partial data.
Other:
Provides YoastSEO->helpers->options->get_title_separator() as an alternative for the previously removed get_title_separator method.
Adds a wpseo_previously_used_keyword_active filter to deactivate the Previously Used Keyword analysis assessment.
v15.2.1 - Release Date: November 2nd, 2020
Bugfixes:
Fixes a bug where AMP and W3C validation would break because Twitter meta tags would contain ‘value’ attributes instead of ‘content’ attributes.
v15.2 - Release Date: October 27th, 2020
Today, we are releasing Yoast SEO 15.2 into the wild. In this release, we’ve added an interesting improvement for Slack users — better visibility for your content when your URL is shared on Slack. We also improved the performance of the plugin in the backend due to us loading less JavaScript. Read more about what’s new in 15.2 in our release post!
Enhancements:
Adds an Open Graph integration for The Events Calendar plugin. Props to Luehrsen
Sets the default schema type for Web Stories to Article. Props to swissspidy
Adds enhanced Slack sharing tags on posts and pages.
Adds a toggle for the above enhanced Slack sharing feature.
Flushes the permalinks from the indexable tables when a custom taxonomy base changes, and shows a reindex notification in that case.
Improves the loading times of admin pages where Yoast SEO is present.
Bugfixes:
Fixes a bug where we linked to Google’s Structured Data Test, which is deprecated. We now link to Google’s Rich Results Test. Props to wormeyman
Fixes a bug where the styling of the General tab in the network admin dashboard was broken.
Fixes a bug where the German passive voice assessment would show an error when the text contained a participle enclosed within curly quotation marks (e.g., "getan").
Fixes a bug where the WooCommerce product permalinks were not updated after a permalink structure change.
Fixes a bug where the replacement variable dropdown menu was partially hidden for the description inputs in all preview modals.
Fixes a bug where a fatal error would be thrown on sites that did have curl installed but did not have the PHP curl extension installed.
Other:
Removes the “Remind me in 7 days” link from the SEO data optimization notification on the Yoast SEO dashboard, which was shown for large sites with more than 2500 unindexed indexables. The notification can still be hidden by clicking the default dismiss button.
Adds the wpseo_image_data filter to enable the filtering of image metadata. Props to spacedmonkey.
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Fixes a bug where a JavaScript console warning was thrown on category edit pages.
Fixes a bug where the page number was not shown in the breadcrumb for paginated series.
Fixes a bug where the robots.txt and .htaccess file editor would not work due to get_home_path() not being a writable path. Props to druesome.
Fixes a bug where port numbers in the indexable permalinks were missing (when applicable).
Fixes a bug where the indexables table would contain incorrect permalinks for posts if the term slug had been changed and the post permalink contains the term slug.
Fixes a bug where the indexables table would contain incorrect permalinks for pages if the slug of the parent page had been changed.
Fixes a bug where a warning would occur when a query was unsuccessful while indexing post type archives. Props to Sekiphp.
Fixes a bug where closing parentheses would always be regarded as sentence endings in RTL languages.
Fixes a bug where closing parentheses would always be regarded as sentence endings when followed by an upper-case letter.
Enhancements:
Adds an update notification for major and minor releases.
Improves the SQL performance by not performing unnecessary update queries when updating a post’s public status.
Optimizes performance by preventing regular database queries.
Improves keyphrase recognition in Polish by filtering more function words.
Improves the feedback string in the Keyphrase in Subheadings assessment by making it more explicit.
Improves all keyphrase-based assessments for Hebrew by filtering function words and allowing keyphrases to be recognized in the text when preceded by a prefix (e.g., “כ” or “ל”).
We already had a filter available to change the default Schema Article type (wpseo_schema_article_post_types), but it wasn’t called anywhere. Now it is.
Other:
Adds the weekly cron schedule to the cron_schedules filter to prevent overwriting the one WordPress adds. Props to peter-webbird.
Merges the googlebot and bingbot meta tag values into the robots meta tag value and deprecates the Googlebot_Presenter and Bingbot_Presenter.
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v14.8.1 - Release Date: August 25th, 2020
Bugfixes:
Fixes a bug in WordPress itself where script concatenation was causing JavaScript errors, which in turn led to Yoast SEO malfunctioning. This bug was introduced in WordPress 5.5. We’re fixing it by disabling script concatenation entirely.
Get ready for a brand new version of Yoast SEO! In this version you’ll find new Schema functionality, an improved readability analysis for Portuguese & Indonesian, and improved keyword recognition for right-to-left languages. Read more about those changes in our release post!
Enhancements:
Adds a Schema section to the metabox and sidebar. This section allows the user to change their Schema settings on posts, pages and custom post types.
Adds a new section to the Search Appearance settings. This section allows the user to change their Schema defaults for posts, pages and custom post types.
Fixes an inconsistency in the feedback strings that are produced by the keyphrase in SEO title assessment.
Improves the accuracy of the following assessments for right-to-left languages: sentence length, keyphrase in introduction, keyphrase distribution, keyphrase density, and keyphrase in meta description.
Improves all keyphrase-based assessments for Arabic by filtering function words and by allowing keyphrases to be recognized in a text when preceded by a prefix (e.g., “ل” or “ب”).
Adds the following assessments for Indonesian: sentence beginnings, transition words and passive voice.
Adds the following assessments for Portuguese: Flesch reading ease and passive voice.
Cleans up Schema @type values:
If it’s an array with multiple values, only output unique values.
If it’s a single value, output it as a string instead of an array.
Bugfixes:
Fixes a bug where the Yoast Dashboard widget would trigger an error when other plugins or temporary conditions would make the Yoast API response fail.
Fixes a bug where block editor dependencies would be loaded unnecessarily on classic editor, causing issues with NextGEN gallery. Posts with NextGEN galleries that have been broken due to this bug will need to be re-saved.
Other:
Sets the minimum WP version to 5.4.
Optimizes the logic involved in default filters for our options. This should lead to a very small increase in performance as well as avoiding an edge case where the default filter would be removed.
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Say hi to Yoast SEO 14.7, chock-full of enhancements to help you with your site’s SEO. Have you heard about the addition of XML sitemaps in WordPress 5.5? The Yoast SEO plugin is completely prepared for this. We also have some great news for users of the Web Stories plugin. Read more about those changes in our release post!
Enhancements:
Adds support for adding metadata to Web Stories (the web-story post type) from the Web Stories plugin. Props to swissspidy
Shows a more specific notification about why the reindexing of SEO data is needed when the permalinks are reset or when the category base setting is changed.
Redirects requests to the WordPress sitemaps to the appropriate Yoast sitemap, if the Yoast sitemaps are enabled.
Adds the option for users to opt-in to allow Yoast to track some data about their site.
Optimizes script loading by removing ver parameters from scripts and styles when they’re not needed.
Adds the Yoast logo to the Yoast block categories.
Compatibility with WordPress 5.5: makes sure Yoast structured data blocks are found on more keywords and have examples in the block inserter.
Bugfixes:
Fixes a bug where a fatal error would occur in sitemaps on sites where the home URL and site URL were different. Because the cause of this was a missing style sheet, the content of the sitemaps was still there, which means Google and other search engines could still reach the sitemaps and no SEO harm was done.
Fixes a bug where reindexing would not be done for indexables without a permalink.
Fixes a bug where an indexable’s permalink remained unchanged when the categories prefix option was changed.
Fixes a bug where an inline link that opens in a new window would render undefined in the aria-label.
Fixes a bug where the indexables indexing process could not be started again without a page reload on the tools page if it failed.
Fixes a bug where a console error would be thrown because wpseoShortcodePluginL10n was not defined.
Fixes a bug where the SEO and Readability scores were no longer shown in the publish box in the classic editor.
Fixes a bug where clicking the Readability score link in the classic editor would trigger an error.
Other:
Enables the cornerstone content toggle for taxonomies.
Adds the option to filter our Schema by @type.
Removes the setting to show the date in the Google Preview. The date will now always be shown in post-type previews.
Moves the running of the SEO data indexing process to the Yoast Tools page.
