Yoast Local SEO changelog - page 7

Enhancements​

• Introduced Browser API key in settings because Google now requires this to embed maps on your site.
• Introduced Help Center on settings tabs.
• Introduced notification for empty API key settings.
• Refactored the address format code, and introduced a class for it.
• Deprecated the wpseo_local_get_address_format() function. Use the new WPSEO_Local_Address_Format class now.
• Location taxonomy names are now based on post type singular name.

Bugfixes​

• Zoomlevels 0 and 1 now work as intended in the WPSEO Show Map widget
• Flush rewrite rules after changing the location category slug to prevent a 404 on category pages

Enhancements​

• Better explanation for search radius for store locator in widget
• Removed translations of "Local SEO" since it's a brand name
• Hide links to locations and locations category admin pages, when options aren't saved yet (caused 404 errors)
• Make translation possible for upload button
• Added translation promo box

Bugfixes​

• Location Category Custom Map Marker wasn't displayed.
• Company Logo didn't appear in Address Widget.
• Show address in one line showed comma when not needed.
• Error with localTitle and localURL assessments in page analysis fixed.
• Fixed the links to the location post type and taxonomy in admin, before saving themin the options.

• Fixes a fatal error.

• Synchronized plugin version with all other Yoast SEO plugins for WordPress.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes deprecation warnings for filters that have been removed in Yoast SEO 3.0
• Fixes content error for Local admin page (iframe of lseo.com).
• Fixed mixed content issue for XSL.

Enhancements​

• Makes sure location specific content analysis checks work well with the Real Time content analysis tool in Yoast SEO 3.0.

• Bugfix:

• Fixed bug where widgets no longer showed up when using a single location

Bugfixes​

• Replaced all shorthand PHP tags that were being used.<!--?php. Yep, really...
• Resolved some PHP 5.2 and 5.3 compatibilty issues
• Fixed the url for locations in locations.kml
• Added the + in url's for phone numbers
• Added map styles to the storelocator

Enhancements​

• Added support for Jetpack's Omnisearch
• Added support for Publicize and Markdown
• Added label fields. You can now determine your own labels for locations.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a JS bug that was caused by a merge conflict

Bugfixes​

• Wrong opening hours were added to meta-data when location is closed.
• Category sitemap was created when there were no location categories.
• Accept both "value" and "nice name" for Business Type in import.

Enhancements​

• Added option for hiding (not using) opening hours.
• Added option for entering a Google Maps API key (useful when you have hundreds or more locations).
• We added a tab in the Options section, where we've listed some great Local SEO tools.

Enhancements​

• Updated translations for 10 languages.

Bugfixes​

• When selecting quarters in opening hours, it isn't displayed as "closed" anymore
• Copying data from an existing location now works properly

Enhancements​

• Custom markers for Google Maps, like this:
  
• Custom markers per category (when using multiple locations)
• In the locations post edit screen, you can now drag the Google Maps pin to a different location
• Added an option to the store locator to show the nearest location if no locations are found in the search radius
• Removed the current location from the 'copy data from another location' drop down
• Expanded the importer with opening hours
• Added Business Type and URL to CSV import
• Added a nonce check to import
• Caching for sitemaps

Bugfixes​

• 24-h format for opening hours works again
• Fixes sitemap URLs for servers which needs index.php in permalink structure
• Option added for hiding business name
• Hide "Show route" when not selected from popup.

Enhancements​

• Properly minify admin CSS scripts.

• i18n

• Updated es_ES, nl_NL and ru_RU

• Added de_DE, fr_FR and tr_TK

Bugfixes​

• Fix error that prevented properly recognizing current version.

Bugfixes​

• Fixed fatal error when saving single location
• Fixed "Non-static method" notice

Bugfixes​

• Mismatched itemprop="email" for URLs now changed to itemprop="url"
• Manually changing lat/long coordinates is working again

Enhancements​

• Add {zipcode} {city}, {state} address format

• Added html elements to address lines

• Added possibility to change author of location

• Added "all locations" option to Address button in edit-pages to show all locations

• Code changes

• Classes and instances of classes renamed to be more consistent with WP SEO

• Separated some functionality in different classes

Bugfixes​

• Video sitemap was breaking after update 1.2.2.1. Fixed.