Yoast SEO changelog

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where network-wide settings were not saved on multisite environments.

Content analysis recalibration (beta):

• As there are already a lot of users who are participating in testing, we currently have enough input to start preparing for the release of the improved analysis.

• Removes the ability to enable beta testing for new installations.

• When the feature is disabled, the ability to re-enable it will disappear.

Content analysis recalibration (beta):

• Adds a toggle feature for subscribing to the recalibration beta under SEO -> General -> Features.

• When the recalibration feature is enabled:

• The single title assessment is added. This assessment makes sure that you don't use superfluous H1s in your text.

• Assessments changes:

• Keyphrase density: changes scoring schema to account for the length of the keyphrase and changes feedback strings so that we give feedback about the number of occurrences rather than a percentage.

• Outbound links assessment: changes the scoring schema so that red bullet instead of an orange bullet is shown when you have no outbound links.

• Image alt attributes: if there are at least 5 images, checks whether the alt tags contain the keyphrase or synoynyms in 30-70% of all images. If there are less than 5 images, 1 image with the keyphrase or synonym in the alt tag is still scored as good.

• Keyphrase in title: function words preceding the exact match keyphrase are ignored when determining the position of the keyphrase in the title.

• Keyphrase length: makes the scoring scheme less strict for languages that don't have function word support, so that for these languages keyphrases with 1-6 words are scored as green, 7-9 as orange, and more than 9 as red.

• Keyphrase in subheading: only takes H2 and H3 level subheadings into account and changes the scoring schema so that 30%-75% of these subheadings need to include the keyphrase or its synonyms. In languages without function word support, a match is only counted if all the words from the keyphrase/synonym appear in the subheading.

• Text length: on taxonomy pages, the recommended minimum text length is increased from 150 to 250 words.

• Assessment removals:

• The assessment checking the length or your URL.

• The assessment checking whether your URL contains stopwords.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the title and meta description field’s cursor would jump to the start when typing.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the metabox was broken when using the classic editor plugin.
• Fixes a bug where the Chrome browser tab would crash on Windows when a French or Italian text contains sentences in passive voice, props CarloCannas.
• Fixes a bug where the Yoast SEO analysis would error if used together with the DelightfulDownloads plugin.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where it was impossible to change the profile in the Search Console integration step in the configuration wizard.
• Fixes a bug where the primary taxonomy picker was not shown in Gutenberg (v4.1).

Bugfixes​

• Fixes error with using $ in wp-seo-admin-media.js. Now we use jQuery instead.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the cornerstone content toggle was available for attachment pages.
• Fixes a bug where the Search Console page displayed 'first detected' and 'last crawled' dates that were in the future.

Enhancements​

• Introduces the wpseo_taxonomy_content_fields filter to add additional fields to the taxonomy metabox.
• Adds a margin below select fields so there's space between taxonomy settings for breadcrumbs. Props to @emilyatmobtown

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the Chrome or Opera browser tab would crash on Windows when a Polish text contains sentences in passive voice.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where our JavaScript memory usage would increase indefinitely. This could result in a browser crash after a long enough period.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes compatibility with Gutenberg 3.7, which removed a feature we were relying on.
• Fixes a bug where the Twitter meta-tags would not have the snippet variables replaced with their dynamic values.
• Fixes a bug where the og:url would not be set to the canonical URL if the canonical URL is explicitly set on Post types, Terms or Tags.
• Fixes a bug on the Term page when editting the slug, it would not be updated in the Snippet Preview directly.

Bugfixes​

• Disables WordPress' automatic conversion of emoji to images on every page where the snippet editor is present. This conversion is not compatible with React or content editable fields and broke the snippet editor.
• Fixes text directionality for the title and description fields in the snippet editor for right-to-left languages.
• Fixes a bug where the snippet title and description values were saved to the database if they did match the post-type template.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the snippet variables selection is hidden behind the WordPress menu when using a right-to-left language.
• Fixes styling in the snippet preview when using a right-to-left language.
• Fixes a bug where the 'insert snippet variable' button placement was inconsistent.
• Migrates WooCommerce Product archive settings to the Shop page, if present and not already set on the Shop page.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where disabling the post_format archive would result in it actually being enabled and vice versa.
• Fixes an issue where all replacement variables were being displayed instead of the recommended ones.

Other​

• Restores currentyear as a snippet variable.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where a JavaScript error was thrown on the post-edit page when certain plugins are active.
• Fixes a bug where stylesheet definitions would impact form fields of metaboxes on the post-edit pages. The definitions have been contained in a Yoast-selector.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the auto-generating of the slug did not work as expected due to persisting of the post name too agressively.

Enhancements​

• Adds readability analysis for Russian.
• Improves accessibility.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where images with specific aspect ratios where removed from OpenGraph consideration. This was causing unexpected results with Facebook sharing. The aspect ratio check has been removed completely.
• Fixes a bug where sentences ending in multiple sentence marks, exclamation marks or ellipses were treated as multiple sentences.
• Fixes a bug where attempting to get Yoast SEO options in multi-site, would result in wrong values being returned.
• Fixes a bug where the sitemap styling could not be loaded when the Site domain differs from the Admin domain.
• Fixes a bug where the admin bar still used old copy: Dashboard has been renamed to General.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes automatic image size detection for OpenGraph images. When an image was used that was too large, we wouldn't output the og:image tag. That is now fixed.
• Fixes a bug where portrait images where not allowed for the OpenGraph image.

Bugfixes​

• Re-adds wpseo_opengraph_image_size filter. This will completely override any automatic size determination our code does. This filter now also applies to all ways an og:image can be determined: In the content, as a featured image or as set in our Facebook image setting.
• Fixes an unintended backwards incompatible change which caused "Warning: Illegal string offset ‘url’ in".
• Fixes an unintended change which caused SVGs to be included in consideration for the og:image tag. SVG images are not allowed by Facebook, so these should never be used in the og:image tag.

Enhancements​

• Updates all Help Center videos with new recordings.
• Adds functionality to import noindex, nofollow and OpenGraph tags from All in One SEO Pack.
• Improves consistency of capitalization in settings and tabs.
• Improves the traffic light icon accessibility.
• Changes the words 'post type' into 'content type' throughout the plugin.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the Facebook app-id could no longer be set in the Social settings.
• Fixes a bug where existing Yoast SEO data could be overwritten when importing data from All in One SEO Pack.
• Fixes a bug where the Ryte notification is not removed when disabling the Ryte feature.
• Fixes a bug where setting a page to noindex through the wpseo_robots filter did not properly remove the canonical element.
• Fixes a bug where attachments connected to password-protected parents are included in the sitemaps. Props Scott Carter.
• Fixes alignment of the Go Premium notice.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the option settings that needs to be migrated are backfilled prematurely, resulting in settings not being migrated as expected.
• Fixes a bug where adding a wpseo_sitemap_entries_per_page is not being applied as expected.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where a fatal error occurs on a taxonomy edit page when social graphs has been disabled for either Facebook or Twitter.
• Fixes a bug where the breadcrumb path were missing parent entries.
• Fixes a bug where RSS before and after content settings were being cleaned too aggressively.
• Fixes the problem that other plugins are depending on the options we've removed. This patch adds those options as backfills to make them available again.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the some settings are not properly migrated after upgrading to 7.0.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where a non-existing JavaScript chunk file was loaded, causing a console error. This only affected users using a locale different than en_US.

Enhancements​

• Allows more strings to be translated.
• Adds the passive voice assessment for French.
• Adds the passive voice assessment for Spanish.
• Simplifies the feedback message for the assessment that checks whether subheadings contain the keyword.

Bugfixes​

• Security hardening through stricter code checks.
• Reduces the number of times the content analysis is refreshed on page load.
• Fixes a bug where relative URLs were not counted as internal links in the internal link assessment.
• Fixes a bug where Premium users would be shown ads when following a certain path through the SEO menu.
• Fixes a bug where the method of setting the title and meta description templates for the WooCommerce shop page would not work anymore.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where sitemaps could not be generated when there one or more galleries in the content.

Enhancements​

• Allows more strings to be translated.
• Replaces any Yoast domain URLs with shortlink alternatives.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the internal links aren't recognized when the site_url is not the same as the home_url.
• Fixes a bug where the user locale is not used for the Help Center when it is different from the site locale.
• Removes unsupported PHP 5.2 arguments in an array_unique call in the Term image sitemap.
• Removes unsupported PHP 5.3 arguments in a json_encode call in the notification functionality.
• Added support for locales without territory (examples: et, fi) - Props Peeter Marvet.
• Added support support for 3-letter language codes (example: rhg) - Props Peeter Marvet.
• Fixes a JavaScript compatibility issue by prefixing the webpack jsonP function with yoast - Props Raitis Sevelis from Visual Composer.

Enhancements​

• Adds support for custom page titles and meta descriptions on the WooCommerce shop page. Props Caleb Burks.
• Adds support for custom page social titles and descriptions on the WooCommerce shop page.
• Adds a link to the Google Knowledge Graph article on Yoast.com. Props Raaj Trambadia.
• Adds a link to an article on Yoast.com on why it might be a bad idea to use the same keyword more than once.
• Changed the meta description maximum recommended length from 156 to 320 characters.

Bugfixes​

• Disables the mark buttons of the content analysis when switched to text view.
• Hides the mark buttons when the WYSIWYG editor is not loaded or the filter wpseo_enable_assessment_markers returns false.
• Security hardening through stricter code checks.

Security​

• Fixes an issue where a part of the excerpt would be leaked on password protected posts when used as a replacement variable. Such as %%excerpt%% and %%excerpt_only%%. Props to Rolands Umbrovskis for reporting this issue to us.