Hello all..
if you’re getting some bizarre things on your site from using YOAST SEO 1.5x, after upgrading from the stable 1.4.25 version, please be aware of the following major issues.
I am recommending you NOT upgrade to Yoast SEO 1.5x until they get a stable version!
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There have been a LARGE number of bugs with the Yoast SEO plugin released last week (1.5), and about three or four patches so far. Still buggy as hell with 1.5.2.3 (including option for Google News keywords not saving to dbase or showing in the SEO post panel). I rolled back my sites to the prior version (stable), 1.4.25 due to a lot of issues including a major memory spike on our server post 1.5 update. If you look at the changelog for 1.5 it’s pretty awful, and doesn’t bode well for their new development team, frankly.
-Chris
SERIOUSLY …. (!)
— YOAST SEO 1.5 BUG FIXES (SO FAR) —
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 as reported and fixed by 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 as reported by Jovian and wwdboer – props Jrf.
◾Fixed Facebook Apps not being saved/ “Failed to retrieve your apps from Facebook” as reported by kevinlisota in issue #812 – props Jrf.
◾Fixed duplicate feedback messages on WPSEO -> Social pages as reported by steverep in issue #743 – props Jrf.
◾Flush our force title rewrite buffer earlier in wp_footer so it can be used by other plugins in wp_footer. Props Gabriel Pérez Salazar.
◾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 as reported by Jrf.
◾Fixed ‘Page %d of %d’ / %%page%% variable not being replaced when on pages, as reported by SGr33n in issue #801 – props 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 in issue #813 – props 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 in issue #838 – props Jrf.
◾Enhancements
◾Added filters for the change frequencies of different URLs added to the sitemap. Props to 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.
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 and #780 – props Jrf.
◾Prevent a fatal error if wp_remote_get() fails while testing whether the title needs to be force rewritten as reported by homeispv – props Jrf.
◾Enhancements
◾Added composer support – props codekipple and 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.
◾Fix for some PHP notices, issue #747 as reported by benfreke – props Jrf.
◾Fixed: GooglePlus vanity urls were saved without the + as reported by ronimarin in issue #730 – props Jrf.
◾Fix WP Admin menu items no longer clickable when on WPSEO pages as reported in issue #733 and #738 – props Jrf.
◾Fix strict warning for W3TC, issue 721.
◾Fix RSS text strings on options page being double escaped, issue #731 as reported by namaserajesh – props Jrf.
◾Avoid potential confusion over Facebook OpenGraph front page usage, issue #570 – props Jrf.
◾Potentially fix issue 565 bbpress warning message. Thanks inetbiz for reporting and 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.
◾$post_content is now unset after loading in DOM object. – props mgmartel.
◾Fix Alexa ID string validation, as reported by kyasajin and Bubichka in issue 736 – props Jrf.
◾Fix issue with Soliloquy image query, as reported by osalcedo and mattisherwood in issue #733 – props 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.
◾Added useful links for page analysis – props 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.
Problems I’ve been facing after the upgrade:
1. Homepage pagination doesn’t work anymore.
2. Any SEO benefit offered by the plugin is currently not showing up in search.
I don’t recommend the upgrade either.
Changelog / March 20
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 in issue #849 – props Jrf.
◾Fixed a bug where the banners overlapped WordPress notices/errors.
◾Fixed: Slashes in Taxonomy text inputs as reported by chuckreynolds in issue #868 – props Jrf.
◾Increased priority (decreased priority int) on the template_redirect for the sitemap redirect hook.
◾Enhancement
◾Enhanced validation of webmaster verification keys to prevent invalidating incorrect input which does contain a key as reported by TheZoker in issue #864 – props Jrf.
Check your plugins page, I think Yoast messed it up with its “Premium Support” link.
Yes, the version number can be found on the plugins panel (installed/active) in WP admin.
and more …
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.
