Yoast WooCommerce SEO changelog - page 2

Other​

• Makes Yoast WooCommerce SEO compatible with the new analysis edit buttons in Yoast SEO Premium.
• Sets the minimum supported WordPress version to 5.9.
• Sets the minimum supported Yoast SEO version to 19.5.

Enhancements​

• Improves the readability analysis for English by adding a word complexity assessment for Product pages.
• Updates the Schema manipulation to follow the new best-practice for the @id of the WebPage piece introduced by Yoast SEO 19.3.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the keyphrase distribution assessments would error, or fail to mark the found keyphrases in the text, when using keyphrases that include some regular expression control characters, for example brackets.

Other​

• Edits typo in id name for product variants identifiers.
• Sets the minimum required Yoast SEO version to 19.3.

Enhancements​

• Adds a feature allowing users to add global identifiers (e.g., GTIN12, ISBN, etc.) to Product variations.
• Adds a feature to include global identifiers of Product variations to a Product's Schema.
• Adds variations' SKU and URL to a Product's Schema. Props to @jaredforth.
• Removes the datePublished and dateModified attributes on the ItemPage Schema markup for a Product.

Other​

• Sets tested up WordPress version to 6.0.
• Sets the minimum required Yoast SEO version to 19.1.

Enhancements​

• Removes XML sitemap image properties title and caption following deprecation by Google.

Other​

• Sets the minimum required Yoast SEO version to 18.8.

Enhancements​

• Improves the Schema on checkout pages by removing the default ReadAction we used to add there.
• Improves the Schema on product pages by replacing the default ReadAction with a BuyAction.

Other​

• Sets the minimal required version for Yoast SEO to 18.6.
• Sets the minimum required WordPress version to 5.8.
• Adds a new wpseo_schema_offer filter that can be used to change the output of the offers attribute of the product schema. Props to Dekadinious.

Enhancements​

• Adapts the Product description assessment for Japanese to use a character-based count, with a recommended length of 40-100 characters.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where an empty product identifier value could be output.

Other​

• Sets the minimum required Yoast SEO version to 18.0.
• Sets the WordPress tested up to version to 5.9.
• Sets the WooCommerce tested up to version to 6.1.

Other​

• Ensure compatibility with Yoast SEO Free 17.8.
• Sets the minimum required Yoast SEO version to 17.8.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the product identifier replacement variables %%wc_gtin8%%, %%wc_gtin12%%, %%wc_gtin13%%, %%wc_gtin14%%, %%wc_isbn%% and %%wc_mpn%% would not work in meta descriptions when retrieving posts using REST requests.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where a fatal error was thrown on the frontend of product pages when using the %%wc_shortdesc%% snippet variable while running PHP 8.0.
• Fixes a bug where the %%wc_price%%, %%wc_sku%%, %%wc_shortdesc%% and %%wc_brand%% snippet variable values were not displayed on the frontend.

Enhancements​

• Adds key/value pairs of all WooCommerce SEO meta tags to our REST API.

Other​

• Sets the minimum WordPress version to 5.6.
• Sets the minimum required Yoast SEO to 16.7.
• Replaces an occurrence of the deprecated jQuery .ready syntax with more modern syntax. Props to kkmuffme.

Other​

• Makes WooCommerce SEO compatible with the latest version of Yoast SEO.
• Sets the minimum supported Yoast SEO version to 16.4.

Enhancements​

• Add the rating, number of reviews, price and availability to the Google Preview for products to match Google's search results.
• Improves the priceSpecification Schema output to prevent warnings from Google Search Console.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the Social Previews would not use Product Gallery images as a fallback for social sharing.

Other​

• Sets the WordPress tested up to version to 5.7 and minimum supported WordPress version to 5.6.
• Sets the minimum supported Yoast SEO version to 16.3.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where a deprecation notice would be shown in the PHP debug log when visiting a product page.

Enhancements​

• Makes the Schema Product type filterable.

Enhancements​

• Shows the price and availability of a product in its snippet when sharing the product on Slack.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where no plugin icon and compatibility data would be displayed on the plugins update screen.

Other​

• We've tested with WooCommerce 4.5. Everything works as expected!

Enhancements​

• Adds ‘WebPage’ as schema @type to Product pages and Checkout pages. This results in a @type array with at least 'WebPage' and 'ItemPage', or 'WebPage' and 'CheckoutPage'.

Other​

• Enables tracking when activating the plugin. This can be disabled in the Yoast SEO configuration wizard.
• Sets the minimum supported WordPress version to 5.4.

Enhancements​

• Hides the Yoast SEO columns in the Products overview table by default.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where no SKU would be output when the SKU field was left empty. It will now fall back to the product’s ID.

Enhancements​

• Outputs PreOrder as availability property value in the Product schema when the product is “on backorder”.