YOAST SEO - Best Wordpress SEO Plugin v23.9

Yoast SEO v22.9 - June 18, 2024
Yoast SEO v22.9 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.

Yoast SEO v22.7 - May 14, 2024
Yoast SEO 22.7 converts selected blocks to the Blocks V3 API and brings multiple bugfixes. Find more information about our software releases and updates here.
Enhancements

• Converts the Yoast How-to and FAQ blocks to use the Blocks V3 API.
• Introduces a date and a separator snippet variable to the meta description text field, to make clear that both the date and a separator are automatically added to the character count of the meta description. Hovering over the variables reveals a tooltip with more explanation.

Bugfixes

• Fixes a bug where a PHP deprecation error would be thrown when trying to convert a relative URL to an absolute one, with the provided value being null.
• Fixes a bug where the character count of the meta description field would not include the automatically added date and separator when no additional content was provided.
• Fixes a bug where the elements in the Yoast sidebar and metabox are displayed in an incorrect order if Yoast SEO Premium is activated.

Other

• Deprecates \Yoast\WP\SEO\Integrations\Blocks\Structured_Data_Blocks::enqueue_block_editor_assets().
• Properly escapes tags in the Enhanced Slack Sharing presenter to prevent incorrect rendering and unwanted, potentially malicious behavior. Props to @rob006.
• Removes the yoast-components-package script.
• Sets the minimum supported WordPress version to 6.4.

April 30, 2024
Yoast SEO 22.6 is out today! This release brings many performance and quality-of-life fixes to improve your favorite SEO plugin. Plus, we’re asking you to update your PHP versions. Find out what’s new in this post!
Enhancements

• Adds a helpful error message in the Yoast sidebar/metabox in case of plugin or theme conflicts. Now when an unknown error occurs, the error is caught and an error message is shown. Before, the error would lead to a blank sidebar/metabox, or to an entire blank page.
• Improves performance when it comes to storing user metadata, most visible at the point of author sitemap creation.
• Improves the keyphrase detection in SEO title for Arabic and Hebrew. For example, when the keyphrase is "باندا حمراء" and the SEO title starts with "الباندا الحمراء", we now recognize this as an exact match and give a good result for the keyphrase in SEO title assessment.

Bugfixes

• Fixes a bug where a PHP notice in the settings would influence the styling of some of our inputs.
• Fixes a bug where the inserted variables in the search appearance would not show correctly when using Elementor.
• Fixes a bug where there would be a fatal error when deleting post meta in PHP 8.1 and higher. Props to @izzygld.
• Fixes a security issue where URLs were not correctly escaped in the Yoast admin bar menu.

Other

• Introduces a notice on the WordPress dashboard and the Yoast SEO dashboard to let users know we are dropping support for PHP < 7.4 starting November 1st, 2024.

Yoast SEO Premium v22.5 - April 16, 2024
Yoast SEO 22.5 brings maintenance updates and bug fixes throughout the plugin, refined guidance on optimal taxonomy practices and a smoother user experience. Check out the release post for version 22.5.
Enhancements

• Introduces a check for allowed MIME types when uploading images to a social appearance template.

Bugfixes

• Fixes a bug where some feedback strings in the content analysis would no longer be translated.
• Fixes a bug where a new field added to the Add custom fields to page analysis setting would sometimes be removed after being saved.
• Fixes a bug where the Yoast Table of Contents block would throw a validation error when changing the heading level of the block's title.

Other

• Bumps the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 22.5.
• Renames all Twitter references to X.

Yoast SEO Premium 22.4
April 3, 2024
We've been spring cleaning for Yoast SEO 22.4. Elementor users can wave goodbye to that unnecessary redirect when saving a post for the first time. Across the plugin, users can expects a smoother experience due to bug fixes and optimizations. Find more about Yoast SEO Premium 22.4 in our latest release post!
Bugfixes

• Fixes a bug where an AJAX request on the edit tags page that did not have data as a string would cause a JavaScript error on our side, stopping our redirect notification checks.

Other

• Bumps the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 22.4.

March 19, 2024
Yoast SEO 22.3 introduces a highly-requested AI feature exclusively for our Yoast SEO Premium customers: AI-generated titles and meta descriptions for taxonomies. You will also find additional refinements and fixes for a better user experience. Explore the details in our latest release post!
Enhancements
Introducing the option to generate titles and meta descriptions for category and tag pages on your website (taxonomies). Optimize your site for higher click-through-rates at the touch of a button.
Other
Bumps the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 22.3.
Sets the WordPress tested up to version to 6.5.

Yoast SEO Premium v22.2 - March 5, 2024
Exciting news! Yoast SEO 22.2 is now live. We've fine-tuned translation features for Yoast News SEO. Plus, you can expect enhanced language analysis, ensuring even more accurate keyphrase recognition. Explore the details in our latest release post!
Bugfixes

• 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.
• Fixes a bug where the upsell message for Yoast WooCommerce SEO would appear when using the AI feature on a non-WooCommerce product page.

Other

• Bumps the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 22.2.

Yoast SEO Premium 22.1
February 20, 2024
Yoast SEO Premium 22.1 is out now. This release has an updated AI model that brings better results, especially for languages other than English. Try it!. Find out more about what's new in Yoast SEO Premium 22.1 in our release post!
Enhancements

• Improves the suggestions created by the AI title & description generator.
• Improved error handling for using the AI title & description generator for local sites and sites that don't have a publicly accessible REST API.
• Adds caching in the posts overview page for the query that counts cornerstone content.
• Adds caching in the posts overview page for the query that counts orphaned content.

Bugfixes

• Fixes a bug where special characters in headings such as ampersands (&) and non-breaking spaces ( ) would be displayed as their encoded HTML entity version inside the Yoast Table of Contents block.

Other

• Bumps the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 22.1.

February 6, 2024
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!
Bug Fixes
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.

Yoast SEO Premium v21.9 - January 23, 2024
Yoast SEO Premium 21.9 is out now. This release is mainly focused on maintenance. It comes with many behind-the-scenes improvements and general enhancements. Find out more about what's new in Yoast SEO Premium 21.9 in our release post!
Bug fixes
Fixes a bug where Accordion and Tabs widgets in Elementor would not open a tab when clicking its header in the preview.
Fixes a bug where calling a deprecated function would lead to a fatal error.
Fixes a bug where the content analysis would not work properly when a related links block had been added.
Other
Adds a filter to suppress the notification shown in the block editor when a redirect is automatically created upon slug change.
Bumps the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 21.9.
Make the required PHP extensions explicit.
Removes Yoast SEO from the Premium zip which reduces the zip size. Also automatically installs Yoast SEO from the WordPress.org repository if it's not present.
Sets the minimum supported WordPress version to 6.3.