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26.1.1

Other​

  • Updates an outdated piece of copy.

26.1

Yoast SEO 26.1 brings more enhancements and bugfixes. Find more information about our software releases and updates here.

Enhancements​

  • Improves the UX of the llms.txt settings page, by informing the user that they have to save their changes in order for the file to be generated.
  • Introduces the option to add an Ahrefs verification code via the Yoast Settings page.

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where the llms.txt opt-in would hide behind the WordPress sidebar when on RTL language.

Other​

  • Introduces the Yoast\WP\SEO\should_invalidate_opcache filter that disables opcache invalidation on plugin upgrade.
  • Lets users know about the new Yoast SEO AI+ plan and related features.
  • Updates the Site features page to include icons instead of images.

26.0

Yoast SEO 26.0 brings more enhancements and bugfixes. Find more information about our software releases and updates here.

Enhancements​

  • Opens the Advanced Settings' section when clicking the Customize llms.txt file button.

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where a string in the AI Generate usage counter tooltip was missing in RTL languages.

Other​

  • Adds an introduction which would show after 14 days of the plugin activation or update.
  • Adds safety check when accessing an array to avoid PHP warnings when getting the upgrade campaign for Wincher integration. Props to @bor0.
  • Allow changing the main image ID through a filter wpseo_schema_main_image_id. Props to @JoryHogeveen.
  • Ensures compatibility with the recent Wincher API changes.

25.9

Yoast SEO 25.9 brings more enhancements and bugfixes. Find more information about our software releases and updates here.

Enhancements​

  • Improves the UX of the llms.txt feature by displaying errors with generating the llms.txt file in the relevant settings page.
  • Improves the UX of onboarding new users by preventing irrelevant modals from displaying in the First Time Configuration.

Other​

  • Updates the copy of the consent modal for using the Yoast AI features.

25.7

Yoast SEO 25.7 brings more enhancements and bugfixes. Find more information about our software releases and updates here.

Enhancements​

  • Re-generates the llms.txt file immediately when there's any change in the selection of the pages to be included.

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where the AI free sparks upsell would appear instead of the rate limit error in cases where the rate limit for AI Generate was reached before the free sparks limit.

Other​

  • Adds an announcement for the upcoming AI Brand Insights feature.
  • Sets the minimum supported WordPress version to 6.7.

25.6

Yoast SEO 25.6 adds enhancements to the llms.txt feature, introducing manual personalization. Read the release post here!

Enhancements​

  • Adds a free preview of the AI features from Yoast SEO Premium.
  • Introduces a way to manually select the pages to be included in the llms.txt file.

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where the icon on search appearance would not be aligned when on a right-to-left locale.

25.5

Yoast SEO 25.5 brings more enhancements and bugfixes. Find more information about our software releases and updates here.

Enhancements​

  • Enhances the UX of the llms.txt feature by informing users about potential issues with generating the file via Yoast’s alert center.
  • Changes post lists in the llms.txt file to use canonical URLs.

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where a request limit warning would be shown in the Semrush related keyphrases when no warning was applicable.

Other​

  • Adds an announcement for the Google Docs add-on.
  • Changes the Upgrades page to a Plans page.
  • Removes redundant flushing of cache groups when incoming links for posts change.

25.3.1

This is a maintenance release which is required to align with changes to Yoast SEO Premium 25.3.1.

25.3

New: Yoast SEO 25.3 introduces llms.txt support to help AI tools understand your site better. Read the full release post here!

Enhancements​

  • Introduces the llms.txt feature, which gives site owners the opportunity to automatically generate an llms.txt file. This file helps LLMs to better understand the site's content.

25.2

Yoast SEO 25.2 brings more enhancements and bugfixes. Find more information about our software releases and updates here.

Enhancements​

  • Makes the keyphrase in image alt attributes assessment available when no content has been added.
  • Renames image keyphrase assessment to keyphrase in image alt attributes assessment.

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug in the retrieval of post categories titles where a non-existent term might be referenced. Props to @bor0.
  • Fixes a bug where the Yoast introduction in the Elementor editor would not be positioned correctly when on Elementor version 3.30.0.

Other​

  • Excludes gallery, embed and playlist shortcodes from the keyphrase in introduction analysis in Classic editor.

25.1

Yoast SEO 25.1 brings more enhancements and bugfixes. Find more information about our software releases and updates here.

Enhancements​

  • Adds more phrases regarding disability to the inclusive language assessment.
  • Improves the feedback for "lame" in the inclusive language assessment.
  • Makes the following SEO assessments available in the analysis by default, even when no content has been added: keyphrase in introduction, keyphrase in meta description, keyphrase in SEO title, keyphrase in slug and previously used keyphrase.
  • Optimizes the function used to fetch post IDs which share the same focus keyphrase. Props to dilipbheda.

25.0

Yoast SEO 25.0 brings more enhancements and bugfixes. Find more information about our software releases and updates here.

Enhancements​

  • Optimizes the wp yoast cleanup CLI command update_indexables_author_to_reassigned step, which can become very slow for very large data sets. Props to eddiesshop.
  • Improves the feedback texts for the passive voice and consecutive sentences assessments in case there is nothing to report.
  • Makes the images, internal links, and external links assessments available when no content has been added.

Other​

  • Drops compatibility with PHP 7.2 and 7.3.
  • Improves the translatability of feedback strings for the keyphrase length assessment.

24.8.1

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a potential fatal error on the dashboard page.

24.8

Yoast SEO 24.8 brings more enhancements and bugfixes. Find more information about our software releases and updates here.

Enhancements​

  • Adds pregnant women to the potentially non-inclusive phrases targeted by the inclusive language analysis.
  • Improves the inclusive language analysis feedback for the potentially non-inclusive word exotic, and prevents the feedback from appearing when exotic is followed by words common in scientific contexts.

Other​

  • Removes the Yoast AI Optimize modals from the Yoast admin pages.

24.7

Yoast SEO 24.7 brings more enhancements and bugfixes. Find more information about our software releases and updates here.

Enhancements​

  • Improves the accuracy of assessments measuring character count for Japanese texts by removing common punctuation from the count.

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where the help beacon would be displayed over table pagination on the bulk editor page.

Other​

  • Improves the feedback strings of the subheading distribution assessment for better translatability.
  • Removes extra span tags in the Post/Page overview. Props to dilipbheda.

24.6

Yoast SEO 24.6 brings more enhancements and bugfixes. Find more information about our software releases and updates here.

Enhancements​

  • Provides support for the Optimized Markup feature in Elementor.
  • Removes the breadcrumbs from the Search snippet preview in Mobile mode.

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where invalid inner blocks would be removed when saving a post in the block editor.

Other​

  • Sets the minimum supported WordPress version to 6.6.

24.5

Yoast SEO 24.5 brings more enhancements and bugfixes. Find more information about our software releases and updates here.

Enhancements​

  • Issues a warning message when the image automatically selected for a post social preview is in the unsupported AVIF format.

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where the canonical presenter would throw a deprecation notice when the environments run PHP >= 8.1. Props to aanduque.

Other​

  • Simplifies calculating the date replacement variable before displaying it in the frontend. Props to apermo.
  • Updates the Yoast WooCommerce SEO integration cards with the latest Woo logo.

24.4

Yoast SEO 24.4 brings more enhancements and bugfixes. Find more information about our software releases and updates here.

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where editing a link in the block editor would have unexpected consequences when using undo.
  • Fixes a bug where the article:modified_time meta tag would show an earlier time than the article:published_time meta tag for scheduled posts.
  • Fixes a bug where the Schema type of the product would not be locked when Yoast WooCommerce SEO is enabled.
  • Fixes a bug where using hyphens at the start or end of a sentence would cripple the content analysis when editing a post.

24.3

Yoast SEO 24.3 brings more enhancements and bugfixes. Find more information about our software releases and updates here.

Enhancements​

  • Introduces more robust HTML processing and highlighting for the sentence length and paragraph length assessments.

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where the Semrush request would be executed twice when opening the related keyphrases modal.
  • Fixes a bug where the text color in the search on our settings page would not change correctly when active, resulting in bad contrast.
  • Fixes a bug where the View button label in the Yoast dashboard would not be available for translation.

Other​

  • Improves contrast in the related keyphrase suggestions table.
  • Improves contrast in the RSS supported variables explainer table.

24.2

Yoast SEO 24.2 brings more enhancements and bugfixes. Find more information about our software releases and updates here.

Enhancements​

  • Improves the tooltips accessibility in the related keyphrase suggestions modal.

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where a deprecation message would appear in PHP 8+ when saving a post containing images with invalid sources. Props to kkmuffme.
  • Fixes a bug where a TypeError would occur when checking for capabilities of SEO Manager user role when the roles were not passed as an array. Props to kfeinUI.
  • Fixes a bug where styles on buttons, intent badge and modal links would not adjust the direction when on RTL view.

Other​

  • Changes the title text on the Yoast installation success page.
  • Fixes a console warning about ReactDOM.render being no longer supported in React 18.

24.1

Yoast SEO 24.1 adds the Yoast SEO Dashboard to monitor your site's SEO performance in one overview. Find more about Yoast SEO 24.1 in our release post!

Enhancements​

  • Introduces the Yoast Dashboard, a place where site administrators can check the SEO and Readability performance of the site's posts.
  • Adds Not analyzed as an option in the readability filter in the posts page.
  • Enhances the existing Needs improvement option in the readability filter in the posts page, to include posts that don't have enough content as well.

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where posts that have been set to explicitly not be noindexed and had no keyword set would not appear in the relevant SEO filter in the posts page.

Other​

  • Improves the translatability of feedback for the paragraph length and the sentence length assessments.

23.9

Yoast SEO 23.9 brings enhancements to the Yoast SEO Semrush integration and various bug fixes. Find more about Yoast SEO 23.9 in our release post!

Enhancements​

  • Adds a maximum width to the problems and notifications sections on the General page.
  • Adds Intent and Difficulty to the metrics shown in the Semrush integration.
  • Improves the compatibility of the Yoast blocks with WordPress 6.7.

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where a fatal error is triggered in PHP 8.x when a user's additional contact methods have been improperly set to null. Props to PhilETaylor.
  • Fixes a bug where the First time configuration would have a double separator for the title and content.
  • Fixes a bug where the First time configuration would not resize properly on smaller width screens.

Other​

  • Stops PHP notices on WordPress 6.7 about _load_textdomain_just_in_time loading incorrectly.

23.8

Yoast SEO 23.8 brings more enhancements and bugfixes. Find more information about our software releases and updates here.

Enhancements​

  • Introduces a new, redesigned General page.
  • Adds a notification to inform the user when an error occurs while changing the visibility of a notification or a problem.

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug in our Elementor integration where previously saved slug values of drafts would be ignored.

Other​

  • Sets the WordPress tested up to version to 6.7.

23.7

Yoast SEO 23.7 brings more enhancements and bugfixes. Find more information about our software releases and updates here.

Enhancements​

  • Removes the keyphrase in slug assessment for static home pages.

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where a database error would occur when there were no public taxonomies available for indexing.
  • Fixes a bug where another plugin running the exit() function inside the plugin_loaded hook would result in a fatal error. Props to menno-ll.

Other​

  • Removes translation strings that are not meant for the Yoast SEO Free version from the plugin.
  • Resets the notice for search engines discouraged when changing Search engine visibility to visible.

23.5

Yoast SEO 23.5 brings more enhancements and bugfixes. Find more information about our software releases and updates here.

Enhancements​

  • Improves analysis score feedback labels in the publish sections.
  • Improves our integration with cache plugins by preventing flushing their cache when not needed.

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where Arabic keyphrases containing certain function words were not correctly matched.

23.2

Yoast SEO 23.2 brings more enhancements and bugfixes. Find more information about Yoast SEO 23.2 here.

Enhancements​

  • Excludes image captions from the keyphrase in introduction assessment: image captions at the beginning of a post will not be treated as an introduction anymore.

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where the wpseo_posts_for_related_keywords filter would not work anymore since it was accidentally renamed.

Other​

  • Deprecates the Ai_Generate_Titles_And_Descriptions_Introduction_Upsell class.

23.0

Yoast SEO 23.0 brings more enhancements and bugfixes. Find more information about our software releases and updates here.

Enhancements​

  • Removes a redundant database write query, when saving a post.

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where unnecessary data was written in the Yoast database on non-production sites (or when the relevant Yoast\WP\SEO\should_index_indexables filter was used to disable such a behavior).

Other​

  • Deprecates the Wordproof feature.
  • Deprecates the following classes: Wordproof, Wordproof_App_Config, Wordproof_Helper, Wordproof_Integration_Active_Conditional, Wordproof_Plugin_Inactive_Conditional, Wordproof_Translations.

22.9

Yoast SEO 22.9 brings more enhancements and bugfixes. Find more information about our software releases and updates here.

Enhancements​

  • Helps guide Elementor users to Yoast when they have the new editor top bar activated.
  • Adds additional filter options for the og:image meta tags.
  • Improves compatibility with custom RSS feeds. Props to @gsusI.

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where a PHP notice would be thrown on RSS feeds when a canonical URL can not be created for its parent page.

Others​

  • Changes the copy in the admin sidebar from Premium to Upgrades.

22.3

Yoast SEO 22.3 is out today. In this release, you’ll find various fixes and improvements for a better user experience. Find out more about what's new in Yoast SEO 22.3 in our release post!

Enhancements​

  • Removes an unnecessary query relating to breadcrumb schema generation on the homepage.

Bugfixes​

  • Adds x.com as a possible domain for the Twitter validation in our first time configuration social profiles settings.
  • Fixes a bug where the Or go to your SEO dashboard link in the final step of our first time configuration would not be focusable using tab.

Other​

  • Removes the autofill for taxonomy keyphrases.
  • Sets the WordPress tested up to version to 6.5.

22.0

Yoast SEO 22.0 is out today. This release comes with many behind-the-scenes improvements and general enhancements. Find out more about what's new in Yoast SEO 22.0 in our release post!

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where the get_head REST route would return a rest_invalid_param if the URL contains a multiple words search string. Props to @lucymtc.
  • Fixes a bug where using a blog prefix in the permalink structure with Strip category base enabled would prevent the blog page from being accessible.

21.9.1

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where a fatal error would occur when upgrading Yoast SEO on certain setups.
  • Fixes a bug where the image tag would be missing in the home page entry of the XML sitemap when using a static front page.

21.8.1

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where our block editor integration would no longer work together with Gutenberg 17.4.1.
  • Fixes a bug where our block editor integration would no longer work together with Gutenberg 17.5.