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Yoast SEO 20.9

In Yoast SEO 20.9, you'll find improvements to our Wincher integration. We've added a dashboard widget to track your keyphrase rankings. We've also done the usual fixes and made enhancements. Find out more about what's new in Yoast SEO 20.9 in our release post!

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.