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18.7

In Yoast SEO Premium 18.7, we’re expanding our recently introduced crawl settings. These features will let you turn off different things WordPress automatically adds to your site. Hardly anyone uses these, but these do add overhead to your site. You now have much more control over what you want search engines to crawl on your WordPress site. Check it out! Read more about what's new in Yoast SEO Premium 18.7 in our release post in English or our release post in Spanish!

18.6

Say hi to Yoast SEO Premium 18.6! In this release, we’re introducing more ways to control crawling on your site. We’re starting with a small addition to manage post comment feeds, but we’re expanding that in the coming releases. The feature is in beta, so we welcome your feedback! Read more about what's new in Yoast SEO Premium 18.6 in our release post in English or our release post in Spanish!

Enhancements​

  • Introducing a new feature set to manage crawling on your site. In Yoast SEO Premium 18.6, we're starting with an initial crawl setting to turn off RSS feeds of post comments. This will be expanded over time.

Other​

  • Sets minimum WordPress version to 5.9 and tested up to 6.0.
  • Sets the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 19.0.

18.5

Meet Yoast SEO Premium 18.5: This release includes some changes to make the Premium plugin work well with the new First-time configuration and some more fixes and enhancements to enjoy! Read more about what's new in Yoast SEO Premium 18.5 in our release post in English or our release post in Spanish!

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where a regex redirection would be created without a leading slash.
  • Fixes a bug where the thank you page would not be fully visible on certain screen widths.

Other​

  • Sets the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 18.9.

18.4

Meet Yoast SEO Premium 18.4: a small Yoast SEO update, fixing a number of bugs, including several bugs related to the Wincher integration. With the Wincher integration, you can track the rankings of your articles in the search results. If you haven’t checked that feature out, please do so! We’ve also improved compatibility with PHP 8.1. Read more about what's new in Yoast SEO Premium 18.4 in our release post in English or our release post in Spanish!

Other​

  • Sets the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 18.6.
  • Improves PHP 8.1 compatibility by preventing some deprecation warnings.
  • Prevents an unnecessary PHP warning when installing the free version of the plugin and the destination folder is not writable.

18.3

Say hi to Yoast SEO Premium 18.3! You'll find a number of fixes and enhancements. We've also included more improvements to the rebuild of the AIOSEO importer, and we fixed a bug that prohibited us to display the text in the estimated reading time block in the site language. Happy updating! Read more about what's new in Yoast SEO Premium 18.3 in our release post in English or our release post in Spanish!

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where the word 'minute/minutes' would be in the user language, instead of the site language, for the estimated reading time block in the frontend.
  • Fixes a bug where Yoast modals would close after opening after editing content in Elementor.

Other​

  • Sets the minimum required Yoast SEO version to 18.5.
  • Sets the minimum required WordPress version to 5.8.

18.2.1

Other​

  • Reverts the 18.2 release due to errors in the WordProof integration in Yoast SEO.

18.2

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where the word 'minute/minutes' would be in the user language, instead of the site language, for the estimated reading time block in the frontend.

Other​

  • Sets the minimum required WordPress version to 5.8.
  • Bumps the minimum required Yoast SEO version to 18.4.

18.0

Yoast SEO Premium 18.0 is out today! This new release brings another round of bug fixes, plus a new way for us to handle the translations in our plugin — leading to a smaller plugin size for you to install. Plus: improved compatibility with WordPress 5.9. Read more about what's new in Yoast SEO Premium 18.0 in our release post in English or our release post in Spanish!

Other​

  • Switches from packaged script translations to those from wordpress.org in order to reduce ZIP size and disk usage.
  • Improves compatibility with WordPress 5.9 by preventing a Javascript error in the Site Editor.
  • Sets WooCommerce tested up to version to 6.1.
  • Sets the WordPress tested up to version to 5.9.
  • Sets the minimum required Yoast SEO version to 18.1.

17.9

Yoast SEO 17.9 is now available! Yoast SEO now comes with a keyphrase tracking tool powered by Wincher that lets you monitor your keyphrases, straight from the plugin! Make sure to try out this new keyphrase tracking feature and let us know what you think. Read more about what's new in Yoast SEO 17.9 in our release post in English or our release post in Spanish!

Enhancements​

  • Introduces word form support for Japanese.

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where a fatal error would be thrown when trying to retrieve the URL of a non-existing taxonomy.

Other​

  • Replaces the workout assistant images in the Cornerstone and Orphaned workout.
  • Bumps minimum required Free version to 17.9.

17.8

Yoast SEO 17.8 is out now and ready for you to download. In this release, we fix a number of bugs and added a few enhancements for you to enjoy! Read more about what's new in Yoast SEO 17.8 in our release post in English or our release post in Spanish!

Enhancements​

  • Updates the social previews to adapt to the most recent social media platform changes.

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where the Orphaned Content and Cornerstone Content workouts wouldn't display translations.

Other​

  • Sets the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 17.8.

17.7

Meet Yoast SEO 17.7! This release introduces a new configuration workout to help you set up the Yoast SEO plugin properly from the get-go. Get the basic settings right in Yoast SEO and create a solid foundation for your SEO! Read more about what's new in Yoast SEO 17.7 in our release post in English or our release post in Spanish!

Enhancements​

  • Optimizes the loading of the redirect options by reducing the amount of queries to the database.

Other​

  • Updates the minimum Yoast SEO version to 17.7.

17.6

Yoast SEO 17.6 is out today! This new release brings several fixes and enhancements to improve how the plugin works. And we’re getting it ready for the upcoming WordPress 5.9 release. Go check it out! Read more about what's new in Yoast SEO 17.6 in our release post in English or our release post in Spanish!

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where the social media share previews images, when in landscape mode, did not match the aspect ratio of their respective platform.
  • Fixes a bug where anchors of headings used in the table of contents block were not generated correctly for headers with non-Latin characters.
  • Fixes a bug where the Block titles of our Table of Contents, Related Links, Siblings and Subpages blocks weren't translatable.

Other​

  • The plugin will no longer block installation on PHP 8.0+ when installed via Composer.
  • Ups the minimum required Free version to 17.6.

17.5

Say hello to Yoast SEO 17.5! Or maybe γεια would fit better, as this release introduces full Greek language support. Plus: you’ll also be able to find | and ~ title separators again. Happy updating! Read more about what's new in Yoast SEO 17.5 in our release post in English or our release post in Spanish!

Enhancements​

  • Introduces word form support for Greek.

Other​

  • Ups the minimum required Free version to 17.5.

17.4

Yoast SEO 17.4 is out today! This release comes with several fixes and enhancements to help database performance on larger sites by cleaning up data and streamlining retrieval. Happy updating! Read more about what’s new in Yoast SEO 17.4 in our release post in English or our release post in Spanish!

Enhancements​

  • Cleans up old unused database items related to a previous version of the internal linking suggestion feature. This will reduce the size of your website's database and make your site a little bit faster.

Other​

  • Changes some copy in the Orphaned Content and Cornerstone Content workouts.
  • Ups the minimum required Free version to 17.4.

17.3

Yoast SEO 17.3 is out today! We’ve revamped the two available SEO workouts. It’s become really easy to identify what content you should optimize. Start cleaning up your website and improve your internal linking structure for optimized results in search engines! If you haven’t tried the SEO workouts yet, now is the time to do so!

17.2

Yoast SEO 17.2 is out now! Yoast SEO comes with many powerful tools that will help you write SEO-proof and readable texts. And as of today, you can also work on your readability in the Farsi language. Readable content is awesome content! Read more about what’s new in Yoast SEO 17.2 in our release post!

Enhancements​

  • Optimizes performance for saving a post and running the SEO Optimization tool, by inserting and deleting prominent words into and from the database in one query, instead of word by word.
  • Introduces word form support for more Russian irregular nouns.
  • Introduces word form support for the most common perfective verbs in Russian.

Other​

  • Prevents loading Premium if Free is on an outdated version, to prevent backwards compatibility issues.

17.1.2

Bugfixes:

  • Fixes a bug where internal linking suggestions, in either the editor or the orphaned content workout, and the related links block would not load on WordPress installations that have a different database table prefix than the default wp_.