v19.2 - August 23rd, 2022
In Yoast SEO Premium 19.2, we’re introducing a new inclusive language analysis. This will help you get feedback on words that might exclude part of your audience and get inclusive alternatives. This is a beta launch and is only available in English for now. Plus, it is opt-in. Try it out! Read more about what’s new in Yoast SEO Premium 19.2 in our release post in English or our release post in Spanish!
Enhancements:
- NEW: Adds the inclusive language analysis for English as a beta feature. Get suggestions on how to improve non-inclusive phrases, to make your content appeal to a larger audience.
- Adds emoji suggestions to our replacevar editors, to make it possible to search emojis by typing a :.
- Prevents front-end-inspector hash from being added to the URL when toggling the front-end inspector.
- Fixes a performance issue for the internal linking suggestions on very large sites.
Bugfixes:
- Fixes a bug where the prompt to connect Zapier in the post edit page would point to the old Integrations page.
Other:
- Bumps the minimum required Free version to 19.6.
v19.6 - August 23rd, 2022
Yoast SEO 19.6 is out today! In this release, we’ve rolled out some general enhancements. In addition, we’ve improved the performance of Yoast SEO on bigger, more complex sites. Read more about what’s new in Yoast SEO 19.6 in our release post in English or our release post in Spanish!
Bugfixes:
- Fixes a bug in the Classic Editor where clicking on the SEO link inside the publish box would not always scroll the SEO analysis into view.
- Fixes a bug where an emoji in our replacement variable editors would not be entirely removed when the backspace/delete button is hit.
- Fixes a bug where a redirect to our installation success page could happen on admin AJAX calls.
Other:
- Adds a “Search engines discouraged” notification in the Yoast SEO dashboard when the “Discourage search engines from indexing this site” WordPress setting is turned on.
- Removes the Ryte integration and deprecates all the relevant classes. More information about this can be found at yoa.st/ryte-deprecation.