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Yoast SEO changelog - page 17

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3.3.1

Enhancements

  • Adds help center to google search console page when not connected to google search console.
  • Adds video to the Yoast SEO dashboard to explain it.
  • Ships the production version of React instead of the development version.

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where the primary category wouldn't be in the permalink if get_permalink was called outside the loop.
  • Fixes a compatibility issue where we set $ to jQuery.
  • Fixes a bug with redirects on a subsite in a multisite installation, props nicholas-eden.
  • Fixes a bug where invalid HTML would throw a warning.
  • Fixes a bug where reading server variables using filter_input returns an empty result.
  • Fixes a bug where the passive voice and transition words would be shown on non-english language

3.2.5

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug in the text analysis when there are more images, the alt tags are not analysed as expected.
  • Fixes a fatal when the BCMath component has been disabled in the host environment.
  • Fixes a fatal in wp-admin when certain plugins which hide the login are activated.
  • Fixes a warning in the sitemap index when no post types are shown and a last modified date is being requested.
  • Adds missing capability checks in AJAX request responses.

3.2.4

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a regression where the post URL would be numerical when no post title was set.
  • Fixes an issue that would cause notifications not to be dismissed even though they should be.

3.2.3

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where the update notification cannot be dismissed
  • Fixes a bug where the notifications can be shown multiple times

3.2.2

  • Bugfix:
  • Fixes a bug where the text analysis was broken in certain languages in certain cases.

3.2.1

  • Bugfix:
  • Fixes bug where settings of the Advanced tabs "permalinks" and "rss" were no longer saved.

3.1.2

Enhancements

  • Makes sure the permalink on the frontend also makes use of the primary category if one has been selected.

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a compatibility issue with the upcoming WordPress 4.5, where the Yoast SEO metabox and columns were no longer shown on taxonomy and term edit pages.
  • Fixes a bug where the default category that was shown in the breadcrumbs was no longer the most deeply nested one.
  • Fixes a bug where the file editor could be accessed by non admin users. Thanks Jörn Lund for the patch!
  • Fixes a JS error on the post edit page that was caused when the WP slugeditor wasn't present.
  • Fixes an issue where our indexability check would fail on installs with WordFence that have the "block fake Google crawlers" setting enabled.

3.1.1

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where part of the Yoast SEO metabox was no longer translated.
  • Fixes a bug where the post slug would be overwritten with the post ID in case a post was autosaved and did not have a title yet.

3.0.7

Enhancements

  • Removes email notifications for OnPage.org indexability check. It caused more issues than it solved.
  • Adds several UX improvements to the snippet editor, making it more clear it is editable.

3.0.6

Bugfixes

  • Fixes the recalculate tool that was broken with the Localized Flesch Reading ease change...

3.0.5

Enhancements

  • Made it possible to opt out from the OnPage.org indexability check.
  • Contains a few small performance enhancements in the Content Analysis.
  • Only includes Flesch Reading ease test when site language is set to English, since it doesn't really add value in other languages yet.

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a lot of issues with dismissible notices. Thanks Craig Pearson for writing the patch!
  • Fixes several issues with keyword recognition for keywords which contain punctuation.
  • Fixes an issue where keywords containing diacritics were not recognized in alt tags.

3.0.4

  • Enhancement: Made the "Analyze entire site" button have better color contrast and resemble JetPack. Thanks WPExplorer for the contribution.

Bugfixes

  • Fixes JS errors in combination with Give plugin, CMB2 Framework, ACF layout builder and any other plugin that replaces the editor with something else. Thanks a lot Daniel Seripap for fixing.
  • Fixes JavaScript error on post types without 'editor' capability. Thanks Aaron Hipple for the fix and Zvonko Biškup for testing.
  • Fixes a lot of text analysis issues for languages with non-latin scripts, including the "0% keyword density" issues.
  • Fixes an issue where html tags were not stripped properly from taxonomy descriptions for custom taxonomies.
  • Fixes possible "URI too long" errors when parsing shortcodes in the content before it is analyzed.

3.0.3

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where the snippet preview was broken.

3.0.1

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where users where getting error notifications about how their site was not indexable when in fact no check had been performed yet.
  • Fixes a few broken links to help docs about the OnPage.org integration.
  • Fixes an edgecase where the indexability check would go wrong for sites that filter the home url.
  • Fixes a bug where the admin email that was sent to report the current indexability status was not rendered as HTML.

2.3.5

Bugfixes

  • Fixes the Twitter image metatag that was invalidated after a recent API change by Twitter. Thanks Andy Piper for notifying us.
  • Removes all tests directories from the release. Props Edward Beckett for reporting.
  • Updated the minimum required version of WordPress to 4.0.