News SEO for WordPress & Google by SEO Yoast 13.1

[theme5s]

theme5s updated SEO Yoast - News SEO for WordPress plugin with a new update entry:

9.7.0

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

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[theme5s]

theme5s updated SEO Yoast - News SEO for WordPress plugin with a new update entry:

10.0.0

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

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[theme5s]

theme5s updated SEO Yoast - News SEO for WordPress plugin with a new update entry:

10.1

10.1
April 2nd, 2019
Other:

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

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[theme5s]

theme5s updated SEO Yoast - News SEO for WordPress plugin with a new update entry:

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.

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[theme5s]

theme5s updated SEO Yoast - News SEO for WordPress plugin with a new update entry:

11.5

• Compatibility with Yoast SEO 11.5

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[theme5s]

theme5s updated SEO Yoast - News SEO for WordPress plugin with a new update entry:

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

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[theme5s]

theme5s updated SEO Yoast - News SEO for WordPress plugin with a new update entry:

12.0

• Compatibility with Yoast SEO 12.0

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[theme5s]

theme5s updated SEO Yoast - News SEO for WordPress plugin with a new update entry:

12.1

• Compatibility with Yoast SEO 12.1

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[theme5s]

theme5s updated SEO Yoast - News SEO for WordPress plugin with a new update entry:

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.

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[theme5s]

theme5s updated News SEO for WordPress & Google with a new update entry:

12.5

12.5
July 21st, 2020

Other:

• Sets the minimum WordPress version to 5.3.

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[theme5s]

theme5s updated News SEO for WordPress & Google with a new update entry:

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.

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[theme5s]

theme5s updated News SEO for WordPress & Google by SEO Yoast with a new update entry:

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...

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[theme5s]

theme5s updated News SEO for WordPress & Google by SEO Yoast with a new update entry:

13.0

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.

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[theme5s]

theme5s updated News SEO for WordPress & Google by SEO Yoast with a new update entry:

13.1

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.

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