Yoast SEO Premium
20.1 - February 7, 2023
In Yoast SEO 20.1, we're launching an integration with Mastodon, the decentralized social network. Among other things, this makes it easy for Yoast SEO Premium users to verify their profile link. Additionally, we've improved our inclusive language analysis to help you reach a wider audience with your content. Upgrade now! Find out more about what's new in Yoast SEO 20.1 Premium in our release post!
Enhancements
- Adds an integration to easily verify the link to your website on your Mastodon profile.
- Adds an integration with Easy Digital Downloads to improve its Schema output and connect it to the Yoast Schema graph.
Other
- Bumps minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 20.1.
Yoast SEO 20.1
20.1 - February 7, 2023
Create a more inclusive online world with Yoast SEO 20.1. Our improved inclusive language analysis provides real-time feedback and offers suggestions to help your content reach a broader audience. For our Premium users, there's a bonus - a new Mastodon integration to take your online presence to the next level. Get it now! Find out more about what's new in Yoast SEO 20.1 in our release post!
Enhancements
- Adds a link to the first time configuration in the plugin overview when this is not completed yet.
- Adds the site name to the Google preview for mobile.
- Improves the inclusive language analysis by expanding the number of non-inclusive phrases recognized as well as by improving the feedback, for example by adding more inclusive alternatives or fixing inconsistencies. Specifically, this includes the following changes:
- Adds word form support (singular vs. plural, different verb forms) for some non-inclusive phrases.
- Improves the feedback strings and suggested alternatives for phrases containing the terms "crazy" and "OCD".
- Improves the feedback strings pertaining to medical conditions.
- Improves the feedback strings for "binge", "preferred pronouns", and "preferred name".
- Changes the scoring and improves the feedback string for "ladies and gentleman".
- Changes the feedback in the publish box from "OK" to "Potentially non-inclusive".
- Excludes the phrases "binge drinking/drinks/drink" and "exotic shorthairs/longhairs" from being targeted as non-inclusive.
Bugfixes
- Fixes a bug where the Format archives settings would not work correctly when the post_format taxonomy is disabled.
- Fixes a bug where the Media pages settings would not work correctly when the attachment post type is filtered out via wpseo_indexable_excluded_post_types.
- Fixes a bug where the highlighting feature in the Classic editor would not work when inline HTML tags were present.
- Fixes a bug where the settings' introduction modal would not be visible on wider screens with less than ~700 pixels height.
- Fixes a bug where wpseo_opengraph_image_size is used to set custom size to og:image but doesn't work when uploading an image with the same size as the custom size.
Other
- Improves the translations comments in Settings > Site connections and a translatable string used by screen readers.
