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Yoast SEO 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​

  • Improves the user direction in the configuration workout.
  • Adds a sleep interval to the WP CLI index command to limit server load while this command is running. Props to roborourke.

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where on small screens the advanced setting's search engine follow checkbox would have a misplaced center.
  • Fixes a bug where the styling of the introduction dialog in Elementor would be broken due to changes in Elementor.
  • Fixes a bug where the reading time functionality for languages other than English would incorrectly output English reading speed values.
  • Fixes a bug where certain text strings in the Google, Facebook and Twitter previews would not be translated.
  • Fixes a bug where the state of indexation was not persisted when switching between workouts and the workouts page.
  • Fixes a bug where the Workouts page wouldn't display translations.

Other​

  • Fixes some styling issues in the configuration workout.
  • Prevents SEO managers from changing the site description in the configuration workout.
  • Optimizes and compresses several .png images to reduce their size. Props to lowwebtech.