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.
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 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 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 for providing a fix.
Fixes memory issues caused by doing post counts with WP_Query. Thanks Emre Erkan 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.