Yoast News SEO for Yoast SEO

Requires at least: 6.3 Tested up to: 6.4 Stable tag: 13.2 Requires PHP: 7.2.5 Depends: Yoast SEO

Yoast News SEO module for the Yoast SEO plugin.

This repository uses the Yoast grunt tasks plugin.

Installation

1. Go to Plugins -> Add New.
2. Click "Upload" right underneath "Install Plugins".
3. Upload the zip file that this readme was contained in.
4. Activate the plugin.
5. Go to SEO -> Extensions -> Licenses, enter your license key and Save.
6. Your license key will be validated.
7. You can now use Yoast News SEO. See also https://kb.yoast.com/kb/configuration-guide-for-news-seo/

Frequently Asked Questions

You can find the Yoast News SEO FAQ in our knowledge base.

Changelog

13.2

Release date: 2024-03-05

Enhancements

• Adds a wpseo_news_sitemap_content filter to append custom content to the XML sitemap. Props to @wccoder.
• This PR introduces a new way of retrieving translations for Yoast News SEO, by utilizing the TranslationPress service. Instead of having to ship all translations with every release, we can now load the translations on a per-install basis, tailored to the user's setup. This means smaller plugin releases and less bloat on the user's server.

Bugfixes

• Fixes a bug where a warning would be thrown on activation.
• Fixes a bug where using the & character in the publication name would break the XML sitemap.

Other

• Drops compatibility with PHP 5.6, 7.0 and 7.1.
• Improves discoverability of security policy.
• Sets the minimum required Yoast SEO version to 22.2.
• Sets the minimum supported WordPress version to 6.3.
• Sets the WordPress tested up to version to 6.4.
• The plugin has no known incompatibilities with PHP 8.3.
• Users requiring this package via [WP]Packagist can now use the composer/installers v2.

13.1

Release date: 2021-11-16

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.

Earlier versions

For the changelog of earlier versions, please refer to the changelog on yoast.com.