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Yoast SEO 14.1

Despite weeks and weeks of testing Yoast SEO 14.0, there were still some people running into issues. In Yoast SEO 14.1, we’re improving things to help stabilize the plugin. Read more about those changes in our release post!

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where the help text about Yoast Columns would be shown in the Help Tab on post overviews when there were no Yoast Columns. Additionally, the help text has been refined to only show information about columns that are actually shown. Props to glebkema.
  • Fixes a bug where an empty breadcrumb would be output when a taxonomy was set to have a post type archive in its breadcrumb when that post type didn't have an archive.
  • Fixes a bug where a part of the breadcrumb path was missing on search result pages.
  • Fixes a bug where an error would be thrown and indexing could not be completed due to posts or terms having themselves as a parent or grandparent.
  • Fixes a bug where the SEO data was unnecessarily being indexed when a non-public term or taxonomy was being saved.
  • Fixes a bug where the SEO data of an object would be indexed twice during the indexing process when it was an ancestor of another object in the same REST request.
  • Fixes a bug where huge log files would be generated if PHP was configured to also log the arguments in debug backtraces.
  • Fixes a bug where indexing would continue even though it had already indexed all objects.
  • Fixes a bug where term indexing would keep going on forever due to plugin conflicts.
  • Fixes a bug where primary terms of a custom taxonomy where not being reflected in the breadcrumb.
  • Fixes a bug where the URL in the schema breadcrumbs of search pages would be missing.
  • Fixes a bug where the wpseo_remove_reply_to_com filter was not working.
  • Fixes a bug where no metadata would be output on the frontend when the tables necessary for the indexables could not be created
  • Fixes a bug where the indexing notification would be shown on the WordPress updates page when updating themes or plugins.
  • Fixes a bug where the yoast index --network WP CLI command would throw an error when the database migrations for one or more subsites on a multisite environment had not been run yet.
  • Fixes a bug where no or incorrect breadcrumbs where shown for 404 pages, author archives and date archives. Props to amitsidhpura.

Enhancements​

  • Moves the text link counter notification from the SEO Dashboard to the WordPress' Site Health.
  • Makes the "You're blocking access to robots" notification site-wide.
  • Improves the copy for the "cannot fetch" response of the Ryte health check.
  • Removes the notification containing the message that you should check your post type archive settings when these are possibly reset to their defaults in Yoast SEO 7.7 or 7.8.
  • Reimplements the Advanced Settings tab in React.
  • Improves the ordering of items in XML sitemaps to match SQL standards. Props to rafaelbernard.
  • Improves the transition word assessment for Hungarian. Props to @Zsoru.
  • Adds the --reindex flag to the indexables WP CLI command to remove all existing indexables and then reindex all content.
  • Adds the wpseo_robots_array filter to enable the filtering of the robots array used for the robots meta tag output.
  • Adds the wpseo_shutdown_indexation_limit filter to enable the filtering of the number of objects that can remain unindexed. These remaining objects will automatically be indexed without needing any user interaction as a shutdown function.
  • Adds debug information to the error that is shown when Yoast SEO was unable to create the necessary database tables.
  • Optimizes finding attachments by URL. This addresses a primary cause of higher server load issues occurring since 14.0.
  • Adds a warning to the metabox that is shown when a user enters a focus keyphrase that contains more than 191 characters.
  • Makes the copy of the indexing setting in the advanced tab consistent between all contexts (post, page, category, etc.).
  • Adds the term_id for terms in the object that can be filtered with the wpseo_breadcrumb_links and wpseo_breadcrumb_single_link_info filters. Props to amitsidhpura.
  • Adds a time estimation to the indexing notification based on the amount of objects that need to be indexed.
  • Adds a button to the indexing notification to hide it for a week when more than 2500 objects need to be indexed.
  • Improves the notification that is shown when there were problems creating the necessary database tables.

Other​

  • Deletes the unnecessarily created indexables of private taxonomies.