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Yoast WooCommerce SEO changelog

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3.8

  • Compatibility with Yoast SEO 3.8

3.7

  • Compatibility with Yoast SEO 3.7

3.6

Changes​

  • Updated translations.

3.5

  • Compatibility with Yoast SEO 3.5

3.4

Changes​

  • Updated translations.

3.3

Enhancements​

  • Adds the Yoast i18n module to the Yoast SEO WooCommerce settings page, which informs users the plugin isn't available in their language and what they can do about it.

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where the support beacon for Yoast SEO WooCommerce was added to all Yoast SEO settings pages.
  • Fixes a bug where updates were not working reliably when multiple paid Yoast plugins were active.

3.2.1

Bug fixes​

  • Fixes a bug where the rel=next and rel=prev links were not displayed on shop archive pages 2 and up.

3.2

Bug fixes​

  • Fixes a bug where clicking the 'Update now' button on the plugin page didn't update correctly.
  • Fixes a bug where product specific checks that were added to the content analysis would no longer work in combination with Yoast SEO 3.2 and higher.

3.1.1

Bug fixes​

  • Fixes a bug where the Yoast content analysis would break on product edit pages when Yoast WooCommerce SEO and Yoast SEO (Premium) 3.1+ are both active.

3.1

Bug fixes​

  • Fixes a bug where our license manager could sometimes not reach our licensing system due to problems with ssl.

Enhancements​

  • Makes sure users don't have to reactivate their license after updating or disabling/enabling the plugin.
  • Adds a support beacon on the WooCommerce SEO settings page enabling users to ask for support from the WordPress backend.
  • Makes license calls a bit faster.
  • Removed all Twitter card functionality since the Product twitter card no longer exists.

3.0

  • Synchronized plugin version with all other Yoast SEO plugins for WordPress.

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes deprecation warnings for filters and functions that have been removed in Yoast SEO
  • Fixes a fatal on the frontend when WooCommerce SEO is active but WooCommerce isn't.

Enhancements​

  • Makes sure WooCommerce specific content analysis checks work well with the Real Time content analysis tool in Yoast SEO 3.0.
  • Makes sure the product image galleries are still analyzed as part of the content by the Real Time content analysis tool in Yoast SEO 3.0.
  • Improves the order in which Opengraph images are output. First the Facebook image, then the featured image, then the product gallery images.

1.1.5

  • Bugfix: prevent adding WooCommerce product archive link to XML sitemap.

1.1.4

  • Add wpseo_woocommerce_og_price filter. Returning false on it prevents price from being put out in OpenGraph tags.
  • Add attribute to breadcrumbs when attribute is selected.
  • Removed unused breadcrumb option.
  • Only initiate plugin when WP is not installing.

1.1.3

  • Improved how WooCommerce breadcrumbs are replaced.
  • Fixed double class instantiation within same method.
  • Add call to load_plugin_textdomain().
  • Make sure we recognize WooCommerce product gallery images in page analysis.
  • Add images from product gallery to XML sitemap.
  • Use product category thumbnail for og:image.
  • Make sure short description length test also soft errors when short description is too long.
  • Use WooCommerce price formatting functions for price in Twitter card.

1.1.6

Bugfixes​

  • Fixes a bug where a Fatal error was being raised on the frontend when WooCommerce is not activated.
  • Fixes a bug where Open Graph image tags for featured images and facebook images were not included first when a product image gallery existed.

Enhancements​

  • Defaults to the short description for the meta description when no meta description is set.
  • Added 8 new languages: da_DK, en_GB, es_ES, es_MX, it_IT, nb_NO, nl_NL and tr_TR.

1.1.2

  • Fixed a bug where the breadcrumb caused a fatal error.

1.1.1

  • Added Yoast license manager to plugin.

1.1

  • Please upgrade the WordPress SEO plugin to version 1.5 as well for compatibility. ctices.

Bugfixes​

  • Fixed shortcodes should be removed from ogdesc.
  • Fixed duplicate twitter domain meta tag
  • Fixed error loading stylesheet (WPSEO_URL no longer defined).
  • Additional enhancements
  • Change the minimum content length requirements to 200, instead of the WP SEO default of 300.
  • Add a length test for the products short description.
  • Make sure the content analysis tests use the product images as well.
  • If a product category has a description, use it for the OpenGraph description.
  • Switch to general WP SEO Licensing class

1.0.1

  • Add check whether WordPress and WordPress SEO by Yoast are installed and up-to-date

1.0

  • Initial version.