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Yoast SEO 9.2

Enhancements

  • Adds support for the 'eye' markers in Gutenberg using the experimental annotations API in Gutenberg. They will work for the paragraph, quote, heading and list blocks.
  • Adds the latest og:locale options provided by Facebook. Props to valtlfelipe
  • Adds support for oEmbed utilization of Yoast custom fields (post meta) values. Specifically the image and the title. Props to ben-caplan
  • Defines attachment as non-accessible when attachment urls are redirected to the attachment file itself. Props to stodorovic
  • Improves the accessibility of the "Bulk editor" and "Search console" tables.
  • Hides SEO title and metadescription fields on the author edit page when the author archives are disabled.
  • Replaces Settings ZIP download (export) and upload (import) functionality with Settings fields.

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where assessments would fail if a "<" character is present in the content.
  • Fixes a bug where the excerpt replacement variable will output a piece of the post content when no excerpt is given.
  • Fixes a bug where the wrong title is rendered for the WooCommerce product archive.
  • Fixes a bug where the Yoast metabox is visible even when the attachment urls are redirected to the attachment file itself.
  • Fixes a bug where the Dashboard Widget was not displayed in the correct language.
  • Fixes a bug in combination with Gutenberg where paragraphs were sometimes not correctly detected because paragraph tags were not automatically added in WordPress-like fashion.
  • Fixes a bug in combination with Gutenberg where multiple marker buttons could be active at the same time.
  • Fixes a bug in combination with Gutenberg where escaped HTML is shown in the OpenGraph description.

Compatibility

  • Adds the __block_editor_compatible_meta_box flag to our metabox registrations to indicate they are compatible with WordPress 5.0.
  • Revise the enqueue order of the JavaScript assets to ensure compatibility with the classic editor plugin and WordPress 5.0.

Security

  • Fixes a possible command execution by users with SEO Manager roles. Props to Dimopoulos Elias

Other

  • Disables the non-functioning markers for the subheading distribution assessment.
  • Refactor SEO assessment filenames and exports. Props to Kingdutch
  • Deprecates the Yoast_Modal class.