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=== WordPress SEO by Yoast ===Contributors: joostdevalkDonate
link: https://yoast.com/License: GPLv3License URI:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.htmlTags: seo, SEO, Yoast SEO,
google, meta, meta description, search engine optimization, xml
sitemap, xml sitemaps, google sitemap, sitemap, sitemaps, robots
meta, rss, rss footer, yahoo, bing, news sitemaps, XML News
Sitemaps, WordPress SEO, WordPress SEO by Yoast, yoast, multisite,
canonical, nofollow, noindex, keywords, meta keywords, description,
webmaster tools, google webmaster tools, seo packRequires at least:
3.8Tested up to: 4.0Stable tag: 1.7.1Improve your WordPress SEO:
Write better content and have a fully optimized WordPress site
using Yoast's WordPress SEO plugin.== Description ==WordPress out
of the box is already technically quite a good platform for SEO,
this was true when I wrote my original [WordPress
SEO](https://yoast.com/articles/wordpress-seo/) article in 2008
(and updated every few months) and it's still true today, but that
doesn't mean you can't improve it further! This plugin is written
from the ground up by Joost de Valk and his team at
[Yoast](https://yoast.com/) to improve your site's SEO on *all*
needed aspects. While this [WordPress SEO
plugin](https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/seo/) goes the extra
mile to take care of all the technical optimization, more on that
below, it first and foremost helps you write better content.
WordPress SEO forces you to choose a focus keyword when you're
writing your articles, and then makes sure you use that focus
keyword everywhere.> Premium Support
> The Yoast team does not provide support for the WordPress SEO
plugin on the WordPress.org forums. One on one email support is
available to people who bought the [Premium WordPress SEO
plugin](https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/seo-premium/) only.>
Note that the Premium SEO plugin has several extra features too so
it might be well worth your investment!>> You should also
check out the [Local
SEO](https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/local-seo/), [News
SEO](https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/news-seo/) and [Video
SEO](https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/video-seo/) extensions to
WordPress SEO, these of course come with support too.> Bug
Reports
> Bug reports for WordPress SEO are [welcomed on
GitHub](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo). Please note GitHub
is _not_ a support forum and issues that aren't properly qualified
as bugs will be closed.= Write better content with WordPress SEO
=Using the snippet preview you can see a rendering of what your
post or page will look like in the search results, whether your
title is too long or too short and your meta description makes
sense in the context of a search result. This way the plugin will
help you not only increase rankings but also increase the click
through for organic search results.= Page Analysis =The WordPress
SEO plugins [Page
Analysis](https://yoast.com/content-seo-wordpress-linkdex/)
functionality checks simple things you're bound to forget. It
checks, for instance, if you have images in your post and whether
they have an alt tag containing the focus keyword for that post. It
also checks whether your posts are long enough, if you've written a
meta description and if that meta description contains your focus
keyword, if you've used any subheadings within your post, etc.
etc.The plugin also allows you to write meta titles and
descriptions for all your category, tag and custom taxonomy
archives, giving you the option to further optimize those
pages.Combined, this plugin makes sure that your content is the
type of content search engines will love!= Technical WordPress
Search Engine Optimization =While out of the box WordPress is
pretty good for SEO, it needs some tweaks here and there. This
WordPress SEO plugin guides you through some of the settings
needed, for instance by reminding you to enable pretty permalinks.
But it also goes beyond that, by automatically optimizing and
inserting the meta tags and link elements that Google and other
search engines like so much:= Meta & Link Elements =With the
WordPress SEO plugin you can control which pages Google shows in
its search results and which pages it doesn't show. By default, it
will tell search engines to index all of your pages, including
category and tag archives, but only show the first pages in the
search results. It's not very useful for a user to end up on the
third page of your "personal" category, right?WordPress itself only
shows canonical link elements on single pages, WordPress SEO makes
it output canonical link elements everywhere. Google has recently
announced they would also use `rel="next"` and `rel="prev"` link
elements in the `head` section of your paginated archives, this
plugin adds those automatically, see [this
post](https://yoast.com/rel-next-prev-paginated-archives/
title="rel=next & rel=prev for paginated archives") for more
info.= XML Sitemaps =Yoast's WordPress SEO plugin has the most
advanced XML Sitemaps functionality in any WordPress plugin. Once
you check the box, it automatically creates XML sitemaps and
notifies Google & Bing of the sitemaps existence. These XML
sitemaps include the images in your posts & pages too, so that
your images may be found better in the search engines too.These XML
Sitemaps will even work on large sites, because of how they're
created, using one index sitemap that links to sub-sitemaps for
each 1,000 posts. They will also work with custom post types and
custom taxonomies automatically, while giving you the option to
remove those from the XML sitemap should you wish to.Because of
using [XSL stylesheets for these XML
Sitemaps](https://yoast.com/xsl-stylesheet-xml-sitemap/), the XML
sitemaps are easily readable for the human eye too, so you can spot
things that shouldn't be in there.= RSS Optimization =Are you being
outranked by scrapers? Instead of cursing at them, use them to your
advantage! By automatically adding a link to your RSS feed pointing
back to the original article, you're telling the search engine
where they should be looking for the original. This way, the
WordPress SEO plugin increases your own chance of ranking for your
chosen keywords and gets rid of scrapers in one go!= Breadcrumbs
=If your theme is compatible, and themes based on Genesis or by
WooThemes for instance often are, you can use the built-in
Breadcrumbs functionality. This allows you to create an easy
navigation that is great for both users and search engines and will
support the search engines in understanding the structure of your
site.Making your theme compatible isn't hard either, check [these
instructions](https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/breadcrumbs/).=
Edit your .htaccess and robots.txt file =Using the built-in file
editor you can edit your WordPress blogs .htaccess and robots.txt
file, giving you direct access to the two most powerful files, from
an SEO perspective, in your WordPress install.= Social Integration
=SEO and Social Media are heavily intertwined, that's why this
plugin also comes with a Facebook OpenGraph implementation and will
soon also support Google+ sharing tags.= Multi-Site Compatible =The
Yoast SEO plugin, unlike some others, is fully Multi-Site
compatible. The XML Sitemaps work fine in all setups and you even
have the option, in the Network settings, to copy the settings from
one blog to another, or make blogs default to the settings for a
specific blog.= Import & Export functionality =If you have
multiple blogs, setting up plugins like this one on all of them
might seem like a daunting task. Except that it's not, because what
you can do is simple: you set up the plugin once. You then export
your settings and simply import them on all your other sites. It's
that simple!= Import functionality for other WordPress SEO plugins
=If you've used All In One SEO Pack or HeadSpace2 before using this
plugin, you might want to import all your old titles and
descriptions. You can do that easily using the built-in import
functionality. There's also import functionality for some of the
older Yoast plugins like Robots Meta and RSS footer.Should you have
a need to import from another SEO plugin to Yoast SEO or from a
theme like Genesis or Thesis, you can use the [SEO Data
Transporter](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/seo-data-transporter/)
plugin, that'll easily convert your SEO meta data from and to a
whole set of plugins like Platinum SEO, SEO Ultimate, Greg's High
Performance SEO and themes like Headway, Hybrid, WooFramework,
Catalyst etc.Read [this migration
guide](https://yoast.com/all-in-one-seo-pack-migration/) if you
still have questions about migrating from another SEO plugin to
WordPress SEO.= WordPress SEO Plugin in your Language! =Currently a
huge translation project is underway, translating WordPress SEO in
as much as 24 languages. So far, the translations for French and
Dutch are complete, but we still need help on a lot of other
languages, so if you're good at translating, please join us at
[translate.yoast.com](http://translate.yoast.com).= News SEO =Be
sure to also check out the premium [News SEO
module](https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/news-seo/) if you need
Google News Sitemaps. It tightly integrates with WordPress SEO to
give you the combined power of News Sitemaps and full Search Engine
Optimization.= Further Reading =For more info, check out the
following articles:* The [WordPress SEO
Knowledgebase](http://kb.yoast.com/category/42-wordpress-seo).*
[WordPress SEO - The definitive Guide by
Yoast](https://yoast.com/articles/wordpress-seo/).* Once you have
great SEO, you'll need the [best WordPress
Hosting](https://yoast.com/articles/wordpress-hosting/).* The
[WordPress SEO Plugin](https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/seo/)
official homepage.* Other [WordPress
Plugins](https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/) by the same author.*
Follow Yoast on [Facebook](https://facebook.com/yoast) &
[Twitter](http://twitter.com/yoast).= Tags =seo, SEO, Yoast SEO,
google, meta, meta description, search engine optimization, xml
sitemap, xml sitemaps, google sitemap, sitemap, sitemaps, robots
meta, rss, rss footer, yahoo, bing, news sitemaps, XML News
Sitemaps, WordPress SEO, WordPress SEO by Yoast, yoast, multisite,
canonical, nofollow, noindex, keywords, meta keywords, description,
webmaster tools, google webmaster tools, seo pack== Installation
==1. Upload the `wordpress-seo` folder to the
`/wp-content/plugins/` directory1. Activate the WordPress SEO
plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress1. Configure the
plugin by going to the `SEO` menu that appears in your admin menu==
Frequently Asked Questions ==You'll find the [FAQ on
Yoast.com](https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/seo/faq/).==
Screenshots ==1. The WordPress SEO plugin general meta box. You'll
see this on edit post pages, for posts, pages and custom post
types.2. Some of the sites using this WordPress SEO plugin.3. The
WordPress SEO settings for a taxonomy.4. The fully configurable XML
sitemap for WordPress SEO.5. Easily import SEO data from All In One
SEO pack and HeadSpace2 SEO.6. Example of the Page Analysis
functionality.7. The advanced section of the WordPress SEO meta
box.== Changelog === 1.7.1 =* Security fix: fixed possible cross
scripting issue with encoded entities in a post title. This could
potentially allow an author on your site to execute JavaScript when
you visit that posts edit page, allowing them to do rights
expansion or otherwise. Thanks to [Joe
Hoyle](http://www.joehoyle.co.uk/) for responsibly disclosing this
issue.= 1.7 =* Features:* Adds Twitter inputs to the Social tab.*
Tries to purge Facebook cache when OpenGraph settings are edited.*
Added a new box promoting our translation site for non en_US
users.* Added several new tools (Pinterest Rich Pins, HTML
Validation, CSS Validation, Google PageSpeed), props
[bhubbard](https://github.com/bhubbard)* Enhancements:*
Functionality change: when there's a featured image, output only
that for both Twitter and FB, ignore other images in post.* UX
change: rework logic for showing networks on Social tab, social
network no longer shows on social tabs if not enabled in admin.*
Always output a specific Twitter title and description, as
otherwise we can't overwrite them from metabox. * Check for
conflicts with other plugins doing XML sitemaps or OpenGraph. *
Qtip library replaced with Qtip2. * Merged several similar
translation strings, props [@ramiy](https://github.com/ramiy) *
Several RTL improvements, props [@ramiy](https://github.com/ramiy)
* Several Typo fixes, props [@ramiy](https://github.com/ramiy) *
Updated Open Site Explorer Link, props
[bhubbard](https://github.com/bhubbard) * Updated all links to use
// instead of https:// and http://, props
[bhubbard](https://github.com/bhubbard) * When importing from
AIOSEO, on finding GA settings, advertise Yoast GA plugin. * Makes
sure stopwords are only removed from slug on publication. * Updated
translations.* Bugfixes:* Fixes a bug where the wrong image was
being displayed in twitter cards.* Fixes a bug where facebook would
display the wrong image.* Fixes a bug where last modified in
sitemap was broken.* Fixes a bug wher SEO-score heading made the
table row jump on hover because there wasn't enough place left for
the down arrow.* Removed a couple of languages that were not up to
date.= 1.6.3 =* Bugfixes:* Revert earlier logic change that broke
taxonomy sitemaps.= 1.6.2 =* Bugfixes:* Fixed security issue with
XSS in bulk editor, props @ryanhellyer.* Fix bug where URL would
show wrongly in snippet preview for static homepage.* Fix bug where
filtering for posts without a focus keyword in the posts overview
wouldn't work.* Fix a bug where code wouldn't be escaped in the
bulk editor.* Enhancements:* When meta description is present,
`og:description` is filled with that on category pages.* Texturize
some pointers, props @nacin.* Fix typo in tour, props
@markjaquith.* Code optimization in in replace vars functionality,
props @dannyvankooten.= 1.6.1 =* Bugfixes:* Remove tags from title
and description for snippet preview.* Fix several notices.* Improve
escaping of values in the bulk editor before saving.*
Enhancements:* New admin icon using SVG, which uses proper color.*
Introduced a filter for the XML Sitemap base URL,
`wpseo_sitemaps_base_url`* Introduced a filter for the JSON+LD
output: `wpseo_json_ld_search_output`* For developers: the [GitHub
version](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo) now contains a
full Grunt implementation for many actions.= 1.6 =This update
removes more code than it adds, because Google stopped support for
rel=author. It adds the new json+ld code for search in sitelinks
though, so could have some cool results!* Bugfixes:* Removed
leftover code for the deleted HTML sitemap functionality.* Fix [a
bug](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/pull/1520) where the
wrong `$post` info would be used for the metabox, props
[mgmartel](https://github.com/mgmartel).* Fix the way we [replace
whitespace](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/pull/1542) to be
more compatible with different encoding, props
[Jrf](http://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf).* Enhancements:* Implement
new [sitelinks search box json+ld
code](https://developers.google.com/webmasters/richsnippets/sitelinkssearch).
Enabled by default, to disable use the new
`disable_wpseo_json_ld_search` filter. To change the URL being put
out use the `wpseo_json_ld_search_url` filter.* Improved the
onboarding tour to be more in line with the current status of the
plugin.* Other:* Removed all code to do with `rel=author` as Google
has stopped that "experiment", see [this blog
post](https://yoast.com/ten-blue-links/) for more info.* i18n*
Updated da_DK, fa_IR, fr_FR, hr, hu_HU, nl_NL, pt_BR and tr_RK=
1.5.6 =* Bugfixes:* Fixed a dot without explanation on the page
analysis tab.* Fix save all feature bug in Bulk Editor as reported
(and fixed) by [vdwijngaert](https://github.com/vdwijngaert)
[here](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/1485).* Fix
bug where meta description based on a template wouldn't show up on
author archive pages.* Fix bug where shortlink HTTP header wouldn't
be removed when checking the remove shortlink function as [reported
here](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/1397).* Fix a
bug where force title setting would be reset on upgrade / update.*
Fix warning being thrown in breadcrumbs code.* Enhancements:*
Removing sitemap transients when updating the plugin, to make sure
XML sitemaps always use latest code.* Styling of metaboxes is more
in line with WordPress core.* Add new `%%user_description%%`
replacement tag.* Add option to remove users with zero posts from
the XML sitemap.* Move SEO data on term edit pages to lower on the
page, to not interfere with themes.* Code: use WP time constants as
introduced in WP 3.5.* Other:* Removing html-sitemap shortcode,
it'll reappear in WordPress SEO Premium when it actually works.=
1.5.5.3 =Release Date: August 14th, 2014* Bugfixes:* Prevent dying
on edit post page for new posts / pages without focus keyword.* Fix
replacement of `%%excerpt%%` in snippet preview.= 1.5.5.2 =Release
Date: August 14th, 2014* Bugfixes:* Fix wrong SEO Analysis value
icon, regression from 1.5.5.1* Enhancements: * Add role specific
removal from XML Author sitemap * Add option to exclude user from
XML Author sitemap on user profile page= 1.5.5.1 =Release Date:
August 14th, 2014* Bugfixes:* Fixed a potential error with
`$canonical` not being a string after being filtered.* Fixed more
bugs with first paragraph keyword detection.* Fixed bug in saving
new opengraph title and images variables in the social settings.*
Fixed bug where SEO score incorrectly reported as 'Bad' when no
focus keyword set, props [smerriman](https://github.com/smerriman)
for finding, props [Jrf](http://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf) for the
fix.* Override `woo_title()` output harder than before to remove
need for force rewrite with WooThemes themes.* Enhancements:*
Replace `%%parent_title%%` variable client side through JS.* i18n*
updated ar, cs_CZ, fr_FR, hr, pl_PL, pt_BR and ru_RU* new .pot file
based off of the 1.5.5 version= 1.5.5 =Release Date: August 12th,
2014* Bugfixes:* WP Shortlinks weren't always removed when user did
choose to remove them as reported in [issue
#1397](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/1397), props
[Firebird75](https://github.com/Firebird75).* Fixed the way we
prevent Jetpack from outputting OpenGraph tags. Props
[jeherve](https://github.com/jeherve).* Symlinking the plugin
should now work. Props [crewstyle](https://github.com/crewstyle)
and [dannyvankooten](https://github.com/dannyvankooten).* Fix
warnings on new site creation multisite as reported in [issue
#1368](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/1368), props
[jrfnl](https://github.com/jrfnl) and
[jennybeaumont](https://github.com/jennybeaumont).* Fixed redirect
loop which occurred on multi-word search or when search query
contained special characters and the 'redirect ugly URL's' option
was on, as reported by
[inventurblogger](https://github.com/inventurblogger) in [issue
#1340](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/1340).* Fixed
double separators in snippet preview as reported by
[GermanKiwi](https://github.com/GermanKiwi) in [issue
#1321](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/1321), props
[Jrf](http://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf).* Fixed slashes in title
in snippet preview as reported by
[fittedwebdesign](https://github.com/fittedwebdesign) in [issue
#1333](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/1333), props
[Jrf](http://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf).* Fixed re-introduced js
compatibility issue with Soliloquy slider as reported by
[ajsonnick](https://github.com/ajsonnick) in [issue
#1343](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/1343), props
[Jrf](http://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf).* Fixed a bug where we
could do a query in XML Sitemaps even when there were no posts to
query for.* If the sitemap is empty, add the homepage URL to make
sure it doesn't throw errors in GWT.* Change how we set 404's for
non existing sitemap files, as reported in
[#1383](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/1383) props
[Dinglebat](https://github.com/Dinglebat).* Fix issues with
conflicting expectations being plugins/theme of the user meta
twitter field - url vs twitter id, props
[Jrf](http://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf).* Fix how the first
paragraph test for the keyword is done after a solid bug report by
[squelchdesign](squelchdesign).* Fix how we're handling protocol
relative image URLs in the XML sitemap.* Fix page analysis slug
test for keywords with special characters.* Properly set "No score"
result for posts that have no focus keyword.* Enhancements:*
Drastically improved performance of snippet preview rendering.*
Added Facebook / OpenGraph title input and Google+ title input and
image upload field to Social tab.* Added Facebook / OpenGraph title
input for the homepage on SEO -> Social settings page.* Changed
Facebook / OpenGraph default image and homepage image input fields
to use the media uploader.* Added a new title separator feature on
the Titles admin page.* Merged the bulk editor pages for titles and
descriptions into one menu item "bulk editor".* Added
`noimageindex` option to advanced meta robots options.* Bulk editor
rights are no longer added for contributors, only for editors and
up.* If an archives meta description template has `%%page`
variables, show it on page 2 and onwards of archives too.* Add a
confirm dialog when resetting setting to default.* Add sorting by
publication date in bulk editor as [requested by krogsgard
here](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/1269).* Other:*
Remove references to deprecated Video Manual plugin.= 1.5.4.2
=Release Date: July 16th, 2014* Bugfixes:* Fixed several notices
for undefined variables.* Properly trim meta description to its
desired size again, regression caused in 1.5.4.* Fix empty last
modified date for term sitemaps in sitemap index.* Fix bug where
`wpseo_sitemap_exclude_empty_terms` filter wouldn't work for index
sitemap.* Enhancements:* Improve nonce checking in bulk title &
description editor.* Prevent direct access to XSL file.* Improve
code styling to match WordPress code standard even more strictly,
props [Jrf](http://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf).* Add button to copy
home meta description to home OpenGraph description.= 1.5.4.1
=Release Date: July 15th, 2014* Bugfixes:* Properly minified the
metabox JS file, fixing snippet preview, props
[Jrf](http://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf).* Format unix timestamp to
string in sitemap, fixes possible fatal error in XML sitemap.=
1.5.4 =Release Date: July 15th, 2014* Bugfixes* Refactored the
variable replacement function for better and faster results and
more stability. This should fix most if not all problems users
where having with variables not being replaced in the title, meta
description, snippet preview etc - props
[Jrf](http://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf).* Fixed:
`wpseo_replacements` filter was being run before all replacements
were known.* Fixed: `%%pt_single%%` and `%%pt_plural%%` didn't work
in preview mode.* Fixed: `%%page_total%%` would sometimes be one
short.* Fixed: `%%term404%%` would sometimes be empty while the
pagename causing the 404 was known.* Fixed: empty taxonomy sitemap
could still be shown, while it shouldn't, as reported by
[allasai](https://github.com/allasai) in [issue
#1004](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/1004) - props
[Jrf](http://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf).* Fixed: if first result
of a search is a post, the blog page was incorrectly added to the
breadcrumb, as reported in [issue
#1248](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/1248) by
[Nikoya](https://github.com/Nikoya) - props
[Jrf](http://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf).* Fixed: ensure that all
our options exist always, fixes rare case in which this wouldn't be
so. As reported by [bonny](https://github.com/bonny) in [issue
#1245](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/1245) - props
[Jrf](http://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf).* Fixed: Media title and
meta settings could not be set when 'attachment URLs redirect to
parent post' was selected which let to issues for attachments
without a parent, as reported by
[Firebird75](https://github.com/Firebird75) in [issue
#1243](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/1243) - props
[Jrf](http://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf).* Improved and more
consistent check for whether to show the admin 'Edit files' screen,
[issue #1197](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/1197) -
props [hostliketoast](https://github.com/hostliketoast) and
[Jrf](http://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf).* Restore robots meta box
per taxonomy to its former glory, it now shows even when blog is
not set to public, as reported by
[Lumieredelune](https://github.com/Lumieredelune) in [issue
#1158](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/1158) - props
[Jrf](http://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf).* Fixed: Multisite issues,
as reported by [GaryJones](https://github.com/GaryJones) and
[chrisfromthelc](https://github.com/chrisfromthelc) in [issue
#935](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/935) - props
[Jrf](http://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf).- saving of settings on
the multisite settings page was not working.- restoring site to
default settings from multisite settings page was not working.-
initializing new blogs with settings from a chosen default blog was
not working (might still not be completely stable for WP multisite
with WPSEO in must-use plugins directory, stable in all other
cases).- wrong option debug information shown on multisite settings
page* Fixed: an issue with sitemap transient caching for plugins
not using paginated sitemaps (like news seo).* Check if
get_queried_object_id is not 0 before enqueueing wp_enqueue_media.*
Set rssafter to empty string on test_embed_rss() test.* Fixed: Bing
URL - props [GodThor](https://github.com/GodThor).* Prevent from
loading if WP is installing - props
[Jrf](http://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf).* Fixed: Incorrect
timezone in the root sitemap.* Fixed: Multiselect fields are now
properly saved in wpseo meta boxes.* Force canonical links to be
absolute, relative is NOT an option.* Fixed: Breadcrumb on search
pages.* Added CDATA in sitemap image captions and titles.* Various
sitemap fixes and improvements - props [Rarst]
(https://github.com/Rarst).* Enhancements* Heavily reduce query
load for XML sitemaps by caching XML sitemaps in transients.* New
`wpseo_register_extra_replacements` action hook which lets
plugin/theme builders add new `%%...%%` replacement variables -
including relevant help texts -. See [function
documentation](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/blob/master/inc/wpseo-functions.php)
for an example of how to use this new functionality.* If the final
string - after replacement - would contain two separators with
nothing between them, this extra separator will be removed.* All
remaining not replaced replacement vars are now stripped from the
strings (without breaking the snippet preview).* New filter
`wpseo_replacements_filter_sep` which can be used to change the
seperator character passed by the theme.* When using the 'Reset
default settings' button on a blog in a network while another blog
has been chosen to be used as a basis for the settings for all new
blogs, the reset will respect that setting and reset the blog to
the settings from the chosen blog.* For small networks ( < 100
sites ), the network page user interface has been improved, by
offering drop-down lists of the blogs for blog selection fields.
For larger networks, the interface remains the same.* Added an
action to allow adding content to the Post Type tab on the meta
admin page.* Removing the extra blog name added to the title by
woo_title().* More optimization improvements to snippet preview.*
Add filter to allow other plugins to interact with our metaboxes
outside of the standard pages - props
[Jrf](http://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf).* Replace variables
through an AJAX call, which makes them work in the post editor too
and allows for more variables to be replaced in the title.* Added
priority filters for XML sitemaps.* Other enhancements* Security
improvement: As the .htaccess / robots.txt files are site-wide
files, on a multi-site WP installation they will no longer be
available for editing to individual site owners. For super-admins,
the 'SEO -> Edit Files' admin page will now be accessible
through the Network Admin.* We've added server specific info to our
tracking class. Most notably, we're tracking whether a number of
PHP extensions are enabled for our users now.= 1.5.3.3 =Release
Date: June 2nd, 2014* Enhancements* We've added some options and
some host specific info to our tracking class. Most notably, we're
tracking the PHP version for our users now, so we can see whether
we, at some point, might drop PHP 5.2 support before WordPress
does.* Auto-deactivate plugin in the rare case that the SPL
(Standard PHP Library) extension is not available.* Switch from
inline `xmlns` to inline use of the `prefix` attribute for
breadcrumbs as that makes validation work. Fixes [Issue
1186]((https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/1186).*
Bugfixes* Check whether snippet preview is shown on page before
hiding / showing errors, deducted from
[#1178](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/1178)* Fixed
incorrect sitemap last modified date as reported in [issue
1136](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/1136) - props
[rscs](https://github.com/rscs).* Specify post ID when using
`wp_enqueue_media()` to set up correctly for the post being edited.
[Pull #1165](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/pull/1165),
props [benhuson](https://github.com/benhuson).* Fixed unreachable
filter `wpseo_sitemap_[post_type]_content` as reported in [pull
#1163](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/pull/1163), also
fixes unreachable filter `wpseo_sitemap_author_content`. Props
[jakub-klapka](https://github.com/jakub-klapka).* Fixed PHP notice
as reported by [maxiwheat](https://github.com/maxiwheat) in [issue
#1160](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/1160).* Backed
out pagination overflow redirect as it's causing too many issues.*
i18n * Make sure extensions menu is fully i18n compatible.= 1.5.3.2
=Release Date: May 16th, 2014* Bugfixes* Backing out earlier
change, as this breaks the snippet preview.* Enhancement*
Reintroduced the 'Strip the category base (usually /category/) from
the category URL.' option.= 1.5.3.1 =Release Date: May 15th, 2014*
Bugfixes* Fix regression issue - non-replacement of %%name%%
variable as reported in [issue
#1104](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/1104) by
[firstinflight](https://github.com/firstinflight) - props
[Jrf](http://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf).* Fixed an issue where
%%category%% was not replaced on certain pages.* Added support for
%%tag%% even if the ID is empty.* All remaining not replaced title
vars are now stripped from the title.* Added a fallback to
post_date in the sitemap 'mod' property for when a post is lacking
the post_date_gmt value.= 1.5.3 =* Bugfixes* Don't ping search
engines if the blog is set to 'discourage search engines from
indexing this site' - props
[Jrf](http://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf).* Fix error in
sitemap_index.xml if post type does not contain any posts as
reported by
[sebastiaandegeus](https://github.com/sebastiaandegeus).* Use the
correct HTTP protocol for responses - props
[Fab1en](https://github.com/Fab1en).* Better OG locale handling -
props [maiis](https://github.com/maiis).* Fixed: 'breadcrumb_last'
class was missing on homepage, as reported by
[uprise10](https://github.com/uprise10) in [issue
#1045](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/1045) - props
[Jrf](http://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf).* Fix empty post id
notice, [issue
#1080](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/1080) as
reported by [sosada](https://github.com/sosada).* Localize dates
where appropriate as suggested by
[allankronmark](https://github.com/allankronmark) in [issue
#1073](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/1073).* Fix
for escaping str literals in JS regexes - props
[MarventusWP](https://github.com/MarventusWP).* Enhancement*
Redirect paginated archive pages with a pagination number that
doesn't exist to the first page of that archive.* Update score
circle icon to look great on HiDPI displays, as well as fitting
better with WordPress 3.8+ design - props
[paulwilde](https://github.com/paulwilde).* Only show article
publication time for posts, not for pages or other post types,
introduce a new filter to _do_ allow them when needed.* Load of
improvements to banners and licenses page.* Update snippet preview
to use latest Google design changes - props
[paulwilde](https://github.com/paulwilde).= 1.5.2.8 =* Bugfixes*
Added some missing textdomains.* Fixed a license manager request
bug.* Work-around for fatal error caused by other plugins doing
front-end post updates without loading all the required WP files,
such as the WP Google Forms plugin - props
[Jrf](http://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf).* Fixed incorrect link to
Issues in CONTRIBUTING.md - props
[GaryJones](https://github.com/GaryJones).* Fixed a fatal error
caused by not checking if Google Suggest request reponse is valid -
props [jeremyfelt](https://github.com/jeremyfelt).* Fixed a screen
option bug in bulk edit options - props
[designerken](https://github.com/designerken).* Fixed warnings on
edit files section - props
[Jrf](http://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf).* Fixed a warning when
post_type is an array - props [unr](https://github.com/unr).* i18n*
Updated el_GR, hu_HU, nl_NL and pl_PL= 1.5.2.7 =* Bugfixes* Fixed a
WordPress Network license bug.* i18n* Updated el_GR, fa_IR, hu,
it_IT, pt_PT, ru_RU, tr_TK and zh_CN* Added Malay= 1.5.2.6 =*
Bugfixes* Fixed Open Graph Facebook Debubber Tags/Categories Issue,
tags/categories are now grouped into one metatag - props
[lgrandicelli](https://github.com/lgrandicelli).* Fixed: %%cf_%%
and %%parent_title%% not being resolved in the preview snippet as
reported by [Glark](https://github.com/Glark) in [issue
#916](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/916) - props
[Jrf](http://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf).* Options are no longer
deleted on plugin uninstall.* Fixed a bug that caused the 'Plugins
activated' message to be removed by the robots error message -
props [andyexeter](https://github.com/andyexeter).* Fix white
screen/blog down issues caused by some webhosts actively disabling
the PHP ctype extension - props
[Jrf](http://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf).* Fixes Metabox Social tab
media uploader not working on custom post types which don't use
media as reported by [Drethic](https://github.com/Drethic) in
[issue #911](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/911) -
props [Jrf](http://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf).* Fixed vars not
being replaced in OG description tag.* Enhancement* Fix PHP
warnings when post_type is an array.= 1.5.2.5 =* Bugfixes* Fixed:
Premium support link was being added to all plugins, not just ours
;-)* Only show the breadcrumbs-blog-remove option if user uses
page_for_posts as it's not applicable otherwise and can cause
confusion.* Clean up url query vars after use in our settings page
to avoid actions being executed twice - props
[Jrf](http://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf).= 1.5.2.4 =* Bugfixes*
Changed 'wpseo_frontend_head_init' hook to 'template_redirect' to
prevent incorrect canonical redirect.* Improved upgrade routine for
breadcrumbs maintax/pt option as reported by
[benfreke](https://github.com/benfreke) in [issue
#849](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/849) - props
[Jrf](http://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf).* Fixed a bug where the
banners overlapped WordPress notices/errors.* Fixed: Slashes in
Taxonomy text inputs as reported by
[chuckreynolds](https://github.com/chuckreynolds) in [issue
#868](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/868) - props
[Jrf](http://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf).* Increased priority
(decreased priority int) on the template_redirect for the sitemap
redirect hook.* Fixed: `current_user_can` was being called too
early as reported by [satrya](https://github.com/satrya) in [issue
#881](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/881) - props
[Jrf](http://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf).* Enhancement* Enhanced
validation of webmaster verification keys to prevent invalidating
incorrect input which does contain a key as reported by
[TheZoker](https://github.com/TheZoker) in [issue
#864](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/864) - props
[Jrf](http://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf).= 1.5.2.3 =** Note: if you
already upgraded to v1.5+, you will need to retrieve your Facebook
Apps again and please also check your Google+ URL. We had some bugs
with both being escaped too aggressively. Sorry about that. ***
Bugfixes* Added missing settings menu pages to wp admin bar.*
Replaced old AdWords keyword tool link.* Fix wp admin bar keyword
density check link* Taxonomy sitemap will now also show if empty.*
Prevent infinite loop triggered by `sitemap_close()`, fixes
[#600](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/) as reported
and fixed by [pbogdan](https://github.com/pbogdan).* Fixed a link
count Page Analysis bug.* Fixed a keyword density problem in the
Page Analysis* Fixed OpenGraph/GooglePlus/Twitter tags not showing
in a select few themes, [issue
#750](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/750) as
reported by [Jovian](https://github.com/Jovian) and
[wwdboer](https://github.com/wwdboer) - props
[Jrf](http://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf).* Fixed Facebook Apps not
being saved/ "Failed to retrieve your apps from Facebook" as
reported by [kevinlisota](https://github.com/kevinlisota) in [issue
#812](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/812) - props
[Jrf](http://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf).* Fixed duplicate feedback
messages on WPSEO -> Social pages as reported by
[steverep](https://github.com/steverep) in [issue
#743](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/743) - props
[Jrf](http://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf).* Flush our force title
rewrite buffer earlier in `wp_footer` so it can be used by other
plugins in `wp_footer`. Props [Gabriel Prez
Salazar](http://www.guero.net/).* Start the force rewrite buffer
late (at 999) in `template_redirect` instead of `get_header`
because of several themes not using `get_header`, issue
[#817](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/817) as
reported by [Jrf](http://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf).* Fixed 'Page
%d of %d' / %%page%% variable not being replaced when on pages, as
reported by [SGr33n](https://github.com/SGr33n) in [issue
#801](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/801) - props
[Jrf](http://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf).* Restore robots meta box
per post to its former glory, it now shows even when blog is not
set to public.* Fixed individual page robots settings not being
respected when using a page as blog as reported by
[wintersolutions](https://github.com/wintersolutions) in [issue
#813](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/813) - props
[Jrf](http://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf).* Fixed: Too aggressive
html escaping of the breadcrumbs.* Fixed: Last breadcrumb wasn't
always determined correctly resulting in crumbs not being linked
when they should have been.* Fixed: Breadcrumbs were sometimes
missing separators and default texts since v1.5.0.* Fixed: 404 date
based breadcrumb and title creation could cause corruption of the
`$post` object.* Fixed: Filtering posts based on SEO score via the
dropdown at the top of a post/page overview page no longer worked.
Fixed. As reported by [gmuehl](https://github.com/gmuehl) in [issue
#838](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/838) - props
[Jrf](http://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf).* Enhancements* Added
filters for the change frequencies of different URLs added to the
sitemap. Props to [haroldkyle](https://github.com/haroldkyle) for
the idea.* Added filter `wpseo_sitemap_exclude_empty_terms` to
allow including empty terms in the XML sitemap.* Private posts now
default to noindex (even though they technically probably couldn't
be indexed anyway).* Show a warning message underneath a post's
robots meta settings when site is set to noindex sitewide in WP
core.* Updated licensing class to show a notice when requests to
yoast.com are blocked because of `WP_HTTP_BLOCK_EXTERNALS`.* Other*
Refactored the breadcrumb class - props
[Jrf](http://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf).= 1.5.2.2 =* Bugfixes* Fix
for issue with Soliloquy image slider was not applied to minified
js file.* Fixed some PHP 'undefined index' notices.* Fix banner
images overlapping text in help tabs.* Fixed meta description tag
not showing for taxonomy (category/tag/etc) pages as reported in
[issue #737](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/737) and
[#780](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/780) - props
[Jrf](http://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf).* Prevent a fatal error if
`wp_remote_get()` fails while testing whether the title needs to be
force rewritten as reported by
[homeispv](http://wordpress.org/support/profile/homeispv) - props
[Jrf](http://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf).* Enhancements* Added
composer support - props
[codekipple](https://github.com/codekipple) and
[Rarst](https://github.com/Rarst).= 1.5.2.1 =* Bugfixes* Fix white
screen/blog down issues caused by some (bloody stupid) webhosts
actively disabling the filter extension - props
[Jrf](http://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf).* Fix for some PHP
notices, [issue
#747](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/747) as
reported by [benfreke](https://github.com/benfreke) - props
[Jrf](http://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf).* Fixed: GooglePlus vanity
urls were saved without the `+` as reported by
[ronimarin](https://github.com/ronimarin) in [issue
#730](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/730) - props
[Jrf](http://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf).* Fix WP Admin menu items
no longer clickable when on WPSEO pages as reported in [issue
#733](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/733) and
[#738](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/738) - props
[Jrf](http://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf).* Fix strict warning for
W3TC, [issue
721](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/721).* Fix RSS
text strings on options page being double escaped, [issue
#731](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/731) as
reported by [namaserajesh](https://github.com/namaserajesh) - props
[Jrf](http://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf).* Avoid potential
confusion over Facebook OpenGraph front page usage, [issue
#570](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/570) - props
[Jrf](http://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf).* Potentially fix [issue
565](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/565) bbpress
warning message. Thanks [inetbiz](https://github.com/inetbiz) for
reporting and [tobylewis](https://github.com/tobylewis) for finding
the likely cause.* Filter 'wpseo_pre_analysis_post_content' output
is now only loaded in DOM object if not empty. - props
[mgmartel](https://github.com/mgmartel).* $post_content is now
unset after loading in DOM object. - props
[mgmartel](https://github.com/mgmartel).* Fix Alexa ID string
validation, as reported by [kyasajin](https://github.com/kyasajin)
and [Bubichka](https://github.com/Bubichka) in [issue
736](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/736) - props
[Jrf](http://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf).* Fix issue with Soliloquy
image query, as reported by [osalcedo](https://github.com/osalcedo)
and [mattisherwood](https://github.com/mattisherwood) in [issue
#733](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/733) - props
[Jrf](http://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf).* Enhancements* Twitter
metatag key is now filterable by 'wpseo_twitter_metatag_key'.*
Added a filter called "wpseo_replacements" in wpseo_replace_vars to
allow customization of the replacements before they are applied -
props [martinernst](https://github.com/martinernst).* Added useful
links for page analysis - props
[bhubbard](https://github.com/bhubbard).* i18n Updates* Updated
nl_NL, id_ID, it_IT, fr_FR and de_DE* Added ko* Updated .pot file.=
1.5.2 =* Bugfix:* If `mbstring` extension isn't loaded, fatal error
was thrown.= 1.5.0 =This release contains tons and tons of bugfixes
and security improvements. Credits for this release largely go to
Juliette Reinders Folmer aka
[Jrf](http://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf) /
[jrfnl](https://github.com/jrfnl).Also a heartfelt thanks go out to
the beta testers who tested all the changes. Special mentions for
testers [Woyto](https://github.com/Woyto),
[Bnpositive](https://github.com/Bnpositive),
[Surbma](https://github.com/Surbma),
[DavidCH1](https://github.com/DavidCH1),
[TheITJuggler](https://github.com/TheITJuggler),
[kletskater](https://github.com/kletskater) who caught a number of
bugs and provided us with actionable information to fix these.This
version also incorporates the [SEO
Extended](http://wordpress.org/plugins/seo-extended/) plugin
functionality into WP SEO with graceful thanks to
[Faison](http://profiles.wordpress.org/faison/) and [Scott
Offord](http://profiles.wordpress.org/scottofford/) for their great
work on this plugin.**This version contains a lot of changes under
the hood which will break backward compatibility, i.e. once you've
upgraded, downgrading will break things.** So make sure you make a
backup of your settings/database before upgrading.* Bugfixes* Major
overhaul of the way the plugin deals with options. This should fix
a truck-load of bugs and provides improved security.* Major
overhaul of the way the plugin deals with post meta values. This
should fix a truck-load of bugs and provides improved security.*
Major overhaul of the way the plugin deals with taxonomy meta
values. This should fix a truck-load of bugs and provides improved
security.* Fixed: Renamed a number of options as they ran the risk
of being overwritten by post type/taxonomy options which could get
the same name. This may fix some issues where options did not seem
to get saved correctly.* Fixed: if page specific keywords were set
for a static homepage, they would never be shown.* Fixed: if only
one FB admin was selected, the tag would not be added.* Fixed: bug
where taxonomies which were on an individual level set to noindex
and sitemap include 'auto-detect' would still be shown in the
sitemap* Fixed: bug in canonical urls where an essential part of
the logic was skipped for singular posts/pages* Fixed: category
rewrite rules could have errors for categories without parent
categories.* Fixed: bug in delete_sitemaps() - wrong retrieval of
needed options.* Fixed: HTML sitemaps would sometimes display
headers without a link list.* Fixed: Breadcrumbs could potentially
output an empty element as part of the chain, resulting in two
separators in a row.* Fixed: Breadcrumbs: even when removing the
prefix texts from the admin page, they would sometimes still be
included.* Improved fixed for possible caching issue when
`title_test` option remained set, issue
[#627](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/627).* Fixed
bug in `title_test_helper` where it would pass the wrong
information to `update_option()`, related to issue
[#627](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/627).* Fixed:
shortcodes should be removed from ogdesc.* Fixed: Admin ->
Dashboard -> Failed removal of the meta description from a theme
file would still change the relevant internal option as if it had
succeeded.* Fixed: Admin -> Dashboard -> bug where message
about files blocking the sitemap from working would not be removed
when it should.* Fixed: Admin -> Titles & Meta's -> Post
types would show attachments even when attachment redirection to
post was enabled.* Fixed: Admin -> Import -> Fixed partially
broken import functionality for WooThemes SEO framework* Fixed:
Admin -> Import -> Importing settings from file would not
always work due to file/directory permission issues.* Fixed: Admin
-> Export -> Some values were exported in a way that they
couldn't be imported properly again.* Fixed: Admin ->
Import/Export -> On export, the part of the admin page after
export would not be loaded.* Fixed: Admin -> Various ->
Removed some superfluous hidden fields which could cause issues.*
Fixed: Admin -> Social -> The same fb user can no longer be
added twice as Facebook admin.* Admin -> Multi-site -> Added
error message when user tries to restore to defaults a non-existent
blog (only applies to multi-site installations).* Bow out early
from displaying the post/taxonomy metabox if the post/taxonomy is
not public (no use adding meta data which will never be
displayed).* Prevent the SEO score filter from displaying on a post
type overview page if the metabox has been hidden for the post type
as suggested by [coreyworrell](https://github.com/coreyworrell) in
issue [#601](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/601).*
Improved: post meta -> the keyword density calculation for
non-latin, non-ideograph languages - i.e. cyrillic, hebrew etc -
has been improved. Related issues
[#703](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/703),
[#681](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/681),
[#349](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/349) and
[#264](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/264). The
keyword density calculation for ideograph based languages such as
Japanese and Chinese will not work yet, issue
[#145](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/145) remains
open.* Fixed: post meta -> SEO score indicator ->
wpseo_translate_score() would never return score, but always the
css value.* Fixed: post meta -> SEO score indicator ->
wpseo_translate_score() calls were passing unintended wrong
parameters* Fixed: post meta -> page analysis -> text
analysis did not respect the blog character encoding. This may or
may not solve a number of related bugs.* Fixed: post meta ->
often wrong meta value was shown for meta robots follow and meta
robots index in post meta box so it appeared as if the chosen value
was not saved correctly.* Fixed: post meta -> meta robots
advanced entry could have strange (invalid) values.* Fixed: post
meta -> since v1.4.22 importing from other plugins would import
data even when the post already had WP SEO values, effectively
overwritting (empty by choice) WPSEO fields.* Fixed: post meta
-> A few of the meta values could contain line breaks where
those aren't allowed.* Fixed: taxonomy meta -> breadcrumb title
entry field would show for taxonomy even when breadcrumbs were not
enabled* Fixed: taxonomy meta -> bug where W3TC cache for
taxonomy meta data wouldn't always be refreshed when it should and
sometimes would when it shouldn't* Fixed: some things should work
better now for must-use installations.* Added sanitation/improved
validation to $_GET and $_POST variables if/when they are used in a
manner which could cause security issues.* Fixed: wrong file was
loaded for the get_plugin_data() function.* Fixed: several
bug-sensitive code constructs. This will probably get rid of a
number of hard to figure out bugs.* Fixed: several html validation
issues.* Prevent error when theme does not support featured images,
issue [#639](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/639) as
reported by [kuzudecoletaje](https://github.com/kuzudecoletaje).*
Enhancements* The [SEO
Extended](http://wordpress.org/plugins/seo-extended/) plugin
functionality has now been integrated into WP SEO.* Added ability
to add Pininterest and Yandex site verification tags. You can enter
this info on the WPSEO Dashboard and it will auto-generate the
relevant meta tags for your webpage headers.* New
`[wpseo_breadcrumb]` shortcode.* Post meta -> Don't show robots
index/no-index choice in advanced meta box if there is a blog-wide
override in place, i.e. the Settings -> Reading -> Block
search engines checkbox is checked.* Post meta -> Added
'Site-wide default' option to meta robots advanced field in
advanced meta box.* Post meta -> Added an option to decide
whether to include/exclude `rel="author"` on a per post base as
suggested by [GaryJones](https://github.com/GaryJones). (Added to
the advanced meta box).* Taxonomy meta -> Don't show robots
index/no-index choice in taxonomy meta box if there is a blog-wide
override in place, i.e. the Settings -> Reading -> Block
search engines checkbox is checked.* Admin -> If WP_DEBUG is on
or if you have set the special constant WPSEO_DEBUG, a block with
the currently saved options will be shown on the settings pages.*
Admin -> Dashboard -> Added error message for when meta
description tag removal from theme file fails.* Admin -> Titles
& Meta -> Added option to add meta keywords to post type
archives.* Admin -> Social -> Facebook -> Added error
messages for if communication with Facebook failed.* Admin ->
Import -> WPSEO settings -> Better error messages for when
importing the settings fails and better clean up after itself.*
Adminbar -> Keyword research links now also search for the set
the keyword when editing a post in the back-end.* [Usability]
Proper field labels for user profile form fields.* The New Relic
daemon (not the W3TC New Relic PHP module) realtime user monitoring
will be turned off for xml/xsl files by default to prevent breaking
the sitemaps as suggested by
[szepeviktor](https://github.com/szepeviktor) in [issue
#603](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/603)* General
jQuery efficiency improvements.* Improved lazy loading of plugin
files using autoload.* Made the Google+ and Facebook post
descriptions translatable by WPML.* Better calculation precision
for SEO score* Improved 403 headers for illegal file requests as
suggested by [cfoellmann](https://github.com/cfoellmann)*
Synchronized TextStatistics class with changes from the original,
this should provide somewhat better results for non-latin
languages.* CSS and JS files are now minified* Rewrote query logic
for XML sitemaps* Changed default settings for rel="author"* Added
option to switch to summary card with image for Twitter cards* Made
several changes to Open Graph logic* Implemented new Yoast License
framework* Added possibility to create a robots.txt file directly
on the server* Other:* Removed some backward compatibility with WP
< 3.5 as minimum requirement for WP SEO is now 3.5* Removed some
old (commented out) code* Deprecated category rewrite
functionality= 1.4.25 =* Bugfixes* Do not include external URLs in
XML sitemap (Issue #528) - props
[tivnet](https://github.com/tivnet).* Get home_url out of the
sitemap loop - props [tivnet](https://github.com/tivnet).* Add
support for html entities - props
[julienmeyer](https://github.com/julienmeyer).* Fixed wrong use of
`__FILE__`.* Enhancement* WPSEO_FILE now has a 'defined' check.*
Removed unneeded `dirname` calls.* i18n* Updated cs_CZ, de_DE,
fr_FR & tr_TK= 1.4.24 =* Bugfixes* Removed screen_icon()
calls.* Fixed a bug in robots meta tag on singular items.* Fix
double robots header, WP native settings will be respected - props
[Jrf](http://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf).* When post published data
is newer than last modified date, use that in XML sitemap, props
[mindingdata](https://github.com/mindingdata).* Check if tab hash
is correct after being redirected from Facebook API, props
[dannyvankooten](https://github.com/dannyvankooten).* Fix 404 in
category rewrites when `pagination_base` was changed, props
[raugfer](https://github.com/raugfer).* Make the metabox tabs
jQuery only work for WPSEO tabs, props
[imageinabox](https://github.com/imageinabox).* Sitemap shortcode
sql had hard-coded table name which could easily cause the
shortcode display to fail. Fixed. - props
[Jrf](http://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf).* Fix issue with user
capability authorisation check as reported by
[scienceandpoetry](https://github.com/scienceandpoetry) in issue
[#492](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/492) - props
[Jrf](http://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf).* Fixed canonical rel
links was causing an error when given an invalid taxonomy, issue
[#306](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/306) - props
[Jrf](http://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf).* Removed add_meta_box()
function duplication - props
[Jrf](http://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf).* Fix issue "Flesch
Reading Ease should only be a positive number". This also fixes the
message being unclear. Thanks
[eugenmihailescu](https://github.com/eugenmihailescu) for reporting
- props [Jrf](http://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf).* Fixed issue with
page analysis not taking feature image into account - props
[darrarski](https://github.com/darrarski).* Enhancement* Shortcode
now also available to ajax requests - props
[Jrf](http://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf).* Added gitignores to
prevent incorrect commits (Cross platform collab) - props
[cfoellmann](https://github.com/cfoellmann).* Adding filters to
individual sitemap url entries - props
[mboynes](https://github.com/mboynes).= 1.4.23 =* Bugfixes* Fix for
serious sitemap issue which caused all pages of a split sitemap to
be the same (show the first 1000 urls) - props
[Jrf](http://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf).* Fixed a bug in the WPSEO
tour in WP Network installs* clean_permalink 301 redirect issue
when using https - props
[pirategaspard](https://github.com/pirategaspard)* i18n* Updated
cs_CZ, fa_IR, fr_FR, hu, hu_HU, pl_PL, ru_RU & zh_CN= 1.4.22 =*
Bugfixes* Reverted change to XML sitemaps stylesheet URL as that
was giving issues on multisite installs.* Reverted change to XML
sitemap loading as we were no longer exposing some variables that
other plugins relied upon.* Fix bug with author sitemap showing for
everyone.* Enhancement* No longer save empty meta post variables,
issue [#463](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/463).
Clean up of DB is coming in future release, if you want to clean
your DB now, see that issue for SQL queries.= 1.4.21 =* Bugfixes*
Fix notice for `ICL_LANGUAGE_CODE` not being defined.* Fix missing
function in install by adding a require.= 1.4.20 =* Bugfixes* Fixed
bug where posts set to _always_ index would not end up in XML
sitemap.* Fix _Invalid argument supplied for foreach()_ notice for
WPML as reported by [pbearne](https://github.com/pbearne) - props
[Jrf](http://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf).* Yoast tracking cron job
will now unschedule on disallowing of tracking, on deactivation and
on uninstall, inspired by [Bluebird
Blvd.](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/found-active-tracking-device-after-deleting-wp-seo-months-ago)
- props [Jrf](http://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf).* Fix issue
[#453](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/435): setting
shop as homepage caused a notice and wrong title with WooCommerce.*
Fixed a bug
[#449](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/449) where a
canonical, when manually set for a category, tag or term, could get
pagination added to it on paginated pages, when it shouldn't.*
Fixed a bug where manually set canonicals would end up in
`rel="next"` and `rel="prev"` tags.* Fixed a bug
[#450](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/450) where
noindexed pages would appear in the HTML sitemap.* Fixed a bug
where non-public taxonomies would appear in the HTML sitemap.*
Fixed quotes not working in meta title and description for terms,
issue [#405](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/405).*
Make sure author sitemap works when they should.* Fix some notices
in author sitemap, issue
[#402](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/402).* Fix
breadcrumbs being broken on empty post type archives, issue
[#443](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/443).* Fixed a
possible caching issue when `title_test` option remained set, issue
[#419](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/419).* Make
sure og:description is shown on homepage when it's left empty in
settings, fixes
[#441](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/441).* Make
sure there are no WPML leftovers in our title, issue
[#383](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/383).* Fix
padding on fix it buttons with 3.8 design, issue
[#400](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/400).* Hide
SEO columns in responsive admin ( in 3.8 admin design ), issue
[#445](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/445).* Misc*
Switch back to MailChimp for newsletter subscribe.* Default to
nofollowing links in RSS feed footers.* i18n * Updated es_ES, pt_BR
& ru_RU * Added sk_SK= 1.4.19 =* Enhancements* Added the option
to upload a separate image for Facebook in the Social tab.* Added
published time, last modified time, tags and categories to
OpenGraph output, to work with Pinterests new article pin.* Added a
filter for post length requirements in the Analysis tab.* If there
is a term description, use it in the OpenGraph description for a
term archive page.* Applied a number of settings form best
practices - props [Jrf](http://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf).* File
inclusion best practices applied - props
[Jrf](http://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf).* Breadcrumbs for Custom
Post Types now take the CPT->label instead of
CPT->labels->menu_name as text parameter, as suggested by
[katart17](http://wordpress.org/support/profile/katart17) and
[Robbert V](http://wordpress.org/support/profile/robbert-v) - props
[Jrf](http://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf).* Bugfixes* Move all
rewrite flushing to shutdown, so it doesn't break other plugins who
add their rewrites late.* Fixed the wrong naming of the L10n JS
object, props [Otto](http://profiles.wordpress.org/otto42).*
Improved form support for UTF-8 - props
[Jrf](http://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf).* Corrected faulty
multisite option registration - props
[Jrf](http://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf).* Fixed appropriate use of
plugins_url() to avoid breaking hooked in filters - props
[Jrf](http://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf).* (Temporary) fix for
metabox styling for users using the MP6 plugin - props
[Jrf](http://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf).* Minor fix in
localization loading - props
[Jrf](http://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf).* Fixed [Missing argument
3 for
wpseo_upgrader_process_complete](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/327)
notice for WP 3.7+, thanks
[vickyindo](https://github.com/vickyindo),
[Wendyhihi](https://github.com/Wendihihi) and
[Theressa1](https://github.com/Theressa1) for reporting - props
[Jrf](http://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf).* i18n * Updated ru_RU,
tr_TK and Hr= 1.4.18 =* Unhooking 'shutdown' (part of the NGG fix
in 1.4.16) caused caching plugins to break, fixed while preserving
NGG fix.* These changes were pushed in later but were deemed not
important enough to force an update:* Updated newsletter
subscription form to reflect new newsletter system.* Documentation*
Updated readme.txt to reflect support changes.* Moved old sections
of changelog to external file.* i18n* Updated pt_PT= Earlier
versions =For the changelog of earlier versions, please refer to
the separate changelog.txt file.== Upgrade Notice === 1.5.0 =*
Major overhaul of the way the plugin deals with option. Upgrade
highly recommended. Please do verify your settings after the
upgrade.