Other FREE News SEO for WordPress & Google by SEO Yoast 12.6

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.

• Compatibility with Yoast SEO 12.1

• Compatibility with Yoast SEO 12.0

11.7
July 23rd, 2019
Other:

• Compatibility with Yoast SEO 11.7

11.6
July 9th, 2019
Other:

• Compatibility with Yoast SEO 11.6

• Compatibility with Yoast SEO 11.5

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

• Sets the minimum required Yoast SEO version to 10.1.
• Removes the deprecated methods ( < 6.1 ).

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