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Yoast SEO 24.9

Yoast SEO 24.9 brings more enhancements and bugfixes. Find more information about our software releases and updates here.

Enhancements​

  • Changes the applicability criteria of readability assessments so that they are shown even if there is little or no text.
  • Improves the recognition of transition words for Farsi.
  • Introduces more robust HTML processing and highlighting for the consecutive sentences assessment.
  • Improves recognition of function words for Farsi. Props to nshayanfar.

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where long sentences would be incorrectly highlighted in sentence length assessment in the default editor when they were part of a block that contained non-breaking spaces or closing tags (>).
  • Fixes a bug where the advanced replacement variables would not be visible when editing social previews in Elementor.
  • Fixes a bug where the content image would not show on social previews when editing it in Elementor.
  • Fixes a bug where Yoast modals would not be visible when using Astra plugins.
  • Fixes a bug where function words with spaces were not recognised in Farsi.

Other​

  • Adds a space before the closing slash in self-closing HTML tags to comply with recommended coding standards. Props to laxman1192.
  • Sets the WordPress tested up to version to 6.8.
  • Updates the Google AI bot name in the crawl optimization settings from Google Bard to Google Gemini.