Yoast SEO changelog - page 16

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the tabs in the social and advanced metabox section are gone when keyword analysis has been disabled.

Enhancements​

• Optimizes the way the cornerstone flag is saved.
• Analyzes the content using cornerstone assessors when a post or page is cornerstone content.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the analysis wouldn't work on Internet Explorer.

Enhancements​

• Adds transition words for Italian.
• Adds a new check in the analysis for the presence of at least one internal link.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the _yst_is_cornerstone meta value was not prefixed, causing some themes/plugins to output this meta value.
• Fixes a bug where style and script elements were parsed for the prominent words.
• Fixes a bug where the cursor pointer was in front of the metabox.

Enhancements​

• Improves a language string, props Sören Wrede.
• Improves the configuration wizard with clear information about the configuration.
• Adds the ability to mark posts as cornerstone content.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes an issue in combination with WooCommerce 3.0 where the plugins would load incompatible select2 versions.

• Additions
• Adds a message about the PHP version for WordPress installations that run on PHP 5.2. The warning also has pointers on how to address this situation. We have an article about why we are doing this on yoast.com.

Bugfixes​

• Adds a check for the breadcrumbs-home option to prevent a blank entry being added to the crumbs array, props codemonkeynorth

Enhancements​

• Throws a warning in the admin for the RS Head Cleaner plugin, because the plugin cloaks.
• Improves copy about Yoast SEO Premium benefits.
• Adds link to our knowledge base article about connecting your website to Google Search Console.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where a span tag wasn't closed correctly, props lubobill1990.
• Fixes a bug where there were deprecation warnings shown when an existing author was being updated.
• Fixes a bug where the user received an 'insufficient rights' error when the advanced settings are disabled, but an advanced page is visited.

Enhancements​

• Moves the options to disable keyword and content analysis from the general tab to the features tab.
• Improves styling of tables so they are viewable on mobile.
• Changes the links into shortlinks for the extensions page, helpcenter, facebook settings and premium popup.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes the width of the readability column on post overview, props rikayla.

Enhancements​

• Improves feedback text for subheading too long assessment.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a fatal error "Call to undefined method yoast_i18nset_api_url()". This error occurred with certain other plugins that also include the i18n-module.
• Fixes a bug where some strings wouldn't be translated.
• Makes the Yoast SEO menu top and first item visible in the responsive view.
• Fixes a bug where the yoast icon on the credits page wasn't displayed properly in some views.

Enhancements​

• Improves the styling of the notification center.
• Improves the styling of the title separators.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the sitemaps were being invalidated too often.
• Fixes a bug where the 'meta keywords' meta box section stayed visible when switching to the readability tab.

Enhancements​

• Moves translations from translate.yoast.com to translate.wordpress.org.
• Improves the styling of the featured image warning and sends an audible message for screen readers.
• Makes the left sidebar of the meta box responsive.
• Removes unused heading from the meta box.
• Improves responsiveness for settings pages.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a glitch in the notification center where a notification would be shown twice.
• Fixes a bug where the realtime analysis didn't work on term pages.
• Fixes a bug where the sitemap invalidation uses an expensive query to clean up old validators.

Enhancements​

• Adds a mobile snippet preview.
• Adds a function that allows retrieving an option only when it's been autoloaded.
• Removes review banner from mobile, props abhinavkumar940.
• Adds labels to redirect checkboxes in the search console to improve accessibility.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where shortcodes would be kept in the content that would be analyzed, which would result in incorrect results.
• Fixes a bug where the user language would be used to analyze the content instead of the site language.

Enhancements​

• Updates the banners on the admin pages.
• Improves accessibility by moving the Google Search Console reload button from the header.
• Allow for other plugins and themes to more easily add html namespaces through the new wpseo_html_namespaces filter.
• Prevent conflicts with other plugins/themes which also add html namespaces.

Bugfixes​

• Adds a check to prevent a "Cannot read property 'body' of undefined" error with tinyMCE that occurred with Visual Composer and some themes.
• Fixes a bug that prevented bulk actions to work in the Google Search Console.
• Fixed incorrect timezone for zero offset case (Atlantic/Azores instead of UTC).

Enhancements​

• Makes tooltips on tabs icons accessible.
• Adds check to prevent sitemap from having empty image entries.
• Improves screenreader text for the readability tab.
• Adds a toggle for author and date archives.
• Adds several improvements for readability and consistent styling.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the category picker would become slow with 1000+ categories, props Ron Willemse
• Fixes a bug with VoiceOver on the readability and keyword tabs.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the configuration wizard couldn't go to the next step if PUT requests were disabled on the server.

Enhancements​

• Includes a few design improvements in the analysis section of the metabox. Design is now more consistent.
• Makes sure author archives are disabled when a user confirms his site is single-author.
• The configuration wizard is now called "configuration wizard" consistently throughout the plugin.
• Makes sure the help center is now included on all Yoast SEO pages.
• Added a notification asking users to rate Yoast SEO on WordPress.org.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the metabox was taking up too much space on small screens.
• Fixes a bug where the marking for consecutive sentences beginning with the same word was off by one.
• Fixes a bug where the Google Search Console integration wasn't working well on multisite.
• Fixes a bug where the newsletter signup always did a http request, causing mixed content errors on https sites.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the admin bar would still show advanced settings when the advanced settings were disabled.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where apostrophes would be stripped from the focus keyword.