v23.7
October 22, 2024
Yoast SEO 23.7 brings more enhancements and bugfixes. Find more information about our software releases and updates here.
Enhancements
Removes the keyphrase in slug assessment for static home pages.
Bug fixes
Fixes a bug where a database error would occur when there were no public taxonomies available for indexing.
Fixes a bug where another plugin running the exit() function inside the plugin_loaded hook would result in a fatal error. Props to menno-ll.
Other
Removes translation strings that are not meant for the Yoast SEO Free version from the plugin.
Resets the notice for search engines discouraged when changing Search engine visibility to visible.
V 22.6 April 30, 2024
Enhancements
Adds a helpful error message in the Yoast sidebar/metabox in case of plugin or theme conflicts. Now when an unknown error occurs, the error is caught and an error message is shown. Before, the error would lead to a blank sidebar/metabox, or to an entire blank page.
Improves performance when it comes to storing user metadata, most visible at the point of author sitemap creation.
Improves the keyphrase detection in SEO title for Arabic and Hebrew. For example, when the keyphrase is "باندا حمراء" and the SEO title starts with "الباندا الحمراء", we now recognize this as an exact match and give a good result for the keyphrase in SEO title assessment.
Bugfixes
Fixes a bug where a PHP notice in the settings would influence the styling of some of our inputs.
Fixes a bug where the inserted variables in the search appearance would not show correctly when using Elementor.
Fixes a bug where there would be a fatal error when deleting post meta in PHP 8.1 and higher. Props to @izzygld.
Fixes a security issue where URLs were not correctly escaped in the Yoast admin bar menu.
Other
Introduces a notice on the WordPress dashboard and the Yoast SEO dashboard to let users know we are dropping support for PHP < 7.4 starting November 1st, 2024.
June 13, 2023
Enhancements
- Adds a new widget on the dashboard that shows your top keywords added to Yoast SEO with Wincher. Provides a connection button if you haven't yet connected your site to Wincher.
- Tightens crawl optimization site search blocking rules.
- We now automatically schedule background performance optimization processes (via WP Cron).
Bugfixes
- Fixes a bug where a fatal error would occur after updating the plugin due to a failed query.
- Fixes a bug where indexables would be created when using the wp yoast index WP CLI command on a staging site.
- Fixes a bug where the link popover position in the block editor would be positioned incorrectly when adding or creating links.
- Fixes a bug where the Yoast SEO metabox would crash in conjunction with Yoast SEO Premium when additional keyphrases are stored in the DB in a malformed way.
v18.8 - June 28th, 2022
In Yoast SEO Premium 18.8, we’re expanding our recently introduced crawl settings with search spam blockers and URL parameters cleanup. In addition, we’re adding an integration with IndexNow to instantly ping search engines like Microsoft Bing whenever you publish or update content. Check it out! Read more about what’s new in Yoast SEO Premium 18.8 in our release post in English or our release post in Spanish!
Enhancements:
Other:
- Enhances the Crawl settings with new features which allow filtering out long phrases, emojis, special characters and other patterns from searches, to prevent search spam.
- Enhances the Crawl settings with new features which allow filtering out campaign tracking and unregistered parameters from URLs, to redirect visitors and crawlers to the cleaned-up permalink.
- Adds a feature that allows pinging IndexNow to make sure newly published and/or changed URLs are indexed by Bing, Yandex, Seznam and other search engines more rapidly.
- Bumps minimum required Free version to 19.2.
v18.7 = June 14th, 2022
In Yoast SEO Premium 18.7, we’re expanding our recently introduced crawl settings. These features will let you turn off different things WordPress automatically adds to your site. Hardly anyone uses these, but these do add overhead to your site. You now have much more control over what you want search engines to crawl on your WordPress site. Check it out! Read more about what’s new in Yoast SEO Premium 18.7 in or !
Enhancements:
Bugfixes:
- Adds a series of features to remove unneeded links and content from a site’s <head> section.
- Adds more settings to disable the global feed, all the Atom/RDF feeds and the feeds for comments, post authors, categories, tags, custom taxonomies, post types and search results.
- Improves the accuracy of the Keyphrase in slug assessment by recognizing different word forms of hyphenated keyphrases in the slug (e.g. if keyphrase is ex-husband and slug is ex-husbands).
Other:
- Fixes a bug where the term SEO title and meta description would not be exported.
- Sets the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 19.1.
Say hi to Yoast SEO Premium 18.6! In this release, we’re introducing more ways to control crawling on your site. We’re starting with a small addition to manage post comment feeds, but we’re expanding that in the coming releases. The feature is in beta, so we welcome your feedback! Read more about what’s new in Yoast SEO Premium 18.6 in or !
Enhancements:
Other:
- Introducing a new feature set to manage crawling on your site. In Yoast SEO Premium 18.6, we’re starting with an initial crawl setting to turn off RSS feeds of post comments. This will be expanded over time.
- Sets minimum WordPress version to 5.9 and tested up to 6.0.
- Sets the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 19.0.
Meet Yoast SEO Premium 18.5: This release includes some changes to make the Premium plugin work well with the new First-time configuration and some more fixes and enhancements to enjoy! Read more about what’s new in Yoast SEO Premium 18.5 in or !
Bugfixes:
Other:
- Fixes a bug where a regex redirection would be created without a leading slash.
- Fixes a bug where the thank you page would not be fully visible on certain screen widths.
- Sets the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 18.9.