* add - Introducing the option to generate titles and descriptions for category and tag pages on your website (taxonomies). Optimize your site for higher click-through-rates at the touch of a button.
* update - Bumps the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 22.3.
* update - Sets the WordPress tested up to version to 6.5.
* fix - Fixes a bug where upsell message for Woo SEO would appear when using the AI feature on product post that is not from WooCommerce.
* fix - Fixes a bug where the link in the redirect overview would wrongly link to the home url + redirect url in the case of an absolute url.
* update - Bumps the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 22.2.
December 12, 2023
Yoast SEO 21.7 is out now. In this release, we bring an improved first-time configuration, making it easier for people to get started. Also, we fixed several bugs and added some enhancements. Find out more about what's new in Yoast SEO 21.7 in our release post!
- Removes a superfluous warning in the first time configuration when the site environment is non-production.
- Fixes a bug where an additional Organization, Person schema piece would be wrongly generated for author pages when a website representing an organization was set to represent a person different from the author.
- Fixes a bug where the initial state for the website name would be empty when saving the site representation step in the first time configuration.
- Fixes a bug where modifications to the analysis data would not be included in the Insights analysis.
- Fixes a bug where the "view" button for tracking SEO performance would have the wrong size when editing a post in Elementor and Classic editor.
- Adds checks to ensure that the plugin has no known incompatibilities with PHP 8.3.
- Improves the discoverability of the security policy.
- Improves the instructions in the first-time configuration so that they're easier to follow.
- Improves the new installation screen layout and design.
- Provides a filter to add a list of shortcodes so they can be parsed and then included in our content analysis in Classic editor.
October 31, 2023
Yoast SEO 21.5 is out today! In this release, you'll find improvements to our inclusive language feature, updates to handling RSS feeds and much more. Find out more about what's new in Yoast SEO 21.5 in our release post!
- Adds support for the new wp_attachment_pages_enabled option introduced by WordPress 6.4, reducing the chances of inconsistencies with Yoast SEO's own "Enable media pages" setting.
- Improves the inclusive languageanalysis by making the feedback more clear and consistent, refining the list of targeted phrases, and adding more alternatives for some of the non-inclusive phrases. Specifically, this includes the following changes:
- Aligns the traffic light color and written feedback for all phrases.
- Makes some feedback strings more accurate by replacing the word ‘overgeneralizing’ with ‘harmful’.
- Adds ‘Rom’ and ‘Roma’ as additional alternatives to ‘gypsy’.
- Adds additional alternatives to ‘homosexuals’.
- Improves the feedback shown for the phrases ‘abnormal behaviour’, ‘behaviourally normal’, and ‘behaviourally abnormal’.
- Improves the feedback shown for the word ‘minorities’.
- Removes ‘narcissistic’ as a targeted phrase when followed by ‘personality disorder’.
- Removes ‘Ebonics’ and ‘normal behaviour’ from the list of targeted phrases.
- Removes the automatic rel=nofollow attribute for links in the RSS feed.
- Fixes a bug where console warnings about incorrect prop types would be shown on the integrations page.
- Prevents the Pattern Category taxonomy (introduced in WordPress 6.4) to be indexed and hides it in the settings page.
- Improves the FAQ block description by removing any reference to the previous restriction of one block per post.
- Improves the inline documentation for the WPSEO_Option class. Props to costdev.
- Leverages Script Strategy feature to add the async attribute to the wordproof script in case WordPress version is 6.3 or higher. Props to adamsilverstein.
- Sets the WordPress tested up to version to 6.4.