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= Changelog archive =
This is an archive of older changelog entries. Most recent entries are maintained in readme.txt
= 5.7.1 =
Release Date: October 25th, 2017
Bugfixes:
* Fixes a bug where the message "You are not receiving updates or support!" is shown incorrectly.
* Changes the reference to the correct ACF Content Analysis for Yoast SEO plugin.
Enhancements:
* Adds a plugin suggestion for WooCommerce SEO when WooCommerce is installed.
= 5.7.0 =
Release Date: October 24th, 2017
Enhancements:
* Adds notifications when we detect certain plugins are installed to suggest our AMP and ACF glue plugins.
* Adds the ability to start the configuration wizard from the admin bar menu.
* Adds better responsive styling for the video tabs in the Help Center.
* Replaces the link to Google AdWords with the https variant, props [Shane Gray](https://github.com/shane-gray).
* Changes to the desired spelling of `plugin` and `setup`, props [Pedro Mendonça](https://github.com/pedro-mendonca).
Bugfixes:
* Fixes a bug where the text link counter doesn't count links for scheduled posts when they get published.
* Fixes a bug where the internal link count is not updated when a post is removed permanently.
= 5.6.1 =
Release Date: October 13th, 2017
Bugfixes
* Fixes a bug where the SEO Manager role was not being able to save SEO settings.
= 5.6.0 =
Release Date: October 10th, 2017
Enhancements
* Removes legacy license page and shows the new license page by default.
* Changes references from licenses to subscriptions and sites on the premium submenu page.
* Changes the appearance of the Help Center in line with our design approach.
* Introduces an explanation bar when the `Cornerstone content` filter is active.
Bugfixes
* Fixes a bug where Hebrew slugs aren't decoded on display in the bulk editor.
* Fixes a bug where the internal link count is not updated when there are no links to that page or post anymore.
* Fixes the `Cornerstone content` filter to behave consistently with existing WordPress filters.
= 5.5.1 =
Release Date: September 28th, 2017
* Bugfixes
* Fixes Snippet preview error when Yoast metabox has been removed.
* Changes
* Change Yoast Blog feed to new endpoint.
= 5.5.0 =
Release Date: September 26th, 2017
* Enhancements
* Updated the Dashboard Widget with a new design.
* Added additional explanations to the Configuration wizard.
* Added `contentinfo` landmark for assistive technologies to the Configuration wizard page.
* Introduces `wpseo_manager` and `wpseo_editor` roles.
* Introduces `wpseo_manage_options` capability to control which users have access to all SEO settings.
* Introduces `wpseo_edit_advanced_metadata` capability to control which users have access to the advanced SEO settings.
* Bugfixes
* Fixed a bug where certain options (`site_type`, `environment_type` and `has_multiple_authors`) would be reset to their default value whenever one of the feature toggles were changed.
* Ensured that `has_multiple_authors` gets validated.
= 5.4.2 =
Release Date: September 21st, 2017
* Bugfixes
* Replace unsupported query `prepare` placeholder `%1$d` with `%d` to fix broken queries. Fixes compatibility issue with WordPress 4.8.2.
= 5.4.1 =
Release Date: September 20th, 2017
* Bugfixes
* Replace unsupported query `prepare` placeholder `%1$s` with `%d` to fix broken queries. Fixes compatibility issue with WordPress 4.8.2.
= 5.4.0 =
Release Date: September 6th, 2017
* Enhancements
* Added a hook to disabled the twitter card. (Props: @petenelson)
* Performance
* Replaced the use of `get_posts` and `get_children` by `WP_Query`.
* Bugfixes
* Archive pages are excluded from the sitemap based on the noindex setting. (Props: @stodorovic)
* Prevent the throwing of an error when `wpseoPostScraperL10n` is not defined.
* Escapes all input when generating links for the RSS feed.
* Apply the `wp_get_attachment_url` filter to Sitemap images.
= 5.3.3 =
Release Date: August 28th, 2017
* Bugfixes
* Fixes a bug where table listings were not giving expected content, props [Kyle B. Johnson](https://github.com/kjohnson).
= 5.3.2 =
Release Date: August 23rd, 2017
* Bugfixes
* Fixes a bug where an invalid license notification could be shown in certain situations.
= 5.3.1 =
Release Date: August 22nd, 2017
* Bugfixes
* Fixes a bug where "mark as fixed" on the search console page didn't work.
* Fixes a bug where the configuration wizard JavaScript file was too large.
= 5.3.0 =
Release Date: August 22nd, 2017
* Enhancements
* Adds missing I18n function call to make a string translatable
* Adds XML schema for image sitemap, props: [stodorovic](https://github.com/stodorovic)
* Adds schema.org meta-data on every page, instead of only on the homepage
* Adds the possibility to filter posts by readability score.
* Exposes tinyMCEHelper as window.YoastSEO.wp._tinyMCEHelper in JavaScript
* Exposes the ReplaceVar class in YoastReplaceVarPlugin as window.YoastReplaceVarPlugin.ReplaceVar in JavaScript
* Bugfixes
* Adds sanitization for the Twitter Image meta field
* Fixes use of `register_meta` for usage in WordPress 4.6 and higher
* Initialize the providers on hook `after_theme_setup` to make sure custom providers are added properly, props: [stodorovic](https://github.com/stodorovic)
* Changes the label of the "Bad" score to "Needs improvement" while filtering on SEO or readability scores.
= 5.2.0 =
Release Date: August 8th, 2017
* Enhancements
* Added wpseo_pre_adjacent_rel_links filter to bypass built-in rel prev/next functionality.
* Introduces classes to allow collecting data in the Premium plugin.
* Renamed OnPage.org to Ryte.
* Allow WordPress WHIP messages to be dismissed for a period of 4 weeks.
* Adds a filter for word combinations that consist of a single one-character word.
* Adds aria-current to the onboarding wizard active step.
* Bugfixes
* Removes JQMIGRATE JavaScript warnings.
= 5.1.0 =
Release Date: July 25th, 2017
* Enhancements
* Adds the post-type and taxonomy identifiers on the titles and metas settings tab.
* Adds support for importing of Jetpack SEO data.
* Improves the readability feature for Dutch, English, French, German, Italian and Spanish.
* Adds a WordPress SEO Premium motivation box on Yoast SEO settings pages.
* Adds a WordPress SEO Premium motivation on the social tabs.
* Adds support for third party sitemaps providers to be registered and used.
* Changes the column titles in the taxonomy list table to icons.
* Adds a subheader on the notification dashboard to clarify problems and issues which are muted.
* Improves avatars on the credit page, props [Mike DeHart](https://github.com/mikedehart)
* Bugfixes
* Fixes a bug where `remove_meta_if_default` and `dont_save_meta_if_default` don't return the given input value as default.
* Fixes a performance issue related to calculating text link counts when saving a post.
* Fixes a typo in the readme.txt, props [Raymond Rutjes](https://github.com/rayrutjes)
= 5.0.2 =
Release Date: July 13th, 2017
* Only load babel polyfill if it hasn't been loaded by another plugin yet.
* Adds a feature toggle to disable the link counter tool & link columns.
* Fixes a compatibility issue with WordPress 4.6.
* Fixes an issue where the link columns would disappear after quick-editing a post.
= 5.0.1 =
Release Date: July 6th, 2017
* Fixes a fatal error that could occur when trying to save a post that has `<a>`-tags with invalid URLs in it.
= 5.0.0 =
Release Date: July 6th, 2017
* Bugfixes
* Fixes a bug where images via `https` were not working, props [Jannik Zschiesche](https://github.com/apfelbox).
* Fixes a bug where the whip notification can be shown multiple times.
* Enhancements
* Introduces a module that counts links in the content.
* Adds Flesch Reading for Italian.
* Changes 'page title' to 'seo title' in the snippet preview.
* Changes recommended maximum sentence length for Italian from 20 to 25 words, based on more in-depth research.
* Implements the extracted version of the Algolia Search which is now present in `yoast-components`.
* Adds a banner for the structured data course.
* Under the hood
* Introduces a database table to keep track of the linking structure. If the table cannot be created, a notification will be shown.
* When there are posts or pages to reindex, a notice will be shown.
= 4.9.0 =
Release Date: June 7th, 2017
* Bugfixes
* Fixes a bug where there were certain assessments missing when switching to cornerstone content.
* Fixes a bug where the configuration wizard button was visible for users who didn't have enough rights to access the configuration wizard.
* Fixes a bug where the column `ID` was ambiguous, causing an SQL error.
* Fixes a bug where the category URL in the sitemap was encoded twice.
* Fixes a bug where an old upgrade notice is not removed.
* Enhancements
* Removes the noodp advanced robots meta value as it is no longer used.
* Loads the translations only when the configuration wizard endpoint is called, instead of every time `rest_api_init` is called.
= 4.8.0 =
Release Date: May 23rd, 2017
* Bugfixes
* Fixes a bug where the tabs in the social and advanced metabox section are gone when keyword analysis has been disabled.
* Enhancements
* Optimizes the way the cornerstone flag is saved.
* Analyzes the content using cornerstone assessors when a post or page is cornerstone content.
= 4.7.1 =
Release Date: May 9th, 2017
* Bugfixes
* Fixes a bug where the analysis wouldn't work on Internet Explorer.
= 4.7.0 =
Release Date: May 2nd, 2017
* Enhancements
* Adds transition words for Italian.
* Adds a new check in the analysis for the presence of at least one internal link.
* Bugfixes
* Fixes a bug where the `_yst_is_cornerstone` meta value was not prefixed, causing some themes/plugins to output this meta value.
* Fixes a bug where style and script elements were parsed for the prominent words.
* Fixes a bug where the cursor pointer was in front of the metabox.
= 4.6.0 =
Release Date: April 11th, 2017
* Enhancements
* Improves a language string, props [Sören Wrede](https://github.com/Soean).
* Improves the configuration wizard with clear information about the configuration.
* Adds the ability to mark posts as cornerstone content.
* Bugfixes
* Fixes an issue in combination with WooCommerce 3.0 where the plugins would load incompatible select2 versions.
= 4.5.0 =
Release Date: March 21st, 2017
* Additions
* Adds a message about the PHP version for WordPress installations that run on PHP 5.2. The warning also has pointers on how to address this situation. [We have an article about why we are doing this on yoast.com](https://yoa.st/x6).
* Bugfixes
* Adds a check for the breadcrumbs-home option to prevent a blank entry being added to the crumbs array, props [codemonkeynorth](https://github.com/codemonkeynorth)
* Enhancements
* Throws a warning in the admin for the RS Head Cleaner plugin, because the plugin cloaks.
* Improves copy about Yoast SEO Premium benefits.
* Adds link to our knowledge base article about connecting your website to Google Search Console.
= 4.4.0 =
Release date: February 28th, 2017
* Bugfixes:
* Fixes a bug where a `span` tag wasn't closed correctly, props [lubobill1990](https://github.com/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.
= 4.3.0 =
Release Date: February 14th, 2017
* Bugfixes
* Fixes the width of the readability column on post overview, props [rikayla](https://github.com/rikayla).
* Enhancements
* Improves feedback text for subheading too long assessment.
= 4.2.1 =
Release Date: February 2nd, 2017
* Bugfixes
* Fixes a fatal error "Call to undefined method yoast_i18n::set_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.
= 4.2.0 =
Release Date: January 31st, 2017
* 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.
= 4.1.0 =
Release Date: January 17th, 2017
* 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](https://github.com/abhinavkumar940).
* Adds labels to redirect checkboxes in the search console to improve accessibility.
= 4.0.2 =
Release Date: December 20th, 2016
* 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.
= 4.0.0 =
Release Date: December 13th, 2016
* Enhancements:
* License manager: Add a get_extension_url method to Yoast_Product to retrieve the URL where people can extend/upgrade their license.
* License manager: Add a set_extension_url method to Yoast_Product to set the URL where people can extend/upgrade their license.
* Updates the credits page.
* Improves plugin naming in translations.
* Improves translations by making texts more consistent.
* Displays the translations in the language chosen by the user in stead of using only the site language.
* Improves the styling of the banners.
* Adds passive voice for German.
* Adds more transition words for French.
* Improves feedback strings for the meta description length assessment.
* Improves matching of the keyword in the first paragraph.
* Improves the snippet preview to match the styling of googles snippet.
* Bugfixes:
* Fixes a compatibility bug with the onboarding wizard and Polylang, and possibly more plugins that prevented the configuration wizard from working properly.
* Fixes a bug where post format archives showed up in sitemap when disabled.
* Fixes a bug where an old update notice would not be removed.
* Fixes a bug where keywords with periods where not highlighted in the snippet.
* Fixes a bug where the title of the metabox wasn't displayed correctly.
= 3.9.0 =
Release Date: November 29nd, 2016
* 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).
= 3.8.0 =
Release Date: November 8th, 2016
* 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](https://github.com/RonWillemse)
* Fixes a bug with VoiceOver on the readability and keyword tabs.
= 3.7.1 =
Release Date: October 20th, 2016
* Bugfixes:
* Fixes a bug where the configuration wizard couldn't go to the next step if PUT requests were disabled on the server.
= 3.7.0 =
Release Date: October 11th, 2016
* 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 =
Release Date: October 3rd, 2016
* Bugfixes:
* Fixes a bug where the admin bar would still show advanced settings when the advanced settings were disabled.
= 3.6.0 =
Release Date: September 27th, 2016
* Enhancements:
* Introduces the installation wizard that enables an easy way of setting up Yoast SEO. The installation wizard enables you to:
- Newsletter signup.
- Specify the environment in which a site is running.
- Specify the type of a site.
- Specify a company or person for the metadata used in Google's Knowledge Graph.
- Specify social profiles.
- Specify post type visibility.
- Specify if you have multiple authors.
- Setup Google Search Console.
- Setup the title settings.
* The installation wizard replaces the tour.
* Adds a notification to the Yoast notification center to start the onboarding wizard.
* Adds a button on the general settings page to start the onboarding wizard.
* Adds a premium tab to the metabox.
* Introduces a feature toggles tab on the Yoast SEO dashboard where users can enable/disable certain features.
* New: Enable/disable the advanced settings pages.
* New: Enable/disable the Yoast SEO admin bar menu. Added after receiving feedback from multiple users who wanted this option.
* Moved: Enable/disable The OnPage.org integration.
* Removes the tour. With the help center available on every Yoast SEO page or section and the new installation wizard, there was no real usecase for the tour anymore.
* Bugfixes:
* Fixes sorting the table in sitemaps.
* Fixes a bug where keywords with a $ where not recognized.
= 3.5.0 =
Release Date: September 7th, 2016
* Enhancements:
* Adds Flesch Reading tests for Dutch and German.
* Added info about author links in theme to disable setting on archives settings page.
* Explicitly checks for public post type status when creating sitemap.
* Removes frequency and priority from sitemap, see release post for clarification.
* Improves sitemap "blocking files" notification.
* Improves sitemap generation for posts when dealing with a large number of posts.
* Improves reliability in some PHP configurations.
* Improves styling for notices below tabs.
* Adds @id fields to JSON LD output.
* Adds table headings and labels to the bulk editor.
* Improves the accessibility of the bulk editor.
* Prevented loading the network admin when not network active.
* Don't show keyword filter in post list when keyword analysis is disabled.
* Improves message for settings import.
* Adds translations for notification counts.
* Makes upload image buttons translatable.
* Improves alignment of form fields.
* Adds descriptions for breadcrumb and canonicals on category pages.
* Improves accessibility on plugin conflict notification links.
* Bugfixes:
* Fixes a bug where a new post with focus keyword would show up as a post without a keyword on the dashboard.
* Fixes a bug that would break rich term descriptions with large images.
* Fixes cache check in dashboard widget, which could cause unnecessary queries.
* No longer load toolbar styles when toolbar is disabled.
* Fixes a bug to prevent "cannot modify headers" notice on export.
* Fixes a bug to improve passive voice recognition.
* Fixes a bug to improve sentence detection.
* Fixes a bug that prevented the markings from working correctly.
* Fixes a bug where select2 would generate a 404 on a non-supported language.
* Fixes a bug where HTML attributes could be translated.
* Fixes a bug where the <code>og:image</code> tag would be omitted.
* Fixes a bug for canonicals for search pages with empty search queries.
= 3.4.2 =
Release Date: August 8th, 2016
* Bugfixes:
* Fixes a bug where apostrophes would be stripped from the focus keyword.
= 3.4.1 =
Release Date: August 2nd, 2016
* Bugfixes:
* Fixes a stored XSS issue in the Yoast SEO metabox. Thanks [Hammad Shamsi](https://twitter.com/hammadshamsii) for reporting and responsibly disclosing this issue.
= 3.4.0 =
Release Date: July 19th, 2016
* Enhancements:
* Adds readability checks for consecutive sentences beginning with the same word for the following languages:
* English, German, French, Spanish.
* Adds transition words check for German, French and Spanish.
* Adds transliterations for the following languages:
* Breton, Chamorro, Corsican, Kashubian, Welsh, Ewe
* Estonian, Basque, Fulah, Fijian, Arpitan, Friulian
* Frisian, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Guarani
* Swiss German, Haitian Creole, Hawaiian, Croatian
* Georgian, Greenlandic, Kinyarwanda, Luxembourgish
* Limburgish, Lingala, Lithuanian, Malagasy, Macedonian
* Maori, Mirandese, Occitan, Oromo, Portuguese, Romansh Vallader
* Aromanian, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian
* Klingon (in Latin characters, not KLI PlqaD script yet)
* Hungarian, Sardinian, Silesian, Tahitian, Venetian, Walloon
* Improves the Russian transliteration.
* Improves the feedback strings of content checks.
* Adds a setting and a user option to disable the SEO analysis.
* Adds the readability score to the post and term overview.
* Disables the analysis marker buttons when switching from visual to text view in the editor.
* Accessibility enhancements:
* Improves the headings in the dashboard widget.
* Improves the headings hierarchy on the following pages:
* titles and metas
* user profile
* advanced settings
* social settings
* XML sitemap
* general settings
* Improves the headings hierarchy for dashboard alerts.
* Improves the debug information headings.
* Adds a legend for the title seperator on the titles and metas page.
* Improves the intro text of the social tabs.
* Improves consistency of buttons using WordPress styles.
* Adds a background to the YoastSEO issue counter to improve readability.
* Improves the focus style for the dismiss and restore buttons.
* Improves the redirect attachment warnings style by using the native WordPress notices style.
* Improves the links on the credit screen.
* Improves the release video iframe by adding a title.
* Improves the knowledge base results by making them focusable and operable with a keyboard.
* Improves the admin bar menu items by making them focusable and operable with a keyboard.
* Adds labels to the buttons of the knowledge base search for use with a screen reader.
* Adds label to the search field in the knowledge base for screen readers.
* Makes the knowledge base search button translatable.
* Improves the semantics of the knowledge base results.
* Improves the alignment of the icons in the metabox tab sections.
* Improve code to be consistent with WordPress standards, props [danielbachhuber](https://github.com/danielbachhuber).
* Bugfixes:
* Fixes a bug where non-ANSI characters would break the sitemap feature.
* Fixes a bug where MS Edge would not display the traffic light image in the help center properly.
* Fixes a bug where the style of the 'open article' button was overwritten and made unreadable.
* Fixes the link of the FAQ that linked to a non-existing page.
* Fixes a typo to make the KB search "Open" link translatable.
* Reintroduces the text length check for taxonomies.
* Fixes a bug where a 404 could be thrown when there was no locale set.
* Fixes a bug where in certain cases a yoastmark would leave traces in the text, these are now removed.
* Fixes a bug where the score bullet wouldn't be shown on the frontend.
* Fixes the generation of permalinks for new posts by ignoring the permalink sample and generating the permalink
from the posttitle, props [Robert Korulczyk](https://github.com/rob006).
* Fixes getting the incorrect primary category when getting the permalink, props [pawawat](https://github.com/pawawat).
= 3.3.4 =
Release Date: June 30th, 2016
* Fixed a bug in the 3.3.3 release that caused the release folder to not have a fix.
= 3.3.3 =
Release Date: June 30th, 2016
* 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 =
Release Date: June 21st, 2016
* 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.
= 3.3.1 =
Release Date: June 15th, 2016
* 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](https://github.com/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
= 3.3.0 =
Release Date: June 14th, 2016
* Features:
* Added a dashboard under the SEO menu item and moved all persistent notifications to this dashboard.
* Added an indicator to the menu and admin bar about pending notifications and SEO problems.
* Splits the analysis into content and keyword analysis.
* Adds a ton of content feedback about the following properties:
* The length of subheadings.
* The length of text following a subheading.
* The length of paragraphs.
* The length of sentences.
* The presence of transition words.
* The presence of the passive voice.
* Adds a marker button for specific properties to mark these in the editor:
* The length of paragraphs.
* The length of sentences.
* The presence of passive voice.
* The presence of transition words.
* The presence of links with the focus keyword as link text.
* Adds slug transliteration for the following languages, this means that we now match with both the non-transliterated keyword and the transliterated keyword:
* Spanish, Polish, German, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Swedish, Finnish,
* Danish, Turkish, Latvian, Icelandic, Faroese, Czech, Russian,
* Esperanto, Afrikaans, Catalan, Asturian, Aragonese, Aymara,
* English, French, Italian, Dutch, Bambara.
* Adds a search box in the help center to search in the [Yoast knowledge base](https://kb.yoast.com).
* Enhancements:
* Adds missing alt tags to banners.
* Adds a 50.000 URL hard limit to the sitemaps, this is what google recommends.
* Moves social tab above settings tab in the metabox.
* Adds live updating to the score indicator in the admin bar on the post edit page.
* Optimize multiple sitemap cache clears by waiting until the end of the pageload to actual clear the cache.
* Improved title separator radio buttons accessibility.
* Removed Alexa verification from the plugin as it no longer works.
* Bugfixes:
* Fixes a bug where a quote inside an attribute in the XML sitemaps would cause to create invalid XML.
* Fixes a bug where using a custom posts table would not result in correct output in the XML sitemaps.
* Fixes an issue where canonical URLs didn't always correctly have a trailing slash, thanks you for your input [MatthewMi11er](https://github.com/MatthewMi11er).
* Fixes a bug where we didn't match a focus keyword correctly if it contained a slash.
* Fixes a bug where the content analysis would be executed too many times when typing in the snippet preview.
* Fixes a bug where the `wpseo_title` filter couldn't change the opengraph and twitter titles, props [Xavi Ivars](https://github.com/xavivars).
* Fixes a bug where the focus keyword wouldn't be saved when saving the post instantly after changing the focus keyword.
* Fixes a bug where retrieving terms in the breadcrumbs wouldn't be cached, props [Jonny Harris](https://github.com/spacedmonkey)
* Fixes a bug where the help center wasn't properly styled in Safari.
* Fixes an XSS issue, props [Hristo Pandjarov](https://twitter.com/pandjarov).
* Removed:
* Removes the ability to sort on the post score column, because the scores aren't meant to be sorted.
* Removes recalculation because there were too many
issues with integration missing that can only be added on the actual post edit admin page.
* Removes `json_encode` wrapper, it was only necessary for older WordPress versions.
= 3.2.5 =
Release date: May 6th, 2016
* 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 =
Release date: April 28th, 2016
* 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 =
Release Date: April 21th, 2016
* 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 =
Release Date: April 21th, 2016
* Bugfix:
* Fixes a bug where the text analysis was broken in certain languages in certain cases.
= 3.2.1 =
Release Date: April 20th, 2016
* Bugfix:
* Fixes bug where settings of the Advanced tabs "permalinks" and "rss" were no longer saved.
= 3.2.0 =
Release Date: April 20th, 2016
* Features:
* Adds an option to disable post format archives.
* Adds template function to retrieve the primary term. The functions are yoast_get_primary_term_id and yoast_get_primary_term.
* Enables primary term for every taxonomy by default.
* Adds a primary category replacement variable: `%%primary_category%%`.
* Adds a Yoast help center to every settings page with a screencast explaining that specific page.
* Introduces new help buttons in place of qtip, which makes these descriptions much more accessible.
* Enhancements:
* Adds pinterest icon to the pinterest settings tab.
* Clarifies the text on the pinterest settings tab.
* Improves searchability of select inputs by using select2.
* Adds filters to customize sitemaps' <urlset>, props [Mark Walker](https://github.com/mnwalker).
* Uses `wp_register_script` and `wp_register_style` on init so other plugins can customize our assets.
* Changes minimum text length content analysis check for terms to require 150 words instead of 300.
* Removes analyses from the term analysis that weren't applicable to terms.
* Improves code architecture of sitemaps.
* Moves the OnPage.org settings to the webmaster tab.
* Improves performance when importing or migrating posts, thanks [sun](https://github.com/sun).
* Adds caching to empty sitemaps.
* Adds parsing of shortcodes before recalculating all posts.
* Improves detection of static xml sitemaps.
* Makes sure external links in the metabox open in a new window, props [Borja Abad](https://github.com/mines).
* Makes the descriptions on the archives tab of the titles and meta's more clear.
* Removes noydir setting since Yahoo! directory doesn't exist anymore.
* Removes other tab from the import screen, these plugins have all been deprecated.
* Removes all settings to hide specific tags inside the head.
* Improves accessibility of add keyword modal.
* Improves accessibility of metabox.
* Switches all yoa.st links to be HTTPS.
* Removes Google+ specific post and term meta fields since Facebook and Google+ metadata were conflicting.
* Moves the replace vars help docs to the help center module on the titles and meta's settings page.
* Bugfixes:
* Fixes a bug where the breadcrumbs title field was hidden even though the theme supported breadcrumbs.
* Fixes a bug where underscores in like queries weren't correctly escaped, thanks [Konstantin Kovshenin](https://github.com/kovshenin) and [Damian Hodgkiss](https://github.com/damianhodgkiss)
* Fixes a bug where text inside a [caption] shortcode wouldn't be removed correctly in auto generated meta descriptions, props [Kevin Lisota](https://github.com/kevinlisota)
* Fixes a bug where a message to add headings to the text would only be shown if a keyword was set.
* Fixes a bug where a message to add links to the text would only be shown if a keyword was set.
* Fixes compatibility issues with plugins that included mootools or prototypejs.
* Fixes a bug where the 404 page didn't correctly have a noindex and a nofollow set.
* Fixes a bug where internal taxonomies would be shown in the sitemap exlusion settings.
* Fixes a bug in the activation and deactivation where we would execute our code for every network, props [Felix Arntz](https://github.com/felixarntz).
* Fixes a bug where the primary category wasn't taken into account when calling `get_permalink` on the frontend.
* Fixes a compatibility issue with MultilingualPress, props [Thorsten Frommen](https://github.com/tfrommen).
* Fixes compatibility issues with Easing Slider and WooCommerce Variation Swatches and Photos.
* Fixes a bug where a JavaScript template wasn't included when the dependent JavaScript was, props [Darren Ethier](https://github.com/nerrad).
* Fixes a bug where the descriptions for removing the stopwords and the ?replytocom were merged.
* Fixes a bug where the recommended Facebook image dimensions weren't the same as the Facebook documentation.
* Fixes a bug where the dashboard widget wasn't cached correctly, props [Marko Heijnen](https://github.com/markoheijnen)
* Fixes a bug where the sitemaps weren't cached correctly on 32 bit systems.
* Fixes an issue where multi term archives didn't have a noindex set.
* Fixes a bug where we would do an AJAX request on every keystroke in the focus keyword field.
* Fixes a bug where we would check for shortcodes on every keystroke in the content field.
* Fixes a bug where rewrite rules wouldn't be flushed correctly on plugin activation.
* Fixes a bug where the GlotPress banner wouldn't load on HTTPS sites.
= 3.1.2 =
Release Date: March 23rd, 2016
* 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](https://github.com/mcguffin) 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 =
Release Date: March 8th, 2016
* 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.
= 3.1 =
Release Date: March 1st, 2016
* 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 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 =