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24.8.1

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a potential fatal error on the dashboard page.

24.8

Yoast SEO 24.8 brings more enhancements and bugfixes. Find more information about our software releases and updates here.

Enhancements​

  • Adds pregnant women to the potentially non-inclusive phrases targeted by the inclusive language analysis.
  • Improves the inclusive language analysis feedback for the potentially non-inclusive word exotic, and prevents the feedback from appearing when exotic is followed by words common in scientific contexts.

Other​

  • Removes the Yoast AI Optimize modals from the Yoast admin pages.

24.7

Yoast SEO 24.7 brings more enhancements and bugfixes. Find more information about our software releases and updates here.

Enhancements​

  • Improves the accuracy of assessments measuring character count for Japanese texts by removing common punctuation from the count.

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where the help beacon would be displayed over table pagination on the bulk editor page.

Other​

  • Improves the feedback strings of the subheading distribution assessment for better translatability.
  • Removes extra span tags in the Post/Page overview. Props to dilipbheda.

24.6

Yoast SEO 24.6 brings more enhancements and bugfixes. Find more information about our software releases and updates here.

Enhancements​

  • Provides support for the Optimized Markup feature in Elementor.
  • Removes the breadcrumbs from the Search snippet preview in Mobile mode.

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where invalid inner blocks would be removed when saving a post in the block editor.

Other​

  • Sets the minimum supported WordPress version to 6.6.

24.5

Yoast SEO 24.5 brings more enhancements and bugfixes. Find more information about our software releases and updates here.

Enhancements​

  • Issues a warning message when the image automatically selected for a post social preview is in the unsupported AVIF format.

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where the canonical presenter would throw a deprecation notice when the environments run PHP >= 8.1. Props to aanduque.

Other​

  • Simplifies calculating the date replacement variable before displaying it in the frontend. Props to apermo.
  • Updates the Yoast WooCommerce SEO integration cards with the latest Woo logo.

24.4

Yoast SEO 24.4 brings more enhancements and bugfixes. Find more information about our software releases and updates here.

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where editing a link in the block editor would have unexpected consequences when using undo.
  • Fixes a bug where the article:modified_time meta tag would show an earlier time than the article:published_time meta tag for scheduled posts.
  • Fixes a bug where the Schema type of the product would not be locked when Yoast WooCommerce SEO is enabled.
  • Fixes a bug where using hyphens at the start or end of a sentence would cripple the content analysis when editing a post.

24.3

Yoast SEO 24.3 brings more enhancements and bugfixes. Find more information about our software releases and updates here.

Enhancements​

  • Introduces more robust HTML processing and highlighting for the sentence length and paragraph length assessments.

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where the Semrush request would be executed twice when opening the related keyphrases modal.
  • Fixes a bug where the text color in the search on our settings page would not change correctly when active, resulting in bad contrast.
  • Fixes a bug where the View button label in the Yoast dashboard would not be available for translation.

Other​

  • Improves contrast in the related keyphrase suggestions table.
  • Improves contrast in the RSS supported variables explainer table.

24.2

Yoast SEO 24.2 brings more enhancements and bugfixes. Find more information about our software releases and updates here.

Enhancements​

  • Improves the tooltips accessibility in the related keyphrase suggestions modal.

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where a deprecation message would appear in PHP 8+ when saving a post containing images with invalid sources. Props to kkmuffme.
  • Fixes a bug where a TypeError would occur when checking for capabilities of SEO Manager user role when the roles were not passed as an array. Props to kfeinUI.
  • Fixes a bug where styles on buttons, intent badge and modal links would not adjust the direction when on RTL view.

Other​

  • Changes the title text on the Yoast installation success page.
  • Fixes a console warning about ReactDOM.render being no longer supported in React 18.

24.1

Yoast SEO 24.1 adds the Yoast SEO Dashboard to monitor your site's SEO performance in one overview. Find more about Yoast SEO 24.1 in our release post!

Enhancements​

  • Introduces the Yoast Dashboard, a place where site administrators can check the SEO and Readability performance of the site's posts.
  • Adds Not analyzed as an option in the readability filter in the posts page.
  • Enhances the existing Needs improvement option in the readability filter in the posts page, to include posts that don't have enough content as well.

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where posts that have been set to explicitly not be noindexed and had no keyword set would not appear in the relevant SEO filter in the posts page.

Other​

  • Improves the translatability of feedback for the paragraph length and the sentence length assessments.

23.9

Yoast SEO 23.9 brings enhancements to the Yoast SEO Semrush integration and various bug fixes. Find more about Yoast SEO 23.9 in our release post!

Enhancements​

  • Adds a maximum width to the problems and notifications sections on the General page.
  • Adds Intent and Difficulty to the metrics shown in the Semrush integration.
  • Improves the compatibility of the Yoast blocks with WordPress 6.7.

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where a fatal error is triggered in PHP 8.x when a user's additional contact methods have been improperly set to null. Props to PhilETaylor.
  • Fixes a bug where the First time configuration would have a double separator for the title and content.
  • Fixes a bug where the First time configuration would not resize properly on smaller width screens.

Other​

  • Stops PHP notices on WordPress 6.7 about _load_textdomain_just_in_time loading incorrectly.

23.8

Yoast SEO 23.8 brings more enhancements and bugfixes. Find more information about our software releases and updates here.

Enhancements​

  • Introduces a new, redesigned General page.
  • Adds a notification to inform the user when an error occurs while changing the visibility of a notification or a problem.

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug in our Elementor integration where previously saved slug values of drafts would be ignored.

Other​

  • Sets the WordPress tested up to version to 6.7.

23.7

Yoast SEO 23.7 brings more enhancements and bugfixes. Find more information about our software releases and updates here.

Enhancements​

  • Removes the keyphrase in slug assessment for static home pages.

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where a database error would occur when there were no public taxonomies available for indexing.
  • Fixes a bug where another plugin running the exit() function inside the plugin_loaded hook would result in a fatal error. Props to menno-ll.

Other​

  • Removes translation strings that are not meant for the Yoast SEO Free version from the plugin.
  • Resets the notice for search engines discouraged when changing Search engine visibility to visible.

23.5

Yoast SEO 23.5 brings more enhancements and bugfixes. Find more information about our software releases and updates here.

Enhancements​

  • Improves analysis score feedback labels in the publish sections.
  • Improves our integration with cache plugins by preventing flushing their cache when not needed.

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where Arabic keyphrases containing certain function words were not correctly matched.

23.2

Yoast SEO 23.2 brings more enhancements and bugfixes. Find more information about Yoast SEO 23.2 here.

Enhancements​

  • Excludes image captions from the keyphrase in introduction assessment: image captions at the beginning of a post will not be treated as an introduction anymore.

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where the wpseo_posts_for_related_keywords filter would not work anymore since it was accidentally renamed.

Other​

  • Deprecates the Ai_Generate_Titles_And_Descriptions_Introduction_Upsell class.