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21.6

Yoast SEO Premium 21.6 got a power-up with advanced AI technology -- now also for WooCommerce products! Create enticing titles and meta descriptions faster than ever. Own the search results with finely tuned, AI-crafted content that speaks directly to your audience. Upgrade to Premium and experience the future of SEO, where your content works smarter for you. Find out more about what's new in Yoast SEO Premium 21.5 in our release post!

21.5

In Yoast SEO Premium 21.5, we've enhanced our crawl optimization settings. You now have the option to block web crawlers used to train various AI, like OpenAI's GPTBot, Common Crawl's CCBot, and Google-Extended, from accessing your content. Find out more about what's new in Yoast SEO Premium 21.5 in our release post!

Enhancements​

  • Adds a filter to disable the Table of Content block to prevent auto generation of html anchors for headings.
  • Adds optional blocking of the Google-Extended, ChatGPT and CCBot user-agents.
  • Improves the word compexity assessment for English by expanding the list of frequently used words.

Other​

  • Bumps the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 21.5.
  • Sets the WordPress tested up to version to 6.4.

21.4

Yoast SEO Premium 21.4 is out today. This release comes with several fixes that improve how various features function. Find out more about what's new in Yoast SEO Premium 21.4 in our release post!

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where the actionable buttons would not focus on the input fields when clicking on them in the sidebar.
  • Fixes a bug where the Maximum heading level option within the Table of Contents block would not work as expected.

Other​

  • Adds output escaping to the redirect message after adding a new redirect.
  • Bumps the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 21.4.

21.3

Yoast SEO Premium 21.3 is out now. In this release, we've improved the word complexity assessment, making it more helpful to improve your content. Find out more about what's new in Yoast SEO Premium 21.3 in our release post!

Enhancements​

  • Improves the accuracy of the word complexity assessment in English by recognizing more plural forms of non-complex words. For example, the plural form universities is not marked as a complex word anymore, just like the singular form university.

Other​

  • Bumps the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 21.3.

21.2

Yoast SEO Premium 21.2 is out now. This release brings fixes and enhancements, including an easier-to-use sidebar and improvements to the social media preview. Check it out! Find out more about what's new in Yoast SEO Premium 21.2 in our release post!

Enhancements​

  • Renames the Social preview sections to clarify which preview applies to which platform.

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where the cornerstone and inclusive language columns would be inadvertently displayed on product attribute terms.
  • Fixes a bug where the Table of Contents block header would be displayed in the user language instead of the site language.

Other​

  • Allows user to manage their consent when using the AI Generator even if the feature is turned off.
  • Avoids registering the routes related to the AI Generator when the feature is disabled.
  • Bumps the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 21.2.
  • Sets the minimum supported WordPress version to 6.2.

21.1

Yoast SEO Premium 21.1 is out today. This release brings improvements and enhancements, including ones to our new AI feature. Be sure to try that feature if you still need to! Find out more about what's new in Yoast SEO Premium 21.1 in our release post!

Other​

  • Bumps the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 21.1.
  • The AI generator functionality is unavailable if the SEO Analysis is turned off. We now show an error immediately alerting users to this after leaving the AI introduction modal.

21.0

Yoast SEO Premium 21.0 comes with AI! You can now generate titles and meta descriptions with help from generative AI. Our AI reads your content, understands it, and creates accurate, engaging titles and descriptions. Find out more about what's new in Yoast SEO Premium 21.0 in our release post!

Enhancements​

  • Introduces the AI title & description generator. You can now speed up your workflow with high-quality suggestions for titles and descriptions for your search and social appearance, at the click of a button.

Other​

  • Bumps the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 21.0.
  • Sets the WordPress tested up to version to 6.3.

20.13

Yoast SEO Premium 20.13 is out today. This release brings performance improvements, leading to a better user experience. Read all about it! Find out more about what's new in Yoast SEO Premium 20.13 in our release post!

Enhancements​

  • Introduces the Yoast\WP\SEO edirects_options_autoload filter, which can be used to override the default setting of having the redirect options autoloaded.

Other​

  • Bumps the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 20.13.
  • Sets the WordPress tested up to version to 6.3.

20.12

Yoast SEO Premium 20.12 is here and it brings you new fixes and enhancements. This update comes with optimized functionalities that will enhance your SEO efforts and simplify your journey towards better rankings. Find out more about what's new in Yoast SEO Premium 20.12 in our release post!

Enhancements​

  • Adds an edit button to the SKU and Product identifier assessments on product pages if the Yoast WooCommerce SEO plugin is installed (version 15.8 or higher).
  • We've made it easier to select a value for the site policies.

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where a heading would not be included in the table of contents when it was created by transforming a paragraph block.

Other​

  • Bumps the minimum required Free version to 20.12.

20.11

In Yoast SEO Premium 20.11, we've added a new way to help you improve your E-E-A-T. Add your publishing principles to your site settings, and we'll add the proper schema. Read all about it! Find out more about what's new in Yoast SEO Premium 20.11 in our release post!

Enhancements​

  • Adds support for structured data about a site's policies and publishing principles.

Other​

  • Bumps the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 20.11.

20.10

Yoast SEO Premium 20.10 is here. We've added a new support page that helps Premium users contact our dedicated support team quickly. In addition, we've done a regular round of fixes and enhancements, including improvements to the crawl optimization settings. Find out more about what's new in Yoast SEO Premium 20.10 in our release post!

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where the icons for cornerstone and inclusive language in the taxonomy overview would not show a tooltip when hovering over them.

Other​

  • Bumps the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 20.10.

20.9

Yoast SEO 20.9 has an exciting enhancement to the Wincher integration, namely a brand-new dashboard widget that makes tracking your keyphrase rankings a breeze. Plus, we've taken care of any pesky bugs and made general improvements to enhance your user experience. Find out more about what's new in Yoast SEO Premium 20.9 in our release post!

Enhancements​

  • Adds an inclusive language score filter to the posts overview.

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where a fatal error would be thrown in the block editor with PHP 8.0+ when additional keyphrases are stored in the DB in a malformed way.

Other​

  • Bumps the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 20.9.

20.8

In the 20.8 release of Yoast SEO Premium, we've added a new feature to help you monitor inclusive language in your posts. You can now see your post's inclusive language scores in the WordPress post overview. Here's how that works! Find out more about what's new in Yoast SEO Premium 20.8 in our release post!

Enhancements​

  • Adds a column to the table on the post overview page which shows the inclusive language score.

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where warnings about duplicated keys for components would be thrown in the Block Editor.

Other​

  • Bumps the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 20.8.

20.7

We've just released Yoast SEO 20.7. Packed with fixes and enhancements to help you boost your website. Yoast SEO Premium has a new feature that lets you quickly discover your cornerstone content articles on your WordPress post overview. Upgrade today and take your website to the next level! Find out more about what's new in Yoast SEO Premium 20.7 in our release post!

20.6

Yoast SEO 20.6, released today, has enhancements and fixes to help your SEO. The latest update incorporates a new readability analysis, an extremely useful feature that alerts you whenever you overuse center-aligned text. Of course, there's more to discover! Find out more about what's new in Yoast SEO Premium 20.6 in our release post!

Enhancements​

  • Adds a text alignment assessment to the readability analysis in Block editor.

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where a wrong redirect preview URL would be shown when WordPress was installed in a subdirectory.

Other​

  • Adds a dismissible notification for the removal of the Zapier integration when the integration is enabled.
  • Bumps the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 20.6.

20.5

Yoast SEO 20.5 includes a host of exciting improvements and fixes. One of the most noteworthy updates is the improved Google SERP preview that aligns with Google's current styling for mobile and desktop. For more information about these updates, please read all about our latest release. Find out more about what's new in Yoast SEO Premium 20.5 in our release post!

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where the highlighting for the word complexity assessment would not be applied to the first sentence of a paragraph when that paragraph contained a new line character.

Other​

  • Bumps minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 20.5.
  • Drops compatibility with PHP 5.6, 7.0 and 7.1.
  • Fixes security issues.

20.4

Have you tried the crawl optimization settings in Yoast SEO? We can lower your site's carbon footprint by reducing the number of irrelevant pages and resources crawled by search engines. With over 13 million Yoast SEO users, imagine our impact! Try it today and help our quest for a better and greener world. Find out more about what's new in Yoast SEO Premium 20.4 in our release post!

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where the previously used keyword assessment would potentially link to an empty page of results when the focus keyphrase had been used as a related keyphrase.

Other​

  • Bumps minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 20.4.
  • Sets the WordPress tested up to version to 6.2.

20.3

Yoast SEO Premium 20.3 is out today. For this release, we did a round of enhancements and fixes. For one, we made improvements to the redirect manager making it easier to use. Check out the post for more information! Find out more about what's new in Yoast SEO Premium 20.3 in our release post!

Enhancements​

  • Makes links in the redirect manager clickable, to help with testing.
  • Defers redirect management to the plugins_loaded hook to avoid a timing misalignment between the redirect manager and the Wordfence live traffic monitor.
  • Enhances the word complexity assessment for English by filtering out more function words.

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where reactivating Premium would switch usage tracking on regardless of the value set by the user.

Other​

  • Bumps minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 20.3.

20.2.1

Other​

  • Bumps the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 20.2.1.

20.2

Today, we're launching Yoast SEO Premium 20.2. In this release, we've improved our indexables database technology. This database system helps us understand your site quicker while also making your site perform better. It also helps us do our best to make the web greener and lays the groundwork for exciting future possibilities. Find out more about what's new in Yoast SEO 20.2 Premium in our release post!

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where a fatal error would be thrown when Premium was installed alongside other plugins using the WHIP library.
  • Fixes a bug where orphaned prominent words would remain in the database after their post or term had been deleted.

Other​

  • Bumps minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 20.2.

20.1

In Yoast SEO 20.1, we're launching an integration with Mastodon, the decentralized social network. Among other things, this makes it easy for Yoast SEO Premium users to verify their profile link. Additionally, we've improved our inclusive language analysis to help you reach a wider audience with your content. Upgrade now! Find out more about what's new in Yoast SEO 20.1 Premium in our release post!

Enhancements​

  • Adds an integration to easily verify the link to your website on your Mastodon profile.
  • Adds an integration with Easy Digital Downloads to improve its Schema output and connect it to the Yoast Schema graph.

Other​

  • Bumps minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 20.1.

20.0

Yoast SEO 20.0 Premium comes with a brand new settings interface, which we've put in a lot of effort to make visually pleasing and functional. You'll find it a breeze to work on your SEO, and it's just the start of many amazing developments. Check it out! Find out more about what's new in Yoast SEO 20.0 Premium in our release post!

Other​

  • Bumps the Yoast SEO minimum required version to 20.0.

19.7

The latest version of Yoast SEO Premium, 19.7, includes the first set of improvements to the inclusive language analysis feature. These updates make the analysis more effective at identifying terms used in specific contexts and provide better feedback to writers. Give it a try! Read more about what’s new in Yoast SEO Premium 19.7 in our release post!

Enhancements​

  • Improves the prominent words section in Insights and the internal linking suggestions by excluding URLs and email addresses from the prominent words.

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a redirect loop in the search cleanup, when search includes encoded characters.

Other​

  • Bumps the Yoast SEO minimum required version to 19.14.
  • Sets minimum WP version to 6.0.

19.6

Yoast SEO Premium 19.6 is out today. In this release, we've mostly focused on smaller improvements. We've also made the inclusive language analysis available to all users of Yoast SEO. Haven't tried it yet? Please do; it can help you expand your audience. Read more about what’s new in Yoast SEO Premium 19.6 in our release post!

19.5

Yoast SEO Premium 19.5 is out now. This release mostly consists of bug fixes and enhancements. In addition, we’re getting our WordPress plugins ready for the upcoming High Performance Order Storage feature in WooCommerce 7.1+. Check it out! Read more about what’s new in Yoast SEO Premium 19.5 in our release post in English or our release post in Spanish!

Other​

  • Bumps the Yoast SEO minimum required version to 19.10.
  • Ensures compatibility with the High Performance Order Storage feature in WooCommerce 7.1+.
  • Sets the WordPress tested up to version to 6.1.

19.3

Today, we’re releasing Yoast SEO Premium 19.3. We’ve rolled out some general enhancements, bug fixes, and security improvements in this release. Update now! Read more about what's new in Yoast SEO Premium 19.3 in our release post in English or our release post in Spanish!

Enhancements​

  • Adds an option to prevent the crawling of site search pages.
  • Adds an option to prevent the crawling of /wp-json/.

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where the get_suggestions method would also return unrelated post types when you passed a post_type parameter.

19.2.1

Other​

  • Fixes compliance with the wordpress.org plugin guidelines.

19.0.1

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where the custom IDs of headings would be overwritten when editing a post with the block editor while having Yoast SEO Premium activated.

Other​

  • Temporarily reverts a fix that automatically included subheadings in the Table of Content (ToC) when they were upgraded from a paragraph block in order to prevent the above bug. We will revisit this bug to bring back a more stable fix in the future.

18.7

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 our release post in English or our release post in Spanish!

18.6

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 our release post in English or our release post in Spanish!

Enhancements​

  • 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.

Other​

  • Sets minimum WordPress version to 5.9 and tested up to 6.0.
  • Sets the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 19.0.

18.5

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 our release post in English or our release post in Spanish!

Bugfixes​

  • 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.

Other​

  • Sets the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 18.9.

18.4

Meet Yoast SEO Premium 18.4: a small Yoast SEO update, fixing a number of bugs, including several bugs related to the Wincher integration. With the Wincher integration, you can track the rankings of your articles in the search results. If you haven’t checked that feature out, please do so! We’ve also improved compatibility with PHP 8.1. Read more about what's new in Yoast SEO Premium 18.4 in our release post in English or our release post in Spanish!

Other​

  • Sets the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 18.6.
  • Improves PHP 8.1 compatibility by preventing some deprecation warnings.
  • Prevents an unnecessary PHP warning when installing the free version of the plugin and the destination folder is not writable.

18.3

Say hi to Yoast SEO Premium 18.3! You'll find a number of fixes and enhancements. We've also included more improvements to the rebuild of the AIOSEO importer, and we fixed a bug that prohibited us to display the text in the estimated reading time block in the site language. Happy updating! Read more about what's new in Yoast SEO Premium 18.3 in our release post in English or our release post in Spanish!

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where the word 'minute/minutes' would be in the user language, instead of the site language, for the estimated reading time block in the frontend.
  • Fixes a bug where Yoast modals would close after opening after editing content in Elementor.

Other​

  • Sets the minimum required Yoast SEO version to 18.5.
  • Sets the minimum required WordPress version to 5.8.

18.2.1

Other​

  • Reverts the 18.2 release due to errors in the WordProof integration in Yoast SEO.

18.2

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where the word 'minute/minutes' would be in the user language, instead of the site language, for the estimated reading time block in the frontend.

Other​

  • Sets the minimum required WordPress version to 5.8.
  • Bumps the minimum required Yoast SEO version to 18.4.

18.0

Yoast SEO Premium 18.0 is out today! This new release brings another round of bug fixes, plus a new way for us to handle the translations in our plugin — leading to a smaller plugin size for you to install. Plus: improved compatibility with WordPress 5.9. Read more about what's new in Yoast SEO Premium 18.0 in our release post in English or our release post in Spanish!

Other​

  • Switches from packaged script translations to those from wordpress.org in order to reduce ZIP size and disk usage.
  • Improves compatibility with WordPress 5.9 by preventing a Javascript error in the Site Editor.
  • Sets WooCommerce tested up to version to 6.1.
  • Sets the WordPress tested up to version to 5.9.
  • Sets the minimum required Yoast SEO version to 18.1.

17.9

Yoast SEO 17.9 is now available! Yoast SEO now comes with a keyphrase tracking tool powered by Wincher that lets you monitor your keyphrases, straight from the plugin! Make sure to try out this new keyphrase tracking feature and let us know what you think. Read more about what's new in Yoast SEO 17.9 in our release post in English or our release post in Spanish!

Enhancements​

  • Introduces word form support for Japanese.

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where a fatal error would be thrown when trying to retrieve the URL of a non-existing taxonomy.

Other​

  • Replaces the workout assistant images in the Cornerstone and Orphaned workout.
  • Bumps minimum required Free version to 17.9.

17.8

Yoast SEO 17.8 is out now and ready for you to download. In this release, we fix a number of bugs and added a few enhancements for you to enjoy! Read more about what's new in Yoast SEO 17.8 in our release post in English or our release post in Spanish!

Enhancements​

  • Updates the social previews to adapt to the most recent social media platform changes.

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where the Orphaned Content and Cornerstone Content workouts wouldn't display translations.

Other​

  • Sets the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 17.8.

17.7

Meet Yoast SEO 17.7! This release introduces a new configuration workout to help you set up the Yoast SEO plugin properly from the get-go. Get the basic settings right in Yoast SEO and create a solid foundation for your SEO! Read more about what's new in Yoast SEO 17.7 in our release post in English or our release post in Spanish!

Enhancements​

  • Optimizes the loading of the redirect options by reducing the amount of queries to the database.

Other​

  • Updates the minimum Yoast SEO version to 17.7.

17.6

Yoast SEO 17.6 is out today! This new release brings several fixes and enhancements to improve how the plugin works. And we’re getting it ready for the upcoming WordPress 5.9 release. Go check it out! Read more about what's new in Yoast SEO 17.6 in our release post in English or our release post in Spanish!

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where the social media share previews images, when in landscape mode, did not match the aspect ratio of their respective platform.
  • Fixes a bug where anchors of headings used in the table of contents block were not generated correctly for headers with non-Latin characters.
  • Fixes a bug where the Block titles of our Table of Contents, Related Links, Siblings and Subpages blocks weren't translatable.

Other​

  • The plugin will no longer block installation on PHP 8.0+ when installed via Composer.
  • Ups the minimum required Free version to 17.6.

17.5

Say hello to Yoast SEO 17.5! Or maybe γεια would fit better, as this release introduces full Greek language support. Plus: you’ll also be able to find | and ~ title separators again. Happy updating! Read more about what's new in Yoast SEO 17.5 in our release post in English or our release post in Spanish!

Enhancements​

  • Introduces word form support for Greek.

Other​

  • Ups the minimum required Free version to 17.5.

17.4

Yoast SEO 17.4 is out today! This release comes with several fixes and enhancements to help database performance on larger sites by cleaning up data and streamlining retrieval. Happy updating! Read more about what’s new in Yoast SEO 17.4 in our release post in English or our release post in Spanish!

Enhancements​

  • Cleans up old unused database items related to a previous version of the internal linking suggestion feature. This will reduce the size of your website's database and make your site a little bit faster.

Other​

  • Changes some copy in the Orphaned Content and Cornerstone Content workouts.
  • Ups the minimum required Free version to 17.4.

17.3

Yoast SEO 17.3 is out today! We’ve revamped the two available SEO workouts. It’s become really easy to identify what content you should optimize. Start cleaning up your website and improve your internal linking structure for optimized results in search engines! If you haven’t tried the SEO workouts yet, now is the time to do so!