YOAST SEO - Best Wordpress SEO Plugin v25.1

Yoast SEO 25.1 - May 13, 2025
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.

Yoast SEO 25.0 - April 29, 2025
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.

Yoast SEO v24.9 - April 15, 2025
Yoast SEO 24.9 brings more enhancements and bugfixes. Find more information about our software releases and updates here.
Enhancements

• Changes the applicability criteria of readability assessments so that they are shown even if there is little or no text.
• Improves the recognition of transition words for Farsi.
• Introduces more robust HTML processing and highlighting for the consecutive sentences assessment.
• Improves recognition of function words for Farsi. Props to nshayanfar.

Bug fixes

• Fixes a bug where long sentences would be incorrectly highlighted in sentence length assessment in the default editor when they were part of a block that contained non-breaking spaces or closing tags (>).
• Fixes a bug where the advanced replacement variables would not be visible when editing social previews in Elementor.
• Fixes a bug where the content image would not show on social previews when editing it in Elementor.
• Fixes a bug where Yoast modals would not be visible when using Astra plugins.
• Fixes a bug where function words with spaces were not recognised in Farsi.

Other

• Adds a space before the closing slash in self-closing HTML tags to comply with recommended coding standards. Props to laxman1192.
• Sets the WordPress tested up to version to 6.8.
• Updates the Google AI bot name in the crawl optimization settings from Google Bard to Google Gemini.

Yoast SEO 24.8 - April 1, 2025
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.

Yoast SEO 24.7 - March 18, 2025
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.

Yoast SEO 24.6 - March 4, 2025
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.

February 18, 2025
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.

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 articleublished_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.

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

• Adds the Yoast AI Optimize feature to sentence length and paragraph length assessments.

Bugfixes

• Fixes a bug where interacting with the SEO/Readability/Inclusive language analysis tab/collapsible would disable the highlighting buttons when an AI Optimize button was present in the analysis results.
• Fixes a bug where modifying content in the editor that could lead to a different analysis score would disable the highlighting buttons when an AI Optimize button was present in the analysis results.
• Fixes a bug where switching between "visual" and "code" editors inside the Block editor would not disable the highlighting buttons when there was no AI Optimize button in the analysis results.

Other

• Bumps the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 24.3.

2025-01-07 - v24.2
* fix - Fixes a bug where translations would break for the internal linking unindexed notice when in other languages.
* fix - Fixes a bug where an error modal requesting a Yoast WooCommerce SEO subscription was shown when clicking the 'Use AI' button for Custom Post Type (CPT) products and taxonomies.
* update - Bumps the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 24.1.
* update - Bumps the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 24.2.