16.3
May 18th, 2021
Out now: Yoast SEO 16.3! This release helps you with one of the key aspects of modern SEO: Structured data. Yoast SEO 16.3 comes with a lot of enhancements for the Schema.org implementation. You can now enhance your personal profile in Schema, for instance! Read more about what’s new in Yoast SEO 16.3 in our release post!
Enhancements:
Other:
- Adds user profile controls for richer profile Schema. If you fill in (for example) your job title, birthdate or honorific prefix in the newly added input fields in your user profile settings, that data will be used in the profile Schema output.
- Implements TranslationsPress to reduce the zip size, by no longer shipping translations for Premium in the zip but loading them dynamically instead.
- Moves the “Custom fields to include in page analysis” input fields to above the archives settings for supported post types on the Search Appearance > Content types tab, updates the styling of the field, and adds a help icon that links to the related help page.
16.2
- Restricts access for managing redirects to Editors and Administrators, and other users with the wpseo_manage_redirects capability.
April 28th, 2021
Bugfixes:
16.1
- Fixes a bug where users with a role of Editor, or SEO Manager, or SEO Editor could no longer access the administration page to manage the Redirects.
- Fixes a bug where the protocol instead of the domain would be displayed in the social previews.
April 6th, 2021
Yoast SEO Premium 16.1 is out today! It features several fixes that make the plugin chug along nicely. Happy updating! Read more about what’s new in Yoast SEO Premium 16.1 in our release post!
Bugfixes:
- Fixes a bug where the Insights and Link suggestions features would always be re-enabled upon plugin activation, even if the user had disabled them.
- Fixes a bug where upgrade routines would only be run in the admin, which meant they would not be triggered when updating the plugin via the CLI without visiting the admin.
- Fixes a bug where the Premium as an addon installation status could be reset when it didn’t have to be.
Yoast SEO 16.0: The Sweet Sixteen release is out! It comes with several fixes and improvements. Happy updating and thank you for using Yoast SEO Premium! Read more about what’s new in Yoast SEO 16.0 in our release post!
Other:
- Yoast SEO Premium now requires Yoast SEO to be installed and activated. The first time you upgrade to Yoast SEO Premium 16.0, Yoast SEO 16.0 will automatically be installed and activated for you.
- Hides the ‘deactivate’ button for Yoast SEO on the Plugins page, as long as Yoast SEO Premium is active, because Yoast SEO Premium cannot function properly without Yoast SEO. When Yoast SEO Premium is deactivated, the ‘deactivate’ button for Yoast SEO will reappear.
- Sets the minimum supported WordPress version to 5.6.
- Includes every change in Yoast SEO core 16.0. See the core changelog.
15.9
February 23rd, 2021
Yoast SEO 15.9 is out! This release comes with performance improvements and general enhancements. Happy updating and thanks for using Yoast SEO Premium! Read more about what’s new in Yoast SEO 15.9 in our release post!
Enhancements:
Bugfixes:
- Improves the performance of loading redirects.
- Fixes possible misinterpretations or deprecation errors in the redirect manager due to an outdated SQL operator.
Other:
- Fixes a bug where Yoast SEO instead of Yoast SEO Premium would be shown as the plugin name in the taxonomy metabox in Internet Explorer.
15.8.2
- Includes every change in Yoast SEO core 15.9. See the core changelog.
February 12th, 2021
Bugfixes:
15.8.1
- Fixes a bug where JavaScript and CSS files were missing for customers who downloaded 15.8.1 immediately after it was released.
February 12th, 2021
Bugfixes:
15.8
- Fixes a bug where no Zapier API key would be generated when enabling the Zapier integration.
February 10th, 2021
Say hi to Yoast SEO 15.8! This release comes with a brand-new breadcrumbs block for the block editor. Try it out and guide your users – and Google! Read more about what’s new in Yoast SEO 15.8 in our release post!
Enhancements:
Bugfixes:
- You no longer have to type your name and email address when you send a support request via the HelpScout beacon. They’re taken from your WordPress profile.
Other:
- Fixes a bug where the wrong HelpScout beacon would load, thus not showing an ‘Ask’ option.
- Fixes a bug where the Estimated Reading Time icon placeholder would be output as ICON_PLACEHOLDER when the post content was rendered directly, for example in a Latest Posts block. The icon is no longer visible when the post content is rendered directly.
15.7
- Includes every change in Yoast SEO core 15.8. See the core changelog.
January 26th, 2021
Meet Yoast SEO 15.7! Do you already use the state-of-the-art Premium analysis in Yoast SEO? Great! It now also comes with full language support for Turkish! Read more about what’s new in Yoast SEO 15.7 in our release post!
Enhancements:
Bugfixes:
- Introduces word form support for Turkish.
- Adds block previews for the table of contents block, the related links block and the estimated reading time block.
Other:
- Fixes a bug where the Estimated Reading Time block would not handle the icon correctly for non-administrator and non-editor users. The affected posts need to be saved again in order to add the icon on the frontend.
- Fixes a bug where the Estimated Reading Time block would not support additional CSS classes.
15.6.2
- Includes every change in Yoast SEO core 15.7. See the core changelog.
January 12th, 2021
Other:
15.6.1
- Includes every change in Yoast SEO core 15.6.2 See the core changelog.
January 12th, 2021
Other:
15.6
- Includes every change in Yoast SEO core 15.6.1 See the core changelog.
January 12th, 2021
Say hi to Yoast SEO 15.6! You can now add an Estimated reading time block to your posts! You can also find the estimated reading time in the Insights Tab on your posts/pages. Plus: Word form support for Norwegian writers! Read more about what’s new in Yoast SEO 15.6 in our release post!
Enhancements:
Bugfixes:
- Adds a Block Editor block that shows the estimated reading time for a Page or Post.
- Adds the estimated reading time to the Insights Modal.
- Introduces word form support for Norwegian.
Other:
- Fixes a bug where the Yoast siblings and subpages blocks were not active in certain edge cases.
15.5
- Reduces JavaScript bundle sizes, which should result in slightly faster page loads of the editor.
- Includes every change in Yoast SEO core 15.6. See the core changelog.
December 15th, 2020
Out now: Yoast SEO 15.5! In this release, you’ll find full language support for Hungarian!
This means that Yoast SEO recognizes different word forms of your focus keyphrase. Helping for better readability and for you to rank better! Read more about what’s new in Yoast SEO 15.5 in our release post!
Enhancements:
Other:
- Introduces word form support for Hungarian.
15.4
- Includes every change in Yoast SEO core 15.5. See the core changelog.
December 2nd, 2020
It’s here: Yoast SEO 15.4! In this release, you’ll find a seamless, easy-to-use integration of Yoast SEO with Elementor. Building websites and optimizing content for the search engines now in one workflow! Read more about what’s new in Yoast SEO 15.4 in our release post!
Other:
15.3
- Includes every change in Yoast SEO core 15.4. See the core changelog.
November 17th, 2020
Out now: Yoast SEO 15.3! In this release, you’ll find the new Zapier integration that makes it easy as ABC to share your content. Use zaps to automatically share your published posts! You’ll also find full language support for Hebrew in our analysis, helping you write high-quality content! Read more about what’s new in Yoast SEO 15.3 in our release post!
Enhancements:
Other:
- Adds an integration with Zapier to easily create zaps that instantly share your published posts with 2000+ destinations like Twitter, Facebook, and more. This is released in beta.
- Introduces word form support for Hebrew.
15.2.1
- Includes every change in Yoast SEO core 15.3. See the core changelog.
November 2nd, 2020
Other:
15.2
- Includes every change in Yoast SEO core 15.2.1. See the core changelog.
October 27th, 2020
Enhancements:
Bugfixes:
- Adds word forms support for Swedish keyphrase recognition.
- Improves the recognition of Indonesian passive voice, including for non-passives that are spelled like passives.
Other:
- Fixes a bug where the title of the table of contents block would not be translatable.
- Fixes a bug where an admin notice about adding a redirect would be shown when non-public taxonomy was deleted.
- Fixes a bug where the Start SEO data optimization button was not shown after a page refresh in case the indexables had been indexed correctly, but the prominent words indexing had failed.
- Fixes a bug where, after restoring a post from the trash, it was not possible to remove any redirects that were created when that post was moved to the trash.
- Fixes a bug where using the SEMRush integration to fetch related keyphrases would fail in the classic editor.
- Includes every change in Yoast SEO core 15.2. See the core changelog.
15.1.2
October 15th, 2020
Other:
15.1.1
- Includes every change in Yoast SEO core 15.1.1. See the core changelog.
October 14th, 2020
Bugfixes:
15.1
- Fixes a bug where a fatal error would be thrown on the post edit screen in cases where SEO data had never been indexed.
October 14th, 2020
Enhancements:
Bugfixes:
- Adds buttons to easily add related keyphrases from the SEMrush integration.
- Improves the styling of the link suggestions by adding labels and showing just one list of items.
- Adds an activation link to the plugins overview page that is shown when your plugin is not activated in MyYoast.
- Always shows a link to the FAQ on the plugins overview page.
Other:
- Fixes a bug where the related links block would thrown an error when the metabox was disabled.
15.0
- Integrates the internal linking suggestions indexing tool on the tools page into the general indexing tool of Yoast SEO.
- Includes every change in Yoast SEO core 15.1. See the core changelog.
September 29th, 2020
Enhancements:
Bugfixes:
- Introduces word form support for Arabic.
- Introduces a new table of contents block. In order for the table of contents block to work, all heading blocks will automatically have anchors generated for them.
- Improves internal linking suggestions for languages without function word recognition by increasing the number of prominent words that are saved for a post, page or term.
- Improves internal linking suggestions and insights for Arabic and Urdu by improving the prominent word recognition when words in the text occur with specific punctuation marks.
Other:
- Fixes a bug where no plugin icon and compatibility data would be displayed on the plugins update screen.
- Removes the feedback link underneath the focus keyphrase input field.
- Includes every change in Yoast SEO core 15.0. See the core changelog.
Enhancements:
Bugfixes:
- Adds word form functionality for Polish.
- Improves internal linking suggestions and Insights for Hebrew by filtering function words.
Other:
- Fixes a bug where a PHP error would be thrown about the WPSEO_Replace_Vars service being private.
- Includes every change in Yoast SEO core 14.9. See the core changelog.
14.8
August 18th, 2020
Enhancements:
Bugfixes:
- Adds the Yoast Related Posts block which generates a list of links to related posts.
- Improves the text of the user feedback link in the SEO analysis tab and shows it for all languages.
- Improves internal linking suggestions and Insights for Arabic by filtering function words.
Other:
- Fixes a bug where opening the sidebar would make the user feedback link disappear inside the metabox.
14.7
- Sets minimum supported WordPress version to 5.4.
- Includes every change in Yoast SEO core 14.8. See the core changelog.
August 5th, 2020
Enhancements:
Other:
- Improves the algorithm used for generating internal linking suggestions, taking the relative frequency of the prominent words in your content into account.
- Enables internal linking suggestions for all languages.
- Adds internal linking support for terms. Terms can now be suggested as internal linking suggestions for posts.
- Adds a label to the internal linking suggestions, indicating the post type or taxonomy name of the suggested post or term.
- Changes the description of the site-wide internal linking analysis on the SEO tools page to better describe when it should be used.
- Sets the minimum amount of words before generating prominent words to 100 words.
- Notifies the user to add a meta description and title to get better internal linking suggestions by a message above the internal linking suggestions.
- Adds recognition of common irregular plural nouns (e.g., uomo – uomini) and adjectives (e.g., ampio – ampli) in Italian.
- Adds recognition of common irregular diminutives in Italian, such as nouns (e.g., ovetto – uovo), adjectives (e.g., dolciastro – dolce), and verbs (e.g., scribacchiare – scrivere).
- Improves word form recognition of Russian nouns with stems that have endings similar to noun case suffixes (e.g., сиптом, гром, запах).
- Improves keyword recognition of Russian irregular plurals.
- Improves stemming of common irregular verbs in French (e.g., connusse, suiviez).
- Improves recognition of several French first person plural verb forms with suffix -ons (not -ions), e.g. aimons, aidons, oisons, aerons.
- Compatibility with WordPress 5.5: makes sure Yoast internal linking blocks are searchable, have examples and a description.
- Enables tracking when activating premium. Previously tracking was always on. It can now be disabled in the configuration wizard.
- Includes every change in Yoast SEO core 14.7. See the core changelog.
14.6.1
July 21st, 2020
Other:
14.6
- Includes every change in Yoast SEO core 14.6.1. See the core changelog.
July 21st, 2020
Enhancements:
Other:
- Adds Internal linking suggestions and Insights for Indonesian.
- Adds word form support for Portuguese.
- Adds word form support for Indonesian.
- Shows the Yoast didn’t recognize my keyphrase button when the site language is set to Portuguese or Indonesian.
- Shows the language beacon when the site language is set to Indonesian.
- Improves word form recognition of Russian nouns with stems that have endings similar to noun case suffixes. Example: сиптом, гром, запах.
- Improves word form recognition of Russian nouns that have irregular plurals.
- Adds recognition of common irregular diminutives in Italian, such as nouns (e.g., ovetto – uovo), adjectives (e.g., dolciastro – dolce), and verbs (e.g., scribacchiare – scrivere). It also stops filtering out scrivere, scrive, and scritto as function words during the keyphrase analysis.
- Adds recognition of common irregular plural nouns (e.g., uomo – uomini) and adjectives (e.g., ampio – ampli) in Italian.
14.5
- Includes every change in Yoast SEO core 14.6. See the core changelog.
July 8th, 2020
Enhancements:
Bugfixes:
- Adds a siblings block and a subpages blocks which can be used to improve internal linking.
Other:
- Fixes a bug where an empty string set as rest_base for a post type would give JavaScript errors.
- Includes every change in Yoast SEO core 14.5. See the core changelog.
14.4.1
June 23rd, 2020
Other:
14.4
- Includes every change in Yoast SEO core 14.4.1. See the core changelog.
June 23rd, 2020
Enhancements:
Other:
- Adds a fix for French nouns ending in -ition and -itions (e.g., supposition, suppositions) so that they can be recognized and matched with the corresponding verb and/or adjective (e.g., supposer).
- Improves recognition of first person plural verb forms in French (e.g., chantons).
- Adds keyphrase recognition for infinitives in Russian on ть (ать, ять, еть) and improves recognition of perfective infinitives in Russian on уть (блеснуть).
14.3
- Includes every change in Yoast SEO core 14.4. See the core changelog.
June 9th, 2020
Enhancements:
Bugfixes:
- Adds word form support for Italian.
- Improves keyphrase recognition of certain French verbs ending on -oir or -re in the infinitive (e.g. asseoir, apprendre) as well as of some irregular verbs (e.g. appertenir, vivre).
- Improves word form recognition of short French words (e.g. ours – our; âmes – âme).
- Improves the way keyphrases containing words ending in -ent are recognized in the text.
- Improves keyword recognition of words ending in -is/-us/-os in French.
Other:
- Fixes a bug where .htaccess redirects in a multisite were overwritten by other sites in the same network.
- Fixes a bug where the replacement variables coming from Yoast SEO WooCommerce were not replaced correctly in the Social Previews.
14.2
- Adds a feedback link underneath the focus keyphrase input field to allow users to report problems with keyphrase recognition for languages with rudimentary morphology support.
- Improves security for AJAX routes used in the social previews.
- Includes every change in Yoast SEO core 14.3. See the core changelog.
May 26th, 2020
Bugfixes:
Enhancements:
- Fixes a bug where the buttons in several notifications didn’t work.
Other:
- Adds word form support for Russian.
- Improves keyphrase recognition in French when the keyphrase contains a word which gets the -x suffix in plural (e.g., jeux).
- Improves keyphrase recognition in French when the keyphrase contains irregular nouns or adjectives.
- Improves keyphrase recognition in French when the keyphrase contains words ending in -issement(s).
- Updates the copy of the notification displayed when the Premium plugin subscription isn’t activated.
14.1
- Includes every change in Yoast SEO core 14.2. See the core changelog.
May 13th, 2020
Bugfixes:
Enhancements:
- Fixes a bug where the styling of the score column heading on the post overview would be broken.
- Fixes a bug when the keyphrase distribution assessment might return skewed results if a text contains lists of single words.
Other:
- Adds word forms support for French (beta version).
- Improves the way Dutch diminutive nouns are recognized as forms of the keyphrase.
14.0.4
- Includes every change in Yoast SEO core 14.1. See the core changelog.
April 30th, 2020
Other:
14.0.3
- Includes every change in Yoast SEO core 14.0.4. See the core changelog.
April 30th, 2020
Other:
14.0.2
- Includes every change in Yoast SEO core 14.0.3. See the core changelog.
April 29th, 2020
Other:
14.0.1
- Includes every change in Yoast SEO core 14.0.2. See the core changelog.
April 28th, 2020
Other:
14.0
- Includes every change in Yoast SEO core 14.0.1. See the core changelog.
April 28th, 2020
Other:
- Includes every change in Yoast SEO core 14.0. See the core changelog.
Enhancements:
Bugfixes:
- Adds word form support for Spanish.
Other:
- Fixes a bug where the text analysis would break if the text contains the word “Ying”.
- Inludes every change in Yoast SEO core 13.5. See the core changelog.
Bugfixes:
13.4
- Replaces the use of the deprecated category_link filter by term_link. Props to Chouby
March 31st, 2020
Enhancements:
Other:
- Adds word form support for Dutch.
13.3
- Includes every change in Yoast SEO core 13.4. See the core changelog.
March 17th, 2020
Other:
13.2
- Includes every change in Yoast SEO core 13.3. See the core changelog.
March 3rd, 2020
Other:
- Includes every change in Yoast SEO core 13.2. See the core changelog.