YOAST SEO - Best Wordpress SEO Plugin v26.4

Yoast SEO 26.4 - November 18, 2025
Bug fixes
Fixes a bug for users who have the Site Kit integration enabled, where a fatal error would be thrown for edge cases, like when custom code intervened with the default WP login flow.
Fixes a bug in the Settings page where the advanced tab would close when selecting one of its options or other options after visiting the advanced tab.
Other
Adds a button for using AI to generate custom an SEO title or meta description in the pre-publish sidebar of the block editor, if all recent posts have been using default SEO data.
Adds the Yoast siblings and subpages premium blocks to the Yoast custom blocks menu tab in pages.
Improves performance when author archives are disabled and an author is created.

Yoast SEO 26.4 - November 18, 2025
Bug fixes
Fixes a bug for users who have the Site Kit integration enabled, where a fatal error would be thrown for edge cases, like when custom code intervened with the default WP login flow.
Fixes a bug in the Settings page where the advanced tab would close when selecting one of its options or other options after visiting the advanced tab.
Other
Adds a button for using AI to generate custom an SEO title or meta description in the pre-publish sidebar of the block editor, if all recent posts have been using default SEO data.
Adds the Yoast siblings and subpages premium blocks to the Yoast custom blocks menu tab in pages.
Improves performance when author archives are disabled and an author is created.

Yoast SEO v26.3 - November 4, 2025
Yoast SEO 26.3 brings more enhancements and bugfixes. Find more information about our software releases and updates here.
Bugfixes
Fixes a bug where the llms.txt file template contained a spelling error "can by found" instead of "can be found".

Yoast SEO v26.2 - October 21, 2025
Yoast SEO 26.2 brings more enhancements and bugfixes. Find more information about our software releases and updates here.
Enhancements

• Adds a Pronouns field to the user profile and includes these pronouns in the Schema.org output. Props to jdevalk.
• Adds edit buttons next to the keyphrase in meta description, keyphrase in slug, and keyphrase in SEO title assessments when there is no keyphrase and/or no meta description, slug, or SEO title.
• Improves the transition words assessment for Arabic by expanding the list of recognized transition words. Props to Reem76-ar.
• Introduces Content blocks collapsible inside Yoast Metabox and Sidebar to improve Yoast custom blocks discoverability.

Other

• Adapts the behavior of the Contact our support team button in the Support page to our new Premium and WooCommerce SEO subscription plans.
• Disables opcache invalidation on plugin upgrade for a subset of the userbase.

2025-10-07 - v26.1
* add - Adds tooltips to the AI Summarize `Generate summary` and `Regenerate summary` buttons when they are disabled.
* add - Prevents AI Optimize from suggesting improvements to the content of the AI Summarize block.
* add - Excludes the content of the AI Summarize block from the content that should be summarized when re-generating a summary.
* fix - Fixes a bug where the modals would be rendered every time on hovering over the transform options in the AI summarize menu.
* update - Bumps the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 26.1.
* update - Adds the `wpseo_premium_orphaned_count_cache_invalidation_method` filter to allow the ability to swap the way to invalidate the `orphaned_count` object cache.
* update - Adds the `wpseo_premium_orphaned_count_cache` filter to allow the ability to completely disable the `orphaned_count` object cache.

2025-09-23 - v26.0
* fix - Fixes a bug where the filter and search values would be persistent when switching tabs in the redirects page.
* fix - Fixes a bug where a string from the usage counter tooltip for AI features was missing in RTL language.
* fix - Fixes a bug where a redirect could not be remove if it included our own redirect routes in the redirect.
* update - Bumps the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 26.0.

Yoast SEO Premium 25.9 - September 9, 2025
New: introduces Yoast AI Summarize, instantly condense long-form content into clear key takeaways, in seconds. Read the release post here.
Enhancements
Introduces AI Summarize, the new Yoast custom block which generates a summary of the content using AI.
Other
Bumps the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 25.9

2025-08-26 - v25.8
* fix - Fixes a bug where redirect notification would be created when changing the slug on a non public term.
* fix - Fixes a bug where redirect notification would not be created when changing the slug on a public term with url arguments in the permalink.
* fix - Fixes a bug where redirect notification would be created when changing the slug on a non public term.
* fix - Fixes a bug where redirect notification would not be created when changing the slug on a public term with url arguments in the permalink.
* update - Bumps the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 25.8.

2025-08-12 - v25.7
* add - Re-introduces the improved AI Optimize feature in Classic editor.
* add - Improves the implementation of AI Optimize in Classic editor.
* add - The Redirects page has been completely redesigned.
* fix - Fixes a bug where the texts in the Apply, Dismiss and Learn more buttons of the AI Optimize notification were missing in some RTL languages such as Arabic.
* fix - Fixes a bug where the user is prompting to create a redirect for private terms.
* fix - Fixes a bug where the wrong error message would be shown for the AI Optimize in case of unreachable site or subscription not found.
* fix - Fixes a bug where the AI Optimize introduction component would not be shown when the AI buttons were only available inside SEO analysis.
* fix - Fixes a bug where the check icon of the Apply button inside AI Optimize notification was displayed upside down in RTL languages.
* update - Adds accessibility attributes to the popover component in the AI Optimize introduction for the Classic Editor.
* update - Sets the minimum supported WordPress version to 6.7.
* update - Disables the AI Optimize button for _keyphrase density_ and _keyphrase distribution_ assessments in Classic editor when their prompt content contains only subheadings.
* update - Bumps the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 25.7.
* update - Adds a PHP fallback to remove data attribute of AI Optimize in Classic editor.

Yoast SEO v25.6 - July 29, 2025
Yoast SEO v25.6 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.