Yoast SEO

WordPress SEO by Yoast allows developers to edit and customize SEO options like keywords, titles, descriptions, sitemap, feed, etc., all with the help of a visual interface.

The interface is quite simple and also provides lots of documentation and tips on how to use and setup various SEO settings and quirks.

With this plugin installed, webmasters can rest assured they got the SEO aspect of their WP site covered and they won't have to spent countless hours reading about SEO best practices.

You can rest assure that choosing WordPress SEO by Yoast is the best fit for your site, since the plugin can been a common occurrence in WordPress' most used plugins Top 10 list for quite a while now.

Installation:

Unpack and upload it to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.

Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.

What is new in this release:

• Bugfixes:
• Fixes a bug where the snippet preview was broken.

What is new in version 3.0.3:

• Bugfixes:
• Fixes a bug where the snippet preview was broken.

What is new in version 2.3.5:

• Bugfixes:
• Fixes a bug where non-admin users were no longer able to update their profile with Yoast SEO active.
• Fixes a bug where all labels in the Yoast SEO admin were bold.

What is new in version 2.1.1:

• Fixes a bug where the JSON+LD output was outputted twice when company or person info wasn't set.
• Fixes a compatibility issue with Video SEO and WooCommerce SEO add-ons causing WSOD on the frontend for video's and WooCommerce products.
• Fixes a compatibility issue with BBPress caused by hooking current_user_can too early.

What is new in version 2.0:

• Simplified and revised Admin menus.
• Makes sure the user is redirected to the last active settings tab after saving.
• Made it easy to output structured data for social profiles, person and company profiles, for use in Google Knowledge Graph.
• Contains an incredible amount of code style improvements, making the code cleaner and more readable.
• Makes sure every function in the plugin is documented using PHPDoc by having it checked automatically by the Codesniffer.
• Refactored a lot of legacy code in the admin, mainly with regard to the way output is rendered.

What is new in version 1.7.4:

• Security fix:
• Fixed possible CSRF and blind SQL injection vulnerabilities in bulk editor.

What is new in version 1.7.3.3:

• Repair missing dependencies.

What is new in version 1.7.3:

• Fixes a bug where the translations where corrupted due to an issue with out glotpress grunt task.

What is new in version 1.7:

• 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).

What is new in version 1.6.3:

• Bugfixes:
• Revert earlier logic change that broke taxonomy sitemaps.

What is new in version 1.6.2:

• Enhancements:
• When meta description is present, og:description is filled with that on category pages.
• Texturize some pointers.
• Code optimization in in replace vars functionality.
• Bugs fixed:
• Security issue with XSS in bulk editor.
• Bug where URL would show wrongly in snippet preview for static homepage.
• Bug where filtering for posts without a focus keyword in the posts overview wouldn't work.
• A bug where code wouldn't be escaped in the bulk editor.
• Typo in tour.

What is new in version 1.6:

• Implemented new sitelinks search box json+ld code. 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.
• Removed all code to do with rel=author as Google has stopped that "experiment".
• Removed leftover code for the deleted HTML sitemap functionality.

What is new in version 1.5.6:

• 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.

What is new in version 1.5.4.2:

• 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.
• Add button to copy home meta description to home OpenGraph description.
• Bug fixes:
• 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.

What is new in version 1.5.3.2:

• Backing out earlier change, as this breaks the snippet preview.

What is new in version 1.5.3:

• Don't ping search engines if the blog is set to 'discourage search engines from indexing this site'.
• Fix error in sitemap_index.xml if post type does not contain any posts.
• Use the correct HTTP protocol for responses.
• Better OG locale handling.
• Fixed: 'breadcrumb_last' class was missing on homepage.

What is new in version 1.5.2.7:

• Fixed a WordPress Network license bug.
• Updated el_GR, fa_IR, hu, it_IT, pt_PT, ru_RU, tr_TK and zh_CN.

What is new in version 1.5.2.6:

• Fixed PHP warnings when post_type is an array.

What is new in version 1.5.2.1:

• 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.
• Added useful links for page analysis.

What is new in version 1.5.1:

• Bugfix:
• If mbstring extension isn't loaded, fatal error was thrown.

What is new in version 1.4.25:

• Enhancement:
• WPSEO_FILE now had a 'defined' check.
• Removed unneeded dirname calls.
• Bug fixes:
• Do not include external URLs in XML sitemap.
• Get home_url out of the sitemap loop.
• Add support for html entities.
• Fixed wrong use of __FILE__.

What is new in version 1.4.22:

• 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.
• Fixed bug with author sitemap showing for everyone.

What is new in version 1.4.19:

• 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.
• File inclusion best practices applied.

What is new in version 1.4.18:

• Unhooking 'shutdown' (part of the NGG fix in 1.4.16) caused caching plugins to break, fixed while preserving NGG fix.

What is new in version 1.4.15:

• Fixed the errors in content analysis reporting an H2 was not found when it was really there.
• Fix slug stopwords removal.
• Fix PHP Notice logged when site has capabilities created without 3rd value in args array.
• Fix the fact that meta description template for archive pages didn't work.
• Prevent wrong shortcodes (that echo instead of return) from causing erroneous output.
• Fix edge cases issue for keyword in first paragraph test not working.

What is new in version 1.4.12:

• Submit button displays again on Titles & Metas page.
• SEO Title now calculates length correctly.
• Force rewrite titles should no longer reset wrongly on update.

What is new in version 1.4.9:

• Added an HTML sitemap shortcode [wpseo_sitemap].
• Added an XML sitemap listing the author profile URLs.
• Added detection of Yoast's robots meta plugin and All In One SEO plugins, plugin now gives a notice to import settings and disable those plugins.
• Prevent empty image tags in Twitter Cards.
• Added new twitter:domain tag.

What is new in version 1.4.7:

• Properly fix security bug that should've been fixed in 1.4.5.
• Move from using several $options arrays in the frontend to 1 class wide option.
• Instead of firing all plugin options as function within head function, attach them to wpseo_head action, allowing easier filtering and changing.

What is new in version 1.4.5:

• Fixed security issue which allowed any user to reset settings.
• Allow saving of SEO metadata for attachments.
• Remove the shortlink http header when the hide shortlink checkbox is checked.
• Added a check on focus keyword in the page analysis functionality, checking whether a focus keyword has already been used before.

What is new in version 1.4.1:

• Doesn't show banners for plugins you already have.

What is new in version 1.3.4.4:

• Bug with revisions in XML sitemap for some weird combinations.
• Improved logic for rel=publisher on frontpage.
• Allow variables in meta description for post type archive.
• Improved counting of images for page analysis.

What is new in version 1.3.1.1:

• Some of that escaping was too aggressive.

What is new in version 1.3:

• Long list of small fixes and improvements to code best practices after Sucuri review. Fixes 3 small security issues.
• Updated .pot file.

What is new in version 1.2.8.7:

• Fixed %