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Yoast SEO 5.5

Enhancements

  • Updated the Dashboard Widget with a new design.
  • Added additional explanations to the Configuration wizard.
  • Added contentinfo landmark for assistive technologies to the Configuration wizard page.
  • Introduces wpseo_manager and wpseo_editor roles.
  • Introduces wpseo_manage_options capability to control which users have access to all SEO settings.
  • Introduces wpseo_edit_advanced_metadata capability to control which users have access to the advanced SEO settings.

Bugfixes

  • Fixed a bug where certain options (site_type, environment_type and has_multiple_authors) would be reset to their default value whenever one of the feature toggles were changed.
  • Ensured that has_multiple_authors gets validated.