Yoast News SEO for Yoast SEO

Requires at least: 4.3 Tested up to: 4.7 Stable tag: 4.4 Depends: wordpress-seo

Yoast News SEO module for the Yoast SEO plugin.

Installation

1. Go to Plugins -> Add New.
2. Click "Upload" right underneath "Install Plugins".
3. Upload the zip file that this readme was contained in.
4. Activate the plugin.
5. Go to SEO -> Extensions -> Licenses, enter your license key and Save.
6. Your license key will be validated.
7. You can now use Yoast News SEO. See also https://kb.yoast.com/kb/configuration-guide-for-news-seo/

Frequently Asked Questions

You can find the Yoast News SEO FAQ in our knowledge base.

Changelog

4.4: February 28th, 2017

• Compatibility with Yoast SEO 4.4

4.3: February 14th, 2017

• Enhancements
  • Only invalidate sitemap cache when an object in a Post Type that is marked as News is updated.

4.2.1: February 3rd, 2017

• Bugfixes
  • Fixes "Fatal error: Class 'yoast_i18n' not found".

4.2: January 31st, 2017

• Bugfixes
  • Fixes a bug where a deprecated function was being called, resulting in a warning.

4.1: January 17th, 2017

• Bugfixes
  • Fixes W3C validation error on <link attribute 'original-source'.
  • Fixed broken link in news sitemap.

4.0: December 13th, 2016

• Compatibility with Yoast SEO 4.0

3.9: November 29th, 2016

• Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where the editor's pick checkbox was reset after inline editing a post.

• Updates translations.

3.8: November 8th, 2016

• Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where the editor's pick would be unset when quick editing.
  • Fixes a bug where Google News would report an unexpected publication name in sitemaps.

• Updates translations.

3.7: October 11th, 2016

• Updates translations.

3.6: September 27th, 2016

• Enhancements
  • General accessibility improvements

3.5.1: September 16th, 2016

• Bugfixes
  • Fixes a bug where a page or post type with the slug news would be inaccessible.

3.5: September 7th, 2016

• Bugfixes
  • Fixes a bug where sitemaps would not be generated if a post with the same name existed.

3.4: July 19th, 2016

• Enhancements

  • Introduced noindex meta tag for the Google News bot.

• Bugfixes

  • Sitemaps need a real timezone instead of a UTC timezone because daylight saving time is not included in UTC.
  • Google News Genre global default could not be overridden by page setting.
  • The news keyword counting, for a maximum of 10 keywords, no longer counts empty keywords

3.3: June 14th, 2016

• Enhancements

  • Adds the Yoast i18n module to the Yoast SEO News settings page, which informs users the plugin isn't available in their language and what they can do about it.

• Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where the support beacon for Yoast SEO News was added to all Yoast SEO settings pages.
  • Fixes a bug where updates were not working reliably when multiple paid Yoast plugins were active.

3.2: April 20th, 2016

• Bugfixes
  • Fixes a bug where the news sitemap would be shown in the index even if the sitemap itself was empty.
  • Fixes a bug where clicking the 'Update now' button on the plugin page didn't update correctly.

3.1: March 2nd, 2016

• Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where our license manager could sometimes not reach our licensing system due to problems with ssl.

• Enhancements

  • Makes sure users don't have to reactivate their license after updating or disabling/enabling the plugin.
  • Adds a support beacon on the News SEO settings page enabling users to ask for support from the WordPress backend.
  • Contains a few performance optimizations.

3.0: November 18th, 2015

• Synchronized plugin version with all other Yoast SEO plugins for WordPress.

• Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where the links in the sitemap would 'randomly' change from https to http or the other way around (in very rare circumstances).
  • Fixes the news metabox that was broken in combination with Yoast SEO 3.0.
  • Fixes deprecation warnings for filters that have been removed in Yoast SEO 3.0

2.2.5: June 10th, 2015

• Bugfixes
  • Fixes a bug where the news sitemap cache was not cleared when the News SEO settings were updated.
  • Added 1 new translation: en_AU.

2.2.4: April 29th, 2015

• Bugfixes
  • Fixes a bug where the news sitemap cache was not cleared when a news item was edited or added.
  • Fixes a bug where the stylesheets for the news sitemap were not included when the sitemap was served from cache.
  • Fixes a bug where specialchars were escaped in the news sitemap.

2.2.3: March 24th, 2015

• Bugfixes
  • Fixes a bug where an invalid argument error could be raised when visiting the sitemap.
  • Fixes a bug where the sitemap could contain wrongly formatted publication dates.
  • Fixes a bug where the wpseo_news_sitemap_url filter wasn't working properly.
  • Fixes a bug where the News sitemap genre wasn't saved on posts.
  • Fixes a bug where the sitemap didn't always contain the correct image url, props Marcus Jaschen.
  • Fixes a bug with duplicate keywords in the news sitemap.
  • Fixes an issue where the Editor's pick RSS took very long to load, by only fetching the selected post types from the database.
  • Fixes a bug where the default keywords and the meta news keywords weren't added to the sitemap.
• Enhancements
  • Introduces a few string improvements.
  • Added 9 new languages: en_GB, es_ES, es_MX, fr_FR, he_IL, it_IT, nl_NL, ro_RO and tr_TR.

2.2.2: December 17th, 2014

• Bugfixes
  • The stocktickers didn't work properly, these are fixed
  • Setting correct HTTP header to be sure output is executed as a RSS-feed
• Enhancements
  • Hide the standout meta-tag automatically after seven days (you can still see standout was used in admin but it won't be displayed)
  • Show the total number of used standout meta-tags (for the last seven days) in the post-admin

2.2.1: November 11th, 2014

• Bugfixes
  • Fixed a bug where button to Editors' Pick RSS didn't work.
  • Fixed a bug where the wrong image url ended up in the image:loc in the Editor's Pick RSS
  • Fixed a bug where the wrong http header was set for the Editor's Pick RSS
• Enhancements
  • Added translations for Polish

2.2: October 7th, 2014

• Bugfixes

  • Fixed a bug where button to Editors' Pick RSS didn't work.
    • Fixed bug where plugin would give a white screen of death in certain installations.
    • Improve using the right image for the news sitemap.

• Enhancements

  • Added pubDate to editors pick RSS feed.

2.1: July 9th, 2014

• Several performance optimizations for sitemap generation.
• Added button that links to news sitemap on admin page.
• Added an option to include only the featured image in the XML News sitemap.
• Introduced filter wpseo_locale for locale/language of the XML News sitemap.
• Introduced filter wpseo_news_sitemap_url to allow changing the XML News sitemap URL.

2.0.6: June 10th, 2014

• Removed the wptexturize filter from the_title and the_content in the Editors' Pick feed because corrupts our output.
• Added guid elements to item elements in the Editors' Pick feed.
• Added an atom:link element as recommended by the RSS Advisory Board to identifying a feed's URL within the feed.
• Added the WPSEO News fields to the WPSEO meta fields class to fix a bug where the post meta genre field isn't saved.

2.0.5: June 5th, 2014

• Fixed a publication_date timezone bug.

2.0.4: May 15th, 2014

• Bugfixes
  • Add CDATA tags to RSS feed text output.
  • Now using the same title for the Editors' Pick title as the channel title.

2.0.3: April 23rd, 2014

• Enhancement
  • Sitemaps now use creation dates instead of modified dates.

2.0.2: April 22nd, 2014

• Bugfixes

  • Fixed a bug with version_compare.

• Enhancement

  • Adds sanitize callback to register_settings.

2.0.1: April 22nd, 2014

• Bugfix
  • Changed EDD product name to 'News SEO'.

2.0: April 22nd, 2014

• Initial release