YOAST Woocommerce SEO Plugin, Wordpress v16.2

April 3, 2024
Yoast WooCommerce SEO 16.2 delivers the schema update we've been promising! Webshop customers will now have better control over how their product variants show online, ensuring a better overall experience for shoppers. Check out the release post for more details about the impact of Yoast WooCommerce SEO 16.2!
Enhancements

• Adds ProductGroup schema to be compatible with Product variant schema.

Other

• Sets the minimum required Yoast SEO version to 22.0.
• Sets the WordPress tested up to version to 6.5.

16.0
December 12, 2023
The last release of WooCommerce SEO received generative AI support for product titles and meta descriptions. In WooCommerce SEO 16.0, we added another great feature: easy import and export of global identifier values like GTIN8 and UPC. Check out this great timesaver! Find out more about what's new in Yoast WooCommerce SEO 16.0 in our release post!

Enhancements
Adds support for global identifier values (GTIN8, GTIN12 / UPC, GTIN13 / EAN, GTIN14 / ITF-14, ISBN, MPN) into the Import/Export feature of the WooCommerce Product.
Other
Bumps the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 21.7.
Adds checks to ensure that the plugin has no known incompatibilities with PHP 8.3.
Improves the discoverability of the security policy.

v14.6 - January 25th, 2022
Enhancements:

• Adapts the Product description assessment for Japanese to use a character-based count, with a recommended length of 40-100 characters.

Bugfixes:

• Fixes a bug where an empty product identifier value could be output.

Other:

• Sets the minimum required Yoast SEO version to 18.0.
• Sets the WordPress tested up to version to 5.9.
• Sets the WooCommerce tested up to version to 6.1

v14.5 - December 14th, 2021
Other:
Ensure compatibility with Yoast SEO Free 17.8.
Sets the minimum required Yoast SEO version to 17.8.

Download YOAST WooCommerce SEO version 14.4

CHANGES

• Adds the Image alt tags assessment, which checks if all images have alt tags.
• Removes the Outbound links assessment and Internal links assessment, as they are less relevant on product pages.
• Sets the recommended minimum of the Keyphrase length assessment to 4 words.
• Sets the recommended minimum of the Text length assessment to 200 words.
• The SEO title width assessment no longer penalizes short titles.
• Adds a criterion for orange bullet in the Images assessments on product pages.
• Sets the recommended number of images to 4 in the Images assessments on product pages.
• Adds the following improvements to the readability analysis on product pages:
• Adds the List presence assessment which recommends using lists on product pages.
• Makes the Subheading distribution assessment appear only when the text contains more than 300 words.
• Sets the recommended maximum length of the Paragraph length assessment to 70 words.
• Sets the recommended maximum percentage of long sentences in the Sentence length assessment to 20%. Language-specific percentages can override this default value.