Enhancements
- Allows for News Sitemap items to change the language via a new filter
Yoast\WP\News\publication_language. Props to dgwatkins.
Bugfixes
- Stops PHP notices on WordPress 6.7 about
_load_textdomain_just_in_time loading incorrectly.
Other
- Sets the minimum required Yoast SEO version to 24.4.
- Sets the minimum supported WordPress version to 6.5.
- Sets the WordPress tested up to version to 6.7.
Enhancements
- Huge performance improvement: moves the XML News sitemap to be based on our Indexables architecture.
- Removes images from the XML News sitemap as they serve no purpose here and this further improves performance.
Other
- Excludes attachments and non-indexed post types from the possible post types to include in the News Sitemap.
Enhancements
- Adds Schema Article News subtypes:
ReviewNewsArticle, AnalysisNewsArticle, AskPublicNewsArticle, BackgroundNewsArticle, OpinionNewsArticle, and ReportageNewsArticle.
Bugfixes
- Fixes a bug where a duplicate News section would be shown in the Yoast sidebar in the post editor when Yoast SEO Premium is active in combination with WP 5.8.
Enhancements
- Adds key/value pairs of all News SEO meta tags to our REST API.
- Improves the performance of the news sitemap. Props to archon810.
Bugfixes
- Fixes a bug where a database query including duplicate column names would fail on certain database systems.
Other
- Adds a filter to override the decision to omit an item from the news sitemap. Props to joneslloyd.
- Sets the minimum WordPress version to 5.6.
Enhancements
- Adds News to the Yoast SEO sidebar in the Elementor editor and the block editor.
- Merges the
Exclude from News sitemap and the Googlebot-News index settings from the News meta box into one setting: Exclude this post from Google News. Because both settings served the same purpose, to exclude your content from the News sitemap.
- Removes the
Default genre setting from the News sitemap and settings because Google no longer supports Genres for articles in Google News.
Other
- Sets the WordPress tested up to version to 5.7 and minimum supported WordPress version to 5.6.
Bugfixes
- Fixes a bug where certain conditions (e.g. using a different admin language) would result in an endless loop.
- Fixes "mixed content" warnings on the News SEO options page.
Enhancements
- Adds 'Article' as
@type to articles that are set to be included in the news sitemap. This results in a @type array with at least 'Article' and 'NewsArticle'.
Other
- Enables tracking when activating the plugin. It can be disabled in the Yoast SEO configuration wizard.
- Sets the minimum supported WordPress version to 5.4.
Other
- Sets the minimum WordPress version to 5.3.
Bugfixes
- Fixes a bug where a large number of WordPress terms or post types would cause significant slowdowns and possible crashes on admin pages.
Other
- Removes the code tags from the term and post type names on the News SEO settings page.
Bugfixes
- Fixes a bug where the sitemap could be invalidated twice on multisite with MultilingualPress.
Other
- Show dates in UTC+0 format everywhere.
Enhancements
- Replaces the HelpScout Beacon 1.0 on the News SEO admin page with the Beacon 2.0.
Bugfixes
- Fixes a bug where the News sitemap would contain the SEO title instead of the post title.
Other
- Sets the minimum required WordPress version to 5.2, the minimum PHP version to 5.6.20, and the minimum required Yoast SEO version to 12.6.1.
Enhancements
- Shows a floating
Save changes button on the Yoast SEO News admin page when the normal button is not visible in the browser window.
Bugfixes
- Fixes a bug where the copyrightHolder schema piece would not stitch on Windows because of a missing slash.
Other
- Compatibility with Yoast SEO 12.2
Other
- Compatibility with Yoast SEO 12.1
Other
- Compatibility with Yoast SEO 12.0
Enhancements
- This add-on now has its own tab in the Yoast SEO metabox, even if you have multiple Yoast SEO add-ons installed.
Bugfixes
- Fixes a bug where the
@type in the schema output would be NewsArticle instead of Article for articles which were excluded from the news sitemap.
- Fixes a bug where news article pages and custom post types included in the news sitemap would not receive an author in their schema output.
Other
- Sets the minimum required Yoast SEO version to 11.9.
Other
- Compatibility with Yoast SEO 11.8
Other
- Compatibility with Yoast SEO 11.7
Other
- Compatibility with Yoast SEO 11.6
Other
- Compatibility with Yoast SEO 11.5