Yoast SEO Premium changelog - page 5

In the 20.8 release of Yoast SEO Premium, we've added a new feature to help you monitor inclusive language in your posts. You can now see your post's inclusive language scores in the WordPress post overview. Here's how that works! Find out more about what's new in Yoast SEO Premium 20.8 in our release post!

Enhancements​

• Adds a column to the table on the post overview page which shows the inclusive language score.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where warnings about duplicated keys for components would be thrown in the Block Editor.

Other​

• Bumps the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 20.8.

We've just released Yoast SEO 20.7. Packed with fixes and enhancements to help you boost your website. Yoast SEO Premium has a new feature that lets you quickly discover your cornerstone content articles on your WordPress post overview. Upgrade today and take your website to the next level! Find out more about what's new in Yoast SEO Premium 20.7 in our release post!

Yoast SEO 20.6, released today, has enhancements and fixes to help your SEO. The latest update incorporates a new readability analysis, an extremely useful feature that alerts you whenever you overuse center-aligned text. Of course, there's more to discover! Find out more about what's new in Yoast SEO Premium 20.6 in our release post!

Enhancements​

• Adds a text alignment assessment to the readability analysis in Block editor.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where a wrong redirect preview URL would be shown when WordPress was installed in a subdirectory.

Other​

• Adds a dismissible notification for the removal of the Zapier integration when the integration is enabled.
• Bumps the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 20.6.

Yoast SEO 20.5 includes a host of exciting improvements and fixes. One of the most noteworthy updates is the improved Google SERP preview that aligns with Google's current styling for mobile and desktop. For more information about these updates, please read all about our latest release. Find out more about what's new in Yoast SEO Premium 20.5 in our release post!

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the highlighting for the word complexity assessment would not be applied to the first sentence of a paragraph when that paragraph contained a new line character.

Other​

• Bumps minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 20.5.
• Drops compatibility with PHP 5.6, 7.0 and 7.1.
• Fixes security issues.

Have you tried the crawl optimization settings in Yoast SEO? We can lower your site's carbon footprint by reducing the number of irrelevant pages and resources crawled by search engines. With over 13 million Yoast SEO users, imagine our impact! Try it today and help our quest for a better and greener world. Find out more about what's new in Yoast SEO Premium 20.4 in our release post!

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the previously used keyword assessment would potentially link to an empty page of results when the focus keyphrase had been used as a related keyphrase.

Other​

• Bumps minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 20.4.
• Sets the WordPress tested up to version to 6.2.

Yoast SEO Premium 20.3 is out today. For this release, we did a round of enhancements and fixes. For one, we made improvements to the redirect manager making it easier to use. Check out the post for more information! Find out more about what's new in Yoast SEO Premium 20.3 in our release post!

Enhancements​

• Makes links in the redirect manager clickable, to help with testing.
• Defers redirect management to the plugins_loaded hook to avoid a timing misalignment between the redirect manager and the Wordfence live traffic monitor.
• Enhances the word complexity assessment for English by filtering out more function words.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where reactivating Premium would switch usage tracking on regardless of the value set by the user.

Other​

• Bumps minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 20.3.

Other​

• Bumps the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 20.2.1.

Today, we're launching Yoast SEO Premium 20.2. In this release, we've improved our indexables database technology. This database system helps us understand your site quicker while also making your site perform better. It also helps us do our best to make the web greener and lays the groundwork for exciting future possibilities. Find out more about what's new in Yoast SEO 20.2 Premium in our release post!

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where a fatal error would be thrown when Premium was installed alongside other plugins using the WHIP library.
• Fixes a bug where orphaned prominent words would remain in the database after their post or term had been deleted.

Other​

• Bumps minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 20.2.

In Yoast SEO 20.1, we're launching an integration with Mastodon, the decentralized social network. Among other things, this makes it easy for Yoast SEO Premium users to verify their profile link. Additionally, we've improved our inclusive language analysis to help you reach a wider audience with your content. Upgrade now! Find out more about what's new in Yoast SEO 20.1 Premium in our release post!

Enhancements​

• Adds an integration to easily verify the link to your website on your Mastodon profile.
• Adds an integration with Easy Digital Downloads to improve its Schema output and connect it to the Yoast Schema graph.

Other​

• Bumps minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 20.1.

Yoast SEO 20.0 Premium comes with a brand new settings interface, which we've put in a lot of effort to make visually pleasing and functional. You'll find it a breeze to work on your SEO, and it's just the start of many amazing developments. Check it out! Find out more about what's new in Yoast SEO 20.0 Premium in our release post!

Other​

• Bumps the Yoast SEO minimum required version to 20.0.

The latest version of Yoast SEO Premium, 19.7, includes the first set of improvements to the inclusive language analysis feature. These updates make the analysis more effective at identifying terms used in specific contexts and provide better feedback to writers. Give it a try! Read more about what’s new in Yoast SEO Premium 19.7 in our release post!

Enhancements​

• Improves the prominent words section in Insights and the internal linking suggestions by excluding URLs and email addresses from the prominent words.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a redirect loop in the search cleanup, when search includes encoded characters.

Other​

• Bumps the Yoast SEO minimum required version to 19.14.
• Sets minimum WP version to 6.0.

Yoast SEO Premium 19.6 is out today. In this release, we've mostly focused on smaller improvements. We've also made the inclusive language analysis available to all users of Yoast SEO. Haven't tried it yet? Please do; it can help you expand your audience. Read more about what’s new in Yoast SEO Premium 19.6 in our release post!

Yoast SEO Premium 19.5 is out now. This release mostly consists of bug fixes and enhancements. In addition, we’re getting our WordPress plugins ready for the upcoming High Performance Order Storage feature in WooCommerce 7.1+. Check it out! Read more about what’s new in Yoast SEO Premium 19.5 in our release post in English or our release post in Spanish!

Other​

• Bumps the Yoast SEO minimum required version to 19.10.
• Ensures compatibility with the High Performance Order Storage feature in WooCommerce 7.1+.
• Sets the WordPress tested up to version to 6.1.

Yoast SEO Premium 19.4 is out now. In this release, we've improved our Premium analysis with a new check for site titles. We've also added a new option to the crawl settings to manage the crawling of internal site search URLs. Plus, we've added several enhancements, fixes, and other improvements. Check it out! Read more about what's new in Yoast SEO Premium 19.4 in our release post in English or our release post in Spanish!

Today, we’re releasing Yoast SEO Premium 19.3. We’ve rolled out some general enhancements, bug fixes, and security improvements in this release. Update now! Read more about what's new in Yoast SEO Premium 19.3 in our release post in English or our release post in Spanish!

Enhancements​

• Adds an option to prevent the crawling of site search pages.
• Adds an option to prevent the crawling of /wp-json/.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the get_suggestions method would also return unrelated post types when you passed a post_type parameter.

Other​

• Fixes compliance with the wordpress.org plugin guidelines.

In Yoast SEO Premium 19.2, we’re introducing a new inclusive language analysis. This will help you get feedback on words that might exclude part of your audience and get inclusive alternatives. This is a beta launch and is only available in English for now. Plus, it is opt-in. Try it out! Read more about what's new in Yoast SEO Premium 19.2 in our release post in English or our release post in Spanish!

Yoast SEO Premium 19.1 is out today! We're introducing another new feature in this release: the front-end SEO Inspector. It's a tool that lets you check your SEO settings and metadata, right from the front-end of your website. Try it out! And read more about what's new in Yoast SEO Premium 19.1 in our release post in English or our release post in Spanish!

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the custom IDs of headings would be overwritten when editing a post with the block editor while having Yoast SEO Premium activated.

Other​

• Temporarily reverts a fix that automatically included subheadings in the Table of Content (ToC) when they were upgraded from a paragraph block in order to prevent the above bug. We will revisit this bug to bring back a more stable fix in the future.

In Yoast SEO Premium 19.0, we’re introducing a tool that lets you add emojis to your meta title and meta description. Check it out! Next to that, we're adding more languages to the word complexity assessment. But these are not the only things coming in this release. Read more about what's new in Yoast SEO Premium 19.0 in our release post in English or our release post in Spanish!