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4.4

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where a span tag wasn't closed correctly, props lubobill1990.
  • Fixes a bug where there were deprecation warnings shown when an existing author was being updated.
  • Fixes a bug where the user received an 'insufficient rights' error when the advanced settings are disabled, but an advanced page is visited.

Enhancements

  • Moves the options to disable keyword and content analysis from the general tab to the features tab.
  • Improves styling of tables so they are viewable on mobile.
  • Changes the links into shortlinks for the extensions page, helpcenter, facebook settings and premium popup.

4.3

Bugfixes

  • Fixes the width of the readability column on post overview, props rikayla.

Enhancements

  • Improves feedback text for subheading too long assessment.

4.2.1

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a fatal error "Call to undefined method yoast_i18nset_api_url()". This error occurred with certain other plugins that also include the i18n-module.
  • Fixes a bug where some strings wouldn't be translated.
  • Makes the Yoast SEO menu top and first item visible in the responsive view.
  • Fixes a bug where the yoast icon on the credits page wasn't displayed properly in some views.

Enhancements

  • Improves the styling of the notification center.
  • Improves the styling of the title separators.

4.2

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where the sitemaps were being invalidated too often.
  • Fixes a bug where the 'meta keywords' meta box section stayed visible when switching to the readability tab.

Enhancements

  • Moves translations from translate.yoast.com to translate.wordpress.org.
  • Improves the styling of the featured image warning and sends an audible message for screen readers.
  • Makes the left sidebar of the meta box responsive.
  • Removes unused heading from the meta box.
  • Improves responsiveness for settings pages.

4.1

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a glitch in the notification center where a notification would be shown twice.
  • Fixes a bug where the realtime analysis didn't work on term pages.
  • Fixes a bug where the sitemap invalidation uses an expensive query to clean up old validators.

Enhancements

  • Adds a mobile snippet preview.
  • Adds a function that allows retrieving an option only when it's been autoloaded.
  • Removes review banner from mobile, props abhinavkumar940.
  • Adds labels to redirect checkboxes in the search console to improve accessibility.

4.0.2

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where shortcodes would be kept in the content that would be analyzed, which would result in incorrect results.
  • Fixes a bug where the user language would be used to analyze the content instead of the site language.

3.9

Enhancements

  • Updates the banners on the admin pages.
  • Improves accessibility by moving the Google Search Console reload button from the header.
  • Allow for other plugins and themes to more easily add html namespaces through the new wpseo_html_namespaces filter.
  • Prevent conflicts with other plugins/themes which also add html namespaces.

Bugfixes

  • Adds a check to prevent a "Cannot read property 'body' of undefined" error with tinyMCE that occurred with Visual Composer and some themes.
  • Fixes a bug that prevented bulk actions to work in the Google Search Console.
  • Fixed incorrect timezone for zero offset case (Atlantic/Azores instead of UTC).

3.8

Enhancements

  • Makes tooltips on tabs icons accessible.
  • Adds check to prevent sitemap from having empty image entries.
  • Improves screenreader text for the readability tab.
  • Adds a toggle for author and date archives.
  • Adds several improvements for readability and consistent styling.

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where the category picker would become slow with 1000+ categories, props Ron Willemse
  • Fixes a bug with VoiceOver on the readability and keyword tabs.

3.7.1

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where the configuration wizard couldn't go to the next step if PUT requests were disabled on the server.

3.7

Enhancements

  • Includes a few design improvements in the analysis section of the metabox. Design is now more consistent.
  • Makes sure author archives are disabled when a user confirms his site is single-author.
  • The configuration wizard is now called "configuration wizard" consistently throughout the plugin.
  • Makes sure the help center is now included on all Yoast SEO pages.
  • Added a notification asking users to rate Yoast SEO on WordPress.org.

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where the metabox was taking up too much space on small screens.
  • Fixes a bug where the marking for consecutive sentences beginning with the same word was off by one.
  • Fixes a bug where the Google Search Console integration wasn't working well on multisite.
  • Fixes a bug where the newsletter signup always did a http request, causing mixed content errors on https sites.

3.6.1

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where the admin bar would still show advanced settings when the advanced settings were disabled.

3.4.2

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where apostrophes would be stripped from the focus keyword.

3.4.1

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a stored XSS issue in the Yoast SEO metabox. Thanks Hammad Shamsi for reporting and responsibly disclosing this issue.

3.3.4

  • Fixed a bug in the 3.3.3 release that caused the release folder to not have a fix.

3.3.3

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where the focus keyword is not shown for posts created using WordPress SEO 2.x.
  • Fixes a bug where changing the title in the bulk editor could be used to trigger JavaScript for the current user.

3.3.2

Enhancements

  • Removes non-minified files. This makes the download a lot smaller which will result in less cases of an incomplete or failed download.
  • Add setting and user option to disable the content analysis; The SEO analysis will still be present.
  • Change the overall content analysis bullet to be more lenient in non-English languages. This means it will be easier to get a green bullet for non-English languages.

Bugfixes

  • Fix issue where the settings export zip file could be read from the uploads folder after doing an export.