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Yoast SEO 27.2

Yoast SEO 27.2 brings more enhancements and bugfixes. Find more information about our software releases and updates here.

Enhancements​

  • Enhances the task list with tasks about the SEO and readability of recent posts.
  • Replaces the Toast with a ModalNotification dialog in the task list opt-in notification for improved accessibility, focus trapping, and keyboard navigation.
  • Updates the Google Preview on WooCommerce product pages to show the rating as best out of 5, in line with how SERPs visualize the schema structure generated by Woocommerce. This change only applies when Yoast WooCommerce SEO is installed.

Bugfixes​

  • Adds sanitization to duration text for the HowTo block.
  • Fixes a bug where ImageObject id related to Person Schema was not a fully-qualified, absolute URL.
  • Fixes a bug where structured data broke when script tag was used in the step description of the HowTo block.
  • Fixes a bug where the "Additional CSS class(es)" field was missing from the link popover when Yoast SEO was active. Props to somecodeiwrote.
  • Fixes a bug where the Schema aggregator could break if another plugin returns null from the rest_pre_serve_request filter.
  • Fixes a bug where the Schema aggregator response headers processor was called even when the feature was off.

Other​

  • Adds more loading tasks to the tasks list on the general page.