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14.9

Enhancements

  • Adds a feature allowing users to add global identifiers (e.g., GTIN12, ISBN, etc.) to Product variations.
  • Adds a feature to include global identifiers of Product variations to a Product's Schema.
  • Adds variations' SKU and URL to a Product's Schema. Props to @jaredforth.
  • Removes the datePublished and dateModified attributes on the ItemPage Schema markup for a Product.

Other

  • Sets tested up WordPress version to 6.0.
  • Sets the minimum required Yoast SEO version to 19.1.

14.8

Enhancements

  • Removes XML sitemap image properties title and caption following deprecation by Google.

Other

  • Sets the minimum required Yoast SEO version to 18.8.

14.7

Enhancements

  • Improves the Schema on checkout pages by removing the default ReadAction we used to add there.
  • Improves the Schema on product pages by replacing the default ReadAction with a BuyAction.

Other

  • Sets the minimal required version for Yoast SEO to 18.6.
  • Sets the minimum required WordPress version to 5.8.
  • Adds a new wpseo_schema_offer filter that can be used to change the output of the offers attribute of the product schema. Props to Dekadinious.

14.6

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.

14.5

Other

  • Ensure compatibility with Yoast SEO Free 17.8.
  • Sets the minimum required Yoast SEO version to 17.8.

14.3

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where the product identifier replacement variables %%wc_gtin8%%, %%wc_gtin12%%, %%wc_gtin13%%, %%wc_gtin14%%, %%wc_isbn%% and %%wc_mpn%% would not work in meta descriptions when retrieving posts using REST requests.

14.2.1

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where a fatal error was thrown on the frontend of product pages when using the %%wc_shortdesc%% snippet variable while running PHP 8.0.
  • Fixes a bug where the %%wc_price%%, %%wc_sku%%, %%wc_shortdesc%% and %%wc_brand%% snippet variable values were not displayed on the frontend.

14.2

Enhancements

  • Adds key/value pairs of all WooCommerce SEO meta tags to our REST API.

Other

  • Sets the minimum WordPress version to 5.6.
  • Sets the minimum required Yoast SEO to 16.7.
  • Replaces an occurrence of the deprecated jQuery .ready syntax with more modern syntax. Props to kkmuffme.

14.1

Other

  • Makes WooCommerce SEO compatible with the latest version of Yoast SEO.
  • Sets the minimum supported Yoast SEO version to 16.4.

14.0

Enhancements

  • Add the rating, number of reviews, price and availability to the Google Preview for products to match Google's search results.
  • Improves the priceSpecification Schema output to prevent warnings from Google Search Console.

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where the Social Previews would not use Product Gallery images as a fallback for social sharing.

Other

  • Sets the WordPress tested up to version to 5.7 and minimum supported WordPress version to 5.6.
  • Sets the minimum supported Yoast SEO version to 16.3.

13.9

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where a deprecation notice would be shown in the PHP debug log when visiting a product page.

13.8

Enhancements

  • Makes the Schema Product type filterable.

13.7

Enhancements

  • Shows the price and availability of a product in its snippet when sharing the product on Slack.

13.6

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where no plugin icon and compatibility data would be displayed on the plugins update screen.

Other

  • We've tested with WooCommerce 4.5. Everything works as expected!

13.5

Enhancements

  • Adds ‘WebPage’ as schema @type to Product pages and Checkout pages. This results in a @type array with at least 'WebPage' and 'ItemPage', or 'WebPage' and 'CheckoutPage'.

Other

  • Enables tracking when activating the plugin. This can be disabled in the Yoast SEO configuration wizard.
  • Sets the minimum supported WordPress version to 5.4.

13.4

Enhancements

  • Hides the Yoast SEO columns in the Products overview table by default.

13.3

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where no SKU would be output when the SKU field was left empty. It will now fall back to the product’s ID.

Enhancements

  • Outputs PreOrder as availability property value in the Product schema when the product is “on backorder”.

13.2

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where the organization schema for a primary term would error.
  • Fixes a bug where a potential undefined variable notice was shown when toggling the 'prices have tax included' WooCommerce option.
  • Fixes a bug where changing the product permalinks would not reset the permalinks in their respective indexables.

Enhancements

  • Omits the product:price:amount and product:price:currency og meta for variable and grouped products.
  • Hides all Yoast columns in the Product overview page except the SEO Score column.

13.1

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where the twitter:image meta tag would not fall back on the first product gallery image when no main product image was set.
  • Fixes a bug where all product gallery images would be output as og:image even though a user had set a specific image for a product.