Yoast SEO news 13.1

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.

Other:

• 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, and ReportageNewsArticle.

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.

Bugfixes:

• Fixes a bug where a database query including duplicate column names would fail on certain database systems.

Other:

• 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 the Googlebot-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 supports Genres for articles in Google News.

Other:

• Sets the WordPress tested up to version to 5.7 and minimum supported WordPress version to 5.6.

Bugfixes:

• 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'.

Other:

• 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.

Other:

• 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.

Other:

• 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.

Bugfixes:

• Fixes a bug where the News sitemap would contain the SEO title instead of the post title.

Other:

• 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.

Bugfixes:

• Fixes a bug where the copyrightHolder schema piece would not stitch on Windows because of a missing slash.

Other:

• 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.

Bugfixes:

• Fixes a bug where the @type in the schema output would be NewsArticle instead of Article 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.

Other:

• 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.

Bugfixes:

• Fixed Sitemap image URLs to use href instead of guid to prevent relative URLs in the Sitemap. Props to ChristophKnopf

Other:

• 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.

Other:

• 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)

Bugfixes:

• Fixes a bug where it was possible the 48 hour selection range for posts in the news sitemap was slightly off. (props: @timnolte)

Other:

• 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.

Other:

• 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.

Other:

• 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.

Bugfixes:

• 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.

Other:

• 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.

Enhancements:

• Makes it possible to exclude posts with post type 'post' from the the news sitemap.

Other:

• 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.

Other:

• 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.

Other:

• 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.

Bugfixes:

• 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.

Bugfixes:

• Fixes a bug where the page link was missing on the plugin settings page.

Other:

• 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
• 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
  • General accessibility improvements

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.

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