Yoast SEO news 13.1
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13.1
November 16th, 2021 Enhancements:- Huge performance improvement: moves the XML News sitemap to be based on our Indexables architecture.
- Removes images from the XML News sitemap as they serve no purpose here and this further improves performance.
- Excludes attachments and non-indexed post types from the possible post types to include in the News Sitemap.
13.0
October 19th, 2021 Enhancements:- Adds Schema Article News subtypes:
ReviewNewsArticle
,AnalysisNewsArticle
,AskPublicNewsArticle
,BackgroundNewsArticle
,OpinionNewsArticle
, andReportageNewsArticle
.
12.9
August 10th, 2021 Bugfixes:- Fixes a bug where a duplicate News section would be shown in the Yoast sidebar in the post editor when Yoast SEO Premium is active in combination with WP 5.8.
12.8
July 13th, 2021 Enhancements:- Adds key/value pairs of all News SEO meta tags to our REST API.
- Improves the performance of the news sitemap. Props to archon810.
- Fixes a bug where a database query including duplicate column names would fail on certain database systems.
- Adds a filter to override the decision to omit an item from the news sitemap. Props to joneslloyd.
- Sets the minimum WordPress version to 5.6.
12.7
April 6th, 2021 Enhancements:- Adds News to the Yoast SEO sidebar in the Elementor editor and the block editor.
- Merges the
Exclude from News sitemap
and theGooglebot-News index
settings from the News meta box into one setting:Exclude this post from Google News
. Because both settings served the same purpose, to exclude your content from the News sitemap. - Removes the
Default genre
setting from the News sitemap and settings because Google no longer supportsGenres
for articles in Google News.
- Sets the WordPress tested up to version to 5.7 and minimum supported WordPress version to 5.6.
- Fixes a bug where certain conditions (e.g. using a different admin language) would result in an endless loop.
- Fixes "mixed content" warnings on the News SEO options page.
12.6
August 18th, 2020 Enhancements:- Adds 'Article' as
@type
to articles that are set to be included in the news sitemap. This results in a@type
array with at least 'Article' and 'NewsArticle'.
- Enables tracking when activating the plugin. It can be disabled in the Yoast SEO configuration wizard.
- Sets the minimum supported WordPress version to 5.4.
12.5
July 21st, 2020 Other:- Sets the minimum WordPress version to 5.3.
12.4.1
January 14th, 2020 Bugfixes:- Fixes a bug where a large number of WordPress terms or post types would cause significant slowdowns and possible crashes on admin pages.
- Removes the code tags from the term and post type names on the News SEO settings page.
12.4
January 7th, 2020 Bugfixes:- Fixes a bug where the sitemap could be invalidated twice on multisite with MultilingualPress.
- Show dates in UTC+0 format everywhere.
12.3
November 27th, 2019 Enhancements:- Replaces the HelpScout Beacon 1.0 on the News SEO admin page with the Beacon 2.0.
- Fixes a bug where the News sitemap would contain the SEO title instead of the post title.
- Sets the minimum required WordPress version to 5.2, the minimum PHP version to 5.6.20, and the minimum required Yoast SEO version to 12.6.1.
12.2
October 15th, 2019 Enhancements:- Shows a floating `Save changes` button on the Yoast SEO News admin page when the normal button is not visible in the browser window.
- Fixes a bug where the copyrightHolder schema piece would not stitch on Windows because of a missing slash.
- Compatibility with Yoast SEO 12.2
12.1
September 17th, 2019 Other:- Compatibility with Yoast SEO 12.1
12.0
September 3rd, 2019 Other:- Compatibility with Yoast SEO 12.0
11.9
August 20th, 2019 Enhancements:- This add-on now has its own tab in the Yoast SEO metabox, even if you have multiple Yoast SEO add-ons installed.
- Fixes a bug where the
@type
in the schema output would beNewsArticle
instead ofArticle
for articles which were excluded from the news sitemap. - Fixes a bug where news article pages and custom post types included in the news sitemap would not receive an author in their schema output.
- Sets the minimum required Yoast SEO version to 11.9.
11.8
August 6th, 2019 Other:- Compatibility with Yoast SEO 11.8
11.7
July 23rd, 2019 Other:- Compatibility with Yoast SEO 11.7
11.6
July 9th, 2019 Other:- Compatibility with Yoast SEO 11.6
11.5
June 25th, 2019 Other:- Compatibility with Yoast SEO 11.5
11.4
June 12th, 2019 Other:- Compatibility with Yoast SEO 11.4
11.3
May 28th, 2019 Other:- Compatibility with Yoast SEO 11.3
11.2
May 15th, 2019 Other:- Compatibility with Yoast SEO 11.2
11.1
April 30th, 2019 Other:- Compatibility with Yoast SEO 11.1
11.0
April 16th, 2019 Enhancements:- Schema: Adds Schema.org
NewsArticle
markup to all post types that you've selected as News.
- Fixed Sitemap image URLs to use href instead of guid to prevent relative URLs in the Sitemap. Props to ChristophKnopf
- Sets the minimum required Yoast SEO version to 11.0.
10.1
April 2nd, 2019 Other:- Sets the minimum required Yoast SEO version to 10.1.
- Removes the deprecated methods ( < 6.1 ).
10.0
March 12th, 2019 Bugfixes:- Fixes a bug where the news sitemap would show a blank page due to an internal server error.
- Compatibility with Yoast SEO 10.0
9.7
February 26th, 2019 Enhancements:- Changes the titles in the news sitemap to default to the SEO title, with a fallback to the post title. (props: @timnolte)
- Fixes a bug where it was possible the 48 hour selection range for posts in the news sitemap was slightly off. (props: @timnolte)
- Compatibility with Yoast SEO 9.7
9.6.1
February 12th, 2019 Other:- Compatibility with Yoast SEO 9.6.1
9.6
February 12th, 2019 Other:- Compatibility with Yoast SEO 9.6
9.5
January 22nd, 2018 Other:- Compatibility with Yoast SEO 9.5
9.4
January 8th, 2018 Bugfixes:- Fixes a bug where the last modified date for the sitemap index has been displayed with the wrong time zone.
- Compatibility with Yoast SEO 9.4
9.3
December 18th, 2018 Other:- Compatibility with Yoast SEO 9.3
9.2
November 20th, 2018 Other:- Compatibility with Yoast SEO 9.2
9.1
November 6th, 2018 Bugfixes:- Fixes a bug where a PHP warning would be displayed when
php_uname
has been disabled for security reasons.
- Compatibility with Yoast SEO 9.1
9.0
October 23rd, 2018 Enhancements:- Allows term based exclusion in the news sitemap for all taxonomies connected to enabled post types.
- Fixes a bug where terms with
show_ui
set to false would be shown in the list of terms to be excluded from the news sitemap.
- Compatibility with Yoast SEO 9.0
8.4
October 9th, 2018 Bugfixes:- Fixes a bug where the changelog would not show up when the plugin was updated.
- Makes it possible to exclude posts with post type 'post' from the the news sitemap.
- Compatibility with Yoast SEO 8.4
8.3
September 25th, 2018 Bugfixes:- Fixes a bug where the XML of the news sitemap would contain an incorrect publication time when the user would use a location-based timezone.
- Fixes a bug where posts with the post type of Post would always be included in the sitemap.
- Compatibility with Yoast SEO 8.3
8.2
September 11th, 2018 Other:- Compatibility with Yoast SEO 8.2
8.1
August 28th, 2018 Other:- Compatibility with Yoast SEO 8.1
8.0
August 14th, 2018 Other:- Compatibility with Yoast SEO 8.0
7.9.1
August 7th, 2018 Other:- Compatibility with Yoast SEO 7.9.1
7.9
July 24th, 2018 Bugfixes:- Fixes a bug where news posts set to no-index would still appear in the XML News Sitemap.
- Compatibility with Yoast SEO 7.9
7.8
July 10th, 2018 Other:- Removes functionality for original-source as Google has confirmed they're no longer using it.
- Compatibility with Yoast SEO 7.8
7.7
June 26th, 2018- Compatibility with Yoast SEO 7.7
7.6
June 5th, 2018 Enhancements:- Removes support for standout tag.
- Removes support for editor's pick RSS.
- Fixes a bug where the news image sitemap did not correctly handle protocol relative URLs.
7.5
May 15th, 2018- Compatibility with Yoast SEO 7.4
7.4
May 3rd, 2018- Compatibility with Yoast SEO 7.4
7.3
April 17th, 2018- Compatibility with Yoast SEO 7.3
7.2
April 3rd, 2018 Enhancements:- Removes the use of meta news keywords everywhere as Google no longer supports them.
- Renews compatibility with the Plugin Dependencies plugin.
- Fixes a bug where the page link was missing on the plugin settings page.
- Compatibility with Yoast SEO 7.2
- Adds warnings for deprecated functions.
- Security hardening.
7.1
March 20th, 2018- Compatibility with Yoast SEO 7.1
7.0
March 6th, 2018- Requires Yoast SEO 7.0 or higher to be installed.
- Moves each sitemap class to its own file instead of having multiple classes in one single file.
6.3
February 13th, 2018- Load the XSL stylesheet from a static file when home and site URL are the same.
- Compatibility with Yoast SEO 6.3
6.2.1
January 23rd, 2018- Bump version to make sure it displays correctly in the plugin list.
6.2
January 23rd, 2018- Compatibility with Yoast SEO 6.2
6.1
January 9th, 2018- Compatibility with Yoast SEO 6.1
6.0
December 20th, 2017 Bugfixes:- Fixes a problem where the sitemap table could not be sorted.
- Compatibility with Yoast SEO 6.0
5.9
December 5th, 2017- Compatibility with Yoast SEO 5.9
5.8
November 15th, 2017- Compatibility with Yoast SEO 5.8
5.7
October 24th, 2017- Compatibility with Yoast SEO 5.7
5.6
October 10th, 2017- Enhancements:
- Changes the capability on which the submenu is registered to
wpseo_manage_options
- Changes the capability on which the submenu is registered to
- Bugfixes:
- Fixes a bug where the license check endpoint was using an incorrect URL
5.5
September 26th, 2017- Updated the internationalization module to version 3.0.
- Compatibility with Yoast SEO 5.5
5.4
September 5th, 2017- Updated the internationalization module to version 2.0.
- Compatibility with Yoast SEO 5.4
5.3
August 22th, 2017- Compatibility with Yoast SEO 5.3
5.2
August 8th, 2017- Compatibility with Yoast SEO 5.2
5.1
July 25th, 2017- Fixes a bug where the wrong timezone was used in the sitemap.
5.0
July 6th, 2017- Adds post type name (attachment) after the label to clarify the post type.
- Fixes a fatal error when Piklist and Yoast News SEO are both active.
- Fixes a fatal error when Liveblog and Yoast News SEO are both active.
- Fixes a warning in the News sitemap when bbPress and Yoast News SEO are both active.
4.9
June 7th, 2017- Compatibility with Yoast SEO 4.9.
4.8
May 23rd, 2017- Compatibility with Yoast SEO 4.8.
4.7
May 2nd, 2017- Fixes a bug where there were a deprecated function was being called, resulting in a warning.
4.6
April 11th, 2017- Compatibility with Yoast SEO 4.6.
4.5
March 21st, 2017- Compatibility with Yoast SEO 4.5.
4.4
February 28th, 2017- Compatibility with Yoast SEO 4.4.
4.3
February 14th, 2017- Compatibility with Yoast SEO 4.3.
4.2.1
February 3rd, 2017- Bugfixes
- Fixes "Fatal error: Class 'yoast_i18n' not found".
4.2
January 31st, 2017- Bugfixes
- Fixes a bug where a deprecated function was being called, resulting in a warning.
4.1
January 17th, 2017- Bugfixes
- Fixes W3C validation error on <link attribute 'original-source'.
- Fixed broken link in news sitemap.
4.0
December 13th, 2016- Compatibility with Yoast SEO 4.0
3.9
November 29th, 2016- Bugfixes
- Fixes a bug where the editor's pick checkbox was reset after inline editing a post.
- Updates translations.
3.8
November 8th, 2016- Bugfixes
- Fixes a bug where the editor's pick would be unset when quick editing.
- Fixes a bug where Google News would report an unexpected publication name in sitemaps.
- Updates translations.
3.7
October 11th, 2016- Updates translations
3.6
September 27th, 2016- Enhancements
3.5.1
September 16th, 2016- Bugfixes
- Fixes a bug where a page or post type with the slug news would be inaccessible.
3.5
September 7th, 2016- Bugfixes
- Fixes a bug where sitemaps would not be generated if a post with the same name existed.
3.4
July 19th, 2016- Enhancements
- Introduced noindex meta tag for the Google News bot.
- Bugfixes
- Sitemaps need a real timezone instead of a UTC timezone because daylight saving time is not included in UTC.
- Google News Genre global default could not be overridden by page setting.
- The news keyword counting, for a maximum of 10 keywords, no longer counts empty keywords.
3.3
June 14th, 2016- Enhancements
- Adds the Yoast i18n module to the Yoast SEO News settings page, which informs users the plugin isn't available in their language and what they can do about it.
- Bugfixes
- Fixes a bug where the support beacon for Yoast SEO News was added to all Yoast SEO settings pages.
- Fixes a bug where updates were not working reliably when multiple paid Yoast plugins were active.
3.2
April 20th, 2016- Bugfixes
- Fixes a bug where the news sitemap would be shown in the index even if the sitemap itself was empty.
- Fixes a bug where clicking the 'Update now' button on the plugin page didn't update correctly.
3.1
March 2nd, 2016- Bugfixes
- Fixes a bug where our license manager could sometimes not reach our licensing system due to problems with ssl.
- Enhancements
- Makes sure users don't have to reactivate their license after updating or disabling/enabling the plugin.
- Adds a support beacon on the News SEO settings page enabling users to ask for support from the WordPress backend.
- Contains a few performance optimizations.
3.0
November 18th, 2015- Synchronized plugin version with all other Yoast SEO plugins for WordPress.
- Bugfixes
- 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 the news metabox that was broken in combination with Yoast SEO 3.0.
- Fixes deprecation warnings for filters that have been removed in Yoast SEO 3.0.
2.2.5
June 10th, 2015- Bugfixes
- Fixes a bug where the news sitemap cache was not cleared when the News SEO settings were updated.
- Added 1 new translation: en_AU.
2.2.4
April 29th, 2015- Bugfixes
- Fixes a bug where the news sitemap cache was not cleared when a news item was edited or added.
- Fixes a bug where the stylesheets for the news sitemap were not included when the sitemap was served from cache.
- Fixes a bug where specialchars were escaped in the news sitemap.
2.2.3
March 25th, 2015- Bugfixes
- Fixes a bug where an invalid argument error could be raised when visiting the sitemap.
- Fixes a bug where the sitemap could contain wrongly formatted publication dates.
- Fixes a bug where the
wpseo_news_sitemap_url
filter wasn't working properly. - Fixes a bug where the News sitemap genre wasn't saved on posts.
- Fixes a bug where the sitemap didn't always contain the correct image url, props Marcus Jaschen.
- Fixes a bug with duplicate keywords in the news sitemap.
- Fixes an issue where the Editor's pick RSS took very long to load, by only fetching the selected post types from the database.
- Fixes a bug where the default keywords and the meta news keywords weren't added to the sitemap.
- Enhancements
- Introduces a few string improvements.
- Added 9 new languages: en_GB, es_ES, es_MX, fr_FR, he_IL, it_IT, nl_NL, ro_RO and tr_TR.
2.2.2
December 17th, 2014- Bugfixes
- The stock tickers didn't work properly, these are fixed.
- Setting correct HTTP header to be sure output is executed as a RSS-feed.
- Enhancements
- Hide the standout meta-tag automatically after seven days (you can still see standout was used in admin but it won't be displayed)
- Show the total number of used standout meta-tags (for the last seven days) in the post-admin
2.2.1
November 11th, 2014- Bugfixes:
- Fixed a bug where button to Editors' Pick RSS didn't work.
- Fixed a bug where the wrong image url ended up in the image:loc in the Editor's Pick RSS
- Fixed a bug where the wrong http header was set for the Editor's Pick RSS
- Enhancements:
- Added translations for Polish
2.2
October 7th, 2014- Bugfixes
- Fixed a bug where button to Editors' Pick RSS didn't work.
- Fixed bug where plugin would give a white screen of death in certain installations.
- Improve using the right image for the news sitemap.
- Enhancements
- Added
pubDate
to editors pick RSS feed.
- Added
2.1
July 9th, 2014- Several performance optimizations for sitemap generation.
- Added button that links to news sitemap on admin page.
- Added an option to include only the featured image in the XML News sitemap.
- Introduced filter
wpseo_locale
for locale/language of the XML News sitemap. - Introduced filter
wpseo_news_sitemap_url
to allow changing the XML News sitemap URL.
2.0.6
June 10th, 2014- Removed the wptexturize filter from the_title and the_content in the Editors' Pick feed because corrupts our output.
- Added guid elements to item elements in the Editors' Pick feed.
- Added an atom:link element as recommended by the RSS Advisory Board to identifying a feed's URL within the feed.
- Added the WPSEO News fields to the WPSEO meta fields class to fix a bug where the post meta genre field isn't saved.
2.0.5
June 5th, 2014- Fixed a publication_date timezone bug.
2.0.4
May 15th, 2014- Add CDATA tags to RSS feed text output.
- Now using the same title for the Editors' Pick title as the channel title.
2.0.3
April 23rd, 2014- Sitemaps now use creation dates instead of modified dates.
2.0.2
April 22nd, 2014- Fixed a bug with version_compare.
- Adds sanitize callback to register_settings.
2.0.1
April 22nd, 2014- Changed EDD product name to 'News SEO'.
2.0
April 22nd, 2014- Initial release
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