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News SEO for WordPress & Google by SEO Yoast

Other FREE News SEO for WordPress & Google by SEO Yoast 12.7

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12.7

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

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

12.5
July 21st, 2020

Other:

  • Sets the minimum WordPress version to 5.3.

12.4.1

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.

12.1

  • Compatibility with Yoast SEO 12.1

12.0

  • Compatibility with Yoast SEO 12.0

11.7

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

  • Compatibility with Yoast SEO 11.5

11.0

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

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