Yoast SEO changelog - page 20

Note: if you already upgraded to v1.5+, you will need to retrieve your Facebook Apps again and please also check your Google+ URL. We had some bugs with both being escaped too aggressively. Sorry about that.

Bugfixes​

• Fix for issue with Soliloquy image slider was not applied to minified js file.
• Fixed some PHP 'undefined index' notices.
• Fix banner images overlapping text in help tabs.
• Fixed meta description tag not showing for taxonomy (category/tag/etc) pages as reported in issue #737 and #780 - props Jrf.
• Prevent a fatal error if wp_remote_get() fails while testing whether the title needs to be force rewritten as reported by homeispv - props Jrf.

Enhancements​

• Added composer support - props codekipple and Rarst.

Bugfixes​

• If mbstring extension isn't loaded, fatal error was thrown.

This release contains tons and tons of bugfixes and security improvements. Credits for this release largely go to Juliette Reinders Folmer aka Jrf / jrfnl.

Also a heartfelt thanks go out to the beta testers who tested all the changes. Special mentions for testers Woyto, Bnpositive, Surbma, DavidCH1, TheITJuggler, kletskater who caught a number of bugs and provided us with actionable information to fix these.

This version also incorporates the SEO Extended plugin functionality into WP SEO with graceful thanks to Faison and Scott Offord for their great work on this plugin.

**This version contains a lot of changes under the hood which will break backward compatibility, i.e. once you've upgraded, downgrading will break things.**So make sure you make a backup of your settings/database before upgrading.

Bugfixes​

• Do not include external URLs in XML sitemap (Issue #528) - props tivnet.
• Get home_url out of the sitemap loop - props tivnet.
• Add support for html entities - props julienmeyer.
• Fixed wrong use of __FILE__.
• Enhancement
• WPSEO_FILE now has a 'defined' check.
• Removed unneeded dirname calls.
• i18n
• Updated cs_CZ, de_DE, fr_FR & tr_TK

Bugfixes​

• Fix for serious sitemap issue which caused all pages of a split sitemap to be the same (show the first 1000 urls) - props Jrf.
• Fixed a bug in the WPSEO tour in WP Network installs
• clean_permalink 301 redirect issue when using https - props pirategaspard
• i18n
• Updated cs_CZ, fa_IR, fr_FR, hu, hu_HU, pl_PL, ru_RU & zh_CN

Bugfixes​

• Reverted change to XML sitemaps stylesheet URL as that was giving issues on multisite installs.
• Reverted change to XML sitemap loading as we were no longer exposing some variables that other plugins relied upon.
• Fix bug with author sitemap showing for everyone.
• Enhancement
• No longer save empty meta post variables, issue #463. Clean up of DB is coming in future release, if you want to clean your DB now, see that issue for SQL queries.

• Bug in page analysis regex.

• Fix bug in custom field value retrieval for new drafts.
• Fix bug in meta box value for checkboxes (only used currently in News extension).
• Remove redirect added in 1.3.3 as it seems to cause loops on some servers, will investigate later.
• Add option to filter wpseo_admin_pages so more pages can use WP SEO admin stylesheets.
• Prevent notice for images without alt tags.
• Use mb_string when possible.

Bugfixes​

• Fix notice for ICL_LANGUAGE_CODE not being defined.
• Fix missing function in install by adding a require.

• Properly $wpdb->prepare all queries that need preparing.
• Fix wrong escaping in admin pointers.
• Make %%currentdate%% and %%currenttime%% variables respect WP date format settings.
• Add %%currentday%% format.
• Force remove Jetpack OpenGraph.
• Fix the weird addition of noindex, nofollow on URLs with ?replytocom that was added in 3.5.
• Force XML sitemap to be displayed on the proper domain URL, so XSLT works.

• Updated wordpress-seo.pot
• Updated Turkish (tr_TR) filename.
• Updated Spanish (es_ES) translation.
• Fixed bug where non-admin users couldn't save their profile updates.
• Fixed bug with the same OpenGraph image appearing multiple times.
• Fixed bug that would prevent import and export of plugin settings.
• Try to do a redirect back after saving settings.
• Properly allow for attachment pages in XML sitemaps, default them to off.
• Fixed annoying bug where checkboxes wouldn't display as "checked" even when the value was set to true.
• Show post type name and taxonomy name (as opposed to label) next to labels in XML sitemap settings to more easily identify post types and taxonomies.
• Switch tracking to a daily cronjob instead of an admin process to prevent tracking from slowing down admin interface.
• Focus keyword detection now properly works for diacritical focus keywords as well.
• Properly apply filters to meta desc and titles in admin grid.
• Properly detect new versions of Facebook plugin too.
• Allow changing of the number of posts per XML sitemap, to prevent memory issues on certain installs.

• Unhooking 'shutdown' (part of the NGG fix in 1.4.16) caused caching plugins to break, fixed while preserving NGG fix.
• These changes were pushed in later but were deemed not important enough to force an update:
• Updated newsletter subscription form to reflect new newsletter system.
• Documentation
• Updated readme.txt to reflect support changes.
• Moved old sections of changelog to external file.
• i18n
• Updated pt_PT

• Missed a line in the commit of the option to stop stop words cleaning.

• Fix for compatibility with NextGen Gallery.

Enhancements​

• Add option to enable slug stop word cleaning, find it under SEO -> Permalinks. It's on by default.
• Remove tracking variables from the Yoast Tracking that weren't used.
• i18n
• Updated de_DE, fa_IR, fi, hu_HU, it_IT, pl_PL, sv_SE and tr_TK

Bugfixes​

• Fix the white XML sitemap errors caused by non-working XSL.
• Fixed the errors in content analysis reporting an H2 was not found when it was really there.
• Fix slug stopwords removal, props amm350.
• Fix PHP Notice logged when site has capabilities created without 3rd value in args array, props mbijon.
• Fix the fact that meta description template for archive pages didn't work, props MarcQueralt.
• Prevent wrong shortcodes (that echo instead of return) from causing erroneous output.
• Fix edge cases issue for keyword in first paragraph test not working.
• Revert change in 1.4.14 that did a do_shortcode while in the head to retrieve images from posts, as too many plugins crash then, instead added wpseo_pre_analysis_post_content filter there as well.