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Yoast SEO Premium changelog

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28.1

Yoast SEO Premium 28.1 brings AI to the redesigned Bulk editor: draft SEO titles, meta descriptions, and social sharing titles and descriptions in bulk, and review every suggestion before it's saved. Read the full release post here.

Enhancements​

  • Adds the bulk generation feature, which allows users to get AI-powered Metadata suggestions for multiple posts directly from the bulk editor page.

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where Yoast SEO Premium could delete a version-controlled copy of Yoast SEO (for example a local Git checkout) when it automatically updated an outdated Yoast SEO installation in the background.

Other​

  • Bumps the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 28.1.

28.0

Yoast SEO now works smoothly with Elementor's version 4 release. Read the full release post here.

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where keyphrase highlights were not applied when using the Elementor V4 atomic editor.

Other​

  • Bumps the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 28.0.

27.9

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes the Old URL field not being auto-populated when clicking Create Redirect from the admin bar on a 404 page.

Other​

  • Adds the redirect-mode options to the tracked settings.
  • Bumps the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 27.9.

27.8

Yoast SEO 27.8 brings more enhancements and bugfixes. Find more information about our software releases and updates here.

Enhancements​

  • Improves post editor rendering performance by stabilising the getKeywords Redux selector reference to prevent unnecessary re-renders.

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where the addon installer repeatedly downloaded Yoast SEO on every request when the installation failed or was outdated.
  • Fixes a bug where the XML sitemap could fail to generate when redirects were combined with another plugin or theme that also filtered sitemap entries.

Other​

  • Bumps the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 27.8.
  • Improves cross-version PHP compatibility.

27.6.1

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where an authenticated user with the edit_posts capability could inject arbitrary Apache directives into the site-root .htaccess via a redirect AJAX endpoint when file-based redirects were enabled.

27.6

Introduces Yoast AI Content Planner, giving you five site-specific post ideas and a structured starter draft the moment you open a new post. Read the full release post here.

Enhancements​

  • Adds the Content Planner feature, which allows users to get AI-powered content suggestions and structured outlines for new posts directly from the block editor.

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where an empty Yoast Related Links block could not be selected or removed from the editor.

Other​

  • Bumps the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 27.6.

27.5

Introduces Yoast SEO Abilities API, allowing AI tools, dashboards, and automated workflows to automatically read SEO, readability, and inclusive language scores from your most recent posts. Read more in the release post.

Other​

  • Bumps the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 27.5.

27.4

Yoast SEO 27.4 adds new tasks to the Task List, improves navigation within the editor, and fixes a bug where tasks were displaying in the wrong language. Read the full release post here.

Enhancements​

  • Enhances the task list with a task about adding Open Graph images to recent content.

Other​

  • Bumps the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 27.4.
  • Informs users about the availability of a free trial for Yoast AI Brand Insights.

27.3

Yoast SEO 27.3 brings more enhancements and bugfixes. Find more information about our software releases and updates here.

Enhancements​

  • Improves focus management restauration when the AI Optimize dialog is dissmissed.

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where the AI Optimize dialog did not have focus when visible.
  • Fixes a console error in the editor related to AI Optimize feature that occurred when the “Enable SEO controls and assessments” option was disabled for a content type.

Other​

  • Sets the WordPress tested up to version to 7.0.
  • Bumps the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 27.3

27.1

New: Introducing the Schema Aggregation feature, including additional Premium schema for organization identity, authors, and trust related coverage. Futureproof your website for an agentic future. Read the full release post here.

Other​

  • Bumps the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 27.1

26.8

Yoast SEO 26.8 brings more enhancements and bugfixes. Find more information about our software releases and updates here.

Enhancements​

  • Updates the design of the emoji picker button.

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where AI Summarize block's "Generate summary" button would be disabled when it's added in template-locked mode in Block editor regardless of content presence.
  • Fixes a bug where Table of Contents block would not be not generated correctly when it's added in template-locked mode in Block editor.

Other​

  • Bumps the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 26.8.
  • Improves the translatability of some tasks' title and content in the task list.

26.7

Yoast SEO Premium 26.7 brings more enhancements and bugfixes. Find more information about our software releases and updates here.

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where the thank you page redirect would interrupt Bluehost authentication flows when the first wp-admin visit was an AJAX request.
  • Fixes a bug that caused workouts to be disabled when internal linking suggestions were turned off.

Other​

  • Bumps the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 26.7.
  • Improves redirect security by restricting non-privileged users to only create 301 and 410 redirects with relative URLs.

26.6

Yoast SEO Premium now includes an expanded SEO task list. Read the full release post here.

Enhancements​

  • Adds Premium tasks to the newly-released task list.

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where empty AI Summarize block markers would remain in the content when users delete the summary in Classic Editor's visual mode.

Other​

  • Bumps the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 26.6.

26.5

New: Yoast SEO Premium now includes full access to the Site Kit by Google integration in your Dashboard. Read the full release post here.

Enhancements:​

  • Enables the Yoast Dashboard integration with Site Kit by Google for all Yoast SEO Premium users.
  • Removes H1 from the AI Summarize block heading options.
  • Makes the keyphrase distribution assessment available when no content or keyphrase has been added.

Bugfixes:​

  • Fixes a bug where the location shortcodes blocks would not be excluded from the AI Optimize analyses assessments.

Other:​

  • Bumps the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 26.5.

26.4

Enhancements​

  • Adds a warning when a user redirects a URL that includes wp-json/.

Other​

  • Bumps the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 26.4.