v15.7 - Release Date: January 26th, 2021
Meet Yoast SEO 15.7! For this release, we thought we’d remind you of the powerful content analysis in Yoast SEO – it helps you write awesome content that ranks! Read more about what’s new in Yoast SEO 15.7 in our release post!
Enhancements:
Bugfixes:
- Expands the readability analysis for Turkish:
- Adds the transition words assessment.
- Adds the consecutive sentences beginnings assessment.
- Adds the sentence length assessment.
- Adds the passive voice assessment.
- Improves keyphrase recognition in Turkish by filtering out function words such as birinci, i̇kinci, üçüncü.
- Adds the advanced snippet variables to the Social previews of our Elementor integration.
Other:
- Fixes a bug where empty author archive pages would be indexed when the author had published a custom post-type that was not shown on his/her author archive page. Props to stodorovic.
- Changes the wording on the my.yoast.com connect error shown in Health Check when a Yoast premium plugin is enabled, to lead with what the user’s problem is.
- Removes the release notification as the added benefit of having it is minimal
Bugfixes:
* Fixes a bug where network-wide settings about the Enhanced Slack Sharing feature would not be saved.
* Fixes a bug where translations on the Search Appearance pages would be missing.
* Fixes a bug where subsites in a multisite network could have an enabled feature toggle for the `Usage tracking` feature, even though subsites never send tracking data.
* Fixes a bug where the Yoast SEO dashboard widget would still fetch data even when the dashboard itself was hidden.
* Fixes a bug where the TinyMCE editor on term edit pages would not load correctly when using WordPress 5.6.