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Yoast SEO 14.7

Say hi to Yoast SEO 14.7, chock-full of enhancements to help you with your site's SEO. Have you heard about the addition of XML sitemaps in WordPress 5.5? The Yoast SEO plugin is completely prepared for this. We also have some great news for users of the Web Stories plugin. Read more about those changes in our release post!

Enhancements​

  • Adds support for adding metadata to Web Stories (the web-story post type) from the Web Stories plugin. Props to swissspidy
  • Shows a more specific notification about why the reindexing of SEO data is needed when the permalinks are reset or when the category base setting is changed.
  • Redirects requests to the WordPress sitemaps to the appropriate Yoast sitemap, if the Yoast sitemaps are enabled.
  • Adds the option for users to opt-in to allow Yoast to track some data about their site.
  • Optimizes script loading by removing ver parameters from scripts and styles when they're not needed.
  • Adds the Yoast logo to the Yoast block categories.
  • Compatibility with WordPress 5.5: makes sure Yoast structured data blocks are found on more keywords and have examples in the block inserter.

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where a fatal error would occur in sitemaps on sites where the home URL and site URL were different. Because the cause of this was a missing style sheet, the content of the sitemaps was still there, which means Google and other search engines could still reach the sitemaps and no SEO harm was done.
  • Fixes a bug where reindexing would not be done for indexables without a permalink.
  • Fixes a bug where an indexable's permalink remained unchanged when the categories prefix option was changed.
  • Fixes a bug where an inline link that opens in a new window would render undefined in the aria-label.
  • Fixes a bug where the indexables indexing process could not be started again without a page reload on the tools page if it failed.
  • Fixes a bug where a console error would be thrown because wpseoShortcodePluginL10n was not defined.
  • Fixes a bug where the SEO and Readability scores were no longer shown in the publish box in the classic editor.
  • Fixes a bug where clicking the Readability score link in the classic editor would trigger an error.

Other​

  • Enables the cornerstone content toggle for taxonomies.
  • Adds the option to filter our Schema by @type.
  • Removes the setting to show the date in the Google Preview. The date will now always be shown in post-type previews.
  • Moves the running of the SEO data indexing process to the Yoast Tools page.