Software Releases & Updates

Team Yoast, while all working from home for the first time in our history, is working on one of the biggest improvements to Yoast SEO yet. This release, Yoast SEO 14.0, internally has the codename "Indexables". This release, while fully backwards compatible, will change some of our known integration API's. If you integrate with Yoast …

In Yoast SEO 14.0, every meta tag that Yoast SEO outputs is output through a so called Presenter. In fact, all of them are extensions of the Abstract_Indexable_Presenter class, and you can easily add your own. Just make your own class that extends Abstract_Indexable_Presenter, and filter it in through the filter wpseo_frontend_presenters. Let me show …

In Yoast SEO 14.0 we've introduced a formal way of integrating Yoast SEO into your code. We've added what's called a surface called YoastSEO(). This surface gives easy access to lots of the features Yoast SEO has to offer. In this post I'll show you some of the different helpers that are now easily accessible …

Due to the Yoast SEO indexable project using an entirely new namespaced Dependency Injection architecture, we've had to change some of our Schema API. All your existing integrations still work as we've made them backwards compatible, but we ask that you please update to the new code when you can. In this post I will …

When we add cool new features to our Yoast plugins, we use Git workflows to ensure that development can proceed smoothly. In this article, I'll talk about two workflows we use when building bigger features: using feature branches and feature flags. Each workflow has its advantages and disadvantages. After reading this article, you'll know more …

At Yoast, we like to release often. We're a fan of continuous delivery and currently release every two weeks. As we sometimes get questions about our release cycle, we'd like to tell the entire story on why and how we release and test our plugins before they are ready to be installed on millions of …

Today, we are releasing a new Premium feature for doing internal linking suggestions. Last week, I wrote a post on the SEO blog explaining how we can do this fast and without using up a lot of resources on the server side. Building this would not have been possible without much of the work we …