Hello club members! I just uploaded the new release by Yoast: WordPress SEO Premium 3.1.3, which fixed small issues since last version.
Download Yoast SEO Premium 3.1.3 – 2016.03.23 – Changelog
You can read the latest entries in its changelog below:
= 3.1.2 =
March 8th, 2015
Fixes a bug where PHP redirects were still broken on servers that disable accessing the server input by making use of the filter extension.
Merge with Yoast SEO core 3.1.1, see the core changelog.
= 3.1.1 =
March 2nd, 2015
Fixes a bug where PHP redirects were broken.
Fixes a bug where users could (temporarily) lose their redirects if our upgrade routine would for some reason not be triggered while updating to versions greater than 3.0.7
Fixes a bug where slashes were shown in the redirect manager for a redirect without a target url (ie. 410)
Fixes a Fatal error that occured when switching from Free to Premium.
= 3.1 =
Release Date: March 1st, 2015
* Features:
* Added an interface to select a primary category for a post, which are used in the post’s breadcrumbs and have a few other nice SEO advantages.
* Added SEO score column to the taxonomy overviews.
* Enhancements:
* Replaces all checkboxes and radio buttons on settings pages with styled toggles.
* Adds a new interface for the snippet preview which addresses most of the known UX issues:
* To clarify how the snippet preview can be edited, we’ve added an ‘edit’ button.
* Many users were looking for the “SEO title” and “Meta description” input fields. Those have been reintroduced and can be edited by clicking the edit button.
* We’ve gotten rid of the horribly inaccessible contenteditable elements and moved back to labeled input elements.
* The progress indicator for both SEO title and meta description has returned in the form of progress bars underneath the input elements.
* We’ve made a clear distinction between the snippet preview and the snippet editor and have tried to clearly signify which input fields affect which parts of the snippet preview.
* We’ve made sure both preview and snippet editor handle “%%” variables well. In the editor we show the variables and in the preview we render them.
* We’ve made sure templates that are set under “Titles & Metas” are well reflected in the snippet preview and editor. When they are set, they are shown as placeholder text in the input fields.
* The progress bars also take into account templates and “%%” variables, giving clearer indication if anything should still be added to the SEO title or meta description.
* We’ve reintroduced behavior where a (generated) example meta description is made grey in the snippet preview to indicate that it’s not been set.
* Adds og:image:width and og:image:height metatags to ensure an image is properly rendered for a user the first time a page is shared on Facebook.
* Includes a few minor performance improvements for the content analysis.
* Slightly optimizes the way options are handled. We now only fetch the options we need.
* Makes sure SEO scores for taxonomies are also taken into account when recalculating the SEO scores.
* Updated the list of locales supported by Facebook.
* Makes sure the notification to see the latest changes only pops up on major and minor version and is dismissible even if JavaScript is broken.
* Corrected priority of gallery images in Twitter cards.
* Added filters to allow filtering term and post content before it is sent to the recalculation tool for analysis.
* Improved the way sitemaps are invalidated.
* Duplicate content prevention / Crawl budget improvement: We now hide XML sitemaps for internal WP taxonomies like link category, nav menu and post format.
* Removed all functionality related to Yahoo! directory, since it no longer exists…
* Makes sure the post type archive link for the “Post” post type is not shown in the breadcrumbs.
* Temporarily disabled all non-vital notifications until we come up with a more user-friendly way of dealing with them.
* Bugfixes:
* Fixes a bug where the date was no longer shown in the snippet preview even when the option to show it was selected under “Titles & Metas”.
* Fixes a reported “property of non-object” notice that occured when no valid screen object was available. Thanks [Chris Jean](https://github.com/chrisbliss18) for the fix.
* Fixes a bug where Google Search Console would display last_crawled and last_received dates in the wrong format.
* Fixes a bug where the `wpseo_canonical` filter could still be overridden by an admin setting. This is no longer the case.
* Fixes shorthand date formats for Open Graph tags.
* Fixes a bug where calls to translate.yoast.com would fail because of issues with HTTPS.
* Fixes a bug where the content analysis would not work properly anymore when switching multiple times between “text” and “visual” in tinyMCE.
* Fixes a bug where the Yoast SEO metabox was no longer loaded on the Media edit page.
* Fixes an “invalid argument warning” in the options. Thanks [Melvin Tercan](https://github.com/melvinmt) for fixing.
* 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.
* Fixes a bug where we were causing JS errors by hooking to erroneously on AjaxComplete. This solves multiple compatibility issues including the ones with “Advanced Custom Fields”.
* Fixes a bug where saving a nav menu item would cause unnecessary pings to search engines, also resulting in timeouts and long load times for saving menu’s. Thanks [Ben Constable](https://github.com/BenConstable) for providing a fix.
* Fixes memory issues caused by doing post counts with WP_Query. Thanks [Emre Erkan](https://github.com/karalamalar) for fixing.
* Fixes a bug where sitemap caches were not properly cleared for sites that use external object caching.
* Fixes a bug where stopwords were no longer stripped from the slug that was generated by WordPress.
= 3.0.7 =
Release Date: December 23rd, 2015
* 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 =
Release Date: December 1st, 2015
* Bugfixes:
* Fixes the recalculate tool that was broken with the Localized Flesch Reading ease change…
= 3.0.5 =
Release Date: December 1st, 2015
* 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](https://github.com/craigpearson) 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 =
Release Date: November 25th, 2015
* Enhancement: Made the “Analyze entire site” button have better color contrast and resemble JetPack. Thanks [WPExplorer](https://github.com/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](https://github.com/seripap) for fixing.
* Fixes JavaScript error on post types without ‘editor’ capability. Thanks [Aaron Hipple](https://github.com/aaronhipple) for the fix and [Zvonko Biškup](https://github.com/codeforest) 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 =
Release Date: November 19th, 2015
* Bugfixes:
* Fixes a bug where the snippet preview was broken.
= 3.0.2 =
Release Date: November 19th, 2015
* Bugfixes:
* Fixes a bug where disabling the visual editor caused our content analysis to break.
* Fixes a bug where the content analysis would break on installs that replace tinyMCE with ckEditor. Currently only supports the html editor.
* Fixes a bug where slug changes were not properly synchronized in the snippet preview.
* Fixes a bug where long slugs could be broken by wrongful synchronization with the snippet preview.
* Fixes a bug where digits were not analyzed well in the content, causing focus keywords or keyphrases with digits to no longer be matched.
* Fixes a bug where the url in the snippet preview was not in line with permalink settings. Fixed for permalinks containing the post name.
* Fixes a bug where focus keyphrases of more than two words would not be recognized properly in the content.
* Fixes a bug where the translation files were corrupted causing the translations to no longer work.
* Enhancements:
* Fixes caching problems. We’ve versioned file names for assets that have changed to circumvent caching strategies that consider preventing regular cache busting a good idea…
= 3.0.1 =
Release Date: November 18th, 2015
* 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.
= 3.0 =
Release Date: November 18th, 2015
* Features:
* Adds realtime content analysis to the Yoast SEO metabox for all post types and taxonomies.
* Adds a tool to recalculate all SEO scores using the new client side analysis.
* Adds a content analysis plugin for parsing shortcodes before the content is analyzed. This means the snippet preview will now take the rendered content of shortcodes into account.
* Adds a content analysis plugin for parsing replace vars before the content is analyzed, allowing templates set in the Yoast SEO admin to work everywhere.
* Adds a weekly check if the homepage is indexable (in collaboration with [OnPage.org](https://en.onpage.org/lp/yoast/)).
* Adds possibility to import titles, metas and settings from the WPSEO.de plugin.
* Adds possibility to set Facebook (Opengraph), Twitter and Google+ metadata for taxonomies.
* Enhancements:
* We’ve completely revised the UX of the Yoast SEO metabox. We’ve introduced multiple sections which in turn can contain one or more tabs.
* Makes the Yoast SEO metabox on the taxonomy edit page the same as on the post edit page.
* Makes sure the capability for the General Settings menu is also `wpseo_manage_options_capability`.
* Adds a fix to the tour allowing for multiple plugins to use WP pointers at the same time.
* Makes sure all Yoast SEO settings pages are also accessible through the WP admin bar.
* Bugfixes:
* Fixes a bug where the `og:image` would not be set, even when a default image was available.
* Fixes a bug where the links in the sitemap would ‘randomly’ change from https to http or the other way around (in very rare circumstances).
* Fixes a bug where it was not possible to upload different images for different social media in the post metabox.
* Fixes a bug where users would see the after-update notice, but were not allowed to visit the about page.
* Fixes a bug where we were not properly splitting taxonomy metadata when a shared taxonomy term got split through a Cron job, props [Daniel Homer](https://github.com/danielhomer).
* Other notable changes:
* Adds a JavaScript API for registering data modifications that is quite similar to `add_filter`/`apply_filters` in WordPress. Allows for filtering data before it is analyzed. See [YoastSEO.js](https://github.com/Yoast/YoastSEO.js).
* Adds a JavaScript API for adding content analysis tests, see [YoastSEO.js](https://github.com/Yoast/YoastSEO.js).
* Because we moved the entire content analysis to JavaScript, we had to remove the following PHP filters:
* `wpseo_pre_analysis_post_content`. Alternative: [Modifications API](https://github.com/Yoast/YoastSEO.js).
* `wpseo_metadesc_length`. Functionality removed.
* `wpseo_metadesc_length_reason`. Functionality removed.
* `wpseo_body_length_score`. Alternative: [Content Checks API](https://github.com/Yoast/YoastSEO.js).
* `wpseo_linkdex_results`. Alternative: [Content Checks API](https://github.com/Yoast/YoastSEO.js).
* `wpseo_snippet`. Functionality removed.
= 2.3.5 =
Release Date: September 16th, 2015
* Bugfixes:
* Fixes the Twitter image metatag that was invalidated after a recent API change by Twitter. Thanks [Andy Piper](https://github.com/andypiper) for notifying us.
* Removes all tests directories from the release. Props [Edward Beckett](https://github.com/EdwardBeckett) for reporting.
* Updated the minimum required version of WordPress to 4.0.
= 2.3.4 =
Release Date: August 6th, 2015
* Bugfixes:
* Fixes a bug where the focus keyword test in the Yoast SEO metabox was broken as a regression of removing the autocomplete functionality.
= 2.3.3 =
Release Date: August 6th, 2015
* Removes the autocomplete functionality from the focus keyword field in the Yoast SEO metabox because Google is shutting down its autocomplete API [as of August 10th](http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.nl/2015/07/update-on-autocomplete-api.html).
* Enhancements:
* Introduces a dismissible notice encouraging users to connect with Google Search Console.
* Improves the dashboard widget to only show posts which are actually editable by the current user.
* Makes the plugin conflict notices persistent and dismissible. Once dismissed, it will no longer be shown for the specific set of conflicting plugins the notice has been dismissed for.
* Contains a few textual improvements.
* Makes sure the counts are updated correctly and intuitively when marking a Search Console issue as fixed.
* Bugfixes:
* Fixes a bug where current_user_can was called before init, props [Claudio Sanches](https://github.com/claudiosmweb).
* Fixes a bug where the article:publisher metatag was also included on pages that were not of type ‘article’.
* Fixes a bug where the link to the list of posts with the same focus keyword was broken for focus keywords containing a space.
* Fixes a bug where a h3 header was being closed with a h2 closing tag.
* Fixes a bug where the Google Search Console issues table was giving errors on installs running on PHP 5.2.
* Fixes a bug where the sitemap caches were no longer being cleared when running Yoast SEO in the upcoming 4.3 release of WordPress.
= 2.3.2 =
Release Date: July 23rd, 2015
* Bugfixes:
* Fixes a bug where non-admin users were no longer able to update their profile with Yoast SEO active.
* Fixes a bug where all labels in the Yoast SEO admin were bold.
= 2.3.1 =
Release Date: July 22nd, 2015
* Bugfixes:
* Makes sure authors and editors cannot submit advanced metadata on a post when the advanced tab in the metabox has been disabled for them. Thanks Peter Allor from IBM for finding and reporting this issue.
* Fixes a bug where upgrading to version 2.3 would occasionally cause WSOD’s on both admin and frontend. We were unable to pinpoint the exact conflicting plugins and themes, but we are quite confident it was caused by us using, and others hooking into, WP_Query too early.
= 2.3 =
Release Date: July 21st, 2015
* Features:
* Adds full integration with Google Search Console (formerly: Google Webmaster Tools). It is now possible to see all errors from Google straight in your WordPress install. If you have [Yoast SEO Premium](https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/seo-premium/#utm_source=wordpress-seo-config&utm_medium=textlink&utm_campaign=changelog), you’ll even be able to fix those errors by redirecting the broken urls.
* Adds a dashboard widget showing published posts’ SEO scores. Thanks [Brandon Hubbard](https://github.com/bhubbard) for the idea!
* Adds a customizer panel for Yoast SEO Breadcrumbs if breadcrumbs are enabled or the active theme has declared theme support for it. Props again to [Brandon Hubbard](https://github.com/bhubbard) for his awesome contribution.
* Enhancements:
* Renames plugin from “WordPress SEO by Yoast” to “Yoast SEO”.
* Adds a warning advising to change the tagline, if a site still has the default WordPress tagline “just another WordPress site”.
* Changes the default columns visibility for the edit posts overview page. Only the SEO score column is now visible by default.
* Contains several en_US string improvements, including a fix for a typo in the word “typos”… Thanks [Gary Jones](https://github.com/GaryJones) for redacting!
* Adds a filter to allow filtering the content before analysis in the Twitter class, props [Pete Nelson](https://github.com/petenelson).
* Adds a link to our knowledge base on how to retrieve a Facebook admin user ID.
* Bugfixes:
* Fixes a bug where sitemaps for taxonomies with no eligible terms were still included and responded with 404 errors when visited.
* Fixes a bug where breadcrumbs were wrongly nested on archive paginations, props [Filippo Buratti](https://github.com/fburatti).
* Fixes a bug where the wrong separator was used after import/export.
* Fixes a bug where XML Sitemaps query invalidation caused other queries to fail as well.
* Fixes a bug where the wrong placeholder was being used for the search term string in the JSON+LD Search markup.
* Fixes a bug where the link to the newsletter signup in the tour was broken by uncommunicated changes in Mailchimp.
* Fixes a bug where the Edit Files settings page in the network admin was broken, props [Ajay D’Souza](https://github.com/ajaydsouza).
* Fixes a broken link in the advanced tab of the Yoast SEO metabox to the titles and meta’s settings.
* Other notable changes:
* Removed the possibility to redirect a post in the advanced tab of the Yoast SEO metabox.
* Moved the option to include a post in sitemap from the advanced tab of the Yoast SEO metabox to the sitemap settings.
* Removed the option to configure sitemap priority in the advanced tab of the Yoast SEO metabox.
* Added multiple checks to prevent plugin compatibility issue between Yoast SEO and old versions of Google Analytics by Yoast.
* Updated the banners with new designs.
= 2.2.1 =
Release Date: June 11th, 2015
* Makes sure users can close the tour by circumventing possible JavaScript caching issues that might occur.
= 2.2 =
Release Date: June 10th, 2015
* Enhancements:
* Contains several accessibility improvements, including ‘for’ attributes for labels and several links to explanatory articles.
* Adds support for creating partial sitemaps with WP CLI, props [Lars Schenk](https://github.com/larsschenk).
* Add Google’s mobile friendly test to the SEO toolbar, props [Brandon Hubbard](https://github.com/bhubbard).
* Makes sure slugs are not being stripped if the remaining slug is less than 3 characters, props [andyexeter](https://github.com/andyexeter).
* Shows an activation error when dependencies were not installed properly with composer.
* Added a filter to allow the RSS footer to be dynamically shown/hidden, props [Hugh Lashbrooke](https://github.com/hlashbrooke).
* Added many translator comments to help translators more easily get the context.
* Made sure Open Graph article tags are added separately, following up on the Open Graph specification.
* Adds recommended image sizes per Social network in the social tab of the SEO metabox.
* Removes the tracking functionality.
* Shows a dismissible notice with a link to the about page that is shown after every update. The user is no longer being redirected and only has to dismiss the notice once for all sites (in case of multisite).
* Adds a link to the about page to the general tab of the settings dashboard.
* Makes the tour dismissible on user level.
* Adds Twitter profile to JSON LD output.
* Twitter profile input field now also accepts full url and automatically strips it down to just the username.
* Only adds the JSON LD output to the frontpage, since it’s not needed on other pages.
* Makes all Yoast SEO notices dismissible.
* Bugfixes:
* Fixes a bug where the widgets were removed from every XML file. This is now only the case for the sitemaps.
* Fixes a bug where validation errors were shown for the wrong variables in the titles and metas settings.
* Fixes a bug where the SEO toolbar was broken.
* Fixes a few typos, props [Gary Jones](https://github.com/GaryJones).
* Fixes a bug where links in tooltips were not impossible to click.
* Fixes a broken link to the permalinks section of the advanced settings, props [Michael Nordmeyer](https://github.com/michaelnordmeyer).
* Fixes settings import on multisite.
* Fixes a bug where the sitemap could contain datetimes in the wrong timezone.
* Fixes a bug where the wrong Facebook user ID was added to the fb:admins meta tag. Adding FB admin user id is now a manual process.
* Fixed Open Graph and Twitter cards on static posts pages
* Fixes a bug where sitemap cache was not always cleared after saving the Yoast SEO settings.
* Security:
* Fixes a possible XSS vulnerability in the snippet preview. Thanks [Charles Neill](https://twitter.com/ccneill) and [Mazen Gamal](https://twitter.com/mazengamal) for discovering and responsibly disclosing this issue.
= 2.1.1 =
Release Date: April 21st, 2015
* Bugfixes:
* Fixes a bug where the JSON+LD output was outputted twice when company or person info wasn’t set.
* Fixes a compatibility issue with Video SEO and WooCommerce SEO add-ons causing WSOD on the frontend for video’s and WooCommerce products.
* Fixes a compatibility issue with BBPress caused by hooking `current_user_can` too early.
= 2.1 =
Release Date: April 20th, 2015
* Features:
* Added support for [website name JSON+LD markup](https://developers.google.com/structured-data/site-name).
* Enhancements:
* Makes sure Twitter cards are by default enabled since they don’t need to be validated anymore by Twitter.
* Removes the Twitter url meta tag, since Twitter no longer uses it.
* Shows a validation error when a user selects a featured image for a post that is smaller than 200×200 pixels.
* Shows a validation error when a user tries to use shortcodes in the titles and meta’s settings page that are incompatible with the type of content those titles and meta’s are associated with.
* Makes sure no taxonomy metadata is lost with the upcoming 4.2 version of WordPress.
* Upgraded to Facebook Graph API 3.0 for fetching Facebook user ID’s straight from Facebook.
* Made the plugin conflict notices more user friendly, explaining better which piece of functionality might be impacted, offering a link to the corresponding settings and a button to deactivate the conflicting plugin.
* Bugfixes:
* Fixes a bug where the sitemaps were no longer being served from WP transient cache.
* Fixes a bug where breadcrumbs weren’t nested properly.
* Fixes a possible “headers already sent” error in the sitemaps.
* Fixes a notice for the homepage URL in post type sitemaps.
* Fixes an “undefined index” notice on the sitemaps.
* Fixes an “undefined index” notice in the breadcrumbs.
* Fixes a bug where translations were not loaded when used as MU-plugin.
* Fixes a JS error that was raised when editing post-types without a TinyMCE editor.
* Security:
* Fixes a possible XSS vulnerability. Thanks [Johannes Schmitt](https://github.com/schmittjoh) from [Scrutinizer CI](https://scrutinizer-ci.com/) for discovering and responsibly disclosing this issue.
= 2.0.1 =
Release Date: April 1st, 2015
* Bugfixes:
* Fixes an issue where (in rare cases) people upgrading to 2.0 got stuck in a redirect loop on their admin.
* Fixes a broken link in the Dutch translation, causing the Pinterest tab on the Social settings page to overflow into the Google+ tab.
* Fixes a small typo on the about page.
= 2.0 =
Release Date: March 26th, 2015
* Features:
* Simplified and revised Admin menu’s:
* Moved all advanced functionality to one “Advanced” submenu page.
* Moved the bulk editor, the export functionality and the file editor to one “Tools” submenu page.
* Improved consistency and usability of settings pages by having them use exactly the same, tab-based, styling.
* Made it easy to output structured data for social profiles, person and company profiles, for use in Google Knowledge Graph.
* Enhancements:
* Makes sure the user is redirected to the last active settings tab after saving.
* Bugfixes:
* Fixes a bug where custom field variables were no longer working in the snippet preview.
* Fixes a bug where the $post global was emptied by our Frontend class, causing conflicts with other plugins.
* Fixes a bug where variables weren’t replaced in the og:description meta tag.
* Fixes a bug where the breadcrumbs caused an undefined variable notice.
* Under the hood:
* Contains an incredible amount of code style improvements, making the code cleaner and more readable.
* Makes sure every function in the plugin is documented using PHPDoc by having it checked automatically by the Codesniffer.
* Refactored a lot of legacy code in the admin, mainly with regard to the way output is rendered. Provides for a better separation of concerns, making the code more comprehensible and re-usable.
* Deprecated a large amount of form methods and moved them to the `Yoast_Form` class. Click [here](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/blob/add975664d1f160eed262b02327a93bda5488f8b/admin/class-config.php#L172) for the list of deprecated methods.
* Deprecated a large amount of utility functions and moved them to the `WPSEO_Utils` class. Click [here](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/blob/add975664d1f160eed262b02327a93bda5488f8b/inc/wpseo-functions.php#L496) for the list of deprecated functions.
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